Monsters Coloring Pages Your Toddler Will Love To Color

Monster coloring pages are a good way to introduce mythical figures, fantastical creatures, and contemporary cartoons to your child. Ancient and medieval mythology has many monstrous characters that have lost their prominence in the stories children hear today. These coloring pages will help get your children interested in these magical beings. Simultaneously, introducing your children to movies like Monsters, Inc. and Monster University will help them create a friendly approach toward monster-based plots.

Top Monster Coloring Pages For Preschoolers

Your child will love drawing and coloring monster coloring sheets. These will help nurture the images of different monsters in their minds, as they break all the grown-up rules of looking proper and come up with as many eyes, hands, legs, and colors as their mind can run free. These coloring pages will also help your kids learn about monsters and their abilities, such as changing their shapes to mimic something else or become funny or scary to look at.

We have added a bunch of ancient and modern free printable monster coloring pictures that will subtly teach your child the names of some prominent monsters and their origins. Some of the most amazing monster coloring pages free to print for your kids have been described below.

1. Mike And Sulley

Characters from the Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University movies, Mike and Sulley are the best of friends. In the movie, the monsters of the city must scare the children to generate the city’s power. When one child enters Monstropolis, these two unite to return her. They are themselves scared of small children as they might contaminate them. If your child has already seen the movie, they know that Sulley is teal in color with purple patches and Mike is lemon green. However, on the coloring page, your child can give an alternate makeover to these two adorable characters.

2. Headless Horseman

As the image depicts, it is a scary-looking ghost or monster that haunts at night. The image is referenced from the short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. Many Irish, Celtic, and American mothers have put their child to sleep saying that the headless horseman will come if you do not sleep early. This monster’s legend dates back to medieval times. It is a headless man seen on a gray or black horse in the middle of the night, hurrying away at full speed. Your child will be amused to see a monster in this form.

3. Werewolf

Werewolves are infected humans who turn into wolves on the full moon night either on purpose or under a curse. For centuries, European folklore has shown different versions of stories of werewolves attacking or transforming. To make your kid stay engaged in coloring the werewolf coloring page, tell them to beware of the full moon and color quickly. The image shows the werewolf in a dangerous look, about to attack its prey. Your child can use their imagination to color the wolf in whatever color they want, but you can tell them which colors wolves are generally found in.

4. A Mummy From Egypt

Egypt has scary stories of mummies coming alive and chasing living men. A mummy is the dead body of a human or animal that has been preserved after death. The image shows the picture of a mummy that has gotten up from his sleep after ages. The linen bandages with which his body was covered are torn at places and that’s how you can see an eye peeping from the rags. He has fully-grown nails and is about to attack. To emphasize that the mummy is Egyptian, there are pyramids and sphinx at the back.

Tell your child that mummification is a process carried out by the rich to stay happy in their afterlife. The god of mummification is Anubis, who has the head of a jackal and the body of a human being. Also, it is forbidden to open the sarcophagus or the tomb and open the mummy, as a curse would fall upon those who do. Workers in archaeological sites have often come up with many stories of mummies coming alive and attacking their prey. Tell your child these facts while busy coloring, so they do not believe in superstitions.

5. Frankenstein’s Monster

Over 130 movies, TV shows, and plays have been made on the story of Frankenstein. You can give your children some age-appropriate Frankenstein media to watch before they color so they love our Frankenstein’s monster coloring page even more.

Frankenstein’s monster is the ‘creature’ that rose from the dead after Victor Frankenstein’s scientific experiment of bringing a dead body back to life. The story was originally written by Mary Shelly, and hence, is known as Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. Tell your child that Frankenstein’s monster, however ghastly it looked, was a friendly monster. He was detested by everyone because of his scary features and stitches all over his face and body. The author, too, has used “it” in place of “his” to create a monster out of her novel.

In the coloring page, Frankenstein’s monster is seen rising from the fog in the dead of the night. There are bats behind him to substantiate his coming. Your child will love coloring it in the shades of the night.

6. Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness monster, fondly named Nessie by the locals, is believed to live in the Lock (lake) Ness highlands of Scotland. Its sightings go back to the 6th century AD.

The coloring image shows Nessie coming out from the water to take a fresh whiff of air. She is happy and smiling and the Scottish highlands can be seen far behind. It’s a wonderful colorful picturesque scene, if colored properly. While your darling colors, tell them many fake sightings of Nessie have been made over the years and photographs have also been proved wrong. But the question still arises as to whether the images are of a giant prehistoric dinosaur or water reptile that continued to survive in the inky 700-foot-deep waters.

7. Griffin

A griffin is a mythological creature or monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion. It sometimes has the tail of a lion or snake depicted in some pictures. The females have wings, while the males have spikes on their backs. The coloring page shows a griffin sitting proudly. Its majestic tail is curled around its hind legs, its attitude resembling a king.

Tell your child while they color that a lion is the king of the jungle and the eagle is the king of the birds. As the griffin denotes both, it’s a symbol of strength and intelligence. It’s often thought that griffins guard gold and treasure and make their nests out of it. It’s dangerous to go near a griffin as it attacks and eats men and their horses in mythical folklore. Your child will love to color such a mystical creature.

8. Medusa

Medusa, the snake-haired woman, is a monster gorgon from Greek mythology. On the coloring page, Medusa stands with her hands folded in a defensive position and unhappiness is visible in her eyes. Your child can color the picture any way they want even though her skin is primarily believed to be green and sickly.

While your child colors the image, tell them the story of Medusa. Tell them how she used to be a beautiful maiden who was turned by the goddess Athena into a monster. She turned her beautiful golden locks into snakes and her marble-white complexion a hideous green. Whoever she looked at turned into stone. Perseus, the son of Poseidon, killed her by tricking her with the help of a mirror-like shield, winged shoes, and a sharp sword.

9. Zombie In The Graveyard

Many prominent zombie movies have been released over the years, so your child knows about them. A zombie is a reanimated corpse in a constant sense of decay, in contrast to a mummy, which is in its well-preserved form. Zombies are created either as living beings who were cursed, then died and came back, or normal human beings exposed to some scientific experiment involving viruses or radiation.

The coloring page depicts a zombie crawling out of its grave bed in the middle of the night. As it is already in a state of decay, flies are hovering around its head. It is believed that the only way to kill a zombie is to cut off its head. The night scene and the zombie’s features make it an interesting coloring object for your child.

10. Dracula

Dracula, or Count Dracula has been inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula, an 1887 novel that gave way to over 200 film adaptations. Dracula usually refers to a vampire, a blood-sucking monster that creeps in the night, sucks blood from their prey, and returns to their tombstone at dawn. Count Dracula is afraid of garlic, mirror, silver, and the holy cross, and therefore, in popular folklore, these things are carried by people or kept in houses to keep him at bay.

The coloring image shows Dracula smiling smugly. His hair is neatly combed at the back; he has long ears and long canine teeth that can puncture skin to suck blood. Tell your child that Dracula can also shape-shift into a bat at his will. Also tell them that Count Dracula’s character is loosely based on the life of Vlad III or Vlad the Impaler, who killed nearly 40,000 to 100,000 people and dipped his bread in the blood of those who were dead. Your child can color this monster in whatever shades of gray or black they want to portray his villainy.

Introducing your child to the world of monsters is not to scare them but to make them capable of judging good from evil. Evil will always be distasteful or repulsive in some way or the other. It’s important to develop such an understanding in your children to protect them in the real world where evil lurks in many forms.

These free printable monster coloring pages online will bring a fun experience to your kids as they learn about different monsters and their ways, as told through the ages. Your child will be able to distinguish them clearly and boast their knowledge to their peers.