Top 25 Tree Coloring Pages For Your Little Ones

There is nothing more beautiful and powerful than nature. The beautiful mountains covered with trees look spectacular, and so do the dew-covered leaves of the trees. So, what is the most effective and enjoyable way to teach children about various types of trees found all over the globe? Well, it’s coloring pages!

Trees are one of the most sought-after coloring page topics. They are a brilliant way to teach children about the various families and species of trees and make them aware of the environment and nature. They also help children appreciate the beauty around them. Here is a collection of 25 magnificent tree coloring sheets suitable for kids of all ages.

25 Most Beautiful Tree Coloring Pages

1. Simple Tree

Here’s an easy-peasy tree coloring page for young learners. The tree seems lush, but the image has no other details. Encourage your child to stretch their creative mind and decide what color would look best on this tree. They can come up with fresh ideas while decorating the page. They can even draw clusters of mangoes, acorns, apples, or something unique! It will help build their critical thinking abilities and fine motor skills.

2. T For Tree

This coloring page will help your kid learn the alphabet in a fun way. It features a ‘T for Tree’ coloring page. The coloring page will help the children learn to write the word ‘tree’ and trace the upper and lower case ‘T’. Then, tell them to bring out their green and brown crayons and color the simple outlined image here. Allow your preschooler to decide what type of tree is on this coloring page. Did you know that there is a special day for celebrating the birthday of trees? Yes, the Jewish holiday Tu B’Shevat and several other cultures celebrate a tree’s birthday. Isn’t that thoughtful?

3. Apple Tree

Introduce your child to the plant that bears the nutritious and delicious fruit, apple. The apple tree is a deciduous tree belonging to the Malus genus. The tree grows up to 4.6 meters in cultivation and 12 meters in the wild. The dark-green oval leaves with serrated margins are neatly arranged. The apple trees originated in Central Asia and spread throughout the world. There are a whopping 7500 cultivars of apples, each bred for various uses and distinct tastes. The fruit also holds significance in Norse and Greek cultures. Advise your child to use contrasting colors to make this tree stand out.

4. Coconut Tree

The coconut palm tree belongs to the Arecaceae family. This large palm tree grows up to 30 meters tall with leaves being four to six meters long. The coconut tree belongs to the monocotyledons class of flowering plants. There are about 150 species of coconut trees found in 80 different countries. The coconut tree can grow only in the tropical regions. It thrives best in sandy soil and requires regular rainfall and sunlight. A coconut tree can be tall or dwarf. A dwarf coconut reaches up to 60 feet while tall coconut trees can grow up to 98 feet. Tell your child to make a small island around the coconut tree. They might even imagine themselves on a beach while doing their favorite activity.

5. Christmas Tree

Here is a beautiful tree coloring sheet of a well-decorated Christmas tree. It’s the perfect coloring page to paint on a Christmas Eve while waiting for Santa Claus. We love the detailing of the image, particularly the tiny presents. The Christmas tree is full of decorations and ornaments, but it needs some color to shine at its best. What color do you think will go best with this picture? We’d suggest you opt for Christmas-themed colors like gold, silver, red, green, blue, and orange. You can even paint the image online and print it on a card stock paper to use as a greeting or invitation card. What do you say?

6. Spring Tree

How beautiful does the tree look during spring? This smiling spring tree is bursting with flowers. We think it’s a cherry blossom tree as this tree blooms every spring. What do you think? Ask your kid to name some of the spring-blooming trees, and see what they answer. A real flower doesn’t last for more than a week, but these flowers will stay with your child forever. And look at the lovely butterfly flying near it. Isn’t it looking gorgeous? This tree color page, very effectively, evokes the fun and excitement of spring.

7. Mango Tree

Who does not love mangoes? Juicy and delicious mango appeals to kids of all ages. But does your child know where this delicious fruit comes from? Teach them about it through our mango tree coloring page. The mango tree is a deep-rooted, evergreen tree that attains a height of 900 feet and a width of 80 feet. The tree was once endemic only in South Asia but later distributed worldwide to become one of the most cultivated fruits in both the tropics. Mango is also the national fruit of the Philippines, Pakistan, and India. Ask your child to count the number of mangoes on this coloring page. It will sharpen their mental math skills.

8. Fall Tree

This fall tree coloring sheet will have your child breaking out their orange, red, and yellow color pencils. Autumn or fall is one of the most fantastic times of the year. It is the season of feasts, festivals, and celebrations. Our fall tree coloring page is a colorful way to teach children about the change of seasons. As the days get short, the trees shed their leaves to prepare themselves for the harsh weather conditions. The trees across the world present a spectacular display of warm colors. Only the deciduous trees shed leaves during autumn, not the evergreen trees. In this coloring page, the leaves have fallen off the tree, so the only thing left to do now is to add color.

9. Banyan Tree

This coloring page features a huge banyan tree. The banyan tree is a large tree that grows up to 100 feet tall and 600 feet in diameter. A fig starts its life as an epiphyte and grows up to become a huge tree. The tree sends out its aerial shots from the branches that grow until they reach the soil and get hold of the root. Even a single banyan tree looks like a forest. Yes, it’s that lush. There’s a species of the banyan tree in Sri Lanka that has more than 300 trunks and over 3000 small trunks. This coloring page will offer a sense of adventure through learning about nature.

10. Dora Beside A Palm Tree

Here’s Dora introducing your child to the palm tree. It looks like she discovered a new species of palm tree during an expedition. The palm tree is one of the most widely planted trees belonging to the Arecaceae family. Most people believe that there are just two types of palm trees – coconut palm and date palm. But there are more than 2600 species of palm trees, most of them thriving in places with tropical, subtropical, and temperate climates. These trees have held a very prominent role in many cultures throughout human history. In ancient times, palm trees were a symbol of fertility, peace, and victory. Today, these trees are symbols of vacations and the tropics.

11. Cotton Tree

This printable tree coloring page features a cotton tree. The cotton tree is a tropical tree belonging to the Malvaceae family and Malvales order. It is native to South America, Mexico, and Central America. Here’s an interesting cotton tree fact for you. The cotton tree is the symbol of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. The tree became a symbol after the African American slaves settled in modern Freetown by fighting the American War of Independence. The slaves landed on the shore and walked to a cotton tree above the bay. They held a Thanksgiving service near the tree to thank God for the free land.

12. Jesus Tree

Here’s a tree coloring picture depicting the divinity of Lord Jesus. The coloring page shows a man climbing a tree to get a glimpse of Jesus. When Jesus passed through Jericho, hundreds of people came forward to get His blessing. But Zacchaeus, a wealthy tax collector, was too short to see Him through the crowd. So he climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, as it would give him a better view. Jesus then spots Zacchaeus and addresses him by his name. He tells him to come down and invites himself to Zacchaeus’ house, leaving the crowd shocked.

13. Trees

This coloring page features five of the most famous trees- pine, oak, elm, palm, and maple trees. Share some fun facts about these trees, like their scientific names or their fruits, while your little one colors them. Not all trees are beautiful to look at but they provide several important things that we need in our lives, including shelter, fruits, food, and most importantly, oxygen. Do you know what a tree is called in Russian? It is called ‘derevo.’ Make your child spell and pronounce this word. Your kids will enjoy practicing spelling and phonics in a different language.

14. Pine

Here’s a pine tree coloring page for your little nature lover to color. Pine trees are native to the western United States. This wood provides acres of habitat to wild animals. It’s also important to the local communities of the West. The wood from the pine tree is used to make utility poles, pulpwood, railroad ties, and paneling posts. The tree is a familiar sight in the recreational and scenic areas. Tell your child to make an evening sky full of different colors and stars and a beautiful landscape to decorate the picture.

15. Wild Oak Tree

The wild oak tree is the most majestic of all the trees in the eastern hardwoods. It is also renowned for having the best all-purpose wood. Its wood is used to make kitchen cabinets, barrels, furniture, flooring, and kitchen cabinets. The acorns borne on the wild oak tree are a valuable source of food for the wildlife. More than 170 different kinds of mammals and birds use acorns as food. But this tree is missing a few acorns. We think that children have picked the fallen acorns from the ground. Since it’s not featured on the coloring page, you can ask your kid to draw them. It will bring life to this image.

16. Elm

This coloring page features an elm tree. Elm is a deciduous and semi-deciduous tree belonging to the Ulmaceae family. The tree flourishes and spreads over the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the tropical montane and temperate regions of Eurasia and North America. These trees are components of natural forests. There are over forty species of elm trees, varying in size and appearance. The tree grows up to 30 meters and can live for more than 100 years. It has dark brown bark and hairy twigs. The leaves of the elm tree are around four to nine cm and round to oval shape.

17. Maple Tree

This maple tree looks beautiful, full of leaves. But it will fall off once autumn arrives. So tell your child to color this maple as soon as possible. The beautiful orange leaves of the maple tree add beauty to the landscape. The leaf of the maple tree also appears on Canada’s flag. We also love maple syrup, which comes from the sap of these trees. The wood of the maple tree is valued for furniture, flooring, furniture, and many other products. Take some time and explain to your child how maple leaves change their color during fall and ask them what they think about it.

18. Celtic Tree Of Life

The tree you see here is no ordinary tree. It’s the Celtic tree of life. As you can see on the coloring page, the tree has branches reaching upwards and roots spreading to the earth. The tree symbolizes Druid’s belief in the link between heaven and earth. Let’s get into some details. The trees were a very important aspect of the Celtic culture. The natives believed that trees were the ancestors of humans and had a divine connection with the other world. They provided food, shelter, and warmth through firewood. They also provided shelter to animals, insects, and birds. The Druids would also hold their classes under the trees. Oak was the most sacred tree of the Druids.

19. Banana Tree

Do you know where the soft and delicious fruit banana comes from? They grow on small-sized plants, as you can see in this tree coloring picture. Most people mistake a banana plant for a banana tree because of its tall and sturdy structure and trunk. But what appears as a trunk is in reality a pseudo stem. It has large leaves composed of a stalk and a blade. These plants grow on a broad range of soils and make a beautiful sight with their fluorescent green fruits. Do you know how the fruit develops? The banana fruit grows from the banana hearts that hang in clusters from the plant.

20. Kapok Tree

Here’s a coloring page of a kapok tree. The kapok tree is native to the tropical rainforests of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. The name kapok refers to the cotton-like thing obtained from the seed pods of the tree. Kapok is a majestic tree. It grows over 200 feet with a trunk diameter of three meters. The most striking feature of the Kapok tree is its trunk, which expands ten feet in diameter. The grooves and nooks of this tree are home to a diverse range of species, including birds, frogs, and bromeliads. The Kapok tree also bears white and pink flowers, but they emit a very foul odor that attracts bats. These flying mammals move from flower to flower feasting on the nectar and transferring the pollen, thereby facilitating pollination.

21. Joshua Tree

Are you planning a trip to the Joshua Tree National Park in California? This coloring page will make a fun activity to keep the children busy during the ride to the park. Technically, Joshua trees are not trees. They are plants belonging to the Yucca genus. But it looks like something out of a children’s fable. Joshua trees are also fast growers. They grow an average of three inches per year in the first ten years. You will find these trees in the desert of southwestern Nevada and southeastern California. Have your kid draw a desert scene and a blazing sun for the backdrop. It will go great with this picture.

22. Bald Cypress

Does your child love climbing trees? Then introduce them to the bald cypress tree through our coloring pages. You’ll find the bald cypress trees standing tall in swamps and along the banks of creeks. These trees have a habit of raising conical knees from their roots. The function of these peculiar knees is still a mystery, but some believe that they help the roots get oxygen. The bald cypress is a large tree and reaches around 44 meters in height. It has a trunk diameter of three meters. Even the leaves of the bald cypress trees look exquisite due to their spiral arrangement.

23. Redwood Tree

What comes to your mind when you think of Santa Cruz, California? Most of you would answer the stunning beach town near the mountains laden with redwood forest. Redwood trees have graced the planet for more than 150 million years. It is the tallest known tree in the world. These trees are nature’s natural skyscrapers. These trees grow about nine meters in diameter and 76 meters in height. The tallest existing redwood tree is 1119 meters. These trees have small green leaves that are arranged in spirals. These trees are also the fastest-growing conifer in the world and are adaptable to some environmental conditions. Have you ever scaled a redwood tree?

24. We Plant Trees On Arbor Day

Arbor Day is a day on which groups and individuals plant and take care of the trees. The day is observed during spring, but the dates may vary, depending entirely on the climate and planting conditions. With this tree coloring sheet, you can also encourage your child to plant a tree. Tell them how trees provide shade that keeps their home cool and how they reduce the cold winds in winter. Trees also conserve energy and reduce the heat-island effect. Tell them to plant trees around schools, in parks, and urban areas. You can also acquaint them with the trees that may be native to your city or area.

25. Bare Tree

Oh, this bare tree is looking so dull and gloomy. We can even hear the winds whistling through the branches of this barren tree. It’s the kind of tree that you normally get to see in a horror film or during Halloween. Can you please ask your child to liven it up by using their coloring set? Trees usually shed all their leaves during the winter, especially in the tropical and subtropical regions. They continuously drop leaves and grow new ones. Talk with your child about the importance of preserving nature and the environment while coloring.

Our extensive collection of printable tree coloring pages is ideal for educational projects, nature studies, and holiday activities like Earth Day, Arbor Day, or a forest-themed party. Pick any of these tree coloring pages and your children are sure to have a gala time with them. Also, go tree hunting with your child this weekend. We guarantee that you’ll have a tremendous time.