Pandora makes even a walk through the forest feel worth slowing down for. Light gathers beneath the leaves, unfamiliar creatures move nearby, and looking up reveals another reason to stop. In Avatar, Jake Sully has plenty to learn, including the fact that confidence alone is not much help when meeting an ikran.
Avatar coloring pages give fans time to linger over the world that made those first encounters memorable. The Na’vi are familiar now, but their connection to Pandora still holds the imagination. A quiet afternoon can easily lead back to the feeling of seeing that extraordinary forest for the first time.
Free Printable Avatar Coloring Pages
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Coloring Ideas for Avatar Pages
Try one of these coloring ideas, or use them as a starting point for your own.
Let the Woodsprites Drift Above the Page
Woodsprites float among the hanging strands of the Tree of Souls while two figures sit below. Their delicate shapes are worth noticing before the enormous trunk takes all the attention.
Try violet hanging strands, a dark brown trunk, and blue figures. Leave the woodsprites pale against the deeper forest colors.
Make a few extra woodsprites from white tissue paper, cutting narrow fringes beneath small rounded tops. Suspend them on thread from a branch laid across two supports above the finished picture. A slight movement of air will give the scene some of its drifting motion.
Draw What Neytiri Can See
Neytiri holds her bow across a dense patch of Pandora’s forest, looking beyond the edge of the picture. The drawing shows her concentration while leaving the object of it unseen.
Use blue skin, dark hair, and warm brown for the bow. Several greens will separate the large leaves behind her.
On another sheet, draw the view from her position. Decide what has caught her attention before adding the surrounding plants. It might be a distant movement or a narrow opening between trees. Place the two pictures side by side so one shows the watcher and the other reveals the view.
Put the Ocean in Front of Payakan
Payakan rises through a scene that stretches from coral below to open sky above. A separate paper foreground can make that upward movement feel more dramatic.
Choose blue-gray for Payakan, turquoise water, and coral in pink or orange. Keep the small swimmer distinct from the enormous creature.
Cut a rolling wave edge across a strip of blue paper. Attach it along the bottom and sides of the finished page, leaving the upper edge loose. Curve it slightly forward before fixing the sides. The raised water adds a foreground without covering Payakan’s head or the swimmer.
Build a Coral Arch for a Miniature Reef
Lo’ak and Tsireya swim beneath a coral arch surrounded by fish. That curved opening gives the underwater scene a clear focal point, and it would work beautifully in a small model reef.
Try pink and orange coral against blue water, with turquoise tones for the swimmers. Give nearby fish a few contrasting colors.
Stand a cardboard arch inside a shoebox laid on its side. Add folded paper coral around its base and suspend paper fish from the top. Check the view through the opening as you work; leaving some clear water will keep the reef from becoming crowded.
Invent a Flower for Pandora After Dark
Kiri reaches toward a large flower while unfamiliar plants gather around her. The scene invites a little botanical invention without requiring a flower that could grow in an ordinary garden.
Keep the flower’s center pale yellow, with pink or violet petals. Darker blue-green leaves around it will make the lighter colors appear brighter.
Design another imaginary flower beside the finished sheet. Decide what it looks like closed, then draw its open form underneath. Perhaps the petals curl outward or reveal tiny hanging shapes. Give the two drawings enough shared details that they clearly belong to the same invented plant.
Take a Flight Between the Mountains
Neytiri rides between floating mountains, with clouds and distant rock formations stretching behind her. The picture offers a starting point for imagining the experience of that flight.
Use blue for Neytiri and bold bands of color across her mount’s wings. Softer greens and grays will push the distant mountains farther back.
Write a short passage beginning just before the rider passes a mountain. Describe the turn, the changing view, and one sound the rider might hear. Keep it close to that single moment rather than explaining the whole journey. Read it aloud while following the route through the picture.
Plan a Path Across the Floating Mountains
These mountains leave open sky where solid ground would normally be. Look at their separate tops and hanging vegetation, then imagine how a traveler might move between them.
Green summits, gray-brown rock, and pale blue sky will keep the floating shapes readable. Leave the clouds light.
Draw a simple route on tracing paper laid over the scene. Choose a landing place on each mountain and mark the stretches that require flight. Add one sheltered stopping point of your own. The route should respond to the gaps and rock shapes already pictured, even in a world with such unusual geography.
Search the Reef With Tuk
Tuk swims among fish above a busy coral reef. There are enough different shapes here for a close-looking game once the larger areas are colored.
Give neighboring fish different colors and alternate warm coral with cooler sea plants. Keep Tuk’s blue skin distinct from the water.
Take turns describing one small detail without pointing to it. Try clues about shape or position, such as a fish beside Tuk’s shoulder or a rounded coral near the bottom. The other person finds it before choosing the next detail. Look closely enough and the reef becomes much busier than it first appears.