Airplane Coloring Pages

Before a flight, the bag somehow needs rearranging one more time. A book comes out, a snack goes in, and the person who packed the tickets has to be asked about them again. Yet the sight of an airplane through an airport window can still make all that small fuss feel worthwhile.

Airplane coloring pages suit the person who checks departure times long before a journey is due. The interest might be in the aircraft itself, or in getting somewhere far from the usual shops and streets. Even an ordinary packing list can carry a little of that anticipation.

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Pack a Few Parcels for the Cargo Plane

This cargo plane has a broad body and several engines beneath its wings. Its cheerful face would suit a little delivery game, with a few paper parcels waiting on the table beside the finished picture.

Try a silver body with a red tail and blue windows. On spare paper, draw three things that could travel as cargo, such as a book, a toy, and a bunch of flowers.

Wrap each little drawing in another piece of paper, choosing a flat packet for the book, a squarer box for the toy, and a long wrapper for the flowers. Fold the ends closed, then let someone open the parcels and match each package to its contents.

Frame the Mountains from a Window Seat

The mountains beneath this smiling plane make a good view to explore through a small paper window. Keep their snowy caps white above blue slopes, with a yellow plane passing overhead.

A grown-up could cut an oval opening in a piece of spare paper, roughly the shape of an airplane window. Hold it over the finished page and move it slowly, first showing only the mountains, then a wing, then part of the plane.

Choose the view that would make you lean closer if it appeared outside a real window. Someone else might frame a completely different patch of the same picture. Compare the two views before lifting the paper away to see the whole scene again.

Build a Castle beneath the Flight Path

There are plenty of building ideas in the castle beneath this plane: tall towers beside short ones, pointed roofs, and a large arched entrance. A box of building blocks can take the picture off the page for a while.

Use pale gray walls with purple roofs and a blue airplane. Then pick out a few blocks that could stand for the main entrance and the tallest towers.

Start with the broad middle of the castle and add one tower at a time, leaving a gap where a small toy could enter. The model need only borrow the castle's outline. A triangle on top of a plain block can suggest one of those pointed roofs.

Six Balloons for a Little Celebration

The six balloons lifting this propeller plane have room for a short message. You could put one letter of HOORAY inside each balloon, working across the bunch in whatever order makes the word easiest to follow.

Try red and yellow balloons above a pale blue plane. Keep the letters dark enough to read among those cheerful colors, with the thin strings left clear beneath them.

The page could mark a finished school project, the end of a busy week, or a small achievement that deserves some notice. Let the person being celebrated choose where it goes for the day. Add a date in the margin to remember what earned that cheerful word.

Borrow a Cupcake Idea from the Candy Landscape

The large cupcake below this airplane could help plan the decoration for a real treat. Its generous icing swirl, scattered sprinkles, and cherry give you three separate details to choose from before opening any kitchen cupboards.

Try pink icing with a red cherry, mint green lollipops, and a silver plane. The wrapped sweets can repeat those colors without every hill needing another shade.

Pick just one part of the finished cupcake to borrow, perhaps the sprinkle colors or the contrast between the icing and its wrapper. Keep that choice in mind when decorating a cupcake at home. The whole candy landscape can stay on paper while one small detail reaches the table.

Make an Underwater Seek-and-Find

A propeller plane shares this underwater scene with two fish, a turtle, and plenty of bubbles. There is enough variety for a short seek-and-find without drawing any extra objects into the picture.

Choose a yellow plane against blue water, with a green turtle and orange fish. Keep some bubbles white so their small outlines remain easy to spot.

Write three clues on a separate scrap: a swimmer with a shell, something with a propeller, and one of the smallest circles. Read them one at a time while someone searches the page. For another turn, let the finder choose a detail and describe it without saying its name.