Car Colouring Pages for Kids Who Love Cars

Here are free car colouring pages for kids who love cars: four classics to colour online and one to print from the free pack, all from the Cars Coloring Book. Below you’ll find where to get them, tips for making paint, chrome and tyres look real, and a few car games for the road.

Cars to colour online

All four open in the free Colouring Studio, which works on tablets, phones and computers:

• Little classic: a small, round classic car on a plain page, great for younger children.
• Striped beetle: a bubbly beetle with two bold racing stripes.
• Smiley sedan: an old sedan whose grille looks like a big grin.
• Sunset cruiser: a 1950s car rolling down a sunny road under dramatic sun rays.

Prefer paper? The striped beetle is in the free printable colouring pack.

Make the paint look shiny

Car paint is glossy, so it reflects light in long streaks:

1. Leave white streaks along the curved parts of the car: the roof, the bonnet (or hood) and the tops of the fenders. Long, thin streaks look best.
2. Go darker at the bottom. Colour the lower half of the car a little darker than the top. It makes the car look rounded and sitting on the road.
3. Try two-tone. Lots of classic cars were painted one colour on top and another below, or had stripes, like the striped beetle.

Chrome, glass and tyres

• Chrome bumpers and hubcaps: colour them light grey with white streaks, and add a thin edge of dark blue-grey, because chrome reflects the sky above it and the road below.
• Windows: light blue with one diagonal white streak across the glass.
• Tyres: dark grey rather than pure black, so the tread still shows, with a lighter line around the side of the tyre.
• Headlights: pale yellow in the middle, with a white dot for the shine.

In the Colouring Studio, the Robots & cars colour set has chrome, tyre black, taxi yellow and racing red, and the alcohol markers are good for smooth, layered paint.

Car games for kids

For road trips, waiting rooms and rainy afternoons:

• Car colour bingo: draw a grid of colours and tick them off as you spot a car of each one.
• Design a number plate: give your favourite car from the book its own licence plate.
• Invent a car: a name, a colour, and one thing no real car can do (it floats, it flies, it makes pancakes).
• Classic car detective: count round headlights, tail fins and chrome bumpers on the cars you pass.

If your child enjoys these, the Cars Coloring Book has 40 cars to colour, one per page, from beetles and minis to race cars, campers and trucks.

Questions people ask

What age are these car colouring pages for?

Ages 4–10, and any age can enjoy them. Younger children do well with the cars on plain white pages; older kids like the busier pages with frames and backgrounds.

How many cars are in the Cars Coloring Book?

Forty, one per page, from classic beetles and minis to race cars, muscle cars, campers and trucks.

Are the car colouring pages free?

Four cars are free to colour online in the Colouring Studio, and a classic car is in the free printable colouring pack.