Robot Colouring Pages for Kids, with a Story to Read Along

Here are free robot colouring pages for kids: colour Scribbles and three other robots online, or print Scribbles from the free colouring pack. They come from the Robot Coloring Book, which tells a short story across its pages, so below you’ll find the story to read along while your child colours, tips for making metal look shiny, and a few robot drawing prompts for afterwards.

The story of Scribbles

Once upon a time, in a small town, there lived a tiny robot named Scribbles. Scribbles was different from all the other robots in town, because his favourite hobby was collecting colouring books and colouring them in. He would spend hours choosing the perfect colour for each picture.

One day he heard about a colouring book fair in the next town over. He spent the whole day there, filling in pages and chatting with other colouring fans. But when he got home, he realised he had left his favourite colouring book behind. The next day he went back and searched everywhere, and just as he was about to give up, a kind vendor offered to help. Together they found the book, tucked away in a corner and still open to the page he had been working on.

Later, Scribbles met Pixel, a robot known for her kindness. Pixel noticed that his pencils were worn down to stubs, and gave him her brand-new set. Scribbles’ pictures had never looked so bright. The two became friends, and rumour has it that the Robot Coloring Book was the very first colouring book they designed together.

Four robots to colour online

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

• Meet Scribbles: the hero himself, with his square head and big smile.
• Flower friend: a small robot next to a very tall flower.
• A day at the fair: a tall robot holding a giant pencil, ready for the colouring book fair.
• Overjoyed!: a big-eyed robot with antennae, as happy as Scribbles when he found his book.

Prefer paper? Scribbles is in the free printable colouring pack.

How to make robots look shiny

Metal looks shiny because it reflects light in bright streaks. Kids can fake it with a few simple tricks:

1. Leave a white stripe. Before colouring a robot’s head or body, decide where the light is coming from and leave a narrow strip of white paper there. It instantly looks like polished metal.
2. Use two greys. Colour the top of each shape in light grey and the bottom in a darker grey, so the robot looks round and solid.
3. Mix your metals. Steel is grey with a touch of blue; brass is gold with a little brown; copper is orange with brown. Mixing metals on one robot makes it look built from real parts.
4. Make the lights glow. Colour buttons and screens in bright colours and leave a tiny white dot in each one.

In the Colouring Studio, the Robots & cars colour set has chrome, steel, brass and copper ready to go. Alcohol markers layer like real metal shading, and the glitter gel pen makes good blinking lights.

Robot drawing prompts

For when the colouring is finished and the pencils are still out:

• Design a robot that does the chore you like least.
• Pixel is kind and generous, but the story never says exactly what she looks like. Draw her.
• Make a new cover for Scribbles’ favourite colouring book.
• Draw your robot’s control panel and label what every button does.
• Invent a robot for each season: snow-shovelling, leaf-raking, ice-cream-delivering.

Talk about the story

The story is about kindness, which makes it a good starting point for a chat:

• How did the vendor help Scribbles, even though they’d never met?
• How did Pixel notice that Scribbles needed help?
• Have you ever lost something special? How did you feel when you found it?
• What would you share with a new friend?

If your child enjoys these, the Robot Coloring Book has more than 30 robots to colour, with the whole story told across its pages.

Questions people ask

Is the Robot Coloring Book a story book as well?

Yes. Each picture comes with a page of the story of Scribbles, a tiny robot who loves colouring books, and his friend Pixel, so it works as a read-aloud too.

What age are the robot pages for?

Ages 4–10, and any age can enjoy them. The robots have big, clear shapes for younger children and plenty of dials, buttons and gears for older ones.

Are the robot colouring pages free?

Four robots are free to colour online in the Colouring Studio, and Scribbles is in the free printable colouring pack.