Free Printable Bee Coloring Pages for Kids and Adults
Last updated: February 26, 2025 by the Homemade Gifts Coloring Team
Bee coloring pages offer the perfect spring activity, when bumblebees start flitting around my house. I have a lot of flowering plants and trees, so I get a lot of these little guys sipping nectar in my yard, and I absolutely love it! Since I don’t really want bees inside my house, I turn to bee coloring pages, a fun and stinger-free way to enjoy these cute critters even indoors. Our bumblebee coloring pages include cute bee coloring pages for the kids and realistic bee coloring pages for the adults!
Bee Coloring Pages
Check out all our bumblebee coloring pages. The cute bee coloring pages are simple enough for young children or even a classroom setting. Or grab some of the realistic bee coloring pages if you want a complicated and intricate design to enjoy yourself. These printables are for personal, non-commercial use only.
Bee Facts and Bee Coloring Tips
Let’s make the most of our bee coloring pages! Here, you’ll find some fascinating bee facts, as well as some coloring tips so you can get the perfect bee colors for your creation.
Mix Green and Yellow for Unique Bee Colors
When we think about “bee colors” we tend to go right to yellow and black. But using nothing but yellow and black on your bee coloring pages could be boring and flat.
Instead, you could try mixing green and yellow for a more interesting and dynamic color scheme. Depending on how you mix these colors, you could get basil, moss, seafoam, and a host of other shades. These bee colors are great for the leaves and foliage around the bee and not just the bee itself!
Experiment and see what happens.
Learn About Complementary Colors
Learning about complementary colors can be a great way to enhance your bee coloring pages and turn this activity into a learning experience.
Complementary colors are pairs of colors that sit opposite each other on the color wheel. Using these opposites can make for some striking contrasts in your coloring. For example, among your bee colors, you’ll find a lot of bright yellows. The opposite of that is purple. Throwing a purple flower into your bee coloring page can make the whole image more striking.
Black doesn’t have an opposite on the color wheel, but if you use the tip above about mixing green and yellow, you can go to the opposite of green - which is orange - and search for inspiration there.
Keep These Bee Facts in Mind While You Color!
While you’re coloring your super cute bee coloring pages, you can also learn something! Here’s a few bee facts to get your mind buzzing:
- Only female bees have stingers. That’s because the stinger itself is a modification on the organ that lays eggs.
- Do you know how many bees can live in a hive? It’s probably more than you think! Honeybees have the biggest colonies, and they’ll have 50,000 bees all living and working together.
- The reason you only see bees in spring and summer is because they’re actually cold-blooded, which means they need to hibernate during winter to survive.
- Bees actually have five eyes. They have two big ones in the front, which are the ones we tend to think of first. But they also have three smaller eyes in the center of their head.
Butterfly Coloring Pages
Love spending time outside in spring? Then you're probably friends of the butterflies as well as the bees. Due to their bright coloring and symmetry, butterfly coloring pages can be the most fun!
More Nature Coloring Pages
Get more coloring fun about nature, animals, and the warmer half of the year with these super fun coloring pages:
- Leaf Template
- Ladybug Coloring Pages
- Flower Coloring Pages
- Flower Template
- Butterfly Template
- Turtle Coloring Pages
- Bunny Coloring Pages
- Mushroom Coloring Pages
- Earth Day Coloring Pages
- Garden Coloring Pages
- Rose Coloring Pages
- Sunflower Coloring Pages
