Free Bear Coloring Pages (Printable PDFs)

By: Printables Garden Team

Settle in with bear coloring pages that feel warm and easy for any day. This cozy set of bear coloring sheets includes sweet little bear and bear cub scenes for kids, plus realistic bear coloring pages when older kids and adults want quiet focus. You’ll see friendly faces, calm woods, and a few brown bear and black bear moments to color at your own pace.

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Cute Bear Coloring Pages

Round faces, soft paws, and cozy little scenes make these cute bear coloring pages perfect for younger kids. Easy outlines for relaxed coloring.

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Realistic Bear Coloring Pages

Detailed fur textures, forest scenes, and strong bear poses, these realistic bear coloring pages give older kids and adults a calm, nature-inspired challenge.

Browse cute bear coloring pages for quick smiles, or try fuller nature scenes with rivers, trees, and gentle mountain views. Find playful baby bear pages, family moments, and simple honey-pot fun, along with character-style options and a cheerful gummy bear coloring page for something silly. Many designs are easy and simple for kids; others offer more detail when you have time. Every page is sized for standard letter printer paper (8.5 × 11 inches) and prints cleanly on A4. Every file is free as a PDF, so you can download and print at home in minutes. Click any image to open the PDF, save it, and print your free favorite teddy bear coloring page.

Fun Bear Facts to Share With Your Kids

Make coloring time learning time with these sweet and simple bear facts. They pair perfectly with your bear coloring pages and help kids explore the different kinds of bears they might color.

Black Bears
Black bears are the most common bears in North America. They live in forests, mountains, and even near beaches, eating berries, plants, insects, and whatever snacks campers forget to pack away. In winter, they curl up in cozy dens and sleep for months.

Brown Bears
Brown bears look a lot like black bears, but they usually live farther inland and have longer claws for digging. Many of the big bears seen in National Parks are brown bears. They love berries, roots, fish, and anything else nature provides.

Polar Bears
Polar bears are the snow giants of the Arctic. Their fur is white, but their skin underneath is actually black to help them soak up warmth. With huge, webbed paws, they’re excellent swimmers and spend much of their time traveling across sea ice looking for seals.

Panda Bears
Pandas are easy to spot with their black-and-white fur and round, cuddly faces. They live in the mountains of China and spend most of the day eating bamboo — sometimes up to 40 pounds a day! Even though they look tough, pandas are gentle and calm. Baby pandas are tiny when they’re born, about the size of a stick of butter!

Teddy Bears
Teddy bears were named after President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. After a famous story about Roosevelt refusing to shoot a helpless bear, a shop owner created a stuffed bear called “Teddy’s Bear.” It became so popular that teddy bears have been a childhood favorite ever since.

Craft Ideas To Try With Bear Coloring Pages

Bears can be adorable, silly, or even a little fierce, so it’s no surprise kids love coloring them. When those finished pages start piling up, turn them into fun, inexpensive crafts that spark creativity and keep little hands busy.

Bear Hat That Doubles as a Mask

Give each child a simple party hat and let them decorate it using cut-outs from their finished bear coloring pages. Place the bear’s nose right at the point of the hat for a funny look. Add a big pom-pom nose and wiggle eyes, or even candy-corn “teeth.” When worn normally, it’s a hat—pull it down a bit, and suddenly it becomes a playful bear mask.

Learning Shapes With Silly Bears

Choose three fun bear drawings and glue them onto a piece of poster board. Cut bright construction-paper shapes—circles, diamonds, squares—and glue one onto each bear’s belly. Add little speech bubbles where the bears “name” their shapes. Kids love it, and teachers get an easy learning activity.

Fluffy Polar Bear Art

Pick a bear with a round face and place it on blue poster board. Add cotton balls for fur, glitter for snow, cupcake wrappers for ears, and a pom-pom nose. Finish with wiggle eyes and hand-drawn snowflakes. The layered textures turn this into a unique winter decoration.

Funny Christmas Bear Card

Have children color their bear and glue it to one side of folded cardstock. Twist two pipe cleaners into spirals and glue googly eyes to the ends. Staple the other ends behind the bear’s eyes so they pop up when the card is opened. Kids love the surprise, and it makes a hilarious holiday greeting.

Country-Style Bear Cup

Color a bear and glue it onto a plain styrofoam cup. Add pom-pom feet and bend a pipe cleaner into a little handle. The cup can be filled with nuts, candy, or small trinkets, becoming a sweet rustic decoration for tables or windowsills.

Valentine’s Day Bear

Wrap a toilet paper roll in brown paper and red glitter. Cut the colored bear into head and body pieces. Glue the head to the top and wrap the body around the roll so the paws meet in the front. Add pink paper hearts—one tiny one for the nose and one big one for the bear to “hold.” Finish with pom-pom feet and wiggle eyes.

Movable Paper-Plate Bear

Use one large and one small paper plate to form the bear’s body and head. Attach paper-cut paws using paper fasteners so the legs can move. Decorate the plates with pieces from bear coloring pages—traditional colors or abstract patterns—then play with the bear like a puppet.

Bears Gone Fishing

Glue the bear cutout to an upside-down styrofoam cup. Add goofy faces, funny teeth, and pom-pom noses. Pierce the sides with toothpicks and attach pieces of thread. Staple small paper fish to the threads so it looks like the bear has caught its lunch.

Doorknob Bear Hanger

Paint a paper plate, then glue a big bear face in the center. Add construction-paper ears and staple the bear’s body at the bottom so the head looks extra large and silly. Attach bells and ribbon at the top and hang it from a door for a cheerful decoration.

“Grizzly” Keep Out Sign

Let kids color a fierce bear and glue it onto poster board. Add oversized construction-paper teeth, wild wiggle eyes, and pipe-cleaner fangs. Write bold phrases like “Keep Out” or “Beware” across the bottom. Kids love hanging these dramatic signs on their bedroom doors.

Mom’s Tip – Learn to Draw a Bear

We use these bear coloring pages as a simple drawing lesson. First, we clip a page onto a Kids’ Light-Up Tracing Pad and let the kids slowly trace the bear shape. Then we switch to a Sketchbook for Kids and have them draw the same bear again without tracing. It feels like play, but each page quietly builds real drawing confidence.

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