Color by Number Kindergarten

Press Print for the Paint palette: an 8 by 8 grid of 64 big squares, numbers 1 to 4.

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Color by number: Paint palette

Color each square by its number. Squares with no number stay white.

11111
1121111
11111311
14111111
111111
111111
111111
1111

To color on screen, choose a color in the key, then tap the squares.

Paint palette, 8 by 8, 4 colors.

Answer key: prints on page 2.

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Print gives a blank worksheet, and the colored answer key on page 2 when that box is ticked. Colors you fill in on screen stay on screen. By keyboard: the arrow keys move around the grid, Enter colors a square, a digit colors it by that number and Backspace clears it.

Next step Print color words worksheetsMove up to 12 by 12 and 24 by 24 grids

How it works

This color by number kindergarten set uses small grids with big squares. Each of 8 classroom pictures prints as an 8 by 8 grid with the numbers 1 to 4, or a 12 by 12 grid up to 6.

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Start with two numbers

The 8 by 8 Scissors and Puzzle piece use only the numbers 1 and 2, and the Scissors has just 26 squares to color. The Paint palette, Easel, Bookshelf and Lunch box use all four.

Then six numbers on 144 squares

Choose the 12 by 12 grid under Size for the same picture with more in it. The Paint palette and the Bookshelf reach the number 6. The 12 by 12 Bookshelf has a number in all 144 squares; every other sheet leaves some squares white.

  • On the 8 by 8 Paint palette, 2, 3 and 4 each appear once among 47 squares of 1.
  • The key prints above the grid with a color swatch beside each number, for children who cannot read color words.
  • An 8 by 8 square prints three times as wide as a square on a 24 by 24 sheet.

Questions and answers

Which numbers does a child need to know for these sheets?

The numbers 1 to 4 for the 8 by 8 sheets and 1 to 6 for the 12 by 12 sheets. Two 8 by 8 sheets, the Scissors and the Puzzle piece, need only 1 and 2.

What are the eight kindergarten pictures?

A Paint palette, an Easel, Scissors, a Glue bottle, a Puzzle piece, a World globe, a Bookshelf and a Lunch box. All are things found in a classroom, drawn as pixel pictures in the 8 basic crayon colors.

What comes after these color by number pages?

The starter set has 8 pictures on 12 by 12 and 24 by 24 grids. For sums, color by addition puts a problem in each square in place of a plain number.

All 8 pictures

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  • Easel A painting on a brown easel: yellow paper with a red patch and a blue patch. On the 12 by 12 grid a green patch is added. Easy: 4 colors, 42 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 96 squares to color.
  • Paint palette A brown painter's palette with a thumb hole and blobs of paint. The 8 by 8 grid has 3 blobs: red, blue and yellow. The 12 by 12 grid has 5: red, yellow, blue, green and purple. Easy: 4 colors, 50 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 117 squares to color.

On the table 3

  • Glue bottle A blue bottle of glue with an orange cap and a yellow label. On the 12 by 12 grid the label has a red stripe. Easy: 3 colors, 38 squares to color. Detailed: 4 colors, 94 squares to color.
  • Puzzle piece A green jigsaw piece with a knob on the top and on the right, a gap at the bottom and a yellow patch. On the 12 by 12 grid a blue patch is added. Easy: 2 colors, 40 squares to color. Detailed: 3 colors, 90 squares to color.
  • Scissors A pair of open scissors with red handles. On the 8 by 8 grid the blades are black. On the 12 by 12 grid the blades are blue, with a yellow pin where they cross. Easy: 2 colors, 26 squares to color. Detailed: 3 colors, 60 squares to color.
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Around the room 3

  • Bookshelf A brown bookshelf full of books. The 8 by 8 grid has 2 shelves of red, blue and yellow books. The 12 by 12 grid has 3 shelves and adds green and purple books. Easy: 4 colors, 58 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 144 squares to color.
  • Lunch box A red lunch box with a black handle, a yellow clasp and a blue band. On the 12 by 12 grid an orange sticker sits in one corner. Easy: 4 colors, 54 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 118 squares to color.
  • World globe A blue globe with green land on a brown stand. Easy: 3 colors, 44 squares to color. Detailed: 3 colors, 100 squares to color.

How this list was compiled: Our own pixel pictures, drawn square by square for this site on 8 by 8 and 12 by 12 grids in October 2026. Nothing is traced, scanned or copied from clip art, no picture shows a brand or a logo, and none shows a character from a film, show, book or game. The color and square counts in each description were counted from the finished grids. Licence: own work

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