Rocket Color by Number

Print the Rocket lifting off, or open More options for a rocket among the stars and 6 more.

Rocket lifting off, 12 by 12, 5 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.

How it works

This rocket color by number set opens on a Rocket lifting off. The other seven: among the stars, on the launch pad, beside the moon, on the moon, passing a ringed planet, over the Earth, and a red rocket ship.

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White rockets on a dark sky

Five rockets have a body left white: the paper is the rocket, and the black or blue around it gives it its shape. Check Put 0 in the white squares in More options to print a 0 in each one. The other three are colored in: two blue rockets and the red rocket ship.

Eight sheets, 5 crayons each

Every easy key has 5 colors, and red is in all 8. Black fills the most squares on the Rocket among the stars: 109 of 144. Only the Rocket and the moon colors every easy square.

  • On two easy sheets the window is the only blue square: the Rocket among the stars and the Rocket passing a ringed planet.
  • The Rocket ship with three windows colors 59 easy squares, the fewest here.

Questions and answers

Is there a color by number rocket ship?

Yes: the Rocket ship with three windows, a red ship flying to the right with purple fins and a flame behind it. Open More options and pick it under Pictures.

Which crayons does the rocket color by number need?

Five for the Rocket lifting off, numbered 1 to 5: purple for the sky, red for the nose cone and fins, blue for the body, yellow for the window and the flame's core, and orange for the flame. All are in a box of 8.

Is there a rocket on the moon to color?

Yes, two sheets go there: the Rocket on the moon stands on the surface with the Earth in the sky, and the Rocket and the moon flies past a full moon. The moon set has eight more moon pictures.

All 8 pictures

Launch day 2

  • Rocket lifting off A rocket lifting off into a purple dawn sky on a burst of orange and yellow flame: a blue body with a yellow window, a red nose cone and red fins; the smoke in the bottom corners is left white. On the detailed grid the window is light blue with a black edge, a gray band rings the body, the smoke has gray shadows and yellow stars are still out. Easy: 5 colors, 138 squares to color. Detailed: 8 colors, 560 squares to color.
  • Rocket on the launch pad A rocket standing ready beside a black launch tower on green grass under a blue sky: its body is left white, with a red nose cone, red fins and a yellow window. On the detailed grid the sky is light blue, the tower has gray crossbars, a gray band rings the rocket and the grass has light green tufts. Easy: 5 colors, 122 squares to color. Detailed: 7 colors, 498 squares to color.

Flying through space 4

  • Rocket among the stars A rocket flying up to the right through a black sky with yellow stars: its body is left white, with a red nose cone, a blue window, red fins and an orange and yellow flame. On the detailed grid the body has gray rivets, the window has a light blue glint and purple stars join the yellow ones. Easy: 5 colors, 133 squares to color. Detailed: 8 colors, 538 squares to color.
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Flying through space, continued

  • Rocket over the Earth A rocket climbing away from the blue and green Earth into a black sky with yellow stars: its body is left white, with a red nose cone, a blue window, red fins and a yellow flame. On the detailed grid the flame is orange at the top, the window has a light blue glint, the body has gray rivets and the Earth has white clouds. Easy: 5 colors, 136 squares to color. Detailed: 8 colors, 539 squares to color.
  • Rocket passing a ringed planet A rocket flying up past an orange planet with a yellow ring in a black sky with yellow stars: the rocket's body is left white, with a red nose cone, a blue window, red fins and an orange and yellow flame. On the detailed grid the planet has brown bands, the window has a light blue glint, the body has a gray hatch and more stars are out. Easy: 5 colors, 136 squares to color. Detailed: 8 colors, 546 squares to color.
  • Rocket ship with three windows A red rocket ship flying to the right with three blue windows, purple fins and an orange and yellow flame, among yellow stars; the background is left white. On the detailed grid the background is black, each window has a light blue glint, the nose has a gray tip and more stars are out. Easy: 5 colors, 59 squares to color. Detailed: 8 colors, 576 squares to color.

To the moon 2

  • Rocket and the moon A small rocket flying past a full yellow moon with orange craters in a purple sky: a blue body with a yellow window, a red nose cone, red fins and an orange flame. On the detailed grid the window is black, the flame has a yellow core, the moon has gray marks and yellow stars are out. Easy: 5 colors, 144 squares to color. Detailed: 7 colors, 576 squares to color.
  • Rocket on the moon A rocket standing on the yellow surface of the moon, which has black craters, under a black sky with the blue and green Earth in it: the rocket's body is left white, with a red nose cone, a blue window and red fins. On the detailed grid the moon's surface is gray, a red band rings the rocket, the window has a light blue glint, the Earth has white clouds and yellow stars are out. Easy: 5 colors, 128 squares to color. Detailed: 7 colors, 515 squares to color.

How this list was compiled: Our own pixel pictures, drawn square by square for this site on 12 by 12 and 24 by 24 grids in October 2026. Nothing is traced, scanned or copied from clip art, and no picture shows a brand, a logo or a character from a film, show, book or game. The color and square counts were counted from the finished grids. Licence: own work