Butterfly and bug coloring pages

A monarch, a blue morpho and a luna moth, a dragonfly, a honeybee, a ladybug, an orchid mantis, a caterpillar and a snail: every small creature of The Glasshouse is a coloring page. Print one for your pencils, or color it here and watch it come alive among the orchids and ferns.

9 drawings, free to print

Pick a drawing

Tap a picture to color it online. Or print it for crayons.

Free butterfly and bug coloring pages

All drawings are free to print and free to color online, without a sign-up. The Glasshouse is a world in the pass: setting your butterflies and bugs free there comes with the pass, or with friends who play.

Detailed drawings to take slowly

These drawings are full of small shapes: the cells of a dragonfly’s wings, the spots along a monarch’s border, the rings of a caterpillar. They suit a slow, quiet hour. The ladybug and the caterpillar are the gentlest start; the dragonfly’s wings and the luna moth’s veined wings take longest.

Print one, or watch it come alive

Each drawing prints on one sheet of A4 or Letter paper, with a code you can use to come back online and color it. Tap a shape to fill it, and when you finish, your creature comes to life in The Glasshouse in all the colors you chose.

A nature lesson, up close

Each page says a little about its creature: the real colors of a monarch and a luna moth, how a ladybug is marked, what a honeybee really looks like. Print a set for a lesson about insects and other small creatures, or about how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, then color one together on screen.