Free weather coloring pages you can print or color online right now, sunny skies, rain, clouds, snow, a windy kite, a thundercloud, and a full ROYGBIV rainbow. Pick any design below to get started.
10free weather coloring pages below, ready to print or color online in seconds. Scroll on for color palettes, weather facts, crafts & an FAQ.
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Free Printable Weather Coloring Pages (PDF)
Every printable is generated on US Letter paper (8.5 x 11 inches). For A4 printing, choose "Fit to page" in your print dialog.
We color-test these at the kitchen table with a tub of crayons. Bold shapes suit toddlers and preschoolers, while detailed pages like Thunder Cloud and Windy Leaves keep older kids and calm grown-ups busy.
Weather set at a glance
- Pages right now
- 10 printable designs
- File format
- Print-ready PDF, crisp line art
- Paper size
- US Letter 8.5" × 11" (A4: choose "Fit to page")
- Color online
- Yes, on pages with a region map. No app, no account.
- Difficulty
- Easy to medium (bold shapes to fine detail)
- Best for ages
- 2–12, plus relaxed grown-ups
- Themes covered
- Sun, rain, clouds, snow, wind, storms, rainbows
- License
- Free for personal, classroom & homeschool use
Sing along while you color
We like to put this one on in the background, it names each kind of weather and gives little ones the words to match what they are coloring.
Video: "Sun, Rain, Wind, and Snow" by The Singing Walrus (YouTube).
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Click any thumbnail above to download a printable PDF or to color it online. Below is everything we have learned from actually coloring these at the kitchen table: a real color recipe for each scene, a cheat sheet for skies, the science behind every kind of weather, and crafts that take the pages off the paper.
How to color each weather scene (our go-to palettes)
Blank skies are surprisingly hard to start. Here is the exact set of colors we reach for on each page, plus the one little trick that makes that scene look finished.
A full arc plus a beaming sun, the most popular page in the set.
Pro tip: Keep the bands in ROYGBIV order and leave a hairline of white paper between each one so the colors read as separate stripes instead of blurring together.
Big simple shapes, our go-to first page for toddlers.
Pro tip: Color the sky darker blue at the very top and let it fade to pale near the horizon. The trick: lay one light-blue layer over the whole sky, then press a second pass only on the top third.
A classic umbrella under falling drops.
Pro tip: Color raindrops with a light blue but leave one tiny white dot of paper unfilled on each drop. That single highlight is what makes water look wet and glassy.
Cozy mittens in a gentle snowfall.
Pro tip: Resist the urge to color the snowflakes. The white paper IS the snow. At most, ghost them in with the palest blue so they barely whisper against the background.
A diamond kite with a long looping tail.
Pro tip: Color the tail bows in a repeating color pattern (red, yellow, red, yellow). A repeating rhythm is what tricks the eye into seeing the tail flutter in the wind.
A moody storm cloud with a lightning bolt. The most detailed page.
Pro tip: Layer two grays on the cloud (light on top edges, charcoal underneath) and press your hardest on the lightning bolt. The bolt should be the single brightest thing on the whole page.
Puddle-jumping gear, ready for a downpour.
Pro tip: Match the coat and boots in the same color, then add one surprise pop (polka dots, a green frog on a boot). Matching plus one accent always looks more finished than rainbow chaos.
A calm night sky, lovely for a bedtime wind-down.
Pro tip: Blend navy and indigo for the sky and press lighter in the ring right around the moon so it looks like it is glowing. Leave the stars as untouched white paper.
A sampler sheet of sun, cloud, rain, snow, rainbow and bolt icons.
Pro tip: Use the exact same yellow, blue and gray on every icon so the sheet looks like one matching set. Colored this way it doubles as a printable weather chart for the wall.
Autumn leaves caught mid-gust. The richest page for older kids.
Pro tip: Give every leaf a different warm shade (one crimson, one gold, one pumpkin) and keep the swirling wind lines a pale gray so the leaves stay the stars of the page.
The sky color cheat sheet
Whenever we color a sky with kids, we lay down the lightest blue across the whole top first and only press harder near the very top edge. It is the fastest way to get that real-sky look without smudging. Here is how we shift it for different weather.
- Clear blue day: darkest blue at the top, fading to pale near the horizon. One light layer everywhere, a second layer only on the top third.
- Sunset or sunrise: horizontal bands, pale yellow at the horizon, peach and coral in the middle, lavender up high. Smudge gently where the bands meet.
- Stormy sky: layer grays with a touch of green-gray, and keep the lightning the single brightest mark on the page.
- Night sky: navy blended with indigo, a soft glow ring left pale around the moon, and stars kept as untouched white paper.
- Rainbow weather: a soft gray rainy sky behind the arc makes the ROYGBIV colors look even brighter by contrast.
Types of weather, explained for curious kids
Every page is a chance to answer a why question. Here is the kid-sized version of what each kind of weather actually is, with a fun fact to share while you color.
☀️ Sunny
Sunshine is light and warmth reaching us from the Sun, a star about 93 million miles away that heats the ground and the air.
Fun fact: Sunlight takes roughly 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel all the way to Earth.
Color the Sunny Day page →☁️ Cloudy
Clouds are billions of tiny water droplets and ice crystals floating in the sky, so light they drift on the air.
Fun fact: An ordinary fluffy cumulus cloud can weigh about as much as 100 elephants, it just spreads that weight over a huge space.
Color the Moon and Clouds page →🌧️ Rainy
Rain falls when cloud droplets bump together, grow heavy, and can no longer float, so gravity pulls them down.
Fun fact: Falling raindrops are not teardrop shaped at all, they flatten into little hamburger-bun shapes as they drop.
Color the Rainy Umbrella page →💨 Windy
Wind is simply air on the move. The Sun heats some places more than others, and air rushes from cooler, heavier areas toward warmer, lighter ones.
Fun fact: You can never actually see wind, only what it moves: a kite, leaves, a flag, or ripples on a puddle.
Color the Windy Kite page →❄️ Snowy
Snow forms when water vapor high in a cloud freezes straight into ice crystals and it is cold enough for them to reach the ground frozen.
Fun fact: Snowflakes almost always have six sides, and no two are ever exactly alike.
Color the Snowy Mittens page →⛈️ Stormy
A thunderstorm is a tall cloud crackling with electricity. Lightning is a giant spark and thunder is the booming sound that spark makes.
Fun fact: Light is faster than sound, so count the seconds between the flash and the boom and divide by 5 to estimate how many miles away the storm is.
Color the Thunder Cloud page →🌈 Rainbow
A rainbow appears when sunlight passes through raindrops and bends, splitting white light into all its colors.
Fun fact: To find one, stand with the Sun behind you and the rain in front of you, the colors always run in the same order.
Color the Rainbow and Sun page →Want to keep going? NASA Climate Kids and the National Weather Service both have brilliant, kid-friendly explainers on clouds, storms and seasons.
The water cycle in four steps
Color the Rainy Umbrella and Moon and Clouds pages together and you have the perfect prompt for explaining where rain actually comes from.
Evaporation
The Sun warms oceans, lakes and puddles, turning liquid water into an invisible gas called water vapor that rises into the sky.
Condensation
Up high where it is cold, the vapor cools and clumps back into tiny droplets. Billions of droplets together make a cloud.
Precipitation
When the droplets grow heavy enough, they fall as rain, snow, sleet or hail, the part you grab an umbrella for.
Collection
The water gathers in rivers, lakes and oceans, ready to be warmed by the Sun and start the whole loop over again.
The USGS Water Science School has a full interactive water-cycle diagram if your young scientist wants the deep dive.
Why weather coloring is good for kids (and grown-ups)
Builds fine-motor strength
Gripping a crayon and staying inside the lines of a kite or a cloud is real practice for the small hand muscles kids later use to write.
Calms a busy brain
Slow, repetitive coloring is naturally regulating. We reach for the Moon and Clouds page when a day needs a quiet reset before bed.
Teaches weather words
Coloring a thundercloud or a windsock gives little ones a reason to use words like forecast, gust, drizzle and flurry out loud.
Screen-free and portable
A printed page and a pencil pouch travel anywhere: the car, a restaurant, grandma's kitchen table, a rained-out afternoon.
Sparks early science
Every page is a doorway to a why question. Why is the sky blue? Where does rain come from? Coloring makes the question feel fun, not like a lesson.
Printing & paper tips
- Our PDFs are built on US Letter (8.5" × 11"). Printing on A4? Pick "Fit to page" or "Fit to printable area" so nothing gets cropped.
- Turn off "Headers and footers" in the browser print dialog so no URL or date prints across the artwork.
- Going to glue, cut or laminate a page for a craft? Print it on cardstock so it holds its shape.
- Doing the memory-match game? Print two copies of the Cute Weather Icons sheet so every icon has a twin.
- If a page prints faint or gray, set the printer to Black and white / Grayscale rather than color.
Fun weather crafts & activities
Once a page is colored, do not recycle it, build with it. Each of these uses a specific page from this set plus things you already have at home.
1. Spin-the-weather wheel
- Color and cut out the Cute Weather Icons.
- Glue them around the rim of a paper plate.
- Add a cardboard arrow with a split pin in the center, then spin it to today's forecast each morning.
2. 3D cotton-ball clouds
- Color the Thunder Cloud or Moon and Clouds page.
- Stretch cotton balls thin and glue them over the cloud shapes.
- Tuck a strip of yellow paper underneath for a pop-out lightning bolt.
3. DIY windsock
- Color the Windy Kite page and roll it into a tube; tape the seam.
- Tape crepe-paper or ribbon streamers to the bottom.
- Punch two holes, add string, and hang it outside to watch how hard the wind is blowing.
4. Sunny-window suncatcher
- Color the Sunny Day page pressing firmly for bold color.
- Rub a little vegetable oil on the back so it goes translucent (an adult job).
- Tape it to a sunny window and watch the light glow through.
5. Paper-plate rainbow
- Color the Rainbow and Sun page and cut out the arc.
- Glue it onto a cut paper plate for a sturdy curve.
- Add a puff of cotton-ball cloud at each end of the rainbow.
6. Daily weather journal
- Print the Cute Weather Icons small, four to a page.
- Each morning, circle the icon that matches the real sky outside.
- After a week, count up the sunny, rainy and cloudy days like a real meteorologist.
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Update history
- June 15, 2026: Rebuilt the Weather hub from the ground up. Added scene-by-scene color palettes, a sky cheat sheet, kid-friendly weather science with sources, a water-cycle explainer, benefits, weather-specific crafts, a video, and an FAQ.
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