Coloring Pages of Hawaii

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Warm ocean waves, dramatic green mountains, tropical flowers, swaying palms, colorful surfboards, music, and island traditions make Hawaiʻi an especially beautiful subject for coloring. Our Coloring Pages of Hawaii collection brings together tropical scenery and Hawaiian-inspired designs in a set of printable pages for kids, teens, adults, classrooms, and anyone dreaming of an island escape.

The collection includes a beautiful seascape with a palm tree, surfboard, waves, shore, and mountains; a carved-image-inspired design surrounded by tropical leaves and torches; kawaii surfboards; tropical leaves and flowers; a hula dancer; a hibiscus flower; and a Hawaiian woman playing guitar beside the beach.

These pages leave plenty of room for turquoise water, emerald mountains, golden sand, colorful flowers, dramatic sunsets, and surfboards covered with imaginative patterns. They can also encourage curiosity about the real history, culture, plants, landscapes, and traditions of Hawaiʻi.

Grab your crayons, markers, or colored pencils and get ready to add some island color.

🌺 Color Your Way Through Hawaiʻi

Hawaiʻi is much more than palm trees and beaches. The Hawaiian Islands contain volcanoes, rain forests, dry landscapes, waterfalls, mountain ridges, coral reefs, farms, towns, and coastlines that can look very different from one island to another.

That variety gives you plenty of inspiration for coloring.

A mountain could be deep emerald green after rain or brown and gold in a drier landscape. Ocean water might be turquoise close to shore and deep blue farther out. Tropical flowers bring bright reds, yellows, pinks, oranges, and purples into the picture.

You can look at real Hawaiian landscapes for inspiration or create an island that exists only in your imagination.

🌴 Color a Tropical Hawaiian Seascape

One of the collection’s most inviting pictures shows a classic island scene with a palm tree, surfboard, waves, shoreline, and mountains.

Start with the ocean.

Instead of using one blue across the entire sea, try layering several shades:

• Pale aqua
• Turquoise
• Sea green
• Cobalt blue
• Deep ocean blue

Keep areas around breaking waves mostly white or pale blue to suggest foam.

The sand can be cream, tan, pale gold, peach, or warm brown, while the mountains provide another opportunity to experiment with green.

Use lighter yellow-green on sunny slopes and deeper forest green in shaded areas.

Then make the surfboard the brightest object on the page.

🏄 Design Your Dream Surfboard

A surfboard is essentially a blank canvas inside the coloring page.

Instead of choosing one color, create your own design.

Try:

• Rainbow stripes
• Tropical flowers
• Ocean waves
• Palm leaves
• Sunset colors
• Geometric patterns
• Stars
• Sea turtles
• Hibiscus flowers
• A simple two-color design

You could even print the page twice and create two completely different boards.

One might have a retro look with orange, mustard yellow, cream, and turquoise. Another could use hot pink, purple, aqua, and lime green.

Kids can draw additional surfboards on another sheet of paper and create an entire pretend surf shop.

🌊 Surfing and Hawaiian Culture

Surfing is not simply a modern beach activity associated with vacations. Wave riding has deep roots in Polynesia, and surfing became an important part of Native Hawaiian life and culture long before it developed into today’s international sport.

In the early 20th century, Native Hawaiian swimmer and surfer Duke Kahanamoku became one of the most influential figures in introducing and popularizing Hawaiian surfing internationally.

That history makes the surfboard more than a decorative beach object.

When coloring it, kids can enjoy creating wild patterns while older children may also enjoy learning a little about the Native Hawaiian origins and history of surfing.

🌅 Create a Waikīkī-Inspired Sunset

Surfing and sunset colors belong beautifully together.

For an island sunset, begin with yellow near the horizon and gradually move through:

Yellow → Orange → Coral → Pink → Purple

Add deep blue higher in the sky if you’d like the scene to feel later in the evening.

Then repeat some of those colors in the water.

Long horizontal strokes of orange, pink, and purple can suggest reflections across the waves.

Keep the palm tree and surfboard darker to create a silhouette effect.

Suddenly, a simple tropical coloring page can become a dramatic sunset scene.

🏔️ Don’t Forget the Hawaiian Mountains

Although beaches often dominate pictures of Hawaiʻi, mountains are a major part of the islands’ scenery.

Give distant mountains several shades rather than one flat green.

Try:

• Lime
• Leaf green
• Emerald
• Forest green
• Blue-green

Mountains farther away can be pale blue or lavender-gray to create a feeling of distance.

Add low clouds around the peaks if you want a misty tropical scene.

For more mountain, countryside, beach, and river scenes, explore our Coloring Pages of Landscapes.

🌺 Color the Hawaiian Hibiscus

Another page in the collection features a large hibiscus flower, giving you an opportunity to concentrate on a single tropical bloom.

Hibiscus flowers are wonderful coloring subjects because they can handle bold colors beautifully.

Try:

• Yellow
• Red
• Pink
• Orange
• Peach
• Purple
• White with colored shading

Hawaiʻi’s official state flower is the yellow hibiscus, known in Hawaiian as maʻo hau hele.

That makes yellow an especially meaningful choice for a Hawaii-themed coloring page, though your own flower can certainly be any color you like.

Use bright yellow petals with a deeper golden or orange center, then surround the flower with rich green leaves.

💛 Try a Yellow Hibiscus Palette

For a nature-inspired yellow hibiscus, gather several related colors.

Try:

• Pale lemon
• Bright yellow
• Golden yellow
• Orange
• Leaf green
• Forest green

Begin with pale yellow across the petals.

Add brighter yellow toward the center and a touch of orange around the flower’s deepest areas.

Use several greens in the leaves.

Older colorists can leave small areas white to suggest highlights and layer darker colors where petals overlap.

The result can have much more depth than filling the whole flower with a single yellow crayon.

🌿 Fill the Page With Tropical Leaves

Another design features tropical leaves and flowers, creating an ideal page for experimenting with greens.

Nature rarely uses just one shade.

Try mixing:

• Mint
• Lime
• Yellow-green
• Leaf green
• Emerald
• Forest green
• Teal

Color large leaves with several shades and make smaller leaves slightly lighter or darker.

Then use bright flowers to break up all the green.

Pink, orange, yellow, red, purple, and white flowers can create a lush tropical garden.

For even more floral coloring, explore our Coloring Pages of Flowers.

🌸 Build a Tropical Flower Garden

You don’t have to stop with the flowers already printed on the page.

Add your own around the borders.

Draw simple tropical-inspired blossoms, vines, leaves, and buds. They don’t need to represent exact plant species to create a beautiful decorative design.

Try a limited palette such as:

Tropical Sunset

Coral, orange, pink, purple, and green.

Island Garden

Yellow, red, pink, emerald, and turquoise.

Pastel Paradise

Peach, lavender, pale pink, mint, and baby blue.

Jungle Flowers

Deep green, burgundy, orange, gold, and purple.

Repeated colors can help the finished floral page feel beautifully coordinated.

🏄 Color the Kawaii Surfboards

The kawaii surfboards bring a playful side to the Hawaii collection.

Instead of concentrating on realistic scenery, you can treat each surfboard as its own miniature art project.

Give every board a different personality.

One could be pink with tiny flowers.

Another could be blue with white waves.

Make one rainbow-striped and another covered in tropical leaves.

Kids can add cute faces, stars, hearts, shells, or little suns.

If several boards appear together, challenge yourself to avoid repeating a color combination.

By the end, you’ll have an entire lineup of completely different designs.

🎨 Hawaiian-Inspired Color Palette Ideas

Not sure where to start? Try building your page around one of these combinations.

🌊 Tropical Ocean

Turquoise, aqua, cobalt, sea green, and white.

🌺 Hibiscus Garden

Yellow, coral, pink, red, and leafy green.

🌅 Island Sunset

Gold, orange, coral, pink, purple, and navy.

🌴 Tropical Forest

Lime, emerald, forest green, brown, and yellow.

🏄 Retro Surf

Turquoise, mustard, burnt orange, cream, and coral.

🍬 Kawaii Hawaii

Pink, lavender, turquoise, mint, and pale yellow.

🌙 Island Evening

Navy, violet, turquoise, silver-gray, and pale pink.

🏝️ Beach Day

Aqua, tan, cream, palm green, and sky blue.

Use the same palette across several pages to create a coordinated Hawaii coloring collection.

💃 Color the Hula Dancer

The hula dancer is one of the pages that deserves a little more context.

Hula is not simply a generic tropical dance or tourist costume. It is an important Native Hawaiian cultural practice connected with Hawaiian language, storytelling, genealogy, history, place, chant, music, and cultural knowledge.

There are different forms and traditions of hula, and it has remained an important means of preserving and expressing Native Hawaiian culture.

When coloring this page, enjoy the artwork while treating the person and cultural tradition represented with respect.

Rather than turning the dancer into a caricature, focus on the graceful shapes, clothing, flowers, landscape, and movement shown in the illustration.

🌺 Add Flowers to the Hula Scene

Flowers can bring additional color into the hula picture.

Choose a coordinated tropical palette of pink, yellow, red, orange, and green.

If there is open space around the dancer, add:

• Tropical leaves
• Flowers
• Mountains
• Ocean waves
• Clouds
• Sunset sky

Older kids can also look at museum or cultural resources about hula and learn how Native Hawaiian practitioners describe the tradition themselves.

A coloring page can spark curiosity, but it shouldn’t be treated as a complete lesson about Hawaiian culture.

🎶 Color a Hawaiian Beach Music Scene

Another design shows a Hawaiian woman playing guitar beside the beach.

This page combines music, landscape, and island atmosphere.

Begin with the instrument.

Try warm wood tones such as:

• Golden brown
• Caramel
• Chestnut
• Dark brown

Or create a colorful fantasy instrument decorated with flowers and waves.

Then move into the background.

Turquoise water, green palms, golden sand, and a coral-and-purple sunset can turn the picture into a warm evening scene.

Hawaiʻi has a rich musical history incorporating Native Hawaiian traditions alongside instruments and musical forms introduced and developed through many cultural encounters.

🎸 Hawaiian Musical Traditions

Hawaiian music includes a wide range of traditions rather than one single “island sound.”

Chant and hula have deep Native Hawaiian roots, while later Hawaiian musical history incorporated instruments such as guitars and ʻukulele. Hawaiian musicians also developed important new techniques and traditions, including Hawaiian steel guitar.

Smithsonian collections document Hawaiian musical instruments, performers, songs, hula, and other cultural traditions.

If the music coloring page sparks curiosity, listening to recordings from Hawaiian musicians can be a wonderful companion to the artwork.

🗿 Approach Hawaiian Carved Imagery Respectfully

The collection also includes an image resembling what is often popularly labeled a “tiki mask.”

That familiar commercial term can oversimplify something culturally much more complicated.

In Native Hawaiian tradition, kiʻi can refer to images, statues, or likenesses, including carved representations connected with akua and ʻaumakua. Such images can have religious and cultural significance and shouldn’t simply be reduced to generic tropical decorations.

The coloring-page design can still be enjoyed creatively, but it is worth approaching the imagery with respect.

You might use warm wood colors, dark browns, charcoal, and surrounding jungle greens rather than treating the image as a silly costume.

🪵 Create a Carved-Wood Effect

If you’d like the carved image to look wooden, begin with a warm tan base.

Then add:

• Caramel
• Chestnut
• Dark brown
• Espresso brown

Use darker shades inside carved lines and lighter shades on raised areas.

Small irregular streaks can imitate wood grain.

Surround the figure with rich tropical greens and warm orange or yellow around any torch flames.

The contrast between dark carved wood and lush leaves can make this one of the most dramatic pages in the collection.

🔥 Color the Torchlight

Torch flames provide a bright focal point against darker jungle colors.

Begin with pale yellow in the center.

Add bright yellow around it, followed by orange and small touches of red toward the outer edges.

The surrounding wood can use deep brown and charcoal.

For an evening scene, make the background dark blue, deep green, or violet so the fire stands out even more strongly.

Leaving a small area around the flame slightly lighter can create the impression of glowing light.

🏝️ Learn About Hawaiʻi’s Islands

A Hawaii coloring activity can also inspire simple geography.

Hawaiʻi is an island chain in the central Pacific Ocean. The major inhabited islands commonly encountered on maps include:

• Hawaiʻi
• Maui
• Oʻahu
• Kauaʻi
• Molokaʻi
• Lānaʻi

There are additional islands and smaller landforms throughout the Hawaiian archipelago.

Older children can find Hawaiʻi on one of our World Map Coloring Pages and notice just how isolated the islands are in the Pacific.

That distance is part of what makes the history of Polynesian navigation and settlement so remarkable.

🧭 Polynesian Voyaging and Hawaiʻi

Long before European arrival, Polynesian voyagers crossed enormous distances of the Pacific and established thriving communities in the Hawaiian Islands.

Those voyages relied on sophisticated navigational knowledge and close observation of the ocean, stars, winds, waves, birds, and other natural signs.

Learning about Hawaiʻi therefore means learning about more than a beautiful vacation destination. It means recognizing the long Native Hawaiian history and culture of the islands.

For children, even one simple idea can provide useful context:

People lived, traveled, created culture, farmed, fished, navigated, danced, told stories, and built communities in Hawaiʻi for many generations before modern tourism existed.

🌋 Add a Volcano to Your Hawaii Scene

Volcanoes created the Hawaiian Islands, so they make a natural addition to a Hawaii coloring project.

Draw a mountain in the background and add flowing lava using:

• Yellow
• Orange
• Red
• Dark red

Surround older cooled lava with charcoal gray, brown, or black.

You can contrast the dark volcanic landscape with bright green vegetation nearby.

Hawaiʻi’s landscapes are constantly shaped by geological processes, and volcanic terrain can look dramatically different from the tropical beaches often associated with the islands.

A Hawaii coloring book can include both.

🌈 Color a Hawaiian Rainbow

Rainbows are another beautiful addition to tropical island scenery.

Frequent combinations of sun and rain can create striking rainbows across Hawaiian landscapes.

Draw one over the mountains or ocean.

Use:

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple

Or create a softer pastel version.

For even more colorful arches, explore our Coloring Pages of Rainbows.

A rainbow over an emerald mountain ridge and turquoise ocean can turn a simple landscape into an especially cheerful page.

🌊 Explore the Ocean Around Hawaiʻi

Because Hawaiʻi is an island chain, the ocean is central to both its landscapes and its history.

Color waves, reefs, sea turtles, fish, dolphins, and other marine life around your Hawaiian scenery.

Turquoise and aqua work beautifully in shallow water, while deep blue can represent the open Pacific.

Then continue beneath the waves with our Under the Sea Coloring Pages.

Those pages include divers, submarines, whales, dolphins, sea turtles, shipwrecks, seaweed, and other underwater adventures.

🐢 Add a Hawaiian Sea Turtle Scene

Sea turtles can make a wonderful addition to an island coloring picture.

Draw one swimming beneath the surfboard or moving through turquoise water offshore.

Use green, olive, brown, tan, and cream for a nature-inspired turtle.

Or create a rainbow shell.

Our Coloring Pages of Turtles offer even more turtle designs if you want to build a larger ocean-themed coloring collection.

🌺 Create a Tropical Border

Any of these Hawaii pages can be turned into a more decorative design by adding a border.

Around the outside of the picture, draw:

• Hibiscus flowers
• Tropical leaves
• Waves
• Tiny surfboards
• Mountains
• Rainbows
• Stars
• Seashells

Repeat the same few colors around the border to tie everything together.

A tropical border can make a simple coloring page feel much more finished.

☀️ Make It a Bright Hawaiian Day

For a cheerful daytime palette, use clear, saturated colors.

Try:

• Sky blue
• Turquoise
• Palm green
• Emerald
• Golden yellow
• Coral
• Hibiscus pink

Keep shadows relatively light and fill the sky with bright blue.

This works especially well for the surfboard, floral, and seascape pages.

A few fluffy white clouds can help break up large areas of sky.

🌙 Create a Hawaiian Evening

The same pictures can become completely different after sunset.

Use navy, purple, indigo, and deep blue in the sky.

Make mountains almost black or dark green.

Add a pale yellow moon and tiny stars.

Torch flames or lights can become warm gold focal points.

The ocean might reflect purple, silver-gray, and moonlight blue.

A nighttime version can make the Hawaii collection feel dreamy rather than sunny and energetic.

🖍️ Choosing Your Coloring Supplies

The variety of this collection works well with several kinds of coloring tools.

Crayons are easy for younger children and large spaces such as oceans, skies, mountains, and surfboards.

Markers create bold tropical colors and work especially well for flowers, surfboards, and decorative patterns.

Colored pencils offer more control for foliage, flowers, clothing, carved details, mountains, and sunsets.

Mixing supplies can be especially effective.

Use crayons for the broad sky, colored pencils for the mountains and leaves, and markers for vivid flower petals.

If you’re using markers on printed pages, place an extra sheet underneath to help protect the table.

✋ Coloring and Fine Motor Practice

Coloring also gives younger children opportunities to practice controlling crayons, pencils, and markers while enjoying a creative activity.

Large surfboards, flowers, water, and sky provide approachable spaces, while tropical leaves and smaller decorative details offer more precise areas for children who are ready for them.

There is no need for young artists to stay perfectly inside every line.

Making marks, choosing colors, experimenting with pressure, and enjoying the artwork matter more than producing a flawless page.

📖 Turn Hawaii Coloring Pages Into Stories

Every picture in the collection can become the beginning of a story.

Ask:

• Who owns the surfboard?
• Where is the surfer going?
• What song is being played by the beach?
• What lies beyond the mountains?
• What animals live beneath the waves?
• Who planted the tropical garden?
• What happens when the sun sets?
• Where does the island road lead?

Children can answer aloud, write a paragraph, or draw another picture showing what happens next.

Perhaps the surfer discovers a hidden cove.

Maybe a sea turtle swims beside the beach musician.

The tropical garden could lead to a secret waterfall.

A coloring page provides the setting; imagination creates the adventure.

🏫 Hawaii Coloring Activities for Classrooms

These pages can fit into geography, art, oceans, flowers, music, culture, or U.S. states themes.

Use them for:

• Geography units
• State studies
• Art centers
• Ocean themes
• Flower studies
• Music activities
• Early-finisher pages
• Story-writing prompts
• Summer activities
• Homeschool projects
• Travel-themed lessons

When using the culturally specific images, add context rather than presenting Native Hawaiian traditions as generic tropical decorations.

A hula page, for example, can become an opportunity to explain that hula is a living Hawaiian cultural practice.

The carved-image page can introduce the idea that traditional imagery may have cultural or religious meaning.

That small amount of context makes the activity much more respectful and educational.

🗺️ Make a Hawaii Geography Page

Pair the coloring collection with a simple map activity.

Find Hawaiʻi in the Pacific Ocean on a world map.

Then locate the major islands.

Older children can label:

• Hawaiʻi
• Maui
• Oʻahu
• Kauaʻi
• Molokaʻi
• Lānaʻi

They could also mark Honolulu and several major volcanoes or national parks.

Use our World Map Coloring Pages as the starting point for the broader geography activity.

🖼️ Make a Hawaii Coloring Book

Combine several designs into a homemade mini coloring book.

Create sections such as:

🌴 Hawaiian Landscapes

Beach, mountains, palms, and ocean.

🏄 Surfing

Surfboards and waves.

🌺 Tropical Nature

Hibiscus, flowers, and leaves.

🎶 Hawaiian Culture

Hula, music, and culturally inspired designs.

🌊 Ocean Life

Turtles, fish, dolphins, and whales.

Design a cover reading My Hawaii Coloring Book and add your own island landscape around the title.

✂️ Turn Finished Pictures Into Tropical Crafts

Finished pages can become part of larger projects.

With appropriate adult supervision, cut out individual surfboards, flowers, leaves, or landscape elements and use them for:

• Tropical collages
• Classroom displays
• Homemade cards
• Scrapbook pages
• Vacation journals
• Geography notebooks
• Summer decorations

A colored hibiscus could become the centerpiece of a floral collage.

Several surfboards could create a beach display.

A finished seascape could become the cover of a summer journal.

🌴 Create a Hawaiian Landscape Gallery

Color several pages with the same palette and display them together.

For example:

Ocean: turquoise and deep blue
Mountains: emerald and forest green
Flowers: yellow, coral, and pink
Sky: pale blue and sunset peach
Accents: golden brown and cream

Repeating those colors across the seascape, hibiscus, surfboards, and floral designs will make the collection look connected even though the subjects differ.

🏖️ Explore More Beach Coloring Pages

If the beach and surfboard are your favorite parts of this Hawaii collection, continue with our Coloring Pages of the Beach.

There you’ll find even more sand, waves, seaside scenes, and summer inspiration.

You can color a Hawaii scene and a broader beach scene using the same palette, then display them side by side.

🌄 Explore More Landscape Coloring Pages

The mountain-and-ocean scenery also connects naturally with our Coloring Pages of Landscapes.

That collection includes mountain meadows, rivers, countryside roads, flowers beneath mountain peaks, camping scenes, and another tropical seascape.

Together, the two collections offer plenty of opportunities to practice skies, mountains, water, trees, flowers, and changing weather.

🌺 Enjoy Hawaiʻi Through Color

These Coloring Pages of Hawaii bring together several things that make the islands such an inspiring subject for art: ocean waves, dramatic mountains, palm trees, surfboards, tropical flowers, music, and culturally significant traditions.

Color a brilliant Hawaiian seascape, design a row of kawaii surfboards, fill a hibiscus with sunny yellow, create lush tropical foliage, or turn the sky into a spectacular island sunset.

At the same time, allow the pictures to inspire curiosity about the real Hawaiʻi behind the imagery.

Surfing has deep Polynesian and Native Hawaiian roots. Hula is a living cultural tradition connected with Hawaiian language and knowledge. Native Hawaiian carved imagery can hold religious and cultural significance. Hawaiʻi’s native yellow hibiscus is the official state flower, while the islands themselves reflect an extraordinary history of voyaging, culture, geology, and life in the middle of the Pacific.

A handful of coloring pages can only introduce those subjects, but they can provide a colorful place to begin.

Choose a page, pick up your favorite crayons or pencils, and create your own island-inspired artwork.

Happy coloring!

🔗 Related Coloring Pages

• Coloring Pages of Landscapes
• Coloring Pages of the Beach
• Under the Sea Coloring Pages
• Coloring Pages of the Ocean
• Coloring Pages of Flowers
• Coloring Pages of Rainbows
• Coloring Pages of Turtles
• World Map Coloring Pages
• Nature Coloring Pages
• Ocean Coloring Pages

📚 Sources

• Smithsonian Institution — Explore America: Hawaiʻi
• Smithsonian Institution — Hula: Preserving Native Hawaiian Language and Culture
• Smithsonian Magazine — Learn to Surf on the Break Where It All Began
• National Park Service — Meet the Kiʻi
• National Park Service — Kiʻi at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau
• State of Hawaii — State Symbols
• Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife — Maʻo Hau Hele

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