Mermaid Coloring Pages: Free Printable Mermaids, Dolphin & Seahorse

Dive beneath the waves and enter an imaginary underwater kingdom with our collection of free printable mermaid coloring pages, featuring magical mermaids, a playful dolphin, a tiny seahorse, flowing hair, beautiful tails, and plenty of room for ocean-inspired color.

This collection includes three different designs: a cute mermaid hugging a dolphin, a standalone mermaid coloring page, and a little mermaid princess with braided hair hugging a seahorse. Together, they offer a fun mix of fantasy characters and real marine animals.

Color shimmering turquoise tails, lavender scales, coral-pink fins, golden crowns, rainbow hair, silvery bubbles, or deep-blue underwater scenery. You can create a peaceful mermaid lagoon, an enormous undersea palace, a mysterious deep-ocean kingdom, or a completely imaginary world where dolphins deliver royal messages and seahorses wear tiny crowns.

There are no official colors for these mermaids, so every page can become something different.

Grab your crayons, markers, or colored pencils and make some magical waves.

🧜‍♀️ Explore Our Mermaid Coloring Pages

This collection currently includes three designs:

• A cute mermaid hugging a dolphin
• A standalone mermaid coloring page
• A little mermaid princess with braided hair hugging a seahorse

Each page offers a slightly different coloring experience.

The dolphin page combines a fantasy character with a real marine mammal. The standalone mermaid gives you the most freedom to create a completely original character and underwater world. The braided-hair princess page combines royal fantasy with one of the ocean’s most unusual little fish—the seahorse.

For a broader mix of magical creatures, castles, unicorns, dragons, and fairy-tale characters, continue with our Fantasy Coloring Pages.

🌊 Choose a Mermaid Color Palette

Mermaids are imaginary, so there is no reason to limit yourself to realistic ocean colors.

Try a Mermaid Lagoon palette with turquoise, aqua, lavender, mint, pink, and pearl white.

For a deeper ocean look, use navy, indigo, violet, teal, and silver.

A tropical mermaid could combine coral, turquoise, yellow, bright green, and orange.

Or create a royal undersea palette with emerald, sapphire blue, purple, burgundy, and gold.

Choose five or six colors before you begin and repeat them throughout the tail, hair, sea creatures, and background.

🩵 Create a Turquoise Mermaid Tail

Turquoise is one of the easiest colors to associate with magical ocean scenes.

Try combining:

• Pale aqua
• Turquoise
• Teal
• Deep blue

Begin with the lightest shade.

Add deeper turquoise around the edges of the tail and between scales.

Use dark teal where the tail curves away from your imaginary light source.

Keep a few small highlights very pale.

The same tail can look much more dimensional when it contains several shades rather than one solid blue-green.

💜 Create a Purple Mermaid

Use:

• Lavender
• Violet
• Plum
• Silver

across the tail.

Add pink or pale blue to some scales.

Maybe the hair is silver-white.

Draw a dark navy ocean behind the character so the lighter purples stand out.

This could become a moonlight mermaid who only appears after sunset.

🩷 Create a Pink Mermaid

Try:

• Blush
• Rose
• Coral pink
• Raspberry

Give the tail pale pink highlights and deeper magenta shadows.

Use turquoise in the water for contrast.

Maybe the mermaid’s hair is purple.

Add pearly white seashells and a golden crown.

The entire page can become a bright fantasy lagoon.

💚 Create an Emerald Mermaid

Use rich greens:

• Mint
• Sea green
• Emerald
• Forest green

Add gold details.

Give the mermaid dark brown or black hair.

Draw seaweed around the tail using similar greens so the character almost blends into the underwater plants.

Perhaps this mermaid protects a giant kelp forest.

🌈 Create a Rainbow Mermaid Tail

Turn every row of scales into a new color.

Try:

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple

Then repeat.

Or create a softer pastel rainbow:

Pink
Peach
Pale yellow
Mint
Baby blue
Lavender

Leave tiny white highlights across individual scales.

The tail can become the brightest part of the entire page.

✨ Create a Sparkling Mermaid

Add tiny highlights after the main colors are finished.

Try:

• Silver
• Gold
• White gel pen
• Metallic pencil

Use sparkle sparingly around:

• Tail scales
• Crown
• Seashells
• Bubbles
• Jewelry

A few bright accents can suggest shimmering underwater light without covering the entire design.

🐚 Decorate the Mermaid Tail With Patterns

Mermaid scales do not all have to match.

Try adding:

• Hearts
• Stars
• Dots
• Stripes
• Spirals
• Tiny flowers

Maybe every fifth scale is gold.

Perhaps the tail changes from blue at the waist to purple at the fin.

You can also divide the tail into patterned sections.

One section might contain waves while another contains stars.

🎨 Design Your Own Mermaid Character

Because these are generic fantasy mermaids rather than named movie characters, you can give each one a completely original identity.

Choose:

Name: ______

Tail color: ______

Hair color: ______

Kingdom: ______

Special ability: ______

Maybe your mermaid controls ocean currents.

Perhaps she can speak to dolphins.

Another might grow underwater flowers or create glowing pearls.

Give the character a story before you finish coloring.

💇 Create Colorful Mermaid Hair

Hair underwater can be imagined as flowing in long sweeping shapes.

Try realistic-inspired shades such as:

• Blonde
• Brown
• Black
• Auburn

Or use fantasy colors:

• Lavender
• Turquoise
• Pink
• Blue
• Rainbow

Use several related shades throughout.

For purple hair, combine lavender, violet, and deep plum.

For red hair, blend copper, crimson, and burgundy.

The moving water gives you an excuse to make every strand curve and swirl.

🌈 Create Rainbow Hair

Divide the hair into sections.

Use:

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple

Or blend colors gradually rather than making hard stripes.

Maybe the rainbow hair glows underwater.

Give the tail a simpler color such as turquoise so the hair remains the main attraction.

👑 Turn Your Mermaid Into an Underwater Princess

The braided-hair mermaid already has a royal storybook feeling.

Add:

• Crown
• Pearls
• Necklace
• Bracelet
• Royal sash

Use:

• Gold
• Silver
• Purple
• Sapphire blue

Then design an underwater palace behind her.

Maybe she is the princess of a kingdom where seahorses serve as royal messengers.

💎 Design Mermaid Jewelry

Mermaid jewelry could be made from imaginary ocean treasures.

Draw:

• Pearls
• Shells
• Sea glass
• Crystals
• Tiny star shapes

Use pale pink, aqua, lavender, gold, and pearl white.

Maybe the necklace contains a mysterious gemstone found at the bottom of the sea.

What does it do?

🐬 Color the Mermaid Hugging a Dolphin

One of the cutest designs in this collection shows a mermaid hugging a dolphin.

Keep the mermaid bright and colorful while giving the dolphin a more natural gray-blue palette.

Or color both characters with matching fantasy shades.

For example:

Mermaid tail: Turquoise and purple

Dolphin: Pale lavender

Add bubbles and tiny fish around them.

The two characters can become best friends in an underwater story.

🐬 Color a Realistic-Inspired Dolphin

For a common bottlenose-dolphin-inspired palette, try:

• Medium gray
• Blue-gray
• Pale gray
• White

Keep the upper portion darker.

Gradually lighten the underside.

Real bottlenose dolphins range from gray to nearly black along the upper body and become much lighter underneath.

You do not need to reproduce one species precisely—the printable is still fantasy art—but photographs of real dolphins can inspire your shading.

For more dolphin designs, visit our Dolphin Coloring Pages.

🌈 Create a Fantasy Dolphin

Give the dolphin:

• Pale blue
• Lavender
• Turquoise
• Pink

Maybe it has tiny stars along its back.

Draw rainbow bubbles around it.

Perhaps this dolphin can travel between the ordinary ocean and the mermaid kingdom.

Give it a name.

🫧 Add a Trail of Bubbles

Draw circles rising toward the surface.

Make them several sizes.

Use pale blue along one edge.

Leave most of the center white.

Try drawing:

• 3 large bubbles
• 5 medium bubbles
• 8 tiny bubbles

Count them when you finish.

🐴 Color the Mermaid Hugging a Seahorse

Another design shows a little mermaid princess with braided hair hugging a seahorse.

This page is especially fun because the tiny animal can become a contrasting splash of color.

Try:

Mermaid: Turquoise and lavender

Seahorse: Golden yellow

Or:

Mermaid: Pink and purple

Seahorse: Orange

Add green sea grass around them.

Maybe the seahorse is the princess’s favorite animal companion.

🧡 Color a Seahorse

Seahorses can inspire all kinds of colors.

Try:

• Yellow
• Orange
• Brown
• Coral
• Red

Some seahorses can change color, and different species come in a variety of shades and patterns.

For a fantasy version, try:

• Purple
• Turquoise
• Pink
• Gold

Add tiny spots along the body.

Keep the curled tail a different shade.

🐴 Seahorses Are Really Fish

Despite the name, seahorses are not tiny horses.

They are fish.

Their upright posture, curled tails, long snouts, and unusual body shape simply make them look very different from the fish most people picture first.

They use their prehensile tails to hold onto vegetation and other structures.

Draw your seahorse wrapping its tail around a strand of sea grass.

👶 Male Seahorses Carry the Young

Seahorses have one of the most unusual reproductive systems among fishes.

The female transfers eggs into a brood pouch on the male.

The male carries the developing embryos and later gives birth to the young.

That means a pregnant seahorse is male.

You do not need to turn the coloring page into a biology lesson, but it is a wonderfully unexpected fact to share while coloring the little seahorse companion.

🌿 Add Sea Grass Around the Seahorse

Draw long blades around the bottom of the page.

Use:

• Olive
• Emerald
• Sea green
• Yellow-green

Bend them in one direction as though an ocean current is moving through the water.

Hide tiny seahorses between the plants.

Can someone else find all of them?

🏰 Build an Underwater Mermaid Kingdom

A blank background gives you room to create an entire fantasy world.

Add:

• Palace
• Towers
• Coral gardens
• Shell houses
• Treasure chests
• Bridges

Perhaps the palace is built from giant shells.

Maybe crystal towers glow at night.

Draw windows shaped like:

• Stars
• Hearts
• Seashells

Color the kingdom with turquoise, purple, gold, pink, and pearl white.

🐚 Create a Seashell Palace

Start with one enormous spiral shell.

Add:

• Doors
• Windows
• Towers

Use cream, pink, peach, and lavender.

Surround the palace with smaller shells.

Maybe the mermaid lives inside the largest shell in the ocean.

Give the palace a name:

Pearl Palace

Coral Castle

Moon Shell Hall

or something completely new.

🪸 Build a Colorful Reef

Fill the bottom of the page with reef-inspired shapes.

Use:

• Coral pink
• Orange
• Yellow
• Purple
• Green

Add fish swimming between them.

A real coral reef contains living organisms rather than decorative underwater rocks, but a fantasy coloring page gives you plenty of room to create an imaginary reef inspired by real ocean colors.

🌿 Add Seaweed

Not every underwater plant-like shape needs to be bright green.

Try:

• Emerald
• Olive
• Teal
• Brown
• Red
• Purple

Layer several shapes behind one another.

Use darker colors farther in the background.

That can make the scene appear deeper.

🐚 Add Seashells

Draw shells scattered across the seafloor.

Try:

• Spiral shells
• Fan-shaped shells
• Smooth oval shells

Color them:

• Cream
• Peach
• Pink
• Lavender

or make them rainbow-colored.

Perhaps one contains a magical pearl.

🫧 Add Pearls

Draw small white circles.

Add pale blue or pink shading along one edge.

Keep a white highlight.

String several together into a necklace.

Or hide one enormous pearl inside an open shell.

Maybe finding it begins your mermaid story.

🗝️ Add a Sunken Treasure Chest

Draw an old chest on the seafloor.

Fill it with:

• Coins
• Jewels
• Pearls
• Crown
• Key

Use gold, ruby red, emerald green, and sapphire blue.

Perhaps the mermaid has been searching for this treasure for years.

Or maybe she is protecting it from pirates.

⚓ Add a Shipwreck

Draw:

• Broken wooden ship
• Mast
• Anchor
• Torn sail

Cover parts with seaweed.

Maybe fish now live inside.

Perhaps the mermaid has collected objects from the wreck and turned it into an underwater library.

🗺️ Draw an Underwater Kingdom Map

Create a fantasy map on another sheet.

Include:

Mermaid Palace

Dolphin Bay

Seahorse Meadow

Coral Maze

Sunken Ship

Octopus Cave

Treasure Trench

Connect the places with dotted paths.

Add a compass rose shaped like a starfish.

Then use the map to write an adventure.

🐙 Add an Octopus Friend

Draw an octopus beside the mermaid.

Give it eight colorful arms.

Maybe each arm performs a different palace job.

One carries scrolls.

Another opens doors.

One holds the royal crown.

For a dedicated octopus printable, visit our Octopus Coloring Page for Kids.

🪼 Add a Jellyfish

Draw a translucent-looking jellyfish drifting overhead.

Use:

• Pale pink
• Lavender
• Blue
• Turquoise

Add long flowing tentacles.

Keep the surrounding water darker so the jellyfish appears to glow.

For more, explore our Coloring Pages of Jellyfish.

🐢 Add a Sea Turtle

Draw a turtle swimming beside the mermaid.

Use olive, green, brown, and cream for a realistic-inspired palette.

Or give the shell a rainbow mosaic.

Maybe the turtle carries messages between distant mermaid kingdoms.

Continue with our Coloring Pages of Turtles.

🦈 Add a Shark in the Distance

Not every sea creature needs to be a cute companion.

Draw a shark farther away.

Color it gray or blue-gray.

Keep it smaller than the mermaid to make it appear distant.

Maybe the shark is simply swimming through the same ocean.

For a larger collection, visit our Coloring Pages of Sharks.

🐠 Create a School of Colorful Fish

Draw several small fish.

Give each one different patterns:

• Stripes
• Spots
• Zigzags

Use bright colors.

Maybe:

Fish 1: Yellow and blue

Fish 2: Orange and purple

Fish 3: Pink and turquoise

Count how many you draw.

🌊 Create a Tropical Mermaid Lagoon

Use:

• Turquoise water
• Coral reef
• Golden sand
• Bright fish

Add sunlight streaming down from the surface.

Make the mermaid tail especially bright.

This creates a cheerful shallow-water fantasy scene.

🌌 Create a Deep-Sea Mermaid Kingdom

Try a completely different mood.

Use:

• Navy
• Indigo
• Violet
• Black-blue

Add tiny glowing creatures.

Give the mermaid a pale silver or turquoise tail.

Perhaps this kingdom lies so deep that sunlight never reaches it.

Its inhabitants illuminate the city with glowing crystals.

🌙 Create a Moonlight Mermaid

Imagine the mermaid swimming close to the ocean surface at night.

Draw:

• Moon
• Stars
• Dark waves

Use deep blue and purple in the water.

Add a silver trail reflecting the moonlight.

Maybe the mermaid only visits the surface after sunset.

🌅 Create a Mermaid Sunset

Use:

• Yellow
• Gold
• Orange
• Pink
• Purple

above the surface.

Reflect those colors through the water.

Keep the mermaid silhouette darker or give her a bright turquoise tail.

A sunset lets you combine warm sky colors with cooler ocean colors on the same page.

❄️ Create an Arctic Mermaid

Fantasy mermaids do not have to live in tropical seas.

Create:

• Icebergs
• Snow
• Pale blue water

Give the mermaid:

• Silver tail
• White hair
• Lavender scales

Maybe a seal swims beside her.

Her underwater palace could be made from ice crystals.

🌋 Create a Volcanic Mermaid Kingdom

Use:

• Deep red
• Orange
• Black
• Gold

around underwater rock formations.

Make the mermaid tail dark purple or red.

Perhaps magical glowing vents keep this imaginary kingdom warm.

The entire page can look completely different from a traditional blue-and-turquoise mermaid scene.

🌈 Create a Mermaid for Every Season

Print the same design four times.

Spring Mermaid: Pink, mint, lavender

Summer Mermaid: Turquoise, yellow, coral

Autumn Mermaid: Burgundy, gold, rust

Winter Mermaid: Blue, silver, white

Change the background on every copy.

The same mermaid can become four completely different characters.

📖 Write a Mermaid Adventure

Use one coloring page as an illustration.

Try:

The mermaid had never been allowed beyond the coral reef until…

or:

The dolphin arrived carrying a mysterious message…

or:

The little seahorse disappeared from the royal garden because…

or:

Hidden inside the sunken ship was…

Write one paragraph or an entire story.

🐬 Write the Dolphin Messenger Story

Imagine the dolphin carries messages between mermaid kingdoms.

One morning it arrives with an urgent note.

What does it say?

Maybe:

• A storm is coming.
• A treasure has been found.
• Another kingdom needs help.
• A celebration is beginning.

Draw the message.

Write what happens next.

🐴 Write the Royal Seahorse Story

The little seahorse is not an ordinary animal.

Perhaps it is:

• Royal messenger
• Keeper of keys
• Magical guide
• Tiny prince

Give it a name.

Maybe the mermaid must follow the seahorse through a hidden coral passage.

Where does the passage lead?

🔑 Write the Pearl-Key Mystery

The mermaid finds a pearl shaped like a key.

What does it unlock?

Maybe:

• Underwater library
• Secret palace room
• Treasure chest
• Portal

Draw the destination on another sheet.

🌈 Write the Mermaid Who Lost Her Colors

One morning, the mermaid wakes up and her rainbow tail is completely white.

Where did the colors go?

Maybe they escaped into:

• Fish
• Coral
• Bubbles
• Pearls

Draw the missing colors around the page.

Write how she gets them back.

🐙 Write the Eight-Armed Palace Helper Story

An octopus works in the mermaid palace.

With eight arms, it can do many things at once.

What happens when every arm accidentally grabs the wrong thing?

Maybe one arm holds a crown while another grabs a cake.

Write a silly underwater story.

📕 Make a Three-Page Mermaid Storybook

The current gallery already gives you three illustrations.

Use them as the beginning, middle, and end.

Page 1: The mermaid meets a dolphin with a message.

Page 2: She travels across the ocean.

Page 3: The mermaid princess finds the seahorse she was searching for.

Add a cover:

The Mermaid and the Missing Seahorse

Write a few sentences under each picture.

🧜‍♀️ Where Did Mermaid Stories Come From?

Mermaids have a long and complicated history in folklore, art, literature, songs, and popular culture.

The familiar European-style mermaid is usually pictured with a human upper body and a fish-like tail.

Stories and images of aquatic human or partly human beings, however, have appeared in many places and time periods.

Those traditions are not all identical.

Different cultures have their own water spirits, sea beings, deities, and legends with different appearances and meanings.

It is more accurate to say that mermaid-like beings appear in many traditions than to treat every water spirit in world folklore as the same creature.

🪞 Mermaids in European Folklore

European mermaid imagery has a long history.

Medieval manuscripts include images of mermaids, sometimes carrying objects such as combs and mirrors.

Traditional songs and ballads also feature mermaids.

The Library of Congress preserves versions of an old folk ballad commonly called “The Mermaid,” which traveled through British and American musical traditions.

In some older stories, seeing a mermaid could be an ominous event rather than a cheerful underwater adventure.

Modern cute mermaids represent only one part of a much longer tradition.

⚠️ Mermaids Were Not Always Friendly

Today’s children’s mermaids are often:

• Friendly
• Curious
• Magical
• Royal

Folklore is much less predictable.

Older mermaid stories may portray them as mysterious, dangerous, tragic, helpful, beautiful, or frightening.

That variety is part of what makes folklore interesting.

Your coloring-page mermaid can still be cheerful.

Just remember that the smiling princess version is not the only way people have imagined mermaids through history.

📚 Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid

One of the most influential literary mermaids comes from Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.

His story “The Little Mermaid” was published in the nineteenth century and became one of his best-known fairy tales.

The original story is considerably different—and much more bittersweet—than many modern children’s adaptations.

The Library of Congress preserves historical editions of Andersen’s stories, including The Little Mermaid.

Because this page features generic mermaids rather than Andersen’s specific heroine, you are free to invent a completely different story.

🧜‍♀️ Generic Mermaids vs. Ariel

These Mermaid Coloring Pages have a different purpose from our Ariel Coloring Pages.

The pages here feature generic fantasy mermaids, so there is no official hair color, tail color, costume, or storyline.

Ariel is a specific Disney character with familiar red hair, a green tail, and a particular underwater world.

Use the Ariel collection when you want that character.

Use these pages when you want to invent your own mermaid.

That distinction gives both collections a clear place on the site.

🧜‍♀️ Design Your Own Mermaid Species

Imagine that mermaids from different ocean regions look completely different.

Maybe:

Coral Reef Mermaids

Bright colors and patterned tails.

Deep-Sea Mermaids

Dark bodies with glowing scales.

Arctic Mermaids

Silver tails and pale hair.

Kelp-Forest Mermaids

Green and gold.

Draw one of each.

Give every group a different underwater home.

🗺️ Create a World of Mermaid Kingdoms

Divide an imaginary ocean into regions.

Add:

• Pearl Kingdom
• Coral Kingdom
• Ice Kingdom
• Deep-Sea Kingdom

Choose a different palette for every region.

Draw routes showing how mermaids travel between them.

Maybe dolphins connect the kingdoms near the surface while seahorses deliver messages through the reefs.

🔤 M Is for Mermaid

Write a large:

M

Practice:

M is for Mermaid.

Think of more M words:

• Moon
• Mountain
• Music
• Map

Decorate the M with scales and bubbles.

For more alphabet activities, explore our Coloring Pages of Letters.

🌊 O Is for Ocean

Write:

O is for Ocean.

Draw waves inside a large O.

Add a tiny mermaid tail at the bottom.

Try more O words:

• Octopus
• Orange
• Otter

Pair the page with our Octopus Coloring Page for Kids for another ocean-themed O word.

🐬 D Is for Dolphin

Write:

D is for Dolphin.

Decorate the D with blue waves.

Draw three bubbles beside it.

Think of other D words:

• Dog
• Duck
• Drum

🔢 Count the Mermaid Bubbles

Draw:

• 2 large bubbles
• 4 medium bubbles
• 6 tiny bubbles

Count the total.

Then create a pattern using two colors:

Blue → Purple → Blue → Purple

Continue around the page.

🎲 Play Mermaid Roll-and-Color

Assign one color to each number on a die:

1 — Turquoise
2 — Purple
3 — Pink
4 — Green
5 — Gold or yellow
6 — Your choice

Roll.

Color one part of the tail, background, or accessories using that shade.

Continue until the picture is finished.

The random combination may produce a mermaid you never would have designed yourself.

🎯 Try a Five-Color Mermaid Challenge

Choose only five colors.

For example:

• Turquoise
• Lavender
• Pink
• Gold
• Navy

Use them throughout the entire picture.

You may use lighter and darker pressure to create additional shades.

Repeating a limited palette across the mermaid, sea creatures, and background can make the final design especially coordinated.

🔍 Create a Mermaid I Spy Page

Hide objects around the picture.

Find:

• 5 pearls
• 4 shells
• 3 fish
• 2 stars
• 1 treasure key

Color everything.

Then give the page to someone else.

Can they find all the hidden objects?

🏫 Mermaid Coloring Pages for the Classroom

These pages can work for:

• Fantasy units
• Ocean themes
• Creative writing
• Character design
• Story sequencing
• Early finishers
• Indoor recess
• Art centers

The dolphin and seahorse designs also give teachers a natural opportunity to distinguish imaginary mermaids from real marine animals.

For example:

Mermaid — fantasy

Dolphin — mammal

Seahorse — fish

That simple comparison is more useful than making broad claims that coloring itself automatically develops concentration or confidence.

🌊 Create a Real vs. Imaginary Ocean Board

Divide a display into two sides.

REAL OCEAN

• Dolphin
• Seahorse
• Octopus
• Turtle
• Shark

FANTASY OCEAN

• Mermaid
• Sea dragon
• Underwater castle
• Talking dolphin
• Magical pearl

Kids can add drawings to both.

A fantasy page can actually become a good starting point for noticing which ocean creatures truly exist.

🐬 Learn One Real Dolphin Fact

After coloring the mermaid hugging a dolphin, learn one fact about real dolphins.

For example, bottlenose dolphins are marine mammals.

They breathe air using a blowhole.

They do not have gills like fish.

Write:

Dolphins breathe air.

under the picture.

One accurate fact is enough to connect fantasy with the real ocean.

🐴 Learn One Real Seahorse Fact

After coloring the seahorse page, write:

Seahorses are fish.

or:

Male seahorses carry developing young.

Keep the fact separate from the fantasy story.

The mermaid may be imaginary, but her little companion has fascinating real biology.

🌊 Explore More Ocean Coloring Pages

Our Ocean Coloring Pages bring together both real and imaginary ocean themes.

Explore:

• Dolphins
• Sharks
• Turtles
• Jellyfish
• Octopuses
• Beaches
• Mermaids

Use these Mermaid Coloring Pages for a fantasy underwater kingdom.

Use the broader Ocean collection when you want to explore many different kinds of marine life and scenery.

🐠 Explore Under-the-Sea Coloring

Continue with our Under the Sea Coloring Pages for even more underwater scenery.

Add:

• Fish
• Seaweed
• Shells
• Coral
• Shipwrecks
• Bubbles

Color several pages with the same palette and combine them into one large underwater collection.

👑 Pair Mermaids With Princess Coloring Pages

The little braided-hair mermaid already has a princess-like appearance.

Continue the royal theme with our Princess Coloring Pages.

Create two kingdoms:

Land Kingdom

Castles, gowns, dragons.

Sea Kingdom

Mermaids, dolphins, seahorses.

Then write a story about what happens when the two royal families meet.

🦄 Explore More Fantasy Coloring

If imaginary creatures are your favorite part, visit our Fantasy Coloring Pages.

Continue with:

• Unicorns
• Dragons
• Princesses
• Rapunzel
• Rainbows

Perhaps a mermaid discovers a sea dragon.

Maybe a unicorn visits the shore.

Combine the pages into a magical world that includes both land and sea.

🖼️ Create Mermaid Wall Art

Choose a coordinated palette and color the page carefully.

Mount it onto:

• Turquoise
• Navy
• Lavender
• Pearl-white

cardstock.

Add paper bubbles or shells around the border.

The finished page can become decorative ocean or fantasy artwork.

💌 Make a Mermaid Greeting Card

Color part of one mermaid design.

Mount it onto folded cardstock.

Write:

Have a Magical Day

Mermaid Wishes

or:

Sending Oceans of Fun

inside.

Decorate the card with bubbles and tiny shells.

🔖 Create a Mermaid Bookmark

Cut a long strip of cardstock with age-appropriate supervision.

Draw:

• Mermaid tail
• Bubbles
• Seashells

Use turquoise, purple, and pink.

Write:

DIVE INTO A GOOD BOOK

or simply:

HAPPY READING

Add a little tail fin at the bottom.

🐚 Make a Mermaid Crown

Draw a paper crown.

Decorate it with:

• Shells
• Pearls
• Waves
• Stars

Use colors from the finished mermaid page.

Maybe the center jewel matches the mermaid’s tail.

With suitable supervision, cut out the crown and use it for imaginative play.

📓 Make a Mermaid Coloring Book

Combine these pages with:

• Ariel Coloring Pages
• Ocean Coloring Pages
• Under the Sea Coloring Pages
• Dolphin Coloring Pages
• Coloring Pages of Jellyfish
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Create a cover:

My Magical Ocean Coloring Book

Add your name.

Divide the book into:

Mermaids

Ocean Animals

Underwater Worlds

🖍️ Best Supplies for Mermaid Coloring Pages

Crayons work well for younger children and large tail or hair areas.

Colored pencils are especially useful for:

• Individual scales
• Hair shading
• Braids
• Dolphin shading
• Seahorse details
• Underwater backgrounds

Markers create bold turquoise, purple, pink, and blue. Slightly heavier paper may help if marker ink tends to bleed through standard printer paper.

Gel pens can add small silver, gold, or glittering details to scales, crowns, bubbles, and pearls.

Combining materials can be especially fun on fantasy pages.

🖨️ How to Use These Free Mermaid Coloring Pages

Choose one of the three designs and print it.

Decide whether you want:

• Tropical mermaid
• Rainbow mermaid
• Deep-sea mermaid
• Underwater princess
• Galaxy mermaid

Color the tail first.

Then choose hair and accessories.

Add color to the dolphin or seahorse if your design includes one.

Finally, build the underwater world.

Draw:

• Bubbles
• Fish
• Coral
• Seaweed
• Shells
• Palace
• Treasure

Give your mermaid a name and write one sentence about her.

One simple coloring page can become an entire imaginary ocean kingdom.

🧜‍♀️ Dive Into a Magical Mermaid World

With a mermaid hugging a dolphin, a standalone mermaid design, and a braided-hair mermaid princess hugging a seahorse, these free printable mermaid coloring pages offer plenty of ways to combine fantasy with the beauty of the ocean.

Create turquoise scales, a purple tail, rainbow hair, glowing pearls, a seashell palace, a coral garden, or a mysterious deep-sea kingdom. Color the dolphin using realistic gray-blue shades or turn it lavender. Give the seahorse a golden body and tiny crown. Add turtles, octopuses, jellyfish, treasure chests, or an entire map of underwater kingdoms.

Mermaids themselves belong to folklore and imagination. Stories about mermaids and other aquatic human-like beings have appeared in many places and time periods, though different cultural traditions should not all be treated as versions of exactly the same creature.

That long history leaves plenty of room for new stories too.

Give your mermaid a name.

Choose her colors.

Decide where she lives.

Then dive in and see where the adventure goes.

Happy coloring!

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📚 Sources

• Library of Congress — “The Mermaid”: The Fascinating Tail Behind an Ancient Ballad
• Library of Congress — Stories from Hans Andersen
• Smithsonian Magazine — The Return of Mermaidcore
• Smithsonian Magazine — Five “Real” Sea Monsters Brought to Life by Early Naturalists
• NOAA Ocean Service — How Do Seahorses Differ From All Other Animals?
• NOAA Fisheries — Common Bottlenose Dolphin