Easy Minecraft Coloring Pages

Easy Minecraft coloring pages for little gamers

Minecraft is built from cubes, which makes it a friendly world for a young child to color: straight edges, square faces and wide flat areas with nothing fiddly inside them. Most sheets on this page are rated easy and suit children from three or four who are still learning to stay inside a line. Start with Steve standing tall, the classic Creeper or the pig next to its carrot, where every part is a box. Children who want to match the game can use a green Creeper, a pink pig and a blue shirt for Steve.

Detailed Minecraft drawings for older kids

Older children who want more to do can pick the medium and hard sheets. The Ender Dragon in flight has long angled wings and a spiky back, the grass block and the chest are covered in small squares that reward a sharp pencil, and the dungeon gate pulls the eye down a stone corridor full of cracked blocks. The house with its stepped roof, path and clouds makes a full scene to finish over several sittings. Pixel patterns are good for practicing shading: a lighter and a darker tone on two faces make a block look solid. The difficulty buttons above the grid show only the level you need.

Steve, Creepers, mobs and animals

Steve appears in many poses: standing, as a big face, walking among floating cubes, on a block with his pickaxe, chopping wood, in armor and in a Santa hat. The mobs follow, with the Creeper, an angry hulking mob, a bat and the dragon. Animal lovers get the farm, a pig, a cow, a chicken, a horse, a llama and a rabbit, then the pets and wild creatures from the game: a dog, a cat, a fox, a parrot, a frog, a bee, a leaping dolphin and the axolotl with frilly gills. Players who think in items get blocks and tools too: the crafting table, a treasure chest, a gold ingot, an emerald, a pixel heart, a pixel flower and a bow. Fans of crossovers will spot Iron Man rebuilt in blocks, an anime boy with a pixel sword and Steve as a toy minifigure.

Minecraft ideas for parties, school and home

At a Minecraft birthday party, lay out a pile of block and animal sheets so each guest can build a farm on paper, then cut the animals out and glue them onto a big green sheet as a shared pasture. Teachers can use the pixel heart, the flower and the grass block for a lesson on grids, symmetry and counting squares, since each one is a small piece of pixel art. At home, children can color the chest, the emerald and the gold ingot, cut them out and hide them around the house for a treasure hunt. In December, Steve in a Santa hat beside his gift and pixel tree also turns up among the Christmas pages, ready to fold into a homemade card.

More game and cartoon characters

Children who like Steve and the Creeper often ask for other game heroes next. The Pokémon coloring pages bring Pikachu, Charizard and Eevee in the same big, friendly shapes, from toddler outlines to detailed battle scenes.