10 Websites that Offer Free Graduation Coloring Pages and Printables for Kids

As graduation time rolls around this spring, kids can get into the graduating spirit with these free coloring pages and activities. Whether they're celebrating their own graduation or a relative's, these free printables will help keep kids happy (especially if they're attending a sibling's graduation ceremony). The following ten websites vary in quality and selection of graduation printables:

Preschool Coloring Book

Preschool Coloring Book is one of the best sites offering graduation coloring pages. You have 18 options, and the pictures load quickly and print easily. You can choose coloring pages of girl graduates, boy graduates, diplomas, caps, and dogs. Of course, the coloring pages are meant for preschoolers, so grade-school children may get bored with these.

Apples 4 the Teacher

Apples 4 the Teacher has both simple and complex drawings that will satisfy kids of all ages. There are about twenty pictures ranging from graduation caps, balloons and diplomas. Not all directly relate to graduation, but tie-in with the classroom. You have the option of coloring it online or printing it out.

About.com

About.com offers nine simple illustrations of graduation caps, graduates, and diplomas. These coloring pages aren't not as easy to print out as some sites. You must either save the pictures to your hard drive and open it using a graphics program to print or right-click on the image and select view image to print.

Billy Bear 4 Kids

Billy Bear 4 Kids offers printables for kids who are graduating. If they're celebrating someone else's graduation, this site is still useful for its tic-tac-toe boards. The options include bee, dragon, teddy bear, and apple boards. The site has not made it simple to print them, however, so using the print techniques explained in About.com will help you here too.

Candi Cane Creations

Candi Cane Creations offers four printable crossword puzzles with a graduation theme. Be sure to follow the site's directions when printing and print the second page only.

Kids Turn Central

Kids Turn Central offers four pictures of a bear garbed in graduation gear. They're pretty much the same picture, only with 2008 located in different spots (or not at all) in each coloring page. Hopefully, the site will update soon to reflect the 2009 year.

DLTK

DLTK offers a single graduation poster of a fish graduating from the "Bubble Academy School of Fish." It's easy to print and should be fun for little kids.

The Color

The Color offers a single graduation page depicting a cheerful graduate. You don't have to sign up to print pictures, but if you want to color them on the site, then registration is required.

Family Fun

Family Fun offers a template of two graduation caps. They're plain and meant to be used as part of a greater graduation craft. Kids can use their imagination here. A PDF version of this template ensures quality printing.

Party Supplies Hut

Frankly, I'm confused why Party Supplies Hut labels their coloring pages as graduation themed. They offer three pictures, one with a pen and paper and two others depicting a kid explorer with a map. They print pretty small too, so you'll have to save it and resize it in a graphics program. But hey, they're free.