50 + Fun Ocean Coloring Pages for Kids to Print
Published:
April 24, 2023
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Sara Dennis
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If you’re looking for some printable ocean coloring pages to supplement your child’s ocean unit study, then check out these fun sheets. You’ll find a wide selection of different sea animals to print and enjoy.

Coloring for Fine Motor Skill Development
Coloring pages are a fun activity to improve your young child’s hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. The kids can scribble, color, and paint these worksheets with vibrant colors. Then you can store the finished pages in a three-ring binder, allowing you to create a personalized ocean notebook for your child.
20 Coloring Pages Younger Kids
Here are examples of some of the coloring pages that you will see in our ocean coloring pages printable pack. There are lots of ocean images, the beach, tropical fish, a variety of marine life and sea animals coloring pages to add to your ocean lesson plans.
Pull out the watercolor paints when you hand your child this fun coloring page. A sailboat is sailing on the ocean while a couple of seagulls fly nearby. It’s a simple page that’s perfect after you’ve finished making some ocean crafts together.
Some of the pages you see in this pack have been updated so keep reading to learn more.
Sea Ocean Animals
Are you looking for ocean animals for kids to color? Kids of all ages will have so much fun decorating this simple page. Two jelly fish float in the water above some shells and a crab. Be sure to pull out different colors of crayons so kids can go wild, coloring the ocean blue and the sand brown.
Ocean Life Printable Coloring Page
Two small fish swim in the ocean while a crab scurries along the sand. This is a great coloring page if you want to work on color recognition. Your kids can use a wide variety of bold colors to decorate the sea plants and make colorful fish.. This coloring sheet is also a great introduction to tide pool animals like crabs and clams.
Sea Shells Coloring Sheets
This coloring sheet is a fun way for young children to color sea shells at the bottom of the ocean. A beautiful fish swims above the seashells while two small fish swim in the distance. It’s also a great worksheet to supplement a study on ocean habitats.
Under the Sea Coloring Pages
The world under the sea is full of different types of animals and coral reefs. This fun coloring sheet shows a submarine under the water so the people inside can see this beautiful place. Encourage your kids to draw people looking out of the submarine windows and studying life in the ocean. Be sure to ask your kids if they think the submarine is in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.
Ocean Scene for Kids
If you’re looking for free printable coloring pages featuring the beautiful ocean, then check out this adorable scene. A sun that is wearing sunglasses hangs in the sky above the ocean, where a school of fish is swimming. There’s even a lobster on the sandy floor. Plus, you can pull out this sheet after introducing the ocean zones to your kids.
Sea Life Animals
Older kids will love this cute ocean coloring page featuring an octopus and fish swimming in the ocean. You can add the page to a coloring book or use it to as an addition to a coloring book filled with beach coloring pages.
Sea Life Coloring Pages
After you and your kids have spent a fun afternoon making some crab crafts, pull out this cute ocean coloring page. Count the dolphins and fish with your small kids. Color the fish red and the dolphins gray, and then add a few fancy sea shells to the ocean floor.
Ocean Coloring Sheets
If you’re hunting for free resources about the ocean, then you need these ocean coloring sheets. Just think about how much fun your children will have coloring a couple of dancing dolphins on the ocean floor. They can color the sand brown or use a different color of pink or blue instead. Either way, these coloring sheets will keep your kids happily occupied for a long time!
Ocean Fish Coloring Page
Supplement your collection of coral reef worksheets with a fantastic ocean fish coloring page. This page even includes a sand castle sitting underneath the three fish. Be sure to ask your kids if they think a little mermaid lives in the castle.
Sea Horses Coloring Sheet
Two elegant sea horses bob along the ocean floor on this fun coloring page. Older kids will especially love coloring the sea horses in vivid colors. You can also pull out the watercolor paints to have your kids paint the picture instead of coloring it.
Whale Coloring Page
Have you ever wanted to color a large blue whale? Whales are some of the largest animals in the ocean. This cute ocean creature will look fabulous hanging on your refrigerator after your young children have finished coloring the sheet.
Shark Coloring Page
This cute shark coloring page features two adorable sharks swimming above the ocean floor. It’s a great addition to any shark week printables you may have downloaded to give your kids.
Beautiful Ocean Coloring Sheets
Kids of all ages will adore spending a cold winter day putting together some easy paper plate ocean crafts. When the kids are tired of making crafts, pull out this incredible ocean scene that includes two adorable sting rays floating in the ocean. The page begs for you to pull out a wide range of colors so your kids can decorate the sheet to their hearts’ content.
Ocean Creatures
Are you looking for a variety of detailed designs featuring ocean creatures? These pages include a beautiful sheet with two ocean animals swimming in the middle of seagrass. Kids can color the sea grass green, the sand yellow, and the ocean blue.
Underwater Adventure Coloring Sheets
Help young kids dream about having an underwater adventure with this fun coloring page featuring a child snorkeling in the ocean. A group of fish swims next to the child who’s about to enter an ocean cave. Encourage your kids to draw a picture of what they think the kid will find inside the cave.
Marine Life Coloring Pages
A large puffer fish swims in the sea above the sea floor. This sea coloring page begs kids to color the seagrass in a variety of different greens. You can also use the coloring page as the start of a writing assignment by asking your children where they think the fish is swimming.
Fun Coloring Pages
Add this fun coloring page to your collection of sea coloring pages! It features a ship anchored at sea while a variety of sea creatures swim underneath the ship. Older kids will enjoy adding people inside the ship or on the deck as they complete the page.
Sea Creatures Coloring Sheet
A friendly whale chats with a couple of fish swimming in the ocean. This page begs you to pull out vivid markers to make the two fish really pop off the page. Your kids can also use bright colors as they color the various seagrasses on the ocean floor.
Printable Ocean Coloring Pages
You can’t go wrong with a couple of clownfish hiding in the anemone. Make sure that you hand your child orange, black, and white colored pencils before you begin. Your kids may also want to color the ocean blue.
We’ve recently updated our ocean coloring pages. Grab these updated pages here:
30 Free Ocean Coloring Notebook Pages for Older Kids
Our friends at Daily Skill Building have created a beautiful free ocean animal coloring pages for HSG readers.
These are perfect for older students to complete and color as notebook or journal pages as a part of any marine life studies in science.
These are beautiful, realistic images. After they have colored them in, they can then write each sea creature they are learning about on the lined notebook page.
If you haven’t tried notebooking before, it’s actually a great way to encourage independent work and research with your older children.
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As a bonus, Scroll to the bottom of this post to find out how to get your FREE copy of the Ocean Coloring Notebook today.
The 30 ocean animals included in this free ocean notebook journal are:
- Amphipod
- Beluga Whale
- Blobfish
- Blue Whale
- Brain Coral
- Brittle Star
- Fire Shrimp
- Frilled Shark
- Giant Blue Clam
- Giant Squid
- Giant Tubeworms
- Harbour Porpoise
- Lemon Shark
- Moray Eel
- Octopus
- Phytoplankton
- Portuguese Man o’ War
- Pufferfish
- Red Dragon Firefish
- Sea Anemone
- Sea Cucumber
- Sea Slug
- Sea Urchin
- Seahorse
- Spiny Lobster
- Starfish
- Swordfish
- Tectus niloticus Sea Snail
- Tripod Fish
- Zooplankton
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