Butterflies

Explore butterfly wings, garden scenes, and playful patterns. Find both easy outlines and detailed designs to print and color.

Themes

Monarch Butterflies

Choose an easy open-winged monarch or explore butterfly wings, milkweed and flower-garden scenes. Monarchs are known for orange wings, dark veins and spotted borders.

21 coloring pages

Swallowtail Butterflies

Color swallowtails with their distinctive hindwing tails among flowers, garden paths and streamside plants. Choose a simple open-wing picture or a detailed scene to print.

15 coloring pages

Blue Morpho Butterflies

Choose blue morpho coloring pages with broad open wings or folded wings covered in ring patterns. The collection ranges from a single butterfly above two leaves to fruit trays, streams, waterfalls, a glasshouse and a leafy wreath. For larger coloring areas, start with the open-wing portrait; for finer work, compare the bark, fern leaves, window frames and forest backgrounds. Download and print a page, then choose your own wing and background colors.

15 coloring pages

Painted Lady Butterflies

Color painted lady butterflies, Vanessa cardui, with their patchwork wing markings among thistles, daisies and garden paths. Choose from simple outlines and detailed scenes.

15 coloring pages

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A blue morpho spreads its broad wings above curling banana leaves and a hanging bunch of fruit.

Blue Morpho above Banana Leaves

medium

A blue morpho rests beside banana slices and papaya on a wooden tray, showing the ringed spots on its closed wings.

Blue Morpho at a Fruit Tray

detailed

Open-winged butterfly with scalloped edges and oval spots above two heart-shaped leaves.

Blue Morpho Butterfly with Open Wings

easy

A blue morpho opens its wings among sweeping bromeliad leaves, a tall flower spike and a curled fern.

Blue Morpho among Bromeliad Leaves

medium

A blue morpho opens its wings above a branch of ridged cacao pods, broad leaves and an open pod showing seeds.

Blue Morpho and Cacao Pods

medium

A blue morpho flies over a large round lily pad dotted with droplets, beside a water-lily flower.

Blue Morpho above a Giant Lily Pad

medium

Open-winged butterfly among broad leaves, two flowers and three buds.

Blue Morpho Butterfly beside Orchids

medium

Two open-winged butterflies beside a rocky stream, a small cascade, broad leaves and hanging vines.

Blue Morpho Butterflies above a Rainforest Stream

medium

Two open-winged butterflies before a tall stepped waterfall, surrounded by trees, ferns, flowers and vines.

Blue Morpho Butterflies by a Rainforest Waterfall

detailed

A blue morpho clings to a textured tree trunk, its closed wings showing ringed spots beside trailing leaves.

Blue Morpho on a Tree Trunk

detailed

Three open-winged butterflies around a wreath of split leaves, flowers and buds, with a small leafy sprig in the center.

Blue Morpho Butterflies in a Tropical Leaf Wreath

detailed

A blue morpho rests with closed wings on a curved vine above ferns, stones and mushrooms growing on a log.

Blue Morpho on a Rainforest Vine

detailed

Wing panels with leaves or a plain background?

Both butterflies have open wings; compare what surrounds them.

Wings above leaves

The blue morpho has many broad wing panels above two large leaves. Choose it to compare wing veins and leaf veins.

Blue Morpho Butterfly with Open Wings →

A single monarch butterfly with open wings, broad panels and round spots on a plain background.

One isolated butterfly

The monarch has open panels and a spotted border with no plants. Choose it to focus on matching left and right shapes.

Easy Monarch Butterfly →

Match the two sides

Print the original line drawing linked below. The numbered areas match the color key and steps; use the colored example as a starting point, then choose your own colors if you prefer.

Try it on paper

Original coloring page: Blue Morpho Butterfly with Open Wings →

Blue butterfly with white edge spots, an ochre body and two green leaves. — A digital color suggestion, not a photograph of a printed result. Open the original line drawing to print and try your own colors.

1. Blue wings
2. Ochre body
3. Green leaves

Color all four wings pale blue, including the narrow borders, but leave their oval spots white.
Color the head and segmented body pale ochre; leave eyes and antennae white.
Fill both leaves and their stems sage green, preserving the veins.

The white border spots should remain separate, and corresponding wing panels should use the same blue. This is a creative palette.

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