Color Our Collections

Coloring sheets made out of items in our Digital Library.

People of all ages love coloring as a wind-down or learning activity. Take some time to color in these downloadable pages made from items in the APS Digital Library. When you're done, be sure to share your creation with us via social media!

The sheets are broken up into sections (Animals, Landscapes, People, and Things & Misc.) so you can easily find what you want to color. The items in each section are also alphabetized for an added easy finding boost.

Highlight videos, featured in the last section, add a little more to the coloring experience through extra information and a coloring demonstration.

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Animals

Coloring sheets of animals depicted in the collections

Click on the heading to open a new tab with the coloring sheet. All of the original images are also found on our Digital Library.

Antelope (Gazelle)

Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885). Watercolors. Available on the Digital Library.

Bison

Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885). Pencil Image. Available on the Digital Library.

Elephant

Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885). Ink Drawing. Available on the Digital Library.

Horses

Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885). Ink Drawing. Available on the Digital Library.

Monarch butterfly (colored) with caterpillar

Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885) . Lithograph. Available on the Digital Library.

Peale's Mastodon

Squelette d'un jeune Mammouth dessine au musee de philadelphia. Edouard de Montule. Ink on Paper, 1821. Available on the Digital Library.

Piping Plover

Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885). Watercolor. Available on the Digital Library.

Sheep, Bighorn

Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885). Pencil Image. Available on the Digital Library.

Landscapes

Coloring sheets of landscapes depicted in the collections

Click on the heading to open a new tab with the coloring sheet. All of the original images are also found on our Digital Library.

Fairmount Park (Philadelphia)

James Hamilton. Engraving. 1840. Available from the Digital Library.

Philadelphia Arcade

C. Burton. Engraving.1831. Available on the Digital Library.

People

Coloring sheets of people depicted in the collections

Click on the heading to open a new tab with the coloring sheet. All of the original images are also found on our Digital Library.

Buzz Aldrin, Moon Landing

Photograph of Buzz Aldrin from the First Manner Lunar Landing, US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1969. Photograph. Available in a Digital Exhibition.

Benjamin Franklin, Portrait of Dr. Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, Charles Willson Peale, after David Martin. Oil on canvas. 1772. Available on the Digital Library.

Ben Franklin Reception, Reception de Franklin au Palais Royal par le Duc d'Orleans (Louis Philippe) 1778

Heinrich Weber. Lithograph. Date unknown. Available on the Digital Library.

Deborah Read Franklin, Portrait of Deborah Read Franklin

Portrait of Deborah Read Franklin, Benjamin Wilson (attributed). Painting. 1758-1759. Available via digitized Museum Collections.

Things & Misc.

Coloring sheets of things and miscellaneous objects depicted in the collections

Click on the heading to open a new tab with the coloring sheet. All of the original images are also found on our Digital Library.

"Do You Keep Sugar?," Man and horse

Norman Leonard Jacobs. Photograph. 1908. Available on the Digital Library.

Franklinia Plant, Franklinia alatamaha

William Bartram. Ink and watercolor on paper, date unknown. Available on the Digital Library.

Frigate, Capture of H. B. M. frigate Macedonian, Captain John S. Carden by the U. S. frigate United States, Stephen Decatur, Esq., Commander

Thomas Birch. Engraving. 1813. Available on the Digital Library

Ship, Porpoise

Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885). Pencil Works. Available on the Digital Library.

Highlight Videos

Learn more about objects behind select coloring sheets through these videos!