Looking for some macaron coloring pages? We have lots of options for you! These are great if you love coloring things that look like bakery treats; macarons include all sorts of cute details for you to color!
There are rounded shells, creamy centers, pretty gift boxes, cheerful pastry characters, and morecute macarons! You can use some soft pastels or even go full rainbow here… Macaron coloring pages are just too cute!
Start off with just a couple of macarons sitting on top of their saucer. Want to get fancier? Color the fun dessert stand, or maybe color a happy character piping some yummy filling! Macaron coloring sheets work well as part of an afternoon of quiet time, as an activity in the classroom during an art break, or even as part of a fun game playing pretending to be running a bakery from the kitchen table!
Free Printable Macaron Coloring Pages
The colorable patterns are presented as free printable macaron coloring pages, which are available in PDF format for printing on standard-sized US Letter-size paper. Each page measures at 8.5 × 11 inches.
Just choose your favorite design, and take a printout by checking its print preview and using ‘fit to page’ settings in case some parts seem to be cropped out from the actual edges. Using crayons works best for filling the color inside pastry shells, while sharpened colored pencils will give precise results when drawing thin lines like layers of creams, ribbons, or tiny raspberries. You can also try coloring them using markers, but do keep a spare sheet beneath yours for catching ink stains.
4 Tips to Color Macarons Coloring Pages
You only need a few of your coloring supplies out at the moment, but even that will be enough for giving these French pastry pictures some bakery feeling.
Whether you want realistic ones with their actual flavor or just colorful things with up-to-date flavors, try these ideas!
1. Choose Colors by Flavor
Choose your 3 colors ahead of time (pink for raspberry, green for pistachio, pale yellow for lemon), and replicate that color combination throughout your stack. Have a little test patch ready on scrap paper to cross-check shades as you go.
2. Give the Filling Its Own Shade
You can use anything from darker shades of pink through chocolate brown, all the way to cream, if you want to make your fillings stand out (on the pastry cut open).
Using a sharpened pencil helps you easily apply a color down that narrow stripe without smudging over the edges of your shell.
3. Add Soft Shadows
Press lightly all over each shell with the tip of your pencil first. Then you can go back later and add another layer of color beneath each shell and on one side, creating a rounded shape that’s easy to visualize.
Try leaving a tiny bit of pale color at the top of each shell as a sort-of “highlight.”
4. Decorate a Bakery Gift Box
Then, you’ll give each pastry in the open gift box a different color. And pick one to match the color of your ribbon or package! You could also draw a little sign with the flavor next to every single treat!
This would make your own food coloring page become an imaginary bakery menu!
So bring all your favorite colors on board, as we have these macaron coloring pages here, just perfect for such a sweet afternoon!