These salmon coloring pages are full of sushi, bagels, rice bowls, and of course those little guys with tiny faces! You could color them in all soft pink and peachy tones…or give that happy face of a smiling salmon a big old bright purple makeover!
These food coloring pages would be great for playing pretend restaurant games or doing some food activities at school. There are even some cute ones where the fish has a little extra to eat on his plate too (like the poke design!). We’ve got lots of tasty scenes here for you to play around with!
Free Printable Salmon Coloring Pages
You can print these free printable salmon coloring pages by downloading them as a PDF file (US Letter size). We love that you have tons of different options here! You could just grab some favorites, but if you’re feeling ambitious, why not make your own collection of seafood coloring sheets?
4 Tips to Color Salmon Coloring Pages
Grab some crayons or colored pencils. Then grab one of our easy salmon coloring sheets with a meal you recognize or a character that makes you smile!
1. Layer Peach and Pink
You start by painting a thin coat of peach on the fillet (the base color). Then you paint some pink along the edges (to create depth) and all over the curves.
To make a bit more contrast between the parts where there’s color and those that are still plain white, leave a couple of narrow areas where you didn’t do anything. Those’ll be the “lighter” parts in your salmon’s flesh.
2. Add Gentle Grill Marks
When you’re filling the picture of grilled salmon, make sure to fill in that portion with some nice warm coral.
Now you can trace over the grill marks using this brown color, but be careful because they don’t look overwhelming on the food. So keep your pressure light here.
3. Give the Side Dishes Color
You can go with yellow, but choose a lighter green for your asparagus (the darker green on either end will really pop against this). And then you can go for two different shades of green that are much closer together—if you look at the two on the right-hand side of the bowl, you’ll see that the dark green stands out a lot more.
And while most of yours can be white rice, there’s a bit of grey that shows up under the grains. This isn’t anything too crazy, just adding some subtle shading here and there.
4. Decorate the Serving Pieces
Maybe that’s too much for some people? You could go even simpler, but adding a bit more design detail won’t be bad. Maybe give the sushi tray a nice red border, put some blue dots around the pasta bowl, or even add brown wood grain under the salmon on the cooking plank. Repeat these color schemes on other pages of your pretend menu as well to match.
Grab your favorite salmon coloring pages above and see how many things you can serve up with just a few colors.