Springtime has arrived and with the blossoms and green leaves, baseball season is upon us. Children will love these coloring pages and they make a great activity for a baseball themed birthday party as well as an activity while the adults watch their favorite teams.
MLB.com Kids Club has lots of activities and games for kids including coloring pages. Kids can pick their favorite major league baseball team and find fun facts, games and statistics. They can even send letters to their favorite players. The new kid’s website – Club MLB has so many interactive features that kids will be busy for hours digging into their favorite teams. The Mascot Fever section provides coloring pages for MLB mascots so that kids can print and color their team’s mascot.
Another great website for free printable baseball coloring pages is PrintActivities.com. They have a HUGE selection of printable baseball coloring pages including batters, fielders, pitchers, umpires and even baseball scenes. There is even a section for injured baseball players and families playing baseball together. This site is different because they offer quite a few coloring pages of girls playing baseball. In addition, there are also pictures of animals playing baseball!! In addition to the coloring pages, they offer printable puzzles and mazes.
DLKT has coloring pages that include bats, baseballs, caps and even a baseball logo. There are also picture of players that you can print out as well. Do not forget to check the sports and Olympics activities page for more free printable activities to accompany the printable baseball coloring pages.
Crayola has about nine printable coloring/activity pages referring to baseball on its website. You can either color them “online” or print them in black and white. A couple of the pictures require the child to complete the dot-to-dot before coloring the baseball player. There is also a great picture of Jackie Robinson to print and color.
For a realistic printable coloring page, check Kaboose. There are only four printable baseball-coloring pages on this website but the pages they have are more realistic and detailed than some of the other sites. If you are looking for a realistic baseball player, this page has an excellent baseball player swinging at a ball and realistic boy getting ready to catch a ball.
MoreColoringPages.com has just about any coloring pages that you can think of including baseball-coloring pages. There are only five different coloring pages but they can be printed in black and white as well as in color so that you can use them in different ways. This is great if you want to use the pictures for decoration and also have black and white copies for kids to color (for instance at a baseball themed birthday party).
Preschool Coloring Book has a good variety of baseball themed coloring pages to print out. They include individual players as well as an entire team picture. There is also a cute coach talking to his team. These pictures have easy lines and large coloring areas making them a good choice for young artists.
The Teachers Corner has printable baseball coloring pages that are more realistic of a pitcher and a hitter. They also have some puzzle pages and lined pages in baseball themes if that is what you are looking for too. If you need a great picture of a baseball glove, then use the one at this site. It is a large picture of a baseball glove, very realistic and easy to color for little fingers.
If you are looking for some funny, cartoon type printable baseball coloring sheets, try Kookerkids. They have some great coloring sheets including a Go Team! picture and a Bubblegum Kid picture. If you need a great coloring page of a catcher, this is the page that you will want to print for your little artist.
If you want a baseball picture of The Berenstain Bears, this is a great picture to print and color.
The above websites have free, printable baseball coloring pages. However, if you want the full story of baseball, including some famous players, I suggest that you purchase the Story of Baseball Coloring Book from Dover Publications. For only $3.95, you receive a 48 page coloring book of the history of baseball including pictures of such famous players like Cy Young, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio. This makes a wonderful gift for any child who is interested in baseball.
