Rainbow Coloring Pages

Coloring rainbows the traditional way is fun, but why stop at red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet when you can turn your page into a shimmering, candy-colored dreamscape? If you’re looking to add a bit of sparkle and magic to your rainbow coloring adventures, you’re in the right place. Get ready to take your rainbow coloring page masterpiece from “cute” to “wow” with these creative tips!

1. Embrace the Unexpected

• Try a Fantasy Rainbow: Use unexpected colors like mint green, coral, neon pink, lavender and turquoise. There’s no law of physics in art, so go wild!
• Monochrome Madness: Explore using only one color for your rainbow in a variety of shades.

2. Layer Your Rainbow with Glitter & Glow

Sure, you could stick to solid color bands, but why not elevate each stripe with a little extra pizzazz?

• Use Gel Pens & Glitter Markers: Add shimmer by outlining each rainbow band with metallic or glitter gel pens to give a magical glow and make the colors pop.
• Blend with Colored Pencils: Try using two shades of each color—light and dark—to add dimension. Blend them for a soft, dreamy effect.
• Glow Effects: Lightly color outside the rainbow bands with pale yellow or white colored pencil to create an ethereal glow around the entire rainbow.

3. Create Cotton Candy Clouds That Look Good Enough to Eat

There’s nothing wrong with leaving your rainbow’s clouds white; that’s the classic choice! But when you want to lean into the whimsy factor, try out some cotton candy hues instead! 

• Pastel Power: For your cloud’s base color, choose your favorite light pastel shade. Blue gives peaceful and calming vibes. Yellow looks like softly filtered sunshine. Purple and pink hint of magic and will have you looking around to see if a unicorn or fairy is hanging out nearby! Select a slightly darker shade of your chosen color to shadow the underside and add some texture to your clouds. For a finishing touch, blend in some very light color or even some glitter to the tops of your clouds to highlight the reflection of the sun or stars.
• Blending Magic: Use a blending stump, cotton swab, or your finger to gently smudge pencil or chalk pastel for a soft, swirled effect—like real cotton candy!
• Sprinkle Fun: Add tiny dots or shapes in fun colors (like sprinkles!) to give your clouds a sugary, playful vibe. Bonus points if you dot your sprinkles with glitter!

4. Sprinkle Your Rainbow Coloring Pages with Fairy Dust

It’s not a magical coloring page without a little sparkle in the air!

• Stars & Sparkles: Draw tiny stars, diamonds, or glimmers around your rainbow using metallic gel pens or white ink pens. Add sparkle trails or glitter “dust” blowing in the wind.
• Stickers & Rhinestones: Don’t be afraid to go 3D! Add small sparkly stickers or flat-back gems to your page for texture and twinkle.

5. Add Whimsy to Your Rainbow Coloring Pages

Want your rainbow to look like it belongs in a fantasy world? Try adding extras around it!

• Floating Balloons
  Draw or stick on pastel balloons floating through the sky.
• Tiny Creatures
  Remember that you are never limited by the design of your coloring page! You can always add a little something-something to your page just because you feel like it. Fairies, unicorns, or even a sneaky dragon tail can peek from behind your clouds or rainbow. You can add something unexpected just for the fun of it: a cat’s eyes and ears peeking out of the clouds? A funny little gremlin? Go for it!
• Magical Weather
  Draw candy-colored raindrops or sparkling snowflakes falling gently around the rainbow.

Ride Off Into the Rainbow

Now it’s time to find out what a little color and creativity can do! It’s amazing how a blank coloring page can become a magical scene full of charm and wonder, all thanks to you! There are so many rainbows left to color, and each one is a chance to create something beautifully unique. Keep shining, keep coloring, and never forget how much fun it is to make the world a brighter place!