Let your students bring their very own monsters to life! 👾

These Design Your Own Monster Coloring Pages give students a blank canvas for creating silly, spooky, fuzzy, slimy, colorful, strange, or completely one-of-a-kind creatures!

Instead of simply coloring a finished monster, students get to become the designer. Each page provides a different blank monster body template with plenty of open space for students to add their own faces, features, colors, patterns, textures, and imaginative details.

Students can add giant eyes, tiny teeth, crooked smiles, horns, scales, spots, stripes, fur, wings—or anything else they can imagine!

Perfect for early finishers, indoor recess, Fun Friday, Halloween, morning work, art centers, classroom rewards, and creative writing inspiration.

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

This resource includes 9 printable monster design pages featuring:

• Blob Monster
• Tall Monster
• Round Monster
• Furry Monster
• Squiggly Monster
• 2 Tiny Monster templates
• Three-Headed Monster
• Build-It-Yourself Monster

Each student page includes space for a name and date, a large black-and-white monster template, and the simple prompt:

“Add a face, features, colors, patterns, textures, and anything else your monster needs.”

PERFECT FOR:

Early finishers • Indoor recess • Morning work • Fun Friday • Halloween activities • Fall activities • Art centers • Classroom rewards • After testing • Substitute plans • Classroom parties • Creative writing inspiration • Just-for-fun drawing and coloring

MORE THAN A COLORING PAGE!

Because the monster bodies are intentionally left mostly blank, students aren’t simply coloring someone else’s design—they’re creating their own.

Challenge students to experiment with:

Eyes • Teeth • Mouths • Horns • Wings • Tails • Patterns • Textures • Colors • Fur • Scales • Spots • Stripes • Personality

You can even extend the activity into writing by asking students to name and describe their finished monster using specific adjectives and details.

No complicated directions and no prep—just print and create!