A pie coloring page is finished faster when the crust, the filling and the plate are three separate shapes, and a pie with a thick outline is the easiest place to start. If you want a page for the kitchen, a gift or a baking journal, these 37 pie coloring pages ideas let you pick one in a minute. For more, see our easy coloring pages and printable cozy pages.
Quick answer: for a first pie page start with the classic lattice apple pie (idea 9); for a child choose the single slice with a fork (idea 30); for a gift pick the recipe cards (idea 8).
A pie page looks finished when the crust has two tones, the filling has one dark color, and some white space stays empty.
What are pie coloring pages?
Pie coloring pages are printable line drawings of pies, slices, crusts and baking scenes that you color with pencils, markers or watercolor. They range from one bold slice for a child to a full bakery shelf for an adult. Most come as a PDF you print at 8.5 x 11 inches, so one file gives you as many copies as you need.
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1. Bold-line dessert pages to colour and print | a first pie page for a marker set | Style: bold line · Pages: print once · Skill: beginner | a pencil artist who wants fine shading lines |
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2. Cozy fall coloring pages for apple-pie season | an October coloring evening | Style: bold fall · Pages: print once · Skill: beginner | a summer pie theme |
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3. Fruit coloring sheets for pie-filling pages | a pie series built from single fruits | Style: single fruit · Pages: ten pages · Skill: beginner | one big detailed pie scene |
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4. Watercolor apple pie stickers for a coloring journal | a junk-journal spread with a baked pie | Style: watercolor · Pages: cut and glue · Skill: beginner | a plain black-and-white coloring book |
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5. Kawaii blueberry pie and dessert pictures | a child who likes cute faces | Style: kawaii · Pages: trace · Skill: beginner | a realistic fruit pie |
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6. Citrus pie page with orange cottage clipart | a lemon meringue or orange pie page | Style: citrus · Pages: one sitting · Skill: beginner | a dark chocolate pie |
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7. Recipe collection journal for your pie pages | a baker who keeps a family recipe book | Style: journal · Pages: bind in · Skill: beginner | a loose single sheet |
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8. Printable recipe cards to tuck beside a colored pie | a gift for someone who bakes | Style: recipe card · Pages: ten minutes · Skill: beginner | a full-page coloring session |
| 9. Classic apple pie with a lattice top | a first pie page | Style: lattice · Pages: print once · Skill: beginner | a toddler who cannot stay inside lines | |
| 10. Cherry pie with a woven crust | red-and-gold marker sets | Style: woven crust · Pages: 20 minutes · Skill: beginner | pencils that smudge red | |
| 11. Pumpkin pie with whipped cream | a Thanksgiving table placemat | Style: slice · Pages: 15 minutes · Skill: beginner | anyone who colors every white space | |
| 12. Pecan pie close-up | a quiet pencil evening | Style: close-up · Pages: 30 minutes · Skill: intermediate | a quick five-minute page | |
| 13. Blueberry pie slice on a plate | learning light and dark on a small scene | Style: slice on plate · Pages: 20 minutes · Skill: beginner | a page with no shading practice | |
| 14. Lemon meringue pie | practicing soft shading | Style: meringue · Pages: 25 minutes · Skill: intermediate | a page that needs bold outlines | |
| 15. Key lime pie | a first color-by-feel page | Style: green slice · Pages: 10 minutes · Skill: beginner | a rainbow color lover | |
| 16. Strawberry rhubarb pie | blending two reds | Style: two-tone · Pages: 30 minutes · Skill: intermediate | a single-marker page | |
| 17. Peach pie with a golden crust | warm-palette layering | Style: warm layers · Pages: 25 minutes · Skill: intermediate | a cool-color palette | |
| 18. Banoffee pie | repeat-pattern coloring | Style: banana rings · Pages: 25 minutes · Skill: beginner | a page with one big shape | |
| 19. Chocolate cream pie | one-color shading practice | Style: brown shading · Pages: 20 minutes · Skill: beginner | a very colorful page | |
| 20. Sweet potato pie | an autumn dinner table | Style: round pie · Pages: 15 minutes · Skill: beginner | a pastel palette | |
| 21. Mini hand pies | short sessions with a child | Style: six small · Pages: 20 minutes · Skill: beginner | a single large focal pie | |
| 22. Pie cooling on a window sill | a cozy scene page | Style: window scene · Pages: 35 minutes · Skill: intermediate | a close-up pie lover | |
| 23. Pie with a heart cut-out crust | a Valentine or anniversary card | Style: heart crust · Pages: 15 minutes · Skill: beginner | a plain crust page | |
| 24. Pie and coffee cafe table | an afternoon break page | Style: cafe table · Pages: 20 minutes · Skill: beginner | a single-subject lover | |
| 25. Baker's pie shelf | a palette test page | Style: pie row · Pages: 40 minutes · Skill: intermediate | a short quick page | |
| 26. Chicken pot pie with a flaky top | bakers who make savory pies | Style: savory · Pages: 25 minutes · Skill: intermediate | a sweet-only theme | |
| 27. Mince pie for Christmas | a Christmas card insert | Style: star top · Pages: 10 minutes · Skill: beginner | a summer theme | |
| 28. Pie with a cat on the counter | cat lovers who bake | Style: cat and pie · Pages: 30 minutes · Skill: beginner | a pie-only page | |
| 29. Rolling pin and pie dough | a baker's kitchen page | Style: dough · Pages: 10 minutes · Skill: beginner | a finished pie page | |
| 30. Slice of pie with a fork | a five-minute page | Style: single slice · Pages: 10 minutes · Skill: beginner | a detailed scene | |
| 31. Pie jar and baking tools | a kitchen poster | Style: tools · Pages: 25 minutes · Skill: intermediate | a fruit close-up | |
| 32. Pie festival bunting | a party banner for a bake sale | Style: bunting · Pages: 30 minutes · Skill: intermediate | a plain page | |
| 33. Whoopie pie | young children | Style: stack · Pages: 10 minutes · Skill: beginner | a lattice lover | |
| 34. Ice cream pie with a cookie crust | a summer coloring day | Style: cool pastel · Pages: 20 minutes · Skill: beginner | an autumn theme | |
| 35. Pi day pie with a number border | a Pi day class activity | Style: number rim · Pages: 25 minutes · Skill: intermediate | anyone who dislikes numbers | |
| 36. Pie as a wedding cake alternative | a wedding or shower keepsake | Style: tiered stand · Pages: 45 minutes · Skill: advanced | a quick page | |
| 37. Pie in a picnic basket | a summer outing page | Style: picnic · Pages: 30 minutes · Skill: intermediate | a close-up page |
How do you choose pie coloring pages?
Choose pie coloring pages by three checks, not by the picture on the front. Each one is a place where a loose free sheet tends to let you down.
- Line weight: hold the page up to the light and check the outline is even; thin broken lines are why free pages fade out in a marker.
- Print clarity: print one sheet at full size, because a small file turns the crust into a blur at 8.5 x 11 inches.
- Enough pages: count the pages in the set before you start a series, since one pie rarely makes a whole baking journal.
1. Bold-line dessert pages to colour and print
Bold-line dessert pages give you a pie page with thick outlines that a marker will not bleed through.
- Best for: a first pie page for a marker set.
- Avoid for: a pencil artist who wants fine shading lines.
2. Cozy fall coloring pages for apple-pie season
Cozy fall coloring pages pair apple baskets with autumn scenes in simple bold outlines.
- Best for: an October coloring evening.
- Avoid for: a summer pie theme.
3. Fruit coloring sheets for pie-filling pages
Fruit coloring sheets show the filling before it goes into the crust.
- Best for: a pie series built from single fruits.
- Avoid for: one big detailed pie scene.
4. Watercolor apple pie stickers for a coloring journal
Watercolor baking clipart gives you finished pies to cut out and glue beside your own colored page.
- Best for: a junk-journal spread with a baked pie.
- Avoid for: a plain black-and-white coloring book.
5. Kawaii blueberry pie and dessert pictures
Kawaii bear clipart with blueberry pancakes, cakes, pies and cupcakes makes a cute reference for a round, smiling pie page.
- Best for: a child who likes cute faces.
- Avoid for: a realistic fruit pie.
6. Citrus pie page with orange cottage clipart
Citrus dessert clipart is a good starting palette for a lemon or orange pie page.
- Best for: a lemon meringue or orange pie page.
- Avoid for: a dark chocolate pie.
7. Recipe collection journal for your pie pages
A recipe journal gives your colored pie pages a home beside the recipe they came from.
- Best for: a baker who keeps a family recipe book.
- Avoid for: a loose single sheet.
8. Printable recipe cards to tuck beside a colored pie
Printable recipe cards come in two sizes, 6×4 and 7×5 inches, with dotted lines.
- Best for: a gift for someone who bakes.
- Avoid for: a full-page coloring session.
9. Classic apple pie with a lattice top
A lattice-top apple pie is the first pie most people draw. Pie journals.
- Best for: a first pie page.
- Avoid for: a toddler who cannot stay inside lines.
10. Cherry pie with a woven crust
A cherry pie with a woven crust adds red filling peeking through the gaps. Pie journals.
- Best for: red-and-gold marker sets.
- Avoid for: pencils that smudge red.
11. Pumpkin pie with whipped cream
A pumpkin pie slice with a cream swirl gives you one big orange shape and one white space to leave empty. Pie journals.
- Best for: a Thanksgiving table placemat.
- Avoid for: anyone who colors every white space.
12. Pecan pie close-up
A close-up of a pecan pie fills the page with nut shapes. Pie journals.
- Best for: a quiet pencil evening.
- Avoid for: a quick five-minute page.
13. Blueberry pie slice on a plate
A blueberry slice on a plate has three zones to color: crust, filling and plate. Pie journals.
- Best for: learning light and dark on a small scene.
- Avoid for: a page with no shading practice.
14. Lemon meringue pie
A lemon meringue pie has peaks you can color in two shades of cream and one pop of yellow. Pie journals.
- Best for: practicing soft shading.
- Avoid for: a page that needs bold outlines.
15. Key lime pie
A key lime pie slice is mostly one green, which makes it the easiest pie to finish. Pie journals.
- Best for: a first color-by-feel page.
- Avoid for: a rainbow color lover.
16. Strawberry rhubarb pie
A strawberry rhubarb pie has red and pink filling in the same pie, so it teaches blending of two close colors. Pie journals.
- Best for: blending two reds.
- Avoid for: a single-marker page.
17. Peach pie with a golden crust
A peach pie page works with warm yellows and oranges. Pie journals.
- Best for: warm-palette layering.
- Avoid for: a cool-color palette.
18. Banoffee pie
A banoffee pie stacks banana slices on caramel and cream. Pie journals.
- Best for: repeat-pattern coloring.
- Avoid for: a page with one big shape.
19. Chocolate cream pie
A chocolate cream pie is a good page for shading with one brown pencil and one white gap. Pie journals.
- Best for: one-color shading practice.
- Avoid for: a very colorful page.
20. Sweet potato pie
A sweet potato pie page uses deep orange and brown, with a spoon of whipped topping. Pie journals.
- Best for: an autumn dinner table.
- Avoid for: a pastel palette.
21. Mini hand pies
Mini hand pies are small crescent shapes with fork marks on the edge. Pie journals.
- Best for: short sessions with a child.
- Avoid for: a single large focal pie.
22. Pie cooling on a window sill
A pie cooling on a window sill adds a curtain, a pane and steam lines. Pie journals.
- Best for: a cozy scene page.
- Avoid for: a close-up pie lover.
23. Pie with a heart cut-out crust
A pie with a heart cut-out in the crust shows the filling through the shape. Pie journals.
- Best for: a Valentine or anniversary card.
- Avoid for: a plain crust page.
24. Pie and coffee cafe table
A cafe table with a pie slice and a coffee cup is a two-object page. Pie journals.
- Best for: an afternoon break page.
- Avoid for: a single-subject lover.
25. Baker's pie shelf
A baker's shelf with five pies in a row gives you five different fillings in one frame. Pie journals.
- Best for: a palette test page.
- Avoid for: a short quick page.
26. Chicken pot pie with a flaky top
A pot pie with a flaky top is a savory pie page. Pie journals.
- Best for: bakers who make savory pies.
- Avoid for: a sweet-only theme.
27. Mince pie for Christmas
A small mince pie with a star on top is the Christmas version of the pie page. Pie journals.
- Best for: a Christmas card insert.
- Avoid for: a summer theme.
28. Pie with a cat on the counter
A cat sitting beside a cooling pie adds a character to the page. Pie journals.
- Best for: cat lovers who bake.
- Avoid for: a pie-only page.
29. Rolling pin and pie dough
A rolling pin on a floured round of dough is the page before the pie exists. Pie journals.
- Best for: a baker's kitchen page.
- Avoid for: a finished pie page.
30. Slice of pie with a fork
A single slice with a fork leaning on the plate is the simplest pie page. Pie journals.
- Best for: a five-minute page.
- Avoid for: a detailed scene.
31. Pie jar and baking tools
A jar of pie filling beside a whisk and a tin brings the baking tools into the page. Pie journals.
- Best for: a kitchen poster.
- Avoid for: a fruit close-up.
32. Pie festival bunting
A string of bunting with small pie shapes frames a page like a village fair. Pie journals.
- Best for: a party banner for a bake sale.
- Avoid for: a plain page.
33. Whoopie pie
A whoopie pie is two round cakes with a cream filling, so it is a stack of three shapes. Pie journals.
- Best for: young children.
- Avoid for: a lattice lover.
34. Ice cream pie with a cookie crust
An ice cream pie page is a summer pie, with a cookie crust and a scoop on top. Pie journals.
- Best for: a summer coloring day.
- Avoid for: an autumn theme.
35. Pi day pie with a number border
A pie with the digits of pi around the rim is a fun page for a math lover. Pie journals.
- Best for: a Pi day class activity.
- Avoid for: anyone who dislikes numbers.
36. Pie as a wedding cake alternative
A tiered stand of small pies replaces a wedding cake on the page. Pie journals.
- Best for: a wedding or shower keepsake.
- Avoid for: a quick page.
37. Pie in a picnic basket
A pie wrapped in a cloth inside a picnic basket is a travel scene. Pie journals.
- Best for: a summer outing page.
- Avoid for: a close-up page.
If it goes wrong
- Marker bleeds through: slide a blank sheet behind the page, or switch to pencil on thin paper.
- The pie looks flat: add one darker tone in the crust folds and leave the highlight white.
- Colors turn muddy: let the first layer dry before the second goes on.
- The print is blurry: print at full size, not fit to page, from the original file.
Key takeaways
- Start with a thick-outline pie and move to scenes later.
- Color the crust first, then the filling, then the plate.
- Leave one white highlight on every pie.
- Test your marker on the back edge before you start.
- Pick a set with enough pages for a whole series; Bold and Easy Dessert Coloring Pages is a good start.
When the free version isn’t enough
A single free pie page is fine for an evening, but a baking journal needs the same line weight on every page. Mixed sources rarely match, so one bundle with a steady outline is what makes ten pages look like one book. Fruit Coloring Page for Kids is a ready set of ten pages when you want filling pages in one print run. More paper projects: easy coloring pages, cozy coloring pages and junk journal ideas, plus the printables library.
Common questions
What are the best pie coloring pages for beginners?
The best pie coloring pages for beginners have a thick outline and one big shape, like a lattice apple pie or a single slice with a fork.
Where can I get free printable pie coloring pages?
Free printable pie coloring pages are easy to find, but line weight and size vary from sheet to sheet.
What are good pie coloring pages for kids?
Good pie coloring pages for kids are single slices, whoopie pies and mini hand pies with round shapes.
How do you color a pie with colored pencils?
Color a pie with colored pencils by layering a light gold first and pressing a darker tone only in the crust folds.
What paper should I print pie coloring pages on?
Print pie coloring pages on plain 8.5 x 11 inch paper for pencils and a heavier sheet for markers.
Can I use pie coloring pages in a baking journal?
Yes, pie coloring pages fit a baking journal when they are printed at the page size and glued beside a recipe. Autumn Baking Watercolor Cliparts adds finished pies to glue beside them.
