Bee Movie Coloring Pages at ColoringPagesOnly.com brings together 40+ free printable pages from DreamWorks Animation’s 2007 animated comedy – one of the most quotable and internet-celebrated animated films of the 2000s. The collection covers the full main cast across a wide range of scene types: Barry B. Benson in solo portraits, action scenes, and the iconic connect-the-dots activities; Vanessa Bloome in solo and duo compositions with Barry; Adam Flayman alongside Barry in friendship scenes; the Benson family portrait; Ken and Barry in their rivalry scenes; and a variety of bee ensemble compositions including Bees on the Plane, Bees in Spacesuits, and Bees Flying Over the City. The full Cartoons collection is available through our Cartoons Coloring Pages hub.
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About the Bee Movie
The Bee Movie is a DreamWorks Animation feature film released on November 2, 2007, directed by Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner. The film was written by and stars Jerry Seinfeld – the stand-up comedian and Seinfeld co-creator – who also served as a producer, and whose comedic sensibility defines the film’s voice. The supporting cast includes Renée Zellweger as Vanessa, Matthew Broderick as Adam Flayman, Patrick Warburton as Ken, John Goodman as Layton T. Montgomery, Barry Levinson as Martin Benson, and Kathy Bates as Janet Benson.
The film earned approximately $293 million worldwide against a production budget of around $150 million, performing solidly at the box office and finding a large additional audience through home video and broadcast television in the years following its theatrical run.
The premise follows Barry B. Benson, a freshly graduated honeybee who refuses to accept the hive’s social contract – that every bee picks a single job at the time of graduation and works that job for the rest of their life. Venturing outside the hive for the first time alongside a pollen-collecting crew, Barry meets Vanessa, a New York City florist who saves his life. When Barry discovers that humans have been harvesting and selling honeybee honey on a commercial scale for centuries without the bees’ consent, he makes the decision to sue the human race – launching one of the more absurd legal dramas in animated film history.
Bee Movie developed a second, entirely separate cultural life beginning around 2016, when it became one of the internet’s most prominent meme subjects. The film’s opening monologue – “According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly” – became one of the most widely recognized opening lines in meme culture, and the film’s script was remixed, speed-altered, and repurposed in countless viral video formats. This internet resurgence introduced the film to an entirely new generation and significantly expanded its cultural reach beyond its original 2007 audience, which is part of why Bee Movie coloring pages remain consistently popular across age groups.
Characters in This Collection
Barry B. Benson
Barry B. Benson is the film’s protagonist and the character with the largest presence across the collection – appearing in the majority of solo tiles (Barry B Benson, Smiling Barry, Happy Barry, Barry Is Happy, Barry Flying, Barry Dancing, Barry Gets In The Car, Barry On The Tv, Barry In The Supermarket, Barry Under The Rain) and in nearly all the ensemble and scene tiles. He is a young honeybee voiced by Jerry Seinfeld, defined by his ambition, his refusal to accept convention, and his somewhat self-righteous confidence once he decides to pursue the lawsuit.
Barry’s visual design: Barry is an anthropomorphized honeybee rendered in a stylized, rounded DreamWorks animation aesthetic. His body uses the canonical bee color scheme: warm golden-yellow and black, alternating horizontal stripes on the abdomen. His face is largely golden-yellow with large, expressive eyes. His wings are translucent – a near-clear with very subtle blue-tinted iridescence that catches light. He wears a black-and-yellow striped sweater over a lighter yellow undershirt in his casual costume. His stinger is visible in action-oriented poses. The bee-scale details – small antennae, compound eye quality, wing structure – are simplified in the film’s design but present enough to require careful handling in coloring.
For coloring Barry: The most important decisions are the stripe ratio (equal-width yellow and black bands on the body) and the wing transparency. Leave the wings very lightly colored – a nearly-white pale blue tint or left as paper white, with only the wing veins given a slightly darker treatment. The eyes are the most expressive element and should be warm amber-brown with a bright white highlight.
Adam Flayman
Adam Flayman is Barry’s best friend since childhood and his companion throughout the film’s first act – conservative, cautious, and easily alarmed in contrast to Barry’s reckless confidence. Voiced by Matthew Broderick, Adam provides the film’s grounded reaction to Barry’s escalating choices. He appears in the Barry With Adam tile, the Barry and Adam Flayman Connect the Dots activity, and multiple ensemble scenes.
Adam’s design closely mirrors Barry’s – the same bee body plan, same stripe pattern, same wing structure. The primary visual distinction between them is in expression and posture: where Barry is characteristically energetic and forward-leaning, Adam tends toward a more cautious, slightly hunched presentation. On pages where both appear together, keeping their stripe and color values identical while differentiating them through posture and expression accurately captures their relationship.
Vanessa Bloome
Vanessa Bloome is the film’s human female lead – a New York City florist who rescues Barry from being swatted by her boyfriend, Ken. Their unlikely friendship and eventual legal partnership form the film’s emotional core. Voiced by Renée Zellweger, Vanessa is warm, open-minded, and consistently bemused by the situation she finds herself in.
The collection dedicates substantial coverage to Vanessa across multiple tiles: Vanessa (solo portrait), Vanessa Bloome (portrait variant), Vanessa Meets Barry (the pivotal first meeting scene), Vanessa Bloome dining (restaurant scene), Vanessa and friends (social scene), Vanessa And Barry (duo), and Attacking Vanessa (a scene depicting Barry defending her).
Vanessa’s design: She is a young adult woman with medium-length blonde hair and a warm, approachable character design that emphasizes openness and naturalness over dramatic styling. Her signature outfit features soft green and yellow tones – notably her green florist apron – reflecting her connection to flowers and the natural world that ties her thematically to Barry’s world. Her eyes are depicted in a warm blue-green.
For coloring Vanessa: Her blonde hair uses a warm, medium golden-blonde – not pale, not orange. The green of her florist apron should be a medium, slightly muted olive-green rather than bright emerald, reflecting its working-garment quality. Skin tones use warm peach with slightly deeper warm tones in shadow zones.
Ken
Ken (Kenneth Ken Bloome) is Vanessa’s boyfriend – Patrick Warburton’s baritone delivery makes him one of the film’s most entertaining supporting presences, playing a conventionally athletic, conventionally handsome man who is deeply threatened by a bee. Ken’s animosity toward Barry escalates through the film into increasingly elaborate attempts to eliminate him. He appears in the Kenneth Ken Bloome and Barry duo tile, and the Ken is allergic to bees tile.
Ken’s design: Tall, broad-shouldered, conventionally good-looking in a generic animated-human way. His signature look features a red polo shirt and an athletic-casual aesthetic. His skin tone is warm, and his hair is brown. The Ken is allergic to bees tile, which depicts his reaction to Barry’s presence – a comedic allergy response that serves as one of the film’s recurring visual gags.
Martin and Janet Benson
Martin and Janet Benson are Barry’s parents – Martin voiced by Barry Levinson and Janet by Kathy Bates. They represent the conventional hive life that Barry is rejecting: warm and well-meaning parents who simply cannot comprehend why their son won’t pick a job and make honey like everyone else. They appear in The Family Of Bensons ensemble tile and the Martin And Janet duo tile.
The Benson family tile is the collection’s most domestically warm composition – three generations of bees in what reads as a family portrait setting. All three use the same bee color palette, differentiated primarily by size and styling: Martin is slightly stockier and more settled-looking than Barry, and Janet has softer, more rounded features and a domestic aesthetic.
Scene and Activity Tiles
Bee ensemble tiles – Bees On The Plane, Bees in Spacesuits, Bees Flying Over The City, Bees Take Rest – depict groups of bees in the film’s various settings. The spacesuits tile in particular captures the film’s visual absurdity directly: bees in scaled-down human-style spacesuits are one of the film’s more memorable visual inventions.
City View – a New York City skyline scene from the bee’s perspective, looking up at the enormous human-scale city. This tile is more architecturally detailed than the character-focused pages and suited to older colorists interested in urban scenery.
Bee is pollinating flowers with pollen power, which conveys the film’s core ecological function and adds an environmental dimension. A bee on a flower in the film’s stylized rendering, suitable for younger colorists.
Barry Bites Layton – depicts the film’s courtroom climax, where Barry uses his stinger on opposing counsel, Layton T. Montgomery (John Goodman), sacrificing his stinger and potentially his life in the service of winning the case. One of the film’s most dramatically absurd moments.
Connect the Dots activities – Barry Connect the Dots, Barry connect the dots for Kids, Flying Bee Connect the Dots, Barry and Adam Flayman Connect the Dots, Adam Flayman Bee Connect the Dots – are specifically designed as activity pages rather than pure coloring pages. These connect-the-dots formats are ideal for younger children (ages 4–7) who benefit from the sequential fine motor task of connecting numbered dots before adding color. For age-appropriate activity guidance, see our guide on the benefits of coloring for children.
Coloring Guide: The Bee Movie Palette
The film’s overall color palette is built around the natural bee color language – warm yellows, blacks, and ambers – placed against the cool blues and grays of New York City architecture and human interiors. Understanding this warm-versus-cool contrast makes scene pages significantly more effective to color.
The Bee Color System
All bee characters in the film use the same three-color foundation: golden-yellow, black, and translucent wings. The variation between characters comes from size, proportion, and expression rather than color differentiation, which means the coloring challenge on any bee page is not choosing different colors for different characters but rather consistently and expressively executing the same yellow-black stripe system.
Golden-yellow – the bee body’s primary color – should be a warm, medium-saturation yellow with a slight orange bias. Not lemon-yellow (too cool and bright), not mustard (too muted and brown), but the warm, familiar yellow of a bumblebee or honeybee in direct light. A color in the range of a school bus yellow, slightly softened.
Black – the stripe color – should be true black for maximum contrast against the warm yellow. The stripes on the abdomen are equal-width alternating bands. On the face and upper thorax area, the black appears in the eye outlines and wing attachment points.
Wing color – the translucent wings are the most technically interesting element of any flying Barry page. In the film, the wings have a nearly-clear quality with very subtle blue iridescence. For coloring pages, the most effective approach is to leave the wing areas paper white, adding only the vein structure lines in a very pale gray, and, optionally, a faintest possible pale blue wash to suggest iridescence without making the wings opaque.
Eyes – Barry’s eyes are large, expressive, and warm amber-brown, with a bright white highlight dot in the upper portion of each. The size and warmth of the eyes are the most humanizing elements of his design and the most important elements for capturing emotional expression.
The Human and City Color System
Human characters (Vanessa, Ken, Martin Benson, Janet Benson) use naturalistic skin tones: warm peach for Vanessa and Ken, and slightly varying warm tones for the others. Their clothing uses the film’s characteristic color-coding: Vanessa in greens and yellows (nature-adjacent), Ken in reds and athletic tones (contrast with Barry’s world).
The New York City environment – visible in the City View, Bees Flying Over The City, Barry In The Supermarket, and Barry Gets In The Car tiles – uses the cool gray-blue palette of urban architecture: gray concrete, silver glass, steel blue sky. This cool urban environment creates the most effective backdrop for the warm bee characters – the warm yellow of Barry against the cool gray-blue cityscape is the film’s defining visual contrast.
For the Bees in Spacesuits tile: The spacesuits use white as the primary suit color with orange-yellow details and visors. Keeping the suits white-dominant with the bee stripes visible through the translucent elements (where applicable) maintains the visual absurdity of tiny bees in proper human-style spacesuits.
FAQs
What is Bee Movie? The Bee Movie is a 2007 DreamWorks Animation film written by and starring Jerry Seinfeld. It follows Barry B. Benson, a honeybee who refuses to accept a lifetime of honey-making and eventually sues the human race for stealing and profiting from bee honey. The film is rated PG and suitable for all ages.
Who voices Barry B. Benson? Barry is voiced by Jerry Seinfeld, the comedian and co-creator of the television series Seinfeld, who also wrote the screenplay and co-produced the film.
Why did Bee Movie become a meme? Around 2016, Bee Movie experienced a major internet resurgence when users began creating viral videos using the film’s script and audio in increasingly creative and absurd ways – speed-altered versions, every instance of a word replaced with formats, and mashups. The film’s opening line became one of the most recognized phrases in meme culture, introducing the film to an entirely new generation.
What age group is Bee Movie for? The Bee Movie is rated PG and appropriate for all ages, with humor that appeals to both children and adults. The connect-the-dots activity pages in this collection are particularly suited to children ages 4–7, while the more detailed scene and portrait pages work well for older children and adults.
What colors does Barry B. Benson use? Barry’s canonical colors are warm golden-yellow and black alternating stripes on the body, with translucent blue-tinted wings and warm amber-brown eyes. His casual outfit uses the same yellow-black color system as his natural bee coloring.
Is Vanessa a florist in Bee Movie? Yes – Vanessa Bloome is a New York City florist, which connects her thematically to bees and pollination. Her profession is central to the film’s final act, in which the disruption of the bee colony’s honey production leads to environmental consequences that affect Vanessa’s flower business.
Why does Ken dislike Barry? Ken is Vanessa’s boyfriend and initially hostile to Barry out of a conventional dislike of insects in the home, which deepens into personal rivalry as Vanessa’s friendship with Barry grows more significant and time-consuming. Ken’s escalating attempts to eliminate Barry form a recurring comedic subplot throughout the film’s second half.
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