Dhelmise Coloring Pages

Free Dhelmise coloring pages: 17 printable PDF designs featuring this ghostly anchor Pokemon in portrait, ready-to-print, and underwater styles. Each page can be downloaded as a PDF to print or colored online in the browser.

Dhelmise is a dual Ghost and Grass-type Pokemon introduced in Generation VII, known in the Pokedex as the Sea Creeper Pokemon. It stands about 12 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 463 pounds, made up of a rusty brown, black-spotted anchor and a lavender ship’s wheel with a yellow inner rim, all bound together by a mass of green seaweed. That seaweed is the real twist in Dhelmise’s design: it is actually Dhelmise’s true living body, wrapped around the discarded anchor and wheel rather than the metal pieces being alive themselves. According to the Pokedex, Dhelmise came into being when a piece of drifting seaweed merged with debris from a sunken ship and was reborn as a Ghost-type Pokemon. It lowers its anchor and waits for prey, and is strong enough to knock out even a massive Wailord in a single swing. Dhelmise does not evolve from or into any other Pokemon. Unlike some older-generation Pokemon, it does not have an official Mega Evolution either, so any page labeled with an evolution or Mega form should be understood as an artistic reimagining rather than an actual in-game mechanic. Its signature Ability, Steelworker, which only Dhelmise can have, boosts the power of its Steel-type moves, and it is also the only known Pokemon that can learn the move Anchor Shot.

This collection groups its 17 designs into classic portraits and stylized renderings, ready-to-print and art-style pages, and Dhelmise underwater, giving colorists several ways to bring this ghostly shipwreck Pokemon to life.

What Is Inside This Collection

The 17 Dhelmise pages are split into three natural groups based on pose and setting.

Classic Portraits and Stylized Renderings

This is the largest group, covering straightforward standing poses along with a couple of more stylized, reimagined takes on the character. A rusty brown base for the anchor pairs well with lavender and yellow for the ship’s wheel and a rich green for the seaweed body.

Ready-to-Print and Art-Style Pages

This smaller set includes simplified, larger-outline designs built for quick printing alongside a softer, rounder kawaii-style page. These give colorists a choice between an easy fill-in and a more playful reinterpretation of Dhelmise’s usually eerie design.

Dhelmise Underwater

This group places Dhelmise in its natural ocean setting, fitting for a Pokemon described as lowering its anchor and waiting quietly for prey beneath the waves. These pages give colorists room to add water, coral, or other underwater details around Dhelmise’s anchor-and-wheel design.

What Dhelmise Coloring Pages Do

A story about something new coming from something lost. Dhelmise’s origin, a piece of seaweed merging with wreckage from a sunken ship to become a new creature, gives it a genuinely unusual backstory among Pokemon designs. Coloring a Dhelmise page gives a parent or teacher a natural opening to talk about how something can become new and different from pieces that seem broken or discarded.

Practicing detail on the mechanical and organic textures side by side. The American Academy of Pediatrics identifies fine motor skill development as a core benefit of structured coloring for children ages 2 through 7, and Dhelmise’s hard, spoked ship’s wheel next to its soft, winding seaweed strands gives children practice switching between two very different kinds of detail work on the same figure.

Learning to spot what is real versus what looks real. Dhelmise’s anchor and wheel look like its body, but the actual living part of the Pokemon is the seaweed wrapped around them. That detail gives children a fun, concrete example of how appearances do not always match what is actually happening underneath, useful well beyond just this one Pokemon.

A slow, quiet focus. A 2005 study in the Art Therapy Journal documented measurable reductions in anxiety following structured coloring sessions. Dhelmise is described as lowering its anchor and waiting patiently rather than moving quickly, a slow, still quality that mirrors the calm, low-pressure focus a coloring session is meant to provide.

How to Color Dhelmise Pages Well

• Anchor: Base the anchor in a rusty Brown, adding small black spots scattered across it to suggest age and wear from the sea.
• Ship’s wheel: Color the outer rim of the wheel in a soft Lavender, with a Yellow inner rim and yellow spokes and handles.
• Seaweed: Use a rich Green for the seaweed strands wrapped around the anchor and climbing up toward the wheel, since this is Dhelmise’s actual body.
• Seaweed teeth shapes: Leave small gaps in the green along the anchor’s curved bottom edge, since the seaweed is described as forming a jagged, tooth-like pattern there.
• Eyes: If visible on the wheel, color one eye a solid tone and consider giving the other a slightly cracked or uneven look, matching Dhelmise’s official, slightly damaged design.
• Underwater pages: Use deep blues and greens for the water background, keeping Dhelmise’s rusty brown and lavender tones as the clear focal point against the cooler underwater colors.

5 Creative Craft Ideas With Dhelmise Coloring Pages

1. Anchor-and-seaweed craft

Glue real or paper seaweed-like strips of green paper onto a colored Dhelmise page to recreate its winding, wrapped seaweed body.

2. Shipwreck origin story card

Pair a colored Dhelmise page with a short, simple written story imagining how a piece of seaweed and shipwreck debris became a new creature.

3. Underwater scene collage

Cut out a colored Dhelmise underwater page and glue it onto a larger drawn or collaged ocean background with added coral and fish.

4. Pokemon fan bookmark

Cut out a colored classic portrait page, glue it to cardstock, and trim close to the outline for a durable bookmark.

5. Pokedex fact poster

Pair a colored Dhelmise page with handwritten facts about its type, height, weight, and Ability on a poster board for a bedroom wall or classroom display.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Dhelmise coloring pages?

Dhelmise coloring pages are free printable and online designs featuring the Ghost/Grass-type Pokemon Dhelmise in different poses and settings, including classic portraits, ready-to-print and art-style pages, and underwater scenes. This collection includes 17 designs that can be downloaded as PDFs or colored directly in the browser.

Who created Dhelmise, and when did it first appear?

Dhelmise was designed by Game Freak and introduced in Pokemon Sun and Moon in 2016 as part of the Generation VII Pokedex set in the Alola region.

What type is Dhelmise, and does it evolve?

Dhelmise is a dual Ghost and Grass-type Pokemon. It does not evolve from or into any other Pokemon, and it does not have an official Mega Evolution.

What color is Dhelmise?

Dhelmise’s anchor is rusty brown with black spots, its ship’s wheel is lavender with a yellow inner rim and yellow spokes and handles, and the seaweed wrapped around both pieces, which is its actual living body, is green.

Is the anchor Dhelmise’s real body?

No. Dhelmise’s anchor and the ship’s wheel are debris from a sunken ship. The green seaweed wrapped around them is actually Dhelmise’s true, living body, according to the Pokedex.

What is Dhelmise’s Steelworker ability?

Steelworker is Dhelmise’s signature Ability, and no other known Pokemon can have it. It boosts the power of Dhelmise’s Steel-type moves in battle.

Are Dhelmise coloring pages suitable for young children?

Yes. The simplified, ready-to-print pages and the kawaii-style design work well for toddlers and young children. At the same time, the classic portraits and underwater scenes give older kids and Pokemon fans more detailed options to color as well.

How many Dhelmise coloring pages are available to download?

This collection includes 17 designs, covering classic portraits and stylized renderings, ready-to-print and art-style pages, and underwater scenes. Every page can be downloaded as a free PDF or colored online.

Start Coloring

Download any page by clicking the design. No account, email, or payment is required. Pages print directly from the browser at full resolution or open in the online coloring tool for screen use. Share finished pages on Facebook or Pinterest with the share buttons at the top of each design page.