Free Flushed Away Coloring Pages: 28 printable PDF designs featuring Roddy and Rita, The Toad and his henchrats, Le Frog, and Sid, with three dot-to-dot puzzles mixed in. Every sheet prints straight from a PDF or opens in the site’s online coloring tool.
Flushed Away follows Roddy St. James, a pampered pet rat from a Kensington flat who gets flushed down his own toilet into a bustling rat city beneath London. Down there, he teams up with Rita, a quick-thinking scavenger rat who sails the sewer waterways in her boat, the Jammy Dodger. Standing in their way are The Toad, a pompous villain who despises rodents, his bumbling henchmen Whitey and Spike, and his French cousin Le Frog. The 2006 film came from Aardman Animations with DreamWorks, and its computer animation was built to look like the studio’s famous clay characters.
Roddy and Rita fill most of the set, with villain portraits and number puzzles adding variety for kids who like a challenge.
What’s Inside This Collection
Hero pages, villain portraits, side characters, and dot-to-dot puzzles make up the 28 sheets.
Roddy and Rita Adventures
The heart of the set shows the two rats together, swinging across the sewer, sharing a laugh, and racing through scenes, plus solo moments like Roddy flying, driving, and strumming a guitar. Try a soft Tan for Roddy and a deeper Raw Sienna for Rita, so the pair never blends.
The Toad and His Henchmen
The villain gets several portraits, and Whitey and Spike appear alone, as a duo, and beside Roddy and Rita. Use Olive Green and Burnt Umber for The Toad’s warty skin, keep Whitey a bright White with pale Pink ears, and give Spike a lean Gray coat.
Le Frog and Sid
Le Frog shows up on his own and in a group scene, while Sid appears snacking and standing next to Roddy. Bright Yellow Green makes Le Frog leap off the page, and a muddy Brown Gray suits Sid’s scruffy sewer look.
Dot-to-Dot Puzzles
Three connect-the-numbers pages hide Roddy, Sid, and The Toad until the last dot is joined. Trace the path in pencil first, then color the finished character.
What Flushed Away Coloring Pages Do
Showing how a film gets its look. Aardman’s artists made every character in Flushed Away look as if it had been shaped by hand from modeling clay, even though the film was built entirely on computers. Kids can copy that effect on paper by shading with small, uneven strokes, then compare their page with a flat fill to see how texture changes a character.
Practicing control with numbers and lines. The dot-to-dot sheets combine counting with careful pencil movement, since each line has to land on the next number. The American Academy of Pediatrics points to coloring and simple drawing tasks as part of how children from about 2 to 7 strengthen the small hand muscles behind neat handwriting, and joining dots adds one more step of precision to that practice.
Unwinding after a busy day. Filling a sewer scene, brick by brick and bubble by bubble, is a slow, steady task that calms the mind. A 2005 study published in the Art Therapy Journal found that people who completed structured coloring designs showed measurable drops in anxiety. Hence, a Roddy page fits well into a quiet afternoon or a pre-bedtime routine.
Talking about adapting to change. Roddy starts lonely in a perfect house and only learns what friendship means after landing somewhere messy and unfamiliar. Parents can ask children how Roddy changes from the first page to the last, which opens an easy talk about trying new places and making new friends.
How to Color Flushed Away Pages Well
- Clay-style shading: Build every character with two or three light layers instead of one heavy pass, pressing slightly harder in the creases of arms and cheeks. The gentle buildup copies the soft, handmade look Aardman gave its characters.
- Roddy’s fur: Start with a pale Tan or Light Brown, then add Sepia inside the ears and under the chin. Leave his muzzle lighter so his expressions stay easy to read.
- Rita’s fur and outfit: Use Raw Sienna with Burnt Umber shadows for her coat, and pick bold, contrasting colors for her clothes so she stands apart from Roddy. A strong outfit color also helps on busy group pages.
- The Toad: Layer Olive Green over Yellow Green, then dot Burnt Umber across his back and head for warts. A slightly glossy look comes from leaving a few small patches of paper bare on his belly.
- Whitey and Spike: Keep Whitey mostly White with Light Gray shadow lines, and give Spike a Gray coat with Charcoal along his narrow face. The light and dark contrast make the pair easy to tell apart.
- Sewer backgrounds: Use Slate Gray and Brown for bricks, Teal Blue for water, and Yellow Orange for lamps and glowing windows. Warm light spots keep the underground scenes cheerful rather than gloomy.
5 Creative Craft Ideas With Flushed Away Coloring Pages
1. Jammy Dodger Boat Scene
Color a Roddy and Rita page, cut out the pair, and glue them into a small boat folded from a sheet of cardstock. Set the boat on a strip of blue tissue paper waves for a tabletop sewer voyage.
2. Sewer City Shoebox Diorama
Line a shoebox with paper drawn as gray bricks, then add bottle cap lamps and scraps of cardboard for junk-built buildings. Stand colored characters inside on folded paper tabs to bring the rat city to life.
3. Hero and Villain Comparison Chart
Glue a colored Roddy on one side of a sheet and the Toad on the other. Under each, list three words that describe the character, such as brave, kind, or sneaky, and talk through the differences together.
4. Dot-to-Dot Puzzle Booklet
Complete and color the three dot-to-dot pages, then staple them behind a decorated cover sheet. Kids can number the pages and share the finished booklet with a younger sibling.
5. Character Bookmark Set
Color Roddy, Rita, and Le Frog, trim each one into a narrow strip, and glue it onto thin cardboard. Punch a hole at the top and thread a short ribbon through for a reading set.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Flushed Away coloring pages?
They are 28 free printable sheets based on the 2006 animated film, featuring Roddy, Rita, The Toad, Le Frog, Whitey, Spike, and Sid. Three of them are dot-to-dot puzzles, and all of them can be printed as PDFs or colored online.
Who made Flushed Away?
Aardman Animations, the British studio behind Wallace and Gromit, produced the film, and DreamWorks Animation released it. David Bowers and Sam Fell directed the movie, which reached US theaters in November 2006.
Is Flushed Away a clay animation film?
No, it was Aardman’s first fully computer-animated feature. The team designed the characters to keep the rounded, fingerprinted clay look of the studio’s earlier stop-motion films, because animating that much water in real clay would have been extremely difficult.
Who are Roddy and Rita?
Roddy St. James is a pet rat who lives a comfortable life in a Kensington flat until he is flushed into the sewer. Rita Malone is a resourceful sewer rat who helps him find his way home and becomes his closest friend.
Who is The Toad?
The Toad is the film’s villain, a grand, theatrical amphibian who dislikes rats and runs the sewer city with help from Whitey and Spike. When his henchmen fail, he calls in his French cousin, Le Frog.
What is the name of Rita’s boat?
Rita sails a small salvage boat called the Jammy Dodger, named after a classic British cookie. Later in the story, she rebuilds it as the Jammy Dodger II.
What age are Flushed Away coloring pages for?
The solo character pages suit kids from about 4, and the busier group scenes and dot-to-dot puzzles work well for children up to around 10. The film itself carries a PG rating for crude humor and some language, so parents may want to preview it with younger viewers.
Who voiced the characters in Flushed Away?
Hugh Jackman voiced Roddy, Kate Winslet played Rita, and Ian McKellen voiced The Toad. Jean Reno, Bill Nighy, Andy Serkis, and Shane Richie rounded out the cast as Le Frog, Whitey, Spike, and Sid.
Start Coloring
Choose Roddy and Rita on an adventure, a sneering Toad, or one of the dot-to-dot puzzles, then print it at home or color it on screen with nothing to sign up for. Young fans of the sewer city can show off their pages on Facebook or Pinterest.
