Players, goalies, and equipment, from kids on the ice to real NHL players, fill 51 printable pages in these hockey coloring pages.
What’s Inside This Collection
Real NHL Players
Eight pages show real players from different eras of the NHL, including Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, Alex Ovechkin, Henrik Lundqvist, and Carey Price.
Equipment
Five pages show gear, with a stick, a puck and stick, a skate, a net with a stick, and a HOCKEY logo with crossed sticks and a puck.
Goalies
Fifteen pages feature goalies, from realistic goalies in full pads and masks to mascot-style and cartoon designs.
Players in Action
Seven pages show skaters, with a two-player battle for the puck, a slapshot, a team celebration, and cartoon players.
Kids and Girls Playing Hockey
Eight pages show young players, including boys and girls in helmets, with sticks, on the ice.
Cartoon Animals and Mascots
Seven pages add fun characters, with a monkey goalie, two goats facing off, a hippo, a dog, a turtle in a scarf, and two mascot-style pages.
Dot Puzzle
One page is a puzzle-style design of a player with dots to follow.
What Hockey Coloring Pages Do
By the account of the American Academy of Pediatrics, stronger fine motor control is a main benefit of structured coloring for kids ages 2 to 7. For beginners, the place to look is equipment pages and cartoon players; for older children, check realistic player and goalie pages.
A 2005 Art Therapy Journal paper found a measurable drop in anxiety after structured coloring sessions. The fast, flowing lines of the skaters let the colorist slow down and stay on one detail.
The first recorded indoor ice hockey game was played in Montreal on March 3, 1875, and the National Hockey League was founded in Montreal in 1917.
How to Color Hockey Pages Well
- Ice: leave the ice white or add a very pale blue, with a gray shadow under the skates.
- Team colors: pick two team colors and use them for the jersey, socks, and helmet so the player looks like part of a team.
- Goalie gear: light gray or white for the pads, with a bold color on the mask and the glove.
- Equipment: black for the puck, brown or tan for the stick blade tape, and metallic gray for the skate blades.
- Cartoon pages: bright, even fills with only a few shadows keep the look clean and cheerful.
5 Creative Craft Ideas With Hockey Coloring Pages
1. Team Poster
Color a few players, tape them into one poster, and add the team name across the top in big letters.
2. Goalie Mask Display
Color a goalie page and add a decorated paper mask in the team colors beside it.
3. Puck and Stick Picture
Color the equipment pages, cut them out, and glue them onto blue paper to build a rink scene.
4. Hockey Card
Start the Hockey Card by coloring a player, press the picture onto a folded sheet of stiff paper, and have the child write the message inside.
5. Hockey Bookmark
Color a tall page, trim a tall skinny strip and keep the margins for scraps, and poke a hole at the top and thread a short ribbon.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are the 15 goalie pages really free?
Yes, the 15 goalie pages carry no charge, and the same holds for the other 36 printables, without any sign-up.
Can the seven cartoon animal pages be colored digitally?
Yes, the seven cartoon animal pages open right in the browser; a touch screen stands in for paper for that.
When was the first indoor hockey game?
The first recorded indoor ice hockey game was played in Montreal on March 3, 1875.
When was the NHL founded?
The National Hockey League was founded in Montreal in 1917.
Do the player pages show current rosters?
No, careers change, and the pages show players from different eras, some of whom have retired, including the goalies Henrik Lundqvist and Carey Price.
How many goalie pages are there?
Fifteen pages feature goalies in realistic and cartoon styles.
Where should young skaters begin with hockey pages?
The five equipment pages and the eight pages of kids on the ice use big, simple shapes.
Do hockey pages work for craft projects?
The colored result can be turned into the Team Poster, the Hockey Card idea, and the Puck and Stick Picture activity, while the Goalie Mask Display idea and the Hockey Bookmark project round out the list.
Goalies, skaters, equipment, and cartoon mascots fill the set. All 51 pages cost nothing, whatever the device. A finished sheet can travel to both Facebook and Pinterest using the little buttons on the page.
