Nintendo’s mustached mascot gets his own dedicated coloring set here: 70 free Mario coloring pages spanning classic portraits, jumping and power-up action, scenes with Luigi and Princess Peach, Mario Kart racing, holiday variants, and a handful of playful crossover designs. Every page downloads as a print-ready PDF or opens in the online coloring tool.
Who Is Mario?
Mario was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and first appeared in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, where he was known as “Jumpman” and worked as a carpenter racing to save his girlfriend from a giant ape. Nintendo reintroduced him as a plumber and gave him the name Mario with 1983’s Mario Bros., reportedly inspired by Mario Segale, the landlord of Nintendo of America’s warehouse. His breakout came with Super Mario Bros. in 1985, the pack-in title for the Nintendo Entertainment System that helped revive the home console industry in North America. The character has since become Nintendo’s mascot and the face of one of the best-selling video game franchises in history, with a 2023 animated film, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, starring Chris Pratt as Mario and Jack Black as Bowser, going on to earn more than $1.3 billion worldwide.
What’s Inside This Collection
Classic Portraits and Expressions
A large group presents Mario in his most familiar form, waving, smiling, thinking, or striking a confident pose, alongside a chibi-style greeting, a baby Mario portrait, a superhero-costume variant, and a bee-suit design drawn from his Super Mario Galaxy power-up form.
Jumping, Power-Ups, and Platform Action
This group captures the game mechanics that define Mario: jumping to hit a question block, clearing a brick wall, landing on a platform, or dodging a Paragoomba, alongside power-up specific pages, a propeller cap, a jetpack, a full spread of power-up items, blowing bubbles, and throwing a fireball.
Mario and Friends
The largest group brings in his regular cast: parachuting with Princess Peach, standing with Luigi at a brick wall, appearing alongside both Luigi and Peach, riding Yoshi in several separate scenes, facing off with Koopa Troopa and Goomba, running from enemies with Princess Daisy, and squaring off against Bowser, including a Bowser’s Fury-inspired group scene from Super Mario 3D World.
Karts, Vehicles, and Racing
A smaller set covers Mario away from platforming: riding a motorcycle through a city, an off-road Jeep adventure, a motorbike scene, and two dedicated Mario Kart pages showing him racing and using defensive items.
Holiday, Sports, and Everyday Scenes
Several pages place Mario in ordinary or seasonal moments, decorating a Christmas tree, unwrapping a gift, a Halloween pumpkin scene, a birthday page with fireworks, playing soccer, fishing by a river, fixing pipes, doing yard and harvest work, holding balloons, and picking apples in an orchard.
Fantasy Worlds and Crossovers
The remaining pages take Mario further afield: a Super Mario Galaxy scene, an underwater city adventure, a winged unicorn design, and a set of playful crossover pages pairing him with Sonic the Hedgehog, Flappy Bird, and the viral Skibidi Toilet internet meme.
What These Pages Do
A character built almost entirely from a handful of bold shapes, the cap, mustache, overalls, and gloves, gives colorists a clear, repeatable target while the busier group and vehicle scenes add real complexity to work through. The American Academy of Pediatrics underscores fine motor skill development as a real benefit of structured coloring for children ages 2 through 7, and the range here, from a simple portrait to a full Mario Kart racing scene, lets that skill grow with a colorist’s ability.
A 2005 Art Therapy Journal paper reported that structured coloring sessions lowered anxiety, and revisiting a familiar character between game sessions gives fans a quiet, low-pressure way to hold onto that same calm.
How to Color Mario Pages Well
- Cap and shirt: a fully saturated red, kept consistent across every page so Mario reads instantly, even in the busiest group scenes.
- Overalls: a true blue, with the buttons and straps left slightly lighter or gold-toned for a bit of dimension.
- Skin and mustache: a warm peach or tan for the skin, with the mustache and hair kept a solid brown or black.
- Luigi and Peach: swap Mario’s red for a deep green on Luigi while keeping the same blue overalls, and use a soft pink and yellow for Princess Peach’s dress and hair so each character stays instantly identifiable next to Mario.
- Power-ups and items: keep coins gold, question blocks a warm yellow-orange, and fireballs a hot orange-red, so these small objects read as energetic rather than blending into the background.
5 Creative Craft Ideas With Mario Coloring Pages
1. Level Layout Board
Color several jumping and platform pages, arrange them left to right on a long strip of paper, and add hand-drawn bricks or pipes between them to build a simple Mario level layout.
2. Power-Up Card Set
Color the propeller cap, jetpack, and power-up item pages, trim them into cards, and label each with its power-up name for a small reference deck.
3. Mario Kart Race Poster
Color both Mario Kart pages side by side, add a hand-drawn finish line and checkered flag between them, and mount the pair as a racing-themed poster.
4. Mario and Friends Photo Wall
Color a set of pages featuring Mario with Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi, then arrange them together on a wall or bulletin board as a group display.
5. Holiday Greeting Card
Color one of the Christmas or birthday pages and glue it to the front of a folded cardstock card for a handmade seasonal greeting.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who created Mario and when did he debut?
Shigeru Miyamoto created Mario, who first appeared in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong before being renamed Mario and reimagined as a plumber in 1983’s Mario Bros.
How many Mario coloring pages are in this collection?
70 pages, spanning classic portraits, jumping and power-up action, scenes with his friends, Mario Kart racing, holiday designs, and fantasy crossovers.
Where does the name “Mario” come from?
The name is widely credited to Mario Segale, the landlord of the warehouse Nintendo of America rented at the time the character was renamed in 1983.
Which game made Mario a household name?
Super Mario Bros. in 1985, released as the pack-in title for the Nintendo Entertainment System, which helped revive the home video game industry in North America.
Who plays Mario in the 2023 animated film?
Chris Pratt voices Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), alongside Jack Black as Bowser, which went on to gross more than $1.3 billion worldwide.
Which characters appear alongside Mario in this collection?
Luigi, Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Yoshi, Koopa Troopa, Goomba, and Bowser all appear across the collection’s group and rival scenes.
Does this collection include any Mario Kart pages?
Yes, two dedicated pages show Mario racing and using defensive items, drawn from the Mario Kart racing spin-off series.
Can these Mario pages be colored without printing?
Yes, every page opens directly in the browser-based coloring tool, so a design can be finished on a tablet just as easily as on paper.
Every design here can be grabbed with a single click and no sign-up required, then printed at home or colored directly in the browser through the online coloring tool. A finished page can be shared using the Facebook and Pinterest icons on each design.
