The globe-trotting Mallard family from Illumination’s animated hit gets its own coloring set here: 14 free Migration coloring pages covering family portraits, close huddled group scenes, and ducks caught mid-flight. Every page downloads as a print-ready PDF or opens in the online coloring tool.
About Migration
Migration is a 2023 animated comedy directed by Benjamin Renner and co-directed by Guylo Homsy, written by Mike White, and produced by Illumination for Universal Pictures. It was released in the United States on December 22, 2023, and went on to earn more than $301 million worldwide against a $72 million budget. The story follows the Mallard family, cautious father Mack, adventurous mother Pam, restless son Dax, and curious daughter Gwen, as they leave their safe New England pond for the first time and travel through New York City on their way to Jamaica, urged along by Mack’s blunt, adventure-averse Uncle Dan. Kumail Nanjiani voices Mack, Elizabeth Banks voices Pam, Caspar Jennings voices Dax, Tresi Gazal voices Gwen, and Danny DeVito voices Uncle Dan.
What’s Inside This Collection
Family Portraits and Group Scenes
Several pages bring the whole Mallard family together in a single composition, a classic stacked family portrait pose, a close, huddled group scene, and a foraging scene with the family gathered around a branch of berries. These pages ask a colorist to keep four distinct characters readable in one image.
Solo and Paired Flight Scenes
The rest of the collection captures individual birds and flying pairs, wings fully spread, gliding side by side or alone against an open sky, giving the set its sense of a family mid-journey rather than settled at home.
What These Pages Do
A duck in flight or a four-character family huddle asks a colorist to track several overlapping shapes at once, wings, feathers, and faces, which gives real practice in managing detail within a single composition. The American Academy of Pediatrics spotlights fine motor skill development as a real benefit of structured coloring for children ages 2 through 7, and the collection’s mix of simple solo portraits and busier group scenes lets that practice scale with a child’s skill level.
A 2005 Art Therapy Journal study registered a drop in anxiety after structured coloring sessions, and a film built around a family finding the world safer than expected gives that same reassuring feeling, somewhere natural to land.
How to Color Migration Pages Well
- Male mallard heads: a deep, iridescent green base with a touch of blue-teal near the edges suggests the real sheen of a male mallard’s head feathers better than one flat green.
- Female mallard feathers: a warm, mottled brown built from a light tan base with darker brown streaks layered on top, following the direction the feathers actually grow.
- Feet and bills: a bright, fully saturated orange for the feet and bill make the character read as unmistakably duck-shaped, even in a simple portrait.
- Group scenes: give each family member a slightly different value or tone, so four characters in one composition stay easy to tell apart.
- Flight scenes: graduated blues for the sky, lighter near the horizon and deeper toward the top, help the birds stand out against the open air.
5 Creative Craft Ideas With Migration Coloring Pages
1. Family Portrait Frame
Color one of the full family group pages carefully, giving each character a distinct palette, then mount it in a simple frame for a piece of wall art celebrating the whole Mallard family.
2. Flight Path Display
Color two or three of the flight scene pages, then arrange them in a row on a long strip of paper with a hand-drawn line connecting them to suggest a journey in progress.
3. Duck Feather Color Study
Color a solo bird page slowly, layering the feather colors from light to dark, then keep it as a reference for practicing the same layered technique on future pages.
4. Mallard Family Storybook
Color a full set of pages, arrange them in a sequence that makes sense as a story, and write one or two original sentences under each page describing what is happening.
5. Travel Journal Cover
Color a flight scene page and glue it to the front of a blank notebook to make a themed travel journal for recording a family trip or a made-up adventure.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Migration about?
Migration follows the Mallard family, an overprotective father, an adventurous mother, and their two children, as they leave their pond for the first time and travel from New England through New York City to Jamaica.
How many Migration coloring pages are in this collection?
14 pages, covering full family portraits, close group scenes, and solo and paired flight compositions.
Who are the members of the Mallard family?
Mack, the cautious father, Pam, the adventurous mother, and their two children, son Dax and daughter Gwen, along with Mack’s blunt Uncle Dan.
Who directed Migration?
Benjamin Renner directed the film, co-directed by Guylo Homsy, with a screenplay by Mike White, produced by Illumination for Universal Pictures.
Is Uncle Dan a heron in the film?
No, Uncle Dan is a mallard duck, Mack’s curmudgeonly, adventure-averse uncle voiced by Danny DeVito.
Do real mallard ducks actually migrate?
Yes, many mallard populations migrate seasonally along major North American flyways, traveling hundreds to over a thousand miles between breeding and wintering grounds.
What colors are real mallard ducks?
Males have an iridescent green head and a chestnut breast, females are mottled brown, and both have bright orange feet and an orange bill with a dark saddle mark.
Can these Migration pages be colored without printing?
Yes, the online coloring tool works straight from the browser, so a page can be finished on a tablet during a car ride or flight without printing first.
Grabbing any page here takes a single click, with no account needed, and every design also works directly inside the online coloring tool for anyone who would rather stay on screen. A finished page is easy to share using the Facebook and Pinterest icons on each design.
