Ninjago Coloring Pages
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Ninjago coloring pages: 75 printable designs from LEGO’s longest-running original franchise, covering the six ninja in their canonical elemental colors, Master Wu, dragon battle scenes, and villains from the Serpentine to the Overlord. Each page can be downloaded as a PDF to print or colored online in the browser.
What Is Ninjago?
LEGO Ninjago launched in January 2011, created by Tommy Andreasen and Michael Hegner, built around a fictional martial art called Spinjitzu, in which a ninja channels an elemental power into a spinning tornado of force. The original animated series ran 16 seasons from 2011 to 2022, and a sequel series, Ninjago: Dragons Rising, launched in 2023. In 2017, LEGO elevated Ninjago to an evergreen theme alongside LEGO City and LEGO Friends, a permanent pillar of the brand rather than a time-limited line.
What’s Inside This Collection
The Six Ninja
Each ninja has a fixed canonical color: Lloyd, the Green Ninja and Elemental Master of Life, in a vivid medium green with gold accents in his Golden Ninja form. Kai, the Red Ninja and Elemental Master of Fire, in pure saturated crimson. Jay, the Blue Ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning, in clear royal blue. Zane, the White Ninja and Elemental Master of Ice, whose color shifts to silver-titanium after his Season 3 upgrade. Cole, the Black Ninja and Elemental Master of Earth, in a clean, true black. Nya, the Water Ninja, in a teal-influenced blue-grey, cooler and more desaturated than Jay’s pure blue. Master Wu, their ancient teacher, wears distinctive white robes and a conical hat.
The Villains
Lord Garmadon, Wu’s brother and Lloyd’s father, appears in his four-armed form in dark purples and blacks with glowing red eyes. The Serpentine snake tribes, including Pythor and Acidicus, bring scaled designs in greens, yellows, and reds across several pages. The Overlord, the series’s most powerful villain, appears in his digital-corruption form, and the Nindroids bring a sleek, cold-metallic mirror of the ninja’s own design. Morro and Wrayth, the ghost warriors of Season 5, carry a translucent blue-green spectral quality.
Dragons and Action Scenes
Dragon battle pages combine a dragon’s scaled body with elemental fire and energy effects, alongside mask designs and duo pages showing ninja like Kai and Lloyd fighting together.
What These Pages Do
The American Academy of Pediatrics identifies fine motor skill development as a core benefit of structured coloring for children ages 2 through 7, and the collection’s range, from simple mask designs to detailed dragon battle scenes, suits a wide range of skill levels.
A 2005 study in the Art Therapy Journal documented measurable reductions in anxiety following structured coloring sessions. Matching each ninja’s exact canonical color gives colorists a clear, focused visual problem to solve.
How to Color Ninjago Pages Well
- Elemental effects: Fire in a warm yellow-to-red gradient with a bright white core, Lightning in electric blue-white with jagged edges, Ice in pale blue and crystal white with sharp geometric shapes, Water in flowing teal-blue curves.
- Suit colors: Kai’s red should be pure crimson, not orange-tinted. Zane’s earlier suits are pure white, distinct from Jay’s royal blue. Lloyd’s green should be vivid but grounded, not lime.
- Nindroid pages: a mid-tone grey base, near-black in deep shadow at joints and recesses, and small, very bright near-white highlights at the top of each form for a metallic finish.
- Ghost characters: a lighter, more desaturated version of the character’s main color, allowing the paper’s white to show through, with a brighter, more saturated teal at the outermost edges for the glow.
- Dragon pages: establish the dragon’s body color first, with scale texture in slightly darker tones at the edges, then layer the elemental fire or energy effects on top as the brightest final element.
5 Creative Craft Ideas With Ninjago Coloring Pages
1. Elemental Powers Design Challenge
Color a ninja page, then design an original elemental ninja for an element outside the core team, Sound, Shadow, or Time, choosing a canonical color and writing a short character profile on the back.
2. Ninja Team Portrait
Color all six ninja in their strictly canonical palettes, arrange them together as a group, and add a hand-drawn background, such as a flying ship or a dragon in flight, cut to fit behind the assembled figures.
3. Villain Biography Project
Color three villain pages, then research and write a one-paragraph biography for each on the back, focusing on what motivated their turn to darkness rather than treating them as simply evil.
4. Spinjitzu Tornado Art
Color an individual ninja page, then draw a large spinning tornado on a separate sheet filled with that character’s elemental colors, cut out the colored ninja, and place it at the center of the tornado.
5. Season Era Collection
Color three pages representing different seasons, a Serpentine page, a Nindroid page, and a ghost-era page, each rendered in the visual style appropriate to its era, to build a timeline of the show’s artistic evolution.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Ninjago?
Ninjago is LEGO’s longest-running original franchise, launched in January 2011 and built around Spinjitzu, a fictional martial art in which ninja channel elemental powers into a spinning tornado attack.
Which characters are included in this collection?
The collection features 75 designs of the six ninja, Lloyd, Kai, Jay, Zane, Cole, and Nya, Master Wu, and villains, including Lord Garmadon, the Serpentine, the Overlord, the Nindroids, Morro, and Wrayth.
What color is each ninja?
Lloyd is green, Kai is red, Jay is blue, Zane is white and later silver-titanium, Cole is black, and Nya is a teal-influenced blue-grey as the Water Ninja.
What is Spinjitzu?
Spinjitzu is the fictional martial art at the center of Ninjago, allowing a trained ninja to channel their elemental power into a spinning vortex of force, both the show’s signature visual and its original toy mechanic.
Why is Zane’s color different in some pages?
Zane is secretly a Nindroid, a fact revealed in Season 3, after which he upgrades to a titanium body, shifting his canonical color from white in earlier seasons to silver-titanium afterward.
Who is the Overlord?
The Overlord is Ninjago’s most powerful villain, a dark entity that existed before Ninjago itself, whose Season 3 form as the Digital Overlord possesses the digital world of New Ninjago City.
Is the Ninjago movie part of the TV series?
No. The LEGO Ninjago Movie, released in 2017, is not canon to the animated series and features an alternate version of the characters and world.
Are Ninjago coloring pages free to print?
Yes. All pages are free to download as a PDF and print, or to color online in the browser. No account, email, or payment is required.
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.
