Free Pop It Coloring Pages: 21 printable PDF designs featuring the popular silicone fidget toy, including simple shape boards, animal and food-themed designs, and a couple of fan-made crossover pages. Every page can be downloaded as a PDF to print or colored online in the browser, with no account required.
The Pop It toy was invented in the 1970s by Israeli game designers Theo and Ora Coster of Theora Design, the same company behind the board game Guess Who? Their original silicone bubble-popper design sat largely unused for decades until it was licensed to the Montreal-based company FoxMind, which began producing it around 2014. The toy became a global phenomenon in 2021 when it spread widely on TikTok, prized for the satisfying tactile pop of pressing each bubble through to the other side.
With 21 pages ranging from plain geometric boards to food and animal shapes, the set gives colorists a chance to focus on the toy’s repeating bubble grid, the detail that makes every Pop It page a little different from a typical character or object coloring page.
What Is Inside This Collection
The 21 pages are grouped by design type, from simple shape boards to food, animal, and crossover themes.
Shape-Based Pop It Boards
Four pages show plain geometric Pop It boards: a square, an octagon, a circle, and an ice cream-shaped outline. These are the simplest pages in the set, since the bubble grid is the only real detail to color.
Animal and Character Designs
Four pages shape the Pop It board into an animal or character outline, including an owl, a bunny, a duck, and a generic, cute animal design. The bubble grid still fills the body, but the outer silhouette adds a second shape to work around.
Food-Themed Designs
Six pages shape the Pop It board into food items: a birthday cake, a pineapple, a hamburger, an ice cream cone, a strawberry, and a generic food-themed page. This is the largest group in the collection.
Crossover Designs
Two pages combine the Pop It board with characters from other franchises: one referencing the game Among Us, and one featuring Stitch from Disney’s Lilo & Stitch. These are fan-made crossover pages rather than officially licensed artwork, worth keeping in mind since neither franchise is affiliated with the Pop It toy itself.
Additional Designs
The remaining five pages include a heart-shaped board, a scene of a child playing with a Pop It, and a few generically titled pages without a specific shape or theme.
What Pop It Coloring Pages Do
Fine motor development. The American Academy of Pediatrics identifies fine motor skill development as a core benefit of structured coloring for children ages 2 through 7. Filling in the small, repeated bubble shapes across a Pop It page asks for the same kind of controlled, repetitive hand movement the physical toy itself uses.
A paper version of a tactile habit. Because the real Pop It toy is popular specifically as a stress-relief and focus tool, coloring its bubble grid gives a child a quieter, screen-free way to engage with the same repetitive, satisfying pattern when the physical toy isn’t at hand.
Anxiety reduction through focus. A 2005 study in the Art Therapy Journal documented measurable reductions in anxiety following structured coloring sessions. The repeating bubble grid found on every page in this set gives colorists a steady, predictable pattern to settle into, similar in spirit to the toy’s own repetitive popping motion.
Practice with pattern and color sequencing. Since each bubble on a Pop It page is a separate small shape, the collection is a natural fit for practicing color patterns, such as alternating two colors row by row or grouping colors by section. This skill carries over to other patterned coloring subjects.
How to Color Pop It Pages Well
- The bubble grid: alternate two or three Crayola colors row by row, such as Cerulean and Sky Blue, to mimic the layered, multi-color look of many real Pop It toys.
- Shape-based boards: keep the outer silhouette, such as the ice cream cone or heart outline, in a single flat color so the patterned bubbles inside stay the clear focal point of the page.
- Food-themed designs: Use the food’s real-world colors as a guide, such as yellow and brown for the hamburger page or red and green for the strawberry page, so the shape reads clearly even before the bubbles are colored in.
- Animal designs: color the animal’s silhouette in its natural palette first, then fill the bubble grid inside with a contrasting set of colors so the animal shape doesn’t get lost in the pattern.
- Crossover pages: match Stitch’s blue and Among Us’s crewmate colors to their usual on-screen palettes, since these are the details that make the crossover recognizable.
- Rainbow or gradient effects: shift gradually between two or three colors across the bubble grid for a smooth gradient look, a simple technique that works well given how many small, repeated shapes are on each page.
5 Creative Craft Ideas With Pop It Coloring Pages
1. Pop It Bookmark Set
Color two or three of the smaller shape-based pages, trim them to a tall, narrow bookmark shape, and laminate or cover with clear tape for a small matching set.
2. Pop It Collage
Color several different pages, cut them out, and arrange them together on a larger sheet of paper for a mixed collage of shapes and patterns.
3. Pop It Greeting Card
Fold a piece of cardstock in half, glue a colored Pop It page to the front, and write a message inside for a birthday or just-for-fun card.
4. Pop It Garland
Color a run of several pages, punch a hole in the top corner of each, and string them along ribbon or twine for a colorful hanging display.
5. Pop It Sticker Sheet
Color several small designs, cut each one out, and attach double-sided tape to the back to turn them into a homemade sticker sheet.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Pop It coloring pages?
Free, fan-made printable and online designs featuring the Pop It fidget toy. Not affiliated with, licensed by, or endorsed by Theora Design or FoxMind, and intended for personal, non-commercial coloring only.
Who invented the Pop It toy?
Theo and Ora Coster, an Israeli couple who ran the game design company Theora Design, developed the original bubble-popper concept in the 1970s.
When did Pop It toys become popular?
The toy existed for decades before it spread widely on TikTok in 2021, turning it into a global trend almost overnight.
Why are some pages shaped like food or animals?
Pop It toys are commonly manufactured in food, animal, and character shapes rather than only plain geometric boards, and this collection reflects that same variety.
Are the Among Us and Stitch pages official Pop It products?
No. Those two pages are fan-made crossover designs and are not officially connected to either the Pop It toy or those franchises.
Why do Pop It coloring pages have so many small circles?
The repeated bubble grid is the toy’s signature feature, and the coloring pages recreate that same grid so the design reads as a Pop It at a glance.
Are Pop It coloring pages suitable for young children?
Yes. The simple shape-based boards work well for younger children, while the food and animal pages with more detail suit slightly older colorists.
Can Pop It coloring pages be colored online, or only printed?
Both. Every design can be downloaded as a PDF for printing at home or opened directly in the online coloring tool for use on a phone, tablet, or computer.
Start Coloring
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.
