Numberblocks Coloring Pages make one of the most beloved early math shows on television even more hands-on, and this is one of the collections I recommend most to parents of preschoolers and kindergarteners at ColoringPagesOnly.com. With 64 free pages covering every Numberblock from One all the way through Eighteen, solo portraits, group scenes, silly poses, and some of the most charming action pages the show has ever inspired, this collection turns screen time into coloring time without losing any of the educational magic.
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What Is Numberblocks?
Numberblocks is a BBC/CBeebies animated series that has been helping young children learn to count and understand numbers since 2017. It is one of the most educationally effective children’s programs ever made, and parents who discover it tend to be genuinely impressed by how quickly their kids absorb number concepts just from watching.
The premise is simple and perfect: each character IS a number. One is a single red block with a face, arms, and legs. When one meets another one, they combine to become two – an orange two-block character. Add another, and you get Three, a yellow three-block character. The characters grow as their numbers grow, and every new number brings a new shape, a new color, and a new personality. Ten is a spectacular ten-block tower in orange-red stripes. Sixteen is a glorious four-by-four square in pink, thrilled about being a perfect square. Twenty-five is a five-by-five square, and so on into numbers that make young viewers feel genuinely excited about mathematics.
What makes Numberblocks work as a teaching tool is that it never separates the abstract from the visual. When Five sings about being an odd number, a child can see what odd means – Five can’t be split into two equal groups without something left over. When Four becomes a two-by-two square, the concept of square numbers is right there in front of you. Coloring these characters reinforces exactly that visual learning: counting the blocks on the page, matching the color to the number, noticing which shapes can be made into rectangles, and which cannot.
The Numberblocks Color Guide
This is the most important section for anyone about to start coloring these pages. Every Numberblock has a canonical color that comes directly from the show – and for a child who watches Numberblocks regularly, getting these colors right matters a great deal. Here is the complete color guide for all numbers represented in our collection:
One – bright red. One single block, the simplest and most cheerful character in the whole show. Her red is a clear, true primary red – not dark, not orange-leaning, just a clean, confident red.
Two – orange. Two blocks stacked vertically, always cheerful and enthusiastic. A warm, medium orange – think a ripe tangerine rather than a deep burnt orange.
Three – yellow. Three blocks in an L-shape or a line, lively and curious. A bright sunflower yellow.
Four – light blue. Four blocks arranged in a perfect two-by-two square, very proud of being a square. A clear sky blue or cornflower blue – lighter and brighter than navy.
Five – yellow-gold. Five blocks, often in an L or other arrangement, energetic and musical (Five loves to sing!). A deeper, more golden yellow than Three – think amber-gold rather than lemon yellow. The Five with Books and Five Singing pages are especially charming because of her expressive personality.
Six – purple. Six blocks arranged in a two-by-three rectangle, thoughtful and creative. A medium violet-purple – the classic purple of a wax crayon, not too blue and not too pink.
Seven – pink, with rainbow accessories. Seven blocks, a prime number with a magical rainbow wand. Her base color is a warm rose pink, and her rainbow accessories – wand, bow, decorations – give her pages the widest color range in the whole collection. The seven pages are the most colorful and the most fun to approach as a full-spectrum coloring challenge.
Eight – deep maroon or brownish-red. Eight blocks in a two-by-four rectangle, strong and dependable. A deep warm red-brown, richer and darker than one’s red.
Nine – blue, darker than Four. Nine blocks in a perfect three-by-three square, calm and thoughtful (Nine loves being a square). A medium-to-deep blue, cooler and more saturated than Four’s lighter sky blue.
Ten – orange-red with yellow and red stripes, since Ten is made of One through Four plus Five, or various other combinations. Ten is tall, striped, and spectacular. The alternating warm tones make Ten pages the most complex to color in the single-character portraits, and the most rewarding when finished.
Eleven through Eighteen – these higher numbers are combinations of the numbers below them, so their colors tend to blend or mix the colors of their factors and component numbers. Eleven is built from Ten and One, so orange-red with a red accent. Twelve is highly composite – it can be arranged as two rows of six, three rows of four, or four rows of three, and its pages tend to mix purple and blue tones. Thirteen is a tall prime in deep yellow-gold. Fifteen (Three times Five) mixes yellow tones. Sixteen (a perfect four-by-four square) is shown in pink/magenta in the show and is one of the most exciting pages in the collection for children who understand what it means to be a perfect square. Eighteen mixes the warm red of Nine with the purple of Six.
What’s Inside the Numberblocks Coloring Collection
The solo number pages – individual portraits of One through Ten, plus Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, and Eighteen – form the backbone of the collection. Each number appears in multiple versions at different levels of detail and complexity. Younger children (ages 2–4) tend to do best with the simpler, bolder versions of One through Five. The pages for Six through Ten offer more blocks to color and more detail to work with, making them better for ages 4–6. The teens pages (Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Eighteen) are the most complex and most satisfying for older or more experienced colorists.
The group pages – Numberblocks from One to Five, Numberblocks from Six to Ten, Numberblocks One Two Three, Numberblocks Thirteen with Eighteen and Eleven, and Numberblocks Eighteen and Twelve – are the pages parents reach for first when they want a single sheet that covers multiple numbers at once. These are brilliant for using alongside counting practice: color One, count the blocks, say the color; color Two, count the blocks, say the color; and so on across the whole group.
The activity and scene pages – One in a Hat, Five with Books, Five Singing, Numberblocks on the Train – are the pages that show the characters in moments from specific episodes rather than simple character portraits. These are the fan-favorite pages for children who have watched the show closely and recognize the scenes. Five Singing in particular is one of the most expressive pages in the collection.
The pose variation pages – Tall Numberblocks Seven (the vertical arrangement), Wide Numberblocks Six and Seven (the horizontal arrangements), Happy Numberblocks Two/Six/Nine, Funny Numberblocks Ten, Numberblocks Two Sits Down, Numberblocks Eight Walking – show the characters in different postures and arrangements, which reflects one of the show’s central ideas: the same number can take many different shapes.
Using These Pages as a Learning Tool
The reason Numberblocks coloring pages work so well as an educational supplement is that the coloring itself reinforces what the show teaches. When a child is told to color Numberblocks Four in blue, they naturally count the blocks to make sure they’ve colored all four. When they color the Two-by-Four rectangle for eight, they’re visually experiencing what eight blocks look like in an organized arrangement. The act of coloring isn’t separate from the math – it IS the math, made physical.
A few things that work especially well alongside these pages: ask your child to count the blocks aloud as they color each one. For the group pages, ask them which number comes next before turning to the next character. For the shape pages – Four’s two-by-two square, Nine’s three-by-three square, Sixteen’s four-by-four square – ask if they can tell why those numbers are “special” (they make perfect squares). You don’t need to use the term “square number” – the question is enough. Children who watch Numberblocks regularly will often be able to explain it themselves.
5 Activities to Do With Your Numberblocks Pages
Color and count at the same time. Before your child starts coloring any page, ask them how many blocks the character has. Then, as they color, count the blocks together – “that’s one, two, three… and what number is this character?” This turns every coloring session into a counting activity without any additional materials or preparation.
Make a Numberblocks number line. Print the solo pages for One through Ten, color each one in the correct color, then cut them out and arrange them in order across a long strip of paper on the wall. You now have a full-color number line at child height. Point to a number, ask what comes before it and after it, and ask what you get if you add two to five. The Numberblocks on the wall become a physical math tool that stays up as long as you need it.
Build the shapes. After coloring the group pages and the individual number portraits, bring out some actual building blocks, LEGO, or even square sticky notes, and try to build the same shapes as the Numberblocks on the page. Four is a two-by-two square – can you make that? Nine is a three-by-three square – can you make that too? Sixteen is four-by-four. The moment a child physically builds the shapes they’ve been coloring, the connection between the visual and the concept clicks in a completely different way.
Play “What number am I?” One person holds up a Numberblock coloring page without showing the number to the other person. The other person asks yes/no questions to figure out which number it is: “Are you more than five? Are you less than ten? Can you be arranged in a perfect square?” This works beautifully with the group pages where multiple numbers appear together.
Create a Numberblocks episode. After coloring several pages, cut out the characters and use them as puppets to act out a simple math story. “One and Two are walking along when they meet Three… what number do they make together?” Children who have been watching the show will know the answer immediately, but acting it out with hand-colored puppets gives them ownership of the story that just watching never does. The Numberblocks on the train page is a perfect starting point for this kind of storytelling.
Download Your Free Numberblocks Pages Today!
All 60+ Numberblocks Coloring Pages are completely free – download as PDF to print at home or color online in your browser. No sign-up, no cost. Whether you’re a parent whose two-year-old has just discovered the show, or a kindergarten teacher looking for a hands-on math supplement that kids actually get excited about, we hope this collection gives you exactly what you need.
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