Mickey Mouse Coloring Pages

Round ears, red shorts, big yellow shoes: few characters are as easy to recognize as Mickey Mouse. These Mickey Mouse coloring pages bring him together with his friends from the clubhouse, at home, in the park and through the holidays, and all of them are free to print.

Who shows up:

• Mickey on his own: a big face portrait, a marching band, fishing, baking, a heart balloon.
• Mickey and Minnie together, picnicking, rowing, roller skating, gardening and waving by a barn.
• Pluto, Mickey's dog, digging in the garden, napping in his basket and rolling a snowball.
• Goofy, hanging laundry, skiing, fixing a car with Mickey, and in his own portrait.
• Donald and Daisy Duck, dancing in a gazebo, camping with the nephews and painting a fence.
• Holiday Mickey: a wizard costume, a Santa coat, an egg basket and a birthday cake.

Mickey Mouse, born in 1928

Mickey was created by Walt Disney and animator Ub Iwerks. His big screen debut came on November 18, 1928, in Steamboat Willie, one of the first cartoons with synchronized sound, and that date is still celebrated as his birthday. Walt Disney himself voiced Mickey for almost twenty years.

Mickey became the face of the Walt Disney Company. Over almost a century he has starred in hundreds of shorts, in Fantasia (1940), in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and in the theme parks around the world, where his ears decorate everything from hats to balloons.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

One of Mickey's most famous roles comes from Fantasia, where he plays the apprentice of a sorcerer and tries on his master's pointed blue hat covered in stars. The Halloween page here dresses him in a starry wizard hat and robe, a wink to that scene.

How to color Mickey Mouse

Mickey's classic look uses only a few colors:

• Head, ears, arms and back: black, already filled in on most pages.
• Face: peach or light tan.
• Shorts: bright red, with two white buttons.
• Shoes: big and yellow.
• Gloves: white with three black lines on the back.

On the big face portrait, try a pink tongue and a slightly darker peach on the cheeks to make his smile pop.

Mickey and Minnie coloring pages

Minnie Mouse is Mickey's sweetheart, and the two of them share many pages. They have a picnic under a tree, row a boat across a lake, roller skate hand in hand, plant seedlings next to a scarecrow and wave in front of a red barn. Minnie also has her own scenes: a big smiling portrait, arranging flowers by the window, and a cake with a teapot.

Give Minnie her red or pink polka dot dress and a matching bow, so she stands out next to Mickey's red shorts. For many more scenes of her alone, the Minnie Mouse coloring pages have her baking, dancing and celebrating.

Pluto, Goofy, Donald and Daisy

The clubhouse would not be complete without the rest of the gang:

• Pluto, Mickey's loyal yellow dog, digs in the garden, naps in his basket by the fireplace, sits on the dock while Mickey fishes from a rowboat (more lakes and rivers in the fish coloring pages), and helps roll a giant snowball. Dog lovers can keep going with the dog coloring pages.
• Goofy, tall and clumsy, hangs laundry in a gust of wind, skis past a snowman and helps Mickey fix a little car. Color his hat green and his vest black over an orange shirt.
• Donald Duck, in his blue sailor shirt and hat, camps with his nephews around a fire, paints a fence while Pluto leaves paw prints, and stretches beside a beach chair. More ducks waddle through the duck coloring pages.
• Daisy Duck checks her look in a big mirror with Minnie and dances with Donald in a gazebo.

Mickey Mouse from pumpkin season to snow days

Mickey's October pages are a jack o'lantern he carves himself and the wizard costume with a pumpkin full of candy. Pair them with the Halloween coloring pages or the pumpkin coloring pages.

When winter comes, Mickey climbs a stool to put the star on the Christmas tree, wears a fur-trimmed Santa coat by the fireplace, gives a snowman in a top hat its carrot nose and rolls a snowball with Pluto, while Goofy goes skiing. The Christmas coloring pages and the snowman coloring pages carry on the season.

Mickey's spring and party pages: a basket of eggs among the tulips for the Easter coloring pages, a heart balloon for Valentine's Day, and two birthday cakes, one he frosts in the kitchen and one with a balloon on a round table.

Around Mickey's neighborhood

A few pages show the world around Mickey without him in it: a cottage with Mickey ears on its roof, and a park bench with Mickey shaped balloons next to a popcorn cart, like a day at the theme park. Kids can draw Mickey and his friends walking along the path or sitting on the bench before they color.

The three circles of Mickey's head, one big and two small, are one of the most famous shapes in the world. Disney fans call it a "hidden Mickey" when it is tucked somewhere in a drawing or a building, and the parks hide them everywhere: in fences, rocks, plates and even bubbles. A fun challenge for kids: draw a few tiny hidden Mickeys on their finished page and ask a friend to find them.

The marching band page, with Mickey waving a baton beside a tuba player, recalls his old role as bandleader in the 1935 short The Band Concert, his first cartoon in color.

Easy Mickey pages and more detailed ones

Mickey's big face, Minnie's portrait, Goofy's portrait and the heart balloon need only a few colors. Quick to color gathers these bold Mickey pages:

• Mickey Mouse Big Face
• Goofy Portrait
• Minnie Mouse Big Face

The gazebo, the garden with the scarecrow and the car repair are full of small shapes. Lots of detail puts them first:

• Pluto Napping in His Basket
• Minnie Mouse Arranging Flowers
• Donald and Daisy Dancing in a Gazebo

A clubhouse coloring afternoon

1. Give each child a character: Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy or Pluto.
2. Put red, yellow, blue, green, pink and black on the table.
3. When everyone is done, line the pages up as the full clubhouse gang.
4. End with the "Hot Dog Dance", Mickey's song from the show, if anyone knows it.

The character coloring pages gather all the cartoon friends for the next afternoon, and Disney fans can move on to the Winnie the Pooh coloring pages, the Toy Story coloring pages and the Lion King coloring pages.

Mickey on paper

The pages come as A4 PDFs at 300 dpi and cost nothing to download. Mickey's ears and the balloons sometimes reach the top margin; on a Letter printer, fit to page keeps them on the sheet. A whole clubhouse set downloads as one file once you tap Add to pack under each drawing. The printing guide explains it browser by browser.