Family Car Coloring Page

About this coloring page

A family car seen from the side, with round wheels, three windows and headlights. This is the plainest vehicle here and the best starting point in the category, because there is nothing on it that requires any decision or any care. The body is one large shape, the windows are three clear panels best left white, and the wheels are circles with hubs inside them. A child gets a picture that reads unmistakably as a car having colored perhaps four things. Asking what color the family car is before a child starts is worth doing, because a page that matches something in the driveway gets treated differently from a generic one. Printed at A4 the car fills the width of the sheet with a clean margin and there is room below to write a name or a number plate, which children enjoy inventing. On ordinary copier paper crayon, pencil and marker all behave well across an area this size.

Color suggestions

• Whatever the family car is
• Red body, black tyres
• Leave the windows white
• Invent a number plate below

Did you know?

• The earliest cars were steered with a tiller rather than a wheel, like a boat. Steering wheels only became standard after around 1900, when speeds rose enough that a tiller was no longer accurate enough to be safe.
• The Ford Model T was available in several colors for its first few years. The famous line about any color so long as it is black came later, when black japan enamel was chosen because it dried fastest and kept the assembly line moving.