16 Bus Coloring Pages
Buses carry many people at once, which makes them one of the most efficient ways to travel around a city. In North America, school buses are painted a special shade often called school bus yellow, chosen in the 1930s because it is easy to see in early morning light. This collection sends buses on adventures. A school bus waits by a stop sign, and buses roll past a bell tower stop, a signpost, a library bookshelf and an arched depot window. Others climb a hill, drive along a waterfall ledge road, cross a cactus desert and visit a mushroom village. Party pages show a bus in a kite parade, one with gifts on the roof and another with a stack of balloons. Kids can color a classic yellow school bus with black stripes, a red double-decker, or a city bus in any bright color. Windows are a nice place to draw passengers or pets. These pages fit back-to-school week and lessons about community helpers.
Cartoon bus, school bus and city bus
Cute Bus is the simplest, a chunky bus with a big face and four square windows for ages 3 to 5. School Bus and City Bus are side views with straight panels, a stop sign arm on one and double passenger doors on the other, both easy for kids around 4 to 7. Cute Bus Driver zooms in on the windshield so kids can color the driver, seat and steering wheel.
Practice bus safety while coloring
Use School Bus to talk about bus rules: wait on the curb, stay seated, and watch for the stop sign arm when crossing. While kids color Cute Bus Driver, ask them what the driver needs to see and why it helps when riders stay quiet. They can draw themselves and friends in the windows of Cute Bus and add a route sign to City Bus for their own street.
