1. Heart full of flowers
Blossoms of many kinds packed into a heart, with small hearts round the page.
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Heart coloring pages for adults
Eight heart pages for Valentine’s Day, an anniversary or a card for no reason at all: six large hearts, each filled a different way, a sheet of six small hearts, and two hearts linked under a bow.
The fillings are flowers, a mandala, stained glass panes, knit-style bands, tiles and hearts nested inside hearts. Print them on letter paper or color them on screen.
Each page prints on one sheet of US letter paper. Under every page are buttons to print just that one, to color it on screen, or to save it as a picture.
2. Mandala heart
A mandala set inside a heart, its outer rings cut off by the heart’s edge.
3. Banded heart
Bands of scallops, waves, hearts and stars from top to point.
4. Stained glass heart
A heart cut into large panes, like leaded glass.
5. Nested hearts
Hearts inside hearts: color them as rings, light to dark.
6. Tiled heart
A heart covered in one repeating tile.
7. Six small hearts
Six hearts on one sheet, each with a different filling. Good for cutting out.
8. Two hearts and a bow
One banded heart and one full of flowers, overlapping, with a bow below.
About the heart shape
The symmetrical heart with two rounded lobes and a point looks little like the organ, and nobody is sure where it came from. It was in use as a sign for love in European art by the late Middle Ages, and it became one of the four suits on French playing cards in the 1400s, which carried it everywhere.
Valentine cards covered in hearts are newer. In the United States they are often credited to Esther Howland of Worcester, Massachusetts, who began selling elaborate handmade valentines with paper lace in the late 1840s and built a business on them.
Color ideas for these pages
Hearts do not have to be red. Try a run of pinks from pale to deep in the banded heart, or a full rainbow in the stained glass one, where every pane can be different. Black outlines make any bright color look like glass.
For the flower-filled heart, color the flowers and leave the space between them white, or fill that space with a single dark color so the flowers glow against it.
Which page to start with
This set has 8 pages: 2 bold and easy, 5 medium and 1 detailed. The quickest to finish is “Nested hearts,” with 20 areas to color, and the longest is “Six small hearts,” with 1008. Bold and easy pages have heavy lines and large shapes that suit markers and tired eyes; detailed pages have fine lines for sharp pencils or gel pens.
How printing, saving and coloring on screen work is explained on the coloring pages home. If you like filling shapes by number, Linseed Loft Color by Number is a free paint by number game with 74 pictures.