Embark on a desert adventure with our collection of 29 free printable cute camel coloring pages featuring beautiful oasis landscapes, intricate zentangle patterns, and friendly riders.
Trek across the vast sand dunes with these adorable “ships of the desert.” Grab your favorite colored pencils and try using a warm, sandy color palette filled with golden yellows, earthy browns, and bright sunset oranges to bring these scenes to life!
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Desert Landscapes & Oasis
Explore the scorching hot sand dunes and discover hidden water pools surrounded by tall palm trees. Practice blending bright yellow and deep orange to create a beautiful, glowing sunset behind the ancient pyramids.
Camel Riders & Friends
Saddle up and join these happy travelers as they ride their trusty camel companions across the vast desert. Use bright, vibrant colors to decorate their intricate saddles, woven blankets, and traditional clothing.
Fun Fact: A camel’s hump doesn’t actually store water! Instead, the hump stores fatty tissue that the camel can convert into energy and hydration when food is scarce.
Bactrian Camels (Two Humps)
Meet the incredible Bactrian camels, famous for having two distinct, furry humps instead of just one! Use soft shading techniques to make their thick, winter coats look extra fluffy and warm.
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Zentangle & Geometric Patterns
Relax and unwind with these highly detailed, swirling geometric camel designs. Take your time using fine-tip pens to carefully color within the tiny, complex borders and beautiful floral patterns.
Simple Camel Outlines
Perfect for younger artists, these adorable and easy-to-color camels feature thick, bold outlines and big, friendly smiles. Experiment with simple, solid colors to make these cute characters pop off the page.
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10 Creative Things to Do with Camel Coloring Pages
Once you’ve printed your favorite desert designs, the fun is just beginning! Here are some incredibly engaging techniques and activities to bring your camel art to the next level.
Mastering the Glowing Sand Dune Technique
To make the flat desert sand look like beautifully sculpted, glowing dunes, you’ll need to practice advanced color blending. This technique works best with soft colored pencils or blendable markers.
- The Highlights: First, color the very top edges of the sand dunes with a bright, solid yellow to represent where the sun is hitting the sand directly!
- The Midtones: Gently blend a warm, sandy orange into the yellow edges, moving downwards to cover the middle of the dunes.
- The Shadows: To create a realistic 3D shape, carefully blend a light brown or soft purple into the very bottom of each dune where the shadows fall.
- The Sky: For a dramatic effect, make the sky above the dunes a deep, fiery red or a cool, twilight purple!
Build a Standing Cardboard Camel
Why just color when you can build? Turn these coloring pages into a fun, 3D standing camel craft using an empty toilet paper roll!
- Step 1: Print out your favorite camel coloring page onto thick cardstock paper, and color it in completely.
- Step 2: Use safety scissors to carefully cut out the camel’s head, neck, and humps (leaving the legs off).
- Step 3: Take an empty cardboard toilet paper roll and paint it a sandy brown color. This will become the camel’s body!
- Step 4: Cut four small slits into the bottom of the toilet paper roll to act as little legs, so it can stand up on your desk.
- Step 5: Glue your colored camel head to the front of the roll, and glue the humps to the very top!
