Printable colouring sheets made from your own photos

How to make a printable colouring sheet

1. Pick a photo

   Open Penna and take a photo or choose one from your library: your child, the dog, Nan's garden, a day at the seaside.

2. Choose a style and level

   Cartoon for big, simple shapes, classic colouring book in three levels of detail, or anime.

3. Print the sheet

   Tap Print and choose A4. Penna makes every sheet at print quality (300 dpi).

4. Print a stack

   Made several sheets? Put them into one PDF book and print them all at once.

Ideas for colouring sheets of your own

For home education and the classroom

Colouring sheets of your own photos fit a lesson. Print the plants from a nature walk, the animals from a farm visit or the buildings from a school trip, and let the children colour them in and label them. Family history works too: print a sheet of a grandparent's old photo and talk about it while the children colour.

Teachers: use photos you have permission to use, and check your school's rules before taking photos of children. Penna deletes each photo right after processing.

From simple to detailed

Simple sheets have bold lines and big shapes for small hands and chunky crayons. Detailed sheets have fine lines for older children, and for grown-ups who like colouring in too.

Printing tips

Any printer works. The sheets are black and white, so a black-and-white printer is enough.

• Paper: everyday 80 gsm printer paper for crayons and colouring pencils, heavier paper (100 to 120 gsm) for felt-tip pens.
• Print it again: your sheets stay in Penna's Library on your phone, so you can print a second copy for a brother, sister or friend.
• Save ink: the simple level uses fewer lines than the detailed one.

To turn a stack of sheets into a book, see how to make a personalised colouring book.

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