Cute Drum Set With a Face Coloring Page

Print this drum coloring page in seconds and hand a child a full kit to fill in. The Cute Drum Set With a Face Coloring Page builds upward from a big smiling bass drum at the bottom, with two crossed sticks laid over its head, a pair of tom drums perched above and two cymbals raised on tall stands at either side. Everything is drawn from the front, so nothing hides behind anything else. Made for kids ages 3 to 9 and sized for a home printer.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we entered the concept: "A cute little drum set with a smiling bass drum below, cymbals raised on stands above and two crossed sticks" on Colorin AI and generated a print ready coloring page in seconds. The tripod legs under each cymbal stand arrived as part of the same drawing.

The instruction doing the heavy lifting is "below" and "above." A drum kit asked for plainly comes back arranged left to right, the way a drummer sees it, which on a tall sheet leaves wide empty bands at the top and bottom. Stacking it vertically filled the page and put the biggest shape, the bass drum, where a small child starts coloring. Naming the sticks separately is what kept them on top of the drum head rather than resting on the floor beside the kit.

Details of this drum coloring page

What separates this from most drum coloring pages is that the face is on the bass drum rather than on a drummer. There is no person on the sheet at all, which keeps the page about the instrument and avoids the mismatch of a cartoon child that looks nothing like the one holding the crayon.

The practical side of that choice is space. With no figure in the way, every drum is a complete circle or cylinder, and a child can fill each one as a single closed shape without working around an arm.

Counting the pieces: two cymbals at the top, each a wide shallow oval with a scalloped lower edge and a small dome at its center, sitting on a stand that ends in three splayed legs with rounded feet. Each stand has a squared collar partway down, six in total across both. Two tom drums sit side by side in the middle, each banded with about eight vertical panels and rimmed top and bottom, joined by three short mounting posts between them. The bass drum below is a double ring with fourteen small lugs spaced evenly around it, four rounded feet under it, and the face inside: two oval eyes with white highlights, two round cheeks and a small curved smile. The two sticks cross over the drum head just above the face, each one tapering to a rounded tip.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Real kits are usually one color for all the drum shells and a metallic tone for the hardware, and copying that is the fastest route to a page that looks right. Red or deep blue on the three shells, then a light yellow on the cymbals, the stands and the lugs, and the picture is done.

The fourteen lugs around the bass drum are the detail that rewards a colored pencil. Filling them a shade darker than the drum makes the rim pop, and skipping them entirely still looks finished. The two crossed sticks are the one place a light wood brown beats a bright color: they read as wood immediately and stop competing with the face.

Want a kit that looks like the one in your house? Turn a photo into a coloring page and print your own drums the same way.