Train Ticket with a Train Coloring Page

Train Ticket with a Train Coloring Page is really a blank form. The ticket takes up two thirds of the sheet, with a punched hole at the top corner, a dashed tear line across it, the words already printed in outline and four long ruled lines underneath waiting to be filled in. Train ticket coloring pages barely exist, and the ones that do are decorative. This one can be colored, written on, cut out and handed to somebody at the door. Ages 2 to 8. Free letter size PDF.

How we made this coloring page

The concept we entered on Colorin AI was: "One bold simple train ticket standing upright with a punched hole, a dotted tear line and lettering lines, with a small simple train above it." It came back print ready in seconds.

"Lettering lines" was the phrase that made the page useful rather than pretty. Asked for a ticket without it, the generator fills the card with fake printed text, and fake text is a mass of tiny marks that no child can color and no child can write over. Asking for the lines instead left the middle of the ticket empty and ruled, which is what turns it into something to complete.

Details of this train ticket coloring page

The ticket is drawn with the two details that tell you it is a ticket and not a card: the round punched hole and the dashed line where the stub tears away. Both sit in the top third, above the writing space.

Those two marks are why this page holds up as a prop. A child can color the ticket, write a destination on the ruled lines, tear along the dashes and keep the stub, and the drawing supports every step of that on its own.

The count: the ticket is a tall rectangle with a notch cut from the top right corner and another from the bottom left, so it reads as a stub torn twice. A single round hole is punched near the top left, and a dashed tear line of about thirty short dashes runs the full width below it. The words are drawn as outlined block capitals on two lines, hollow so they can be colored inside. Four long ruled lines run beneath them with clear space between. Above the ticket a train sits in profile with a diamond shaped pantograph on the roof, two roof boxes, six square side windows plus one driver's window, a round headlight and eight wheels. Four decorative flourishes, each a spiral with three trailing strokes, sit in the corners around the ticket.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Color inside the outlined letters rather than around them. They are hollow for exactly that reason, and a filled word on a pale ticket is the strongest thing this page can show.

Keep the four ruled lines clear. It is tempting to color the whole card one flat tone, but the lines are the point of the drawing, and a pale wash or nothing at all keeps them writable in pencil afterward.

Give the small train above a different color family from the ticket. It is a separate object floating on the same sheet, and matching them makes the top of the page look like part of the card.