Simple Monster Truck Coloring Page

This Simple Monster Truck Coloring Page is the one children ask for by name. The body sits high on four enormous tires, a bar of five round lights runs across the roof, and a big number 1 is painted on the door. Free printable simple monster truck coloring pages usually strip away too much, and this one keeps the parts that make a monster truck exciting.

How this coloring page was created

The line we gave Colorin AI was 'one bold simple monster truck seen from the front, its chunky body sitting high on two huge tires'. What came back has four tires rather than two, plus the roof light bar and the number on the door, none of which were asked for. We kept it, because a monster truck with four wheels planted is more convincing than one drawn in profile on two.

Seeing it from the front corner is what gives the page its stance. You can see the grille, one whole side and all four tires at once, and the suspension links underneath are drawn in the gap between the body and the ground.

What makes this monster truck coloring page unique

The tires are the page. Each one carries a bold chevron tread, roughly a dozen arrows per wheel pointing the same way, drawn large enough that a child can color inside every single one. Four tires of that means about fifty separate shapes, which is where most of the time on this sheet goes.

Above them the truck is straightforward: a grille of vertical bars, two round headlights, a windshield, a side window with a mirror, and a short open cargo bed at the back. The five lamps on the roof bar are perfect circles. Underneath, the axle, the shock absorbers and the linkage are all visible, which is the part that explains why the truck sits so far off the ground.

The two rear tires are drawn one behind the other on the same side, which is how the truck shows all four wheels from this angle without any of them overlapping the body. Between them the wheel arches are cut high and round, leaving a big gap of white paper above each tire, and that gap is what makes the truck look lifted rather than just large. The short cargo bed at the back is open and empty, and it is easily missed behind all that rubber.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Monster trucks are painted to be spotted from the back of a stadium, so this is not the page to be subtle on. A single loud body color with flames, stripes or stars added along the side is exactly what the real ones do, and the flat panels here leave plenty of room to draw them in.

For the tires, color the rubber dark and leave the chevrons white, or the other way around. Both look good, but keep whichever you choose the same on all four, because the tread points the same direction on every wheel and the eye follows it. Color the number 1 on the door in something that appears nowhere else on the truck so it reads as a race number, and give the five roof lamps a warm yellow so they look switched on.

Have a monster truck toy with a paint job you like? Turn a photo into a coloring page and copy it onto this one.