Football Colouring Tips: Invent a Kit & Add Simple Folds

Celebrating footballer colouring-page preview — Celebrating footballer — an uncoloured page to plan your palette around.

A palette to try

These swatches are colour suggestions, not a finished colouring example. Use the closest pencils you have; exact matching is not needed.

Shirt blueMain kit colour
Sunny yellowSmall kit accents
Deep blueShirt folds and darker details
Grass greenA quiet background or ground

Work through the page.

You need your chosen printed page, a few coloured pencils and a scrap sheet. An adult can help choose suitable tools for a child. Work lightly at first and stop whenever you want; finishing the page is optional.

1. Plan a two-colour kit
Test blue and yellow side by side on scrap paper, or pick a different pair. Decide which colour takes the larger areas and which will appear only in small details. Use the shapes already in the artwork for your accents. There is no need to add a real crest, sponsor or lettering to make the kit feel complete.
2. Put down a light first layer
Colour the main shirt and chosen kit areas with light, overlapping pencil strokes. Keep the first layer even enough that you can still see the printed detail. Turn the page to reach narrow areas comfortably. Leave the accent spaces clear, then fill those with yellow once you can see how the main blue looks.
3. Suggest folds without drawing new stripes
Look for existing creases in the shirt. Add a small amount of deep blue alongside a few of those lines, then ease the pressure as you move away. Keep most of the shirt lighter. The aim is a hint of folded fabric, so you can stop after two or three shaded areas and compare the effect.
4. Finish the player in small sections
Choose your own colours for skin, hair and boots, testing them first on scrap paper. Work on one area at a time and leave tiny highlights where you like. If a small feature feels fiddly, a light single layer is enough. You do not have to add shadows to every part of the figure.
5. Make the celebration stand out
Keep the background lighter than the shirt. If there is open space around the player, use gentle green or blue strokes rather than filling it with an equally strong colour. Add a soft ground shadow where it suits the scene. Look again at the whole page: the main kit colour should still be easy to spot.

Try a second version.

Invent a second kit on scrap paper by swapping the main and accent colours. Which version would you choose for your imaginary team? Try the alternate combination on another player in the free football pack.

If a detail is tricky.

The yellow accent has picked up blue.: Use separate light layers and clean a pencil tip on scrap paper before working beside a darker colour.
The shirt folds look too heavy.: Leave the rest of the shirt lighter. On your next fold, start with less pressure and shade a shorter section.

These are creative colour suggestions, not a promise of an exact vehicle, aircraft or team livery. Use the printed outlines as a starting point and make the colour choices your own.