These 25 free jellyfish coloring pages for kids follow one smiling jellyfish through the ocean, from a friendly hello and a star-decorated bell to silly party hats, bubble wands, and a big ocean celebration. Every page is free to download and print, or to color right in your browser, with no sign-up needed.
This 25-page jellyfish coloring book for ages 3-8 mixes real jellyfish life with make-believe fun. The hero is a cartoon jellyfish with a round dome bell, long wavy tentacles, and two frilly oral arms. Some pictures show things real jellyfish do, such as drifting with the currents and sharing the ocean with sea turtles, seahorses, and fish. Others imagine jellyfish parties, bubble wands, and a big ocean celebration.
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| Page | Scene | Theme | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Jellyfish Hello | Jellyfish Hello | Meet the jellyfish | Simple |
| 2. Bow Jellyfish | Bow Jellyfish | Meet the jellyfish | Simple |
| 3. Party Jellyfish | Party Jellyfish | Silly jellyfish | Simple |
| 4. Dancing Jellyfish | Dancing Jellyfish | Silly jellyfish | Medium |
| 5. Ice Cream Jellyfish | Ice Cream Jellyfish | Silly jellyfish | Simple |
| 6. Jellyfish and the Sea Turtle | Jellyfish and the Sea Turtle | Jellyfish and friends | Simple |
| 7. Star Jellyfish | Star Jellyfish | Meet the jellyfish | Simple |
| 8. Jellyfish and the Fish School | Jellyfish and the Fish School | Jellyfish and friends | Medium |
| 9. Flower Crown Jellyfish | Flower Crown Jellyfish | Silly jellyfish | Simple |
| 10. Jellyfish Race Day | Jellyfish Race Day | Ocean adventures | Medium |
| 11. Sleeping Jellyfish | Sleeping Jellyfish | Ocean adventures | Simple |
| 12. Jellyfish and the Crab | Jellyfish and the Crab | Silly jellyfish | Medium |
| 13. Jellyfish and the Seahorse | Jellyfish and the Seahorse | Jellyfish and friends | Simple |
| 14. Birthday Cake Jellyfish | Birthday Cake Jellyfish | Silly jellyfish | Simple |
| 15. Bubble Blower Jellyfish | Bubble Blower Jellyfish | Silly jellyfish | Medium |
| 16. Sunny Jellyfish | Sunny Jellyfish | Silly jellyfish | Simple |
| 17. Scarf Jellyfish | Scarf Jellyfish | Silly jellyfish | Simple |
| 18. Message in a Bottle | Message in a Bottle | Ocean adventures | Simple |
| 19. Wavy Jellyfish | Wavy Jellyfish | Meet the jellyfish | Simple |
| 20. Three Jellyfish Together | Three Jellyfish Together | Jellyfish and friends | Medium |
| 21. Hide-and-Seek Jellyfish | Hide-and-Seek Jellyfish | Ocean adventures | Simple |
| 22. Lantern Jellyfish | Lantern Jellyfish | Ocean adventures | Simple |
| 23. Jellyfish Queen | Jellyfish Queen | Silly jellyfish | Simple |
| 24. The Great Fish Race | The Great Fish Race | Ocean adventures | Medium |
| 25. The Big Celebration | The Big Celebration | Jellyfish and friends | Medium |
How to use these jellyfish coloring pages
Jump to a part of the book: Meet the jellyfish (pages 1, 2, 7, 19) · Jellyfish and friends (6, 8, 13, 20, 25) · Silly jellyfish (3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23) · Ocean adventures (10, 11, 18, 21, 22, 24)
Choose a picture below, then tap Download to print it or Color Online to color it in your browser. The pages run in book order.
Simple pages have large open shapes and few details. Medium pages have more objects and smaller spaces. The difficulty rating is my own guide for this book, not a fixed age level. Counts of one, two, and three suit ages 3 to 4, counts of five and six suit ages 4 to 5, and counts of seven, and the two questions on page 25, suit ages 6 to 8 or need an adult’s help. On page 25, count the fish and the friends as two separate questions, never as one total. On page 7, count the six circles first, then find the big star. On pages 8, 15, and 25, point to each item as you count.
Meet the jellyfish (Pages 1, 2, 7, 19)
Four pages of the jellyfish on its own: a friendly hello, a big bow, a star-decorated bell, and a wavy drift. The smile, the bow, and the star are pretend: a real jellyfish has no smiling face, wears no accessories, and has no star drawn on its bell. Drifting with wavy tentacles is real.
1. Jellyfish Hello
The jellyfish faces the viewer with big eyes open, an open smile with a tongue, and pink cheek circles, with five bubbles around it, three at the top left and two on the right, and one small smiling starfish at the bottom right. A friendly hello is fine in a cartoon, and the smiling starfish is pretend: starfish do not float or smile. Count all five bubbles.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, five bubbles, and a starfish). Try this: Count all five bubbles.
2. Bow Jellyfish
The jellyfish wears a big bow on top of its bell, with big eyes open, an open smile with a tongue, two bubbles at the top left, and one scallop shell at the bottom left. The bow is pretend: real jellyfish cannot wear accessories on their bells. Count both bubbles.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, a bow, two bubbles, and a shell). Try this: Count both bubbles.
7. Star Jellyfish
The jellyfish faces the viewer with one big star and six small circles drawn on its bell, three on the left and three on the right, with two bubbles, eyes open, and an open smile with a tongue. A big star and six small circles decorate the cartoon jellyfish’s bell: some real jellyfish have patterns or spots, but a perfect star shape drawn on the bell is staged. Can you count the six little circles? Now find the big star!
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, a star, six circles, and two bubbles). Try this: Can you count the six little circles? Now find the big star!
19. Wavy Jellyfish
The jellyfish faces the viewer with nine wavy appendages, seven long tentacles and two short curled side arms, with eyes open, an open smile with a tongue, and two bubbles, one big at the top left and one small at the top right. Drifting with wavy tentacles is real. The number of appendages is a picture count only: real jellyfish have different numbers of tentacles, and the number can change as they grow. Count both bubbles.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, wavy tentacles, and two bubbles). Try this: Count both bubbles.
Jellyfish and friends (Pages 6, 8, 13, 20, 25)
Five pages of the jellyfish with its ocean friends: a sea turtle, a school of little fish, a seahorse, two smaller jellyfish, and the whole gang. Jellyfish really do share the ocean with sea turtles, fish, seahorses, crabs, and octopuses. The hug, the nose-touch, and the big celebration are pretend fun.
6. Jellyfish and the Sea Turtle
The jellyfish floats beside a baby sea turtle with a patterned shell, spotted flippers, big eyes open, and an open smile with a tongue, with one tentacle around the turtle like a hug, six bubbles, three at the top left and three on the right, and seaweed and rocks at the bottom corners. The hug is pretend, but the two share the same waters: sea turtles swim in oceans around the world, and some, like the leatherback, eat jellyfish as a big part of their food. The turtle has no flower on its shell: it is a different turtle, not Tilly. Count the one sea turtle.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, one sea turtle, and six bubbles). Try this: Count the one sea turtle.
8. Jellyfish and the Fish School
The jellyfish floats beside seven little fish swimming in a school, all smiling, with motion swirls and about ten bubbles around them. Seven little fish swim beside the jellyfish: a real school of fish is tens to thousands, so this is a small group, not a school of seven fish. Young fish really do swim near or among a jellyfish’s tentacles for protection. Count all seven fish.
Difficulty: Medium (one jellyfish, seven fish, and motion swirls). Try this: Count all seven fish.
13. Jellyfish and the Seahorse
The jellyfish floats nose to nose with a seahorse on the right, which has a curled tail, a fin, spots, a big eye, and a small smile, with tall seaweed with oval leaves on the left and two bubbles at the top. Seahorses and jellyfish share shallow, warm coastal waters. The nose-touch is a pretend nuzzle, never a kiss. Count the one seahorse.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, one seahorse, and seaweed). Try this: Count the one seahorse.
20. Three Jellyfish Together
A big jellyfish floats at the center top with two small jellyfish, one at the bottom left and one at the bottom right, both smiling with open eyes and open smiles with tongues, with twelve bubbles in an arc above, four on the left, four at the top, and four on the right. A big jellyfish with two little ones: groups of jellyfish often float together in ocean currents, and a group is called a bloom, or a smack. Jellyfish do not raise or recognize their young. Count all three jellyfish.
Difficulty: Medium (three jellyfish and twelve bubbles). Try this: Count all three jellyfish.
25. The Big Celebration
Everyone is together: the jellyfish in the center with seven ocean friends, a sea turtle at the top left, a seahorse at the top right, three fish, two on the left and one on the right, an octopus at the bottom left, smiling with eight arms, and a crab at the bottom right with two claws up and stalk eyes, with about twenty bubbles and three shells, a scallop at the bottom left, a spiral in the middle, and a scallop at the bottom right. The big celebration is a pretend gathering: sea turtles, crabs, octopuses, seahorses, and fish all live in the same ocean, but they do not gather for a celebration. Can you count the three little fish? Now count the seven sea friends!
Difficulty: Medium (one jellyfish, seven friends, and three shells). Try this: Can you count the three little fish? Now count the seven sea friends!
Silly jellyfish (Pages 3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23)
Ten pages of silly jellyfish: a party hat, a dance, an ice-cream cone, a flower crown, an umbrella, a birthday cake, a bubble wand, sunglasses, a scarf, and a crown. Every one of these is pretend: party hats, ice cream, flower crowns, umbrellas, birthday cakes, bubble wands, sunglasses, scarves, and crowns are human things, not jellyfish things.
3. Party Jellyfish
The jellyfish wears a polka-dot party hat with a flower on top and holds three balloons in a curled tentacle, with confetti pieces, small bubbles, and coral at the bottom right. The party hat and the balloons are pretend: jellyfish cannot wear hats or hold balloon strings. Count all three balloons.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, a party hat, and three balloons). Try this: Count all three balloons.
4. Dancing Jellyfish
Two jellyfish dance together, both with eyes closed happily, open smiles with tongues, tentacles intertwined, and motion lines, with three bubbles at the top right. Two jellyfish drifting together is real, but dancing, closed eyes, and intertwined tentacles are pretend. Count both jellyfish.
Difficulty: Medium (two jellyfish, three bubbles, and motion lines). Try this: Count both jellyfish.
5. Ice Cream Jellyfish
The jellyfish holds an ice-cream cone with two scoops and a cherry, sprinkles on top, in a curled tentacle, licking its lips, with big eyes open, one bubble at the top left, and one scallop shell at the bottom right. Ice cream is pretend: jellyfish eat microscopic plankton or tiny fish caught in their tentacles, and they cannot hold cones or lick lips. Count both scoops of ice cream.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, an ice-cream cone, and a shell). Try this: Count both scoops of ice cream.
9. Flower Crown Jellyfish
The jellyfish wears a flower crown of five flowers, three big and two small, with eyes closed happily, an open smile with a tongue, one little butterfly-style fish on the left, and two bubbles at the top left. The crown is pretend: sea flowers attach to hard surfaces, and jellyfish cannot wear crowns. Count all five flowers.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, a flower crown, and five flowers). Try this: Count all five flowers.
12. Jellyfish and the Crab
The jellyfish closes its eyes happily, with an open smile with a tongue, holding a big umbrella in a curled tentacle and a fan in another, with a smiling crab below on the right, two claws up and six legs, a sandy bottom with two shells, a spiral on the left and a scallop on the right, pebbles, and two bubbles at the top left. The umbrella and the fan are pretend, but crabs and jellyfish really do share shallow coastal waters. Count the one crab.
Difficulty: Medium (one jellyfish, an umbrella, a fan, a crab, and two shells). Try this: Count the one crab.
14. Birthday Cake Jellyfish
The jellyfish blows out three candles on a two-tier birthday cake, all lit, with eyes closed as it blows, pursed lips, two balloons at the top corners, two bubbles, and shells on the sand, a scallop on the left and a spiral on the right. The cake and the blowing are pretend: fire, candles, and baked cakes cannot exist underwater, and jellyfish cannot blow out candles. Count all three candles.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, a birthday cake, three candles, and two balloons). Try this: Count all three candles.
15. Bubble Blower Jellyfish
The jellyfish blows bubbles with a bubble wand, a ring wand in a curled tentacle, with pursed lips, eyes open, pink cheek circles, and seven bubbles at the top right. Imagine this jellyfish playing with a bubble wand and making a trail of bubbles! Real jellyfish do not blow bubbles: they have no lungs, and they take in oxygen straight through their thin skin. Count all seven bubbles.
Difficulty: Medium (one jellyfish, a bubble wand, and seven bubbles). Try this: Count all seven bubbles.
16. Sunny Jellyfish
The jellyfish wears big round sunglasses and gives a thumbs-up with a curled tentacle, with an open smile with a tongue, a smiling sun above the waves at the top right with closed happy eyes, two fish below, one on the left and one on the right, both smiling, and about nine bubbles. The sunglasses, the thumbs-up, and the smiling sun are pretend: they are purely human things. Count both fish.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, sunglasses, a sun, and two fish). Try this: Count both fish.
17. Scarf Jellyfish
The jellyfish wears a big striped scarf wrapped twice around its bell, with eyes closed happily, an open smile with a tongue, two bubbles at the top right, and one scallop shell at the bottom left. The scarf is pretend: jellyfish do not wear clothes, and their soft bells need direct contact with water to pulse. The stripes on the scarf are never counted. Count both bubbles.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, a scarf, and two bubbles). Try this: Count both bubbles.
23. Jellyfish Queen
The jellyfish wears a crown with three points, three ball tips, and one oval jewel, and holds a star wand, a five-point star with a circle center, in a curled tentacle, with two sparkle stars at the top right, eyes open, and an open smile with a tongue. The crown and the wand are pretend: royal crowns and magic wands are fairy-tale things. The jellyfish dresses up as a pretend queen. Count all three crown points.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, a crown, a wand, and two sparkle stars). Try this: Count all three crown points.
Ocean adventures (Pages 10, 11, 18, 21, 22, 24)
Six pages of ocean adventures: a race, a sleep-like rest, a message in a bottle, a game of hide-and-seek, a glowing lantern, and a fish race. Drifting near coral is real, and so is the glow of some jellyfish. The race, the game, the bottle, and the lantern are make-believe.
10. Jellyfish Race Day
A big jellyfish on the right holds a flag on a pole, with two small jellyfish on the left, both smiling with open eyes and open smiles with tongues, bunting flags across the top, and nine bubbles. The race is pretend: jellyfish have no hand-like limbs to hold flagpoles, and they do not take part in races. Count all three jellyfish.
Difficulty: Medium (three jellyfish, a flag, bunting, and nine bubbles). Try this: Count all three jellyfish.
11. Sleeping Jellyfish
The jellyfish rests on a big coral with many rounded lobes, its eyes closed with curved lashes, a small closed smile, and no tongue, with three bubbles at the top right. This is the only sleeping page in the book. Some jellyfish have a sleep-like rest, when their bodies pulse more slowly. Resting on coral like a bed is pretend: the upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea, rests on the seafloor at night. Count all three bubbles.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, coral, and three bubbles). Try this: Count all three bubbles.
18. Message in a Bottle
The jellyfish holds a message in a bottle, a glass bottle with a cork and a rolled scroll inside, held in two curled tentacles, with eyes open, an open smile with a tongue, seaweed on the left and the right, three shells on the sand, a scallop on the left, a spiral in the middle, and a scallop on the right, and three bubbles at the top right. The bottle is pretend: jellyfish cannot hold or read messages. Count all three shells.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, a bottle, three shells, and three bubbles). Try this: Count all three shells.
21. Hide-and-Seek Jellyfish
The jellyfish peeks from behind a big coral, only half its face visible, with one eye open and one winking eye, a small smile, and a cheek circle, while a little fish on the right looks worried and confused, with raised eyebrows, an open mouth, and a question mark above its head, with seaweed and rocks and two shells at the bottom and five bubbles, three on the left and two on the right. Hide-and-seek is a pretend game: jellyfish drift near coral, but they have no eyes to peek or wink. Count the one fish.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, coral, one fish, and five bubbles). Try this: Count the one fish.
22. Lantern Jellyfish
The jellyfish holds a glowing lantern, a round lantern with light rays, in a curled tentacle, with two little fish, one at the top left and one at the bottom right, both smiling, seaweed at the bottom corners, and about ten bubbles. The cartoon jellyfish carries a glowing lantern. Some real jellyfish make their own light instead: this amazing ability is called bioluminescence. The lantern itself is pretend. Count both fish.
Difficulty: Simple (one jellyfish, a lantern, and two fish). Try this: Count both fish.
24. The Great Fish Race
The jellyfish races three fish toward a finish line with two poles and a flag on the right, with motion swirls, the fish determined, one with determined eyebrows, the jellyfish with eyes open and an open smile with a tongue, and about eleven bubbles. The race is pretend: animals do not set up finish-line posts or organize structured races. Count all three fish.
Difficulty: Medium (one jellyfish, three fish, and a finish line). Try this: Count all three fish.
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The jellyfish’s colors
The jellyfish looks the same on every page, and its colors stay the same too:
- Round dome bell.
- Long wavy tentacles.
- Two frilly oral arms.
- Big round dark eyes with lashes.
- Pink cheek circles.
- Open smile, usually with a tongue.
- Pink and purple on the cover.
Our adorable jellyfish character has a round, dome-shaped bell, long wavy tentacles, and two frilly oral arms. Its big sparkling eyes, rosy cheeks, and cheerful smile give it a friendly cartoon appearance. Real jellyfish have different body shapes, colors, and numbers of tentacles, and some even have special light-sensing organs! The bell shape is fair: a real jellyfish bell is a rounded dome, like an umbrella. The long tentacles and the frilly oral arms are real parts of a jellyfish: the tentacles catch food with tiny stinging cells, and the oral arms move food to the mouth underneath the bell. Many familiar jellyfish have four oral arms, so two is a simplified cartoon, not a rule. The big eyes, the lashes, the pink cheeks, the open smile, and the tongue are the cartoon’s friendly look: real jellyfish have no complex eyes, no mouth or tongue like this, and no smiling expression. The pink and purple on the cover are fair: real jellyfish come in a wide range of translucent colors, including pink, purple, blue, orange, and clear. The number of tentacles is not fixed: some species have just four, others have hundreds, and the number can change as the jellyfish grows.
Those are the jellyfish’s colors in the book. Your child can follow them, or choose any colors they like. The jellyfish is the same on every page, from its first hello on page 1 to the big celebration on page 25.
Jellyfish fun facts for curious kids
- A jellyfish is not a fish at all! It has no brain, no heart, and no bones. It belongs to an animal group called cnidarians. Corals and sea anemones belong to the same group.
- A jellyfish swims by gently squeezing and relaxing its soft bell, moving water to help push itself forward. It also drifts along with ocean currents.
- A jellyfish’s tentacles can contain tiny stinging cells that help it catch food. Depending on the species, its food may include plankton, tiny shrimp, and small fish.
- Some jellyfish can make their own light! This amazing ability is called bioluminescence. It can help them protect themselves or survive in the dark ocean.
- A group of jellyfish is called a bloom or a smack! When thousands of them drift together, they fill the water like a floating garden!
- Jellyfish are incredibly ancient animals! Their ancestors lived in the oceans more than 500 million years ago, long before dinosaurs walked the Earth.
Creative ways to enjoy these jellyfish coloring pages
- Count while you color: count the five bubbles on page 1, the five flowers on page 9, the seven fish on page 8, and the three crown points on page 23.
- Spot the pretend pages: ask your child which pages show real jellyfish life and which are make-believe.
- Find the friends: find the sea turtle on pages 6 and 25, the seahorse on pages 13 and 25, and the crab on pages 12 and 25.
- Count the bubbles: count the five bubbles on page 1, the three bubbles on page 11, and the seven bubbles on page 15, and remember that real jellyfish do not blow bubbles.
- Follow the journey: color page 1, the jellyfish saying hello, and page 25, the big celebration, and put them side by side to see where the journey begins and ends.
- Tell the journey back: ask your child to retell the jellyfish’s journey using the finished pages, from its first hello to the big celebration.
Jellyfish coloring pages: questions
Are these jellyfish coloring pages free?
Yes. All 25 pages are free to download or color online, with no sign-up needed.
Do I need to sign up to download a page?
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Can I color the pages online?
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Do I need a printer?
No. Every page can be colored online. If you do want to print, download the image and print it from your device.
What ages are these pages for?
Ages 3 to 8. Simple pages suit the youngest colorers, and Medium pages give older kids more to color. Counts of one, two, and three suit ages 3 to 4, counts of five and six suit ages 4 to 5, and counts of seven suit ages 6 to 8 or need an adult’s help.
Do jellyfish really sleep?
Jellyfish have a sleep-like rest: their bodies pulse more slowly at night, and they react more slowly, much like sleep in other animals. The upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea, rests on the seafloor at night. Page 11 shows the jellyfish resting on coral, which is a pretend bed, not a real one.
Do jellyfish really glow?
Some jellyfish make their own light, an ability called bioluminescence. It can help them protect themselves or survive in the dark ocean. Page 22 shows the jellyfish carrying a glowing lantern, which is pretend: the lantern is a human thing, but the glow is real for some species.
Which pages include counting?
Several pages are built for counting: page 1 has five bubbles, page 9 has five flowers, page 8 has seven fish, page 15 has seven bubbles, and page 23 has three crown points. Point to each one and count out loud as you color it. On page 25, count the three little fish and then the seven sea friends as two separate questions, never as one total.
More ocean books to color
The jellyfish is our sixth ocean book. See the ocean coloring pages for the whole set as it grows, and meet Wally in the whale coloring pages, Tilly in the sea turtle coloring pages, the penguin in the penguin coloring pages, the shark in the shark coloring pages, and the dolphin in the dolphin coloring pages.
