How to Color a Taxi Coloring Page Step by Step: Easy Tutorial for Kids
Hi there! I’m James. As a former private school teacher with years of experience creating fun and educational activities for children, I enjoy guiding children toward creative release. Perfect for motivating young artists and allowing fun together as a family, this guide will walk you through how to color one of our free printable taxi coloring pages step by step!
I have ten free, printable taxi coloring pages that you can find at the bottom of this post. So if you haven’t downloaded them yet, grab them now, and let’s start our taxi adventure together!
Step 1: Gather Your Taxi-Coloring Tools
Let’s fuel up with the correct elements before we start down the creative road:
- Crayons (especially yellow, black, gray, red, and blue)
- Colored pencils or markers (optional, but fun for details)
- A clean surface to work on
- A pencil sharpener (trust me, kids always break the yellow one!)
- Tissues or cotton swabs (you’ll see why in a minute!)
Safety Tip for Parents: Make sure little ones don’t put crayons in their mouth or use sharp pencils unattended. My son Mike once tried to use scissors on his crayon. Let’s just say it ended in a colorful disaster on the carpet!
For more age-appropriate safety tips during arts and crafts, check out HealthyChildren.org’s art safety guide.
Step 2: Start With the Body (Main Yellow Base of Your Taxi Coloring Pages)
Okay! First, let us start with the taxi’s main body. Since most taxis are brilliant yellow, choose a strong, cheerful yellow crayon. Start softly, as if you were hugging the car warmly.
- Move the brush in a long, even motion from side to side.
Fun tip: Lisa always adds a tiny pink heart on the door. She says, “Every taxi needs love!”
Want to learn more about how colors affect emotions while kids color? This article from Crayola’s Education Center is a great read.
Step 3: Add Some Shading (Like a Pro!)
Want your taxi to look less flat and more vroom-vroom cool?
- Take a light brown or orange crayon and gently color the edges and corners of the taxi.
- Then go back with your yellow and layer over it.
- Scatter and blend the hues by delicately running a tissue or fingertip over the surface.
Mike calls it “taxi magic.” Honestly, it does look magical!
Step 4: Tires, Windows, and Details
Time to zoom in on the small parts:
- Tires: Use black for the wheels but leave a tiny white circle in the middle for the hubcap.
- Windows: Try light blue or gray. You can even add tiny white lines to look like reflections!
- Lights: Yellow or orange in the front, red in the back.
- Taxi Sign: Black letters on a white or yellow sign look the best.
Genius Hack: Want to make your own color? Mix crayons like a smoothie! For purple, try red + blue. For a cool steel gray, try layering black very lightly over light blue. Lisa discovered this last month, and now she’s officially our “color chef.”
If you want to explore more genius ways to blend and create new colors, The Artful Parent has a fantastic guide.
Step 5: Add a Background to Your Taxi Coloring Pages (Optional but Super Fun)
You can draw a city behind your taxi, or maybe it’s driving in the rain? Use your imagination!
Last week, Lisa made a whole New York street with a pink Hello Kitty billboard (yes, really). Mike, on the other hand, drew Sonic running beside the taxi, slightly illegal but super cool!
Some ideas for backgrounds:
- A city street with stop signs
- Sunny skies with clouds
- Rainy day with puddles
- Nighttime lights with stars
Smart Tip: If you’re using markers for the background, do it after the taxi is colored so it won’t smudge over your awesome yellow work.
Step 6: Show Off Your Work!
At the end of the process:
- Write your name on it like a real artist.
- Display it proudly on the refrigerator (or surprise Grandma with it!).
- You can even glue it onto cardboard and turn it into a standing taxi sign!
Helpful Idea: Print out more than one taxi coloring sheet (you can download all 10 free, printable PDF sheets below). That way you can experiment with unconventional colors — pink taxi? Why not! Rainbow taxi? Lisa did it last month. It’s now framed in her room.
Extra Coloring Hacks & Surprising Tricks
Alright, kiddo! Time to turn you into a coloring wizard:
- Use cotton swabs to blend crayons into a smooth finish.
- For two seconds, immerse the crayon tip in water. It turns into a paint-like consistency.
- Make headlights glow: Color the area around the headlights very lightly with yellow. Then use a white pencil over it. It looks like it’s shining!
- Want texture? Position the paper over a rough surface (like a LEGO base!) and color over it. Boom, a taxi with a brick road texture.
My Personal Taxi Coloring Story
One cold, rainy evening last month, Mike wanted to color but couldn’t decide between a lion and a car. So I handed him one of our taxi coloring pages and told him, “This is a lion-taxi! It goes, ROAR-VROOM!”
He laughed so hard, he fell off the chair (don’t worry, he landed on his plush Pikachu). Lisa came over, helped him up, and then added a crown on the taxi. Now it’s King Taxi in our home gallery.
These little moments turn into big memories. That’s why I love coloring time.
Thanks for coloring with me today! Now go grab those taxi coloring pages, and let your imagination drive you anywhere you want!
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