Colour By Code Worksheets Teaching Resources
Bring printable colour by numbers, letters and more foundational concepts into your classroom with fun worksheets created by teachers for teachers.
This collection of Australian curriculum-aligned teaching resources is designed to add an engaging element to your worksheets for maths, science, English and more! Best of all, each printable has been carefully reviewed and selected by an expert on the Teach Starter teaching team, so you know it's ready for your classroom, your lesson plans and your students!
Not familiar with the term colour by code, or just looking for some fresh ideas to use these worksheets in the classroom? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
What Is a Colour By Code Worksheet?
Haven't heard the term colour by code? That's OK! Maybe you've heard of colour by numbers or colouring by maths? Or maybe you call them mystery picture worksheets?
These fun worksheets allow students to pull out their crayons or coloured pencils to colour a picture based on a predetermined colour key or code, where each colour corresponds to a specific number or symbol. The goal is to match the numbers or symbols on the picture with the corresponding colours to reveal a mystery picture.
Colour by code refers to not just colour by numbers but also colour by parts of speech, synonyms, addition and other educational concepts!
History of Colour by Numbers
Ever wonder how colouring by numbers became so popular?
The exact history of these sheets is hard to track down, but as far back as the early 20th century, people were 'painting by number' as a recreational activity. Then an activity mainly for adults, it involved painting pre-drawn canvases with numbered sections that corresponded to specific paint colours.
In the 1950s, an American artist called Dan Robbins developed a commercial version of the concept called 'Paint by Numbers' that helped the idea go mainstream and give life to what we now call colour by numbers in schools! His kits included pre-printed canvases, numbered paints and brushes, and his idea was soon adapted to make colouring books for kids.
In the versions for kids, numbers or symbols were added to line drawings instead of canvases, and young children could easily colour within the lines using crayons or coloured pencils!
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Letter Sounds Worksheet – Letter C
Practise beginning letter sounds with this colouring in worksheet.
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Letter Sounds Worksheet – Letter A
Practise beginning letter sounds with this colouring in worksheet.
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Initial Sound Recognition Worksheet (Lower Case) – Letter m
A colouring activity to develop phonemic awareness.
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Letter Sounds Worksheet – Lowercase i
Practice beginning letter sounds with this colouring in worksheet.
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Initial Sound Recognition Worksheet (Lower Case) – Letter g
A colouring activity to develop letter recognition and phonemic awareness.
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Letter Sounds Worksheet – Lowercase e
Practise beginning letter sounds with this colouring in worksheet.
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Letter Sounds Worksheet – Lowercase a
Practise beginning letter sounds with this colouring in worksheet.
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Gumball Compound Words Worksheet
Help your students learn to read and identify compound nouns with a printable colour-by-code worksheet.
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Remembrance Day Fact and Opinion Worksheet
Identify Remembrance Day facts and opinions with a printable colour-by-code worksheet.
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Trick or Treat Digraphs Worksheet
Sort Halloween Digraphs and colour them by code with a fun Halloween Phonics worksheet.
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Continents and Oceans - Roll and Colour Game
Learn to identify the continents and oceans of the world with an engaging partner game.
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Valentine-Themed Mystery Picture - Division Facts
Have fun with your Valentine’s Day Maths lessons with a division colour by number worksheet!
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Identifying Syllable Types - Worksheets
Practise breaking words into syllables and identifying the corresponding syllable types with this set of six worksheets.
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Colour It! Good or Service Worksheet
Identify examples of goods and services with a colouring activity.
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I Spy Syllable Types - Worksheets
Identify and colour words according to their syllable types with this set of six worksheets.
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Colour By Vowel Sound - Winter Worksheet
Use a chilly colour by vowel sound worksheet to bring a bit of Winter into the classroom this season.
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Christmas Colouring - Simple Multiplication Colour by Number
Boost multiplication skills even at the end of a school year with this colour by number multiplication worksheet set.
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Christmas Colour by Vowel Sound Worksheets
Use colour by vowel sound worksheets for a bit of Christmas fun in the classroom.
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Gingerbread Vowels - Colour by Code Worksheet
Use this colour by vowel sound Christmas worksheet as for a bit of holiday fun in the classroom.
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Christmas Colour by Number Worksheets
Use knowledge of numbers to 10 to colour in these Christmas-themed colour by number worksheets.
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Pixel Art Syllable Types
Consolidate understanding of syllable types with these appealing worksheets.
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100 Chart Mystery Picture Puzzle
Practise identifying numbers within 100 with this set of 44 number cards and hundreds board.
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Roll, Add and Colour - Easter Bilby
A fun roll, add and colour sheet featuring an Easter bilby.
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Colouring by Larger Numbers - Operations
Colouring pages to be used when working with operations.
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Crazy Boxes – 11 Times Tables
A fun multiplication worksheet where students create a colour pattern using 11 times tables.
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Initial Sound Recognition Worksheet - Letter Y
A colouring activity to develop letter recognition and phonemic awareness.
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Letter Sounds Worksheet – Letter W
Practise beginning letter sounds with this colouring in worksheet.
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Letter Sounds Worksheet – Letter U
Practice beginning letter sounds with this colouring in worksheet.
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Letter Sounds Worksheet – Letter R
Practise beginning letter sounds with this colouring in worksheet.
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Letter Sounds Worksheet – Letter Q
Practise beginning letter sounds with this colouring in worksheet.
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Letter Sounds Worksheet – Letter P
Practise beginning letter sounds with this colouring in worksheet.
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Letter Sounds Worksheet – Letter N
Practise beginning letter sounds with this colouring in worksheet.