Last Updated on August 13, 2026 by Dee
There is a particular kind of colouring page that keeps turning up on Pinterest at the moment — earthy, symmetrical, a bit desert-and-dried-flowers. Boho colouring is less about a subject and more about a feeling: warm terracotta and ochre instead of primary brights, repeating pattern instead of cartoon outlines, and shapes that let your hands work while your head goes quiet.
Below are 25 boho coloring page ideas grouped by style, plus the pencils and pens that actually behave on home-printed paper. And you can grab my free pack of 120 printable mandala coloring pages right here — mandalas are the backbone of the boho look, and 120 of them will keep you going for a very long time.
Everything below prints at A4 on an ordinary home printer. If you are in the US, choose ‘fit to page’ and Letter paper and nothing gets cropped.
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What makes a colouring page ‘boho’?
Quick answer: Boho colouring pages are defined by three things: symmetry and repeated pattern, natural desert-and-dried-flower motifs, and an earthy palette of terracotta, ochre, sage and cream rather than bright primaries.
It is a style, not a subject. The same mandala can read as boho or as geometric-modern depending entirely on how you colour it. Warm rusty oranges, mustard, muted greens and plenty of cream will pull almost any line drawing into the boho family.
The motifs repeat across the whole genre: mandalas and sunbursts, pampas grass and dried seed heads, crescent moons and stars, arches and doorways, cacti and desert plants, feathers, and woven or macramé texture. Mix any two or three of those and you have a boho page.
25 boho coloring page ideas, grouped by style
These are grouped so you can pick by mood rather than scrolling a flat list. The first group is the easiest to start with.
Mandalas and sunbursts (the classics)
- A simple eight-petal mandala with plenty of white space — the best first one
- A dense concentric mandala that takes a whole evening
- A half-mandala rising from the bottom edge like a sunrise
- A sunburst with alternating long and short rays
- A mandala built from leaf shapes instead of petals
- Two overlapping mandalas of different sizes
Dried florals and pampas
- A loose bouquet of pampas grass and bunny tails in a simple vase
- A dried-flower wreath with space in the middle for a word or a date
- Single tall stems arranged like a botanical study
- A hanging bunch of dried flowers tied with ribbon
- Seed heads, poppy pods and honesty in a scattered arrangement
Desert and celestial
- A crescent moon framed by small wildflowers
- Sun and moon faces side by side
- A row of cacti in patterned terracotta pots
- An arched desert doorway with a mountain view through it
- A starry night sky over simple dune shapes
- A phases-of-the-moon strip across the page
Woven texture and pattern
- A macramé wall hanging with fringe to colour strand by strand
- A tribal-inspired stripe pattern to fill in block by block
- A woven basket weave that rewards two close shades
- A rug or kilim pattern in repeating diamonds
Animals, feathers and symbols
- A feather with patterned bands inside it
- A butterfly with mandala patterning in the wings
- A hamsa or evil-eye motif surrounded by florals
- A snake curled into a circle among desert plants
The boho colour palette (and how to mix it)
Quick answer: Stick to five colours: terracotta, mustard ochre, sage green, dusty rose and a warm cream. Leave more white paper than feels comfortable — the breathing space is what makes it look boho rather than busy.
The single most common mistake is using too many colours. A boho page with four earthy shades and generous white space beats one coloured edge to edge in a rainbow every time. If you want depth, use two tones of the same colour rather than reaching for a new one.
Warm your greens down with a touch of the ochre so nothing reads as bright grass green, and keep one colour as your accent — usually the terracotta — so the eye has somewhere to land.
What to colour them with
Coloured pencils are the most forgiving on ordinary printer paper. Derwent watercolour pencils give you the option of softening an area with a damp brush afterwards, which suits the dried-flower pages beautifully.
If you prefer pens, Tombow brush pens in the retro & bohemian colours are almost purpose-built for this — the set is genuinely full of rusts, muted golds and soft greens. For fine detail inside mandala segments a Sakura Pigma Micron fineliner set is hard to beat.
One small thing that makes a real difference: a Faber-Castell kneadable eraser lifts pencil without roughing up the paper surface, so a mistake in the middle of a mandala is not the end of the page.
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What’s inside the free 120-page mandala pack
The free download above is my Mandala Coloring Pages pack — 120 printable mandala pages in clean black line art on white, sized for A4. They run from simple open designs with big areas to fill through to dense intricate ones that will happily eat an entire evening.
- 120 mandala coloring pages, black line art on white, A4
- A range of difficulty, from very simple to genuinely intricate
- Print as many copies as you like, as often as you like
- Delivered as a PDF straight to your inbox
They are the perfect base for boho colouring because the line work is neutral — the palette you choose is what makes them boho. Colour the same page in terracotta and sage one week and in blues the next and you would not know they were the same drawing.
Where to find more boho printables
If you want more in this vein, my botanical coloring pages lean heavily into the dried-flower look, and the free vintage botanical printables work well if you like the aged, earthy end of the palette. For the Procreate crowd there is also a boho colour palette with the exact terracotta-and-sage shades already mixed.
There are more boho-leaning printable sets in the Artsydee Payhip shop too, if you want something more substantial than a colouring page.
If you find yourself printing these most weeks, my Patreon might save you some hunting — new printable packs land every week, and the whole back catalogue of coloring pages, watercolour templates, brush sets and Procreate goodies comes with it. Membership starts at £8 a month.
Printing tips that save paper
- Print at A4. If you are in the US, choose ‘fit to page’ and Letter — the design shrinks by a few millimetres and nothing gets cropped.
- Print one test page before you print twenty. Printer defaults love to add a border you did not ask for.
- Ordinary 80 gsm copy paper is fine for pencils. If you want to use markers, print on 120 gsm or heavier or they will bleed through.
- Draft or economy mode is usually plenty for line art and uses a fraction of the ink.
- Print a small stack at once and keep it somewhere visible. The pack you have to go and find is the pack you never colour.
If you are printing a lot of these, an ink-tank printer works out dramatically cheaper per page than cartridges — it is the single change that made printing my own pages feel free.
If you would rather watch than read, I put colouring and painting videos on my YouTube channel most weeks. Subscribe here if you would like the next one to turn up.
Frequently asked questions
Are these boho coloring pages really free?
Yes. The 120-page mandala pack is completely free — pop your email in the box above and it lands in your inbox as a PDF. You can print it as many times as you like for your own use.
What paper should I print boho coloring pages on?
Ordinary 80 gsm printer paper is perfectly good for coloured pencils. If you want to use alcohol markers or brush pens, go to at least 120 gsm, or put a spare sheet underneath to catch any bleed.
What colours make a colouring page look boho?
Terracotta, mustard ochre, sage green, dusty rose and warm cream. Keep it to four or five earthy shades, use two tones of the same colour for depth rather than adding new ones, and leave plenty of white paper showing.
Are mandalas good for beginners?
They are one of the best places to start, because the symmetry does the design thinking for you. Pick one with larger open areas first — the very intricate ones are lovely but slow, and it is easy to lose heart halfway through your first one.
Can I colour these digitally instead of printing?
Yes. Drop the PDF page into Procreate or any layered app and colour it on a layer underneath the line art set to multiply. It is a good way to test a palette before you commit on paper.
Final thoughts
Pick one idea from the list, print two or three pages, and give yourself twenty minutes with four pencils and nothing else. Not the whole pack. Boho colouring is at its best when it is unhurried and a bit imperfect — the slightly uneven pencil strokes are the point, not a problem to fix.
You can also find me on Pinterest, where every new printable gets saved as it goes up, and on YouTube for the video versions.
You might also like
- Mandala Coloring Pages
- Botanical Coloring Pages
- Cozy Coloring Pages
- Coloring Pages for Mental Health
- Boho Procreate Colour Palettes
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