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By: Papaya Ink Team · Last updated: October 23, 2026
A monster truck is a simple idea taken much too far: take a cab, lift it onto a tube frame, bolt on tires taller than the driver and add a motor that would be happier in a boat. The first ones were ordinary pickups on tractor tires in the late seventies; today they jump buses, drive on two wheels and weigh as much as a small elephant. These monster truck coloring pages run the whole range – retro coupes and stadium jumpers, desert racers, cave crawlers, show trucks on display plinths, and a few shapes that no engineer would sign off on. Every truck is an original Papaya Ink design: no team names, no sponsors, no characters from anywhere else.
Click any picture and the PDF opens in a new tab, ready to print. The pages are sized for US Letter and fit A4 without any trimming; the line art is clean black on white, so a plain home printer handles it fine.
Color the tires first. They are the biggest shapes on every page and they set the mood: a flat dark grey with the tread left lighter looks like rubber, a solid black looks like a sticker. Bodies take bold single colors or a two-tone split along the panel lines; the exposed frame and shocks look right in silver or left white. Backgrounds – dust, sand, rock, clouds, ice – are drawn with few lines on purpose, so a light wash of one color is enough and the truck stays the loudest thing on the sheet.
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Fun Things to Make with These Coloring Pages
- Cardboard tire upgrade – color the page, then cut four circles of corrugated cardboard, color them dark and glue them over the drawn tires. The truck gets tread you can feel.
- Mud splatter finish – once the coloring is done, dip an old toothbrush in brown watercolor and flick it over the lower half of the truck. Mask the sky with scrap paper first; trucks are supposed to be dirty, skies are not.
- Foil chrome – cut small pieces of kitchen foil, crumple and flatten them, and glue them onto the grille, bumpers and exhaust pipes. A thin black outline around each piece makes the foil read as metal instead of a patch.
- Jump ramp diorama – fold a strip of cardboard into a wedge, cut out the colored truck along its outline and tape it to a toothpick above the ramp. Dust clouds are cotton wool, pulled thin and glued at the base.
- Design-your-own body – trace the chassis and tires of any truck onto fresh paper, leave the body blank and draw a new one on top: a boat, a teapot, a loaf of bread. The frame underneath makes anything look like a monster truck.
- Racing numbers – cut large digits from colored paper and glue one onto each door, then add circle stickers as badges. Three or four pages in matching colors make a team.
- Tread stamps – cut a tire tread pattern into half a potato, press it into brown paint and run tracks across the bottom of the page behind the truck. Curve the tracks to show where it came from.
- Night race – color the truck normally, then paint the whole background with black watercolor and let it dry. Add headlight beams with a white gel pen or a yellow pencil pressed hard, pointing wherever the truck is going.
