# Books of the Bible Coloring Pages (All 66, By Section)

> A described symbol for all 66 books of the Bible, organized by section -- Genesis a creation sunburst, Exodus a parted sea -- ready to draw as coloring pages.

**Ages:** Ages 5+  
**Published:** 2026-08-19  
**Updated:** 2026-08-19  
**Canonical:** https://faithfulkids.app/blog/books-of-the-bible-coloring-pages

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A books-of-the-Bible coloring page gives each book one simple symbol a child can color -- Genesis becomes a creation sunburst, Exodus becomes a parted sea, Psalms becomes a harp -- and coloring the symbol is what makes the name stick when a bare memorization list does not. Below are described motifs for all 66 books, organized into the eight sections kids actually learn them in, so you can draw a page, assign one per week, or build a full wall chart over a school year.

One honest note up front: we do not host downloadable coloring PDFs yet, so nothing here is a click-to-download link. These are page ideas, described concretely enough that a parent with a marker or a teacher with a photocopier can produce them. What we do have finished and free is listed near the bottom.

## Why Symbols Beat Lists for Learning the 66 Books

A symbol gives the brain a hook. "Nahum" is an abstract sound to a nine-year-old; a toppling city wall is a picture, and pictures are what memory grabs onto. This is why the traditional Sunday school approach -- one book, one image, colored by hand -- outperforms reciting a list, and why kids who learn this way can still name the Minor Prophets years later.

Three ways to run it:

- **One book per week.** 66 weeks, roughly a school year and a half. Slow, and it works.
- **One section at a time.** Color all five books of the Law in a sitting, then move on. Best for classrooms.
- **The wall chart.** Small squares, one per book, colored and taped up in order until the whole Bible fills a hallway. This is the version kids brag about.

For the name-order side of the work, our [books of the Bible printable](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/books-of-the-bible-printable) guide covers checklists and memory games, and [books of the Bible for kids](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/books-of-the-bible-for-kids) explains what each section is actually *about* before you start coloring it.

## The Law (Books 1-5)

The foundation section. Use bold, blocky symbols here -- these five get colored first and set the visual tone for the chart.

1. **Genesis** -- a creation sunburst: a rising sun with seven wide rays, one per day, each ray a separate coloring band.
2. **Exodus** -- a parted sea: two towering walls of water with a dry path between them and a staff raised at the edge.
3. **Leviticus** -- a stone altar with a lamb standing beside it and smoke curling upward in soft outlined swirls.
4. **Numbers** -- a desert tent camp: twelve small tents arranged in a ring around one larger center tent.
5. **Deuteronomy** -- two stone tablets with a mountain range behind them and a road leading forward off the page.

## History (Books 6-17)

Twelve books of narrative. These make the best coloring pages of the whole Bible because almost every one has an obvious scene.

6. **Joshua** -- the walls of Jericho tumbling, with a trumpet in the foreground.
7. **Judges** -- a torch and a clay jar, from Gideon's night raid.
8. **Ruth** -- a sheaf of barley with a few loose grains scattered around it.
9. **1 Samuel** -- a shepherd's sling and five smooth stones.
10. **2 Samuel** -- a crown resting on a harp, David as both king and songwriter.
11. **1 Kings** -- a temple facade with tall pillars and wide open steps.
12. **2 Kings** -- a chariot of fire with wheels drawn as flame swirls.
13. **1 Chronicles** -- a family tree with blank name boxes kids can fill in.
14. **2 Chronicles** -- a scroll draped over a temple doorway.
15. **Ezra** -- an open scroll on a raised wooden platform.
16. **Nehemiah** -- a half-built city wall with a trowel and a lamp.
17. **Esther** -- a royal crown above a golden scepter extended forward.

## Poetry and Wisdom (Books 18-22)

Abstract books, so lean into pattern. These five are the pages older kids like best because the designs can get intricate.

18. **Job** -- a whirlwind spiral with a small figure at the bottom and stars at the top.
19. **Psalms** -- a harp with strings drawn wide enough to color individually.
20. **Proverbs** -- an owl perched on an open book, or a lamp beside a path.
21. **Ecclesiastes** -- an hourglass with sand mid-fall and a sun setting behind it.
22. **Song of Solomon** -- a rose vine arch with leaves and blooms filling the border.

## The Major Prophets (Books 23-27)

Long books, big images. Keep these dramatic.

23. **Isaiah** -- a throne with six-winged seraphim above it and a glowing coal held in tongs.
24. **Jeremiah** -- a potter's wheel with a clay vessel taking shape, and a single teardrop.
25. **Lamentations** -- an empty city gate under a heavy rain of outlined teardrops.
26. **Ezekiel** -- a valley of dry bones with a wind swirl moving across it.
27. **Daniel** -- a lion's den with a closed-mouthed lion and light streaming down from an opening above.

## The Minor Prophets (Books 28-39)

Twelve short books, and the section kids most often skip. Symbols rescue them. Color all twelve on one sheet as a strip and the names finally stick.

28. **Hosea** -- two wedding rings with a shepherd's crook laid across them.
29. **Joel** -- a swarm of locusts over a field, with a trumpet at the corner.
30. **Amos** -- a plumb line hanging beside a stone wall.
31. **Obadiah** -- a rocky mountain fortress with an eagle's nest high on the cliff.
32. **Jonah** -- a great fish with a small ship in the distance behind it.
33. **Micah** -- a small-town skyline with a shepherd's staff and a set of scales.
34. **Nahum** -- a toppling city wall with stones scattering outward.
35. **Habakkuk** -- a watchtower with a figure standing on top, scanning the horizon.
36. **Zephaniah** -- a broom sweeping a street clean, with a rising sun behind it.
37. **Haggai** -- a rebuilt temple with scaffolding and a hammer.
38. **Zechariah** -- a golden lampstand flanked by two olive trees.
39. **Malachi** -- an open offering box with a rising sun above it.

## The Gospels and Acts (Books 40-44)

The turn of the chart. Give these five more space than anything else -- a bigger square, more detail, room to work.

40. **Matthew** -- a crown over an open genealogy scroll.
41. **Mark** -- a running lion, motion lines behind it, for the fast-moving Gospel.
42. **Luke** -- a physician's satchel beside a manger, or an ox at rest.
43. **John** -- an eagle in flight with a bright light behind it.
44. **Acts** -- flames over twelve heads with a wind spiral and a ship on the horizon.

## The Letters (Books 45-65)

Twenty-one letters, so the natural motif is mail. Draw each as a scroll, envelope, or sealed letter with its own emblem inside -- the repetition is a feature, because it teaches kids that this whole section is one *kind* of book.

45. **Romans** -- a Roman road stretching to the horizon, milestones along the side.
46. **1 Corinthians** -- a body outline made of many joined puzzle pieces.
47. **2 Corinthians** -- a cracked clay jar with light shining out through the cracks.
48. **Galatians** -- a broken chain with fruit growing from a vine where it snapped.
49. **Ephesians** -- a full suit of armor: helmet, breastplate, shield, sword, belt, sandals.
50. **Philippians** -- a heart with a joyful sunburst behind prison bars.
51. **Colossians** -- a crown above a globe, Christ over all things.
52. **1 Thessalonians** -- a trumpet with clouds and a rising dawn.
53. **2 Thessalonians** -- a lit lamp in a window at night, waiting.
54. **1 Timothy** -- a young figure holding a shepherd's staff, with an older hand on his shoulder.
55. **2 Timothy** -- a race finish line with a torch handed forward.
56. **Titus** -- a lighthouse on rocky ground, steady in weather.
57. **Philemon** -- two hands clasping, with an open, broken shackle beneath them.
58. **Hebrews** -- a high priest's robe beside a torn temple curtain.
59. **James** -- a hand extended in help beside a mirror and a bridled tongue.
60. **1 Peter** -- a cornerstone block with living stones stacked above it.
61. **2 Peter** -- a bright morning star over dark water.
62. **1 John** -- a large open heart with light rays streaming from it.
63. **2 John** -- a small folded letter addressed to a house, with a heart seal.
64. **3 John** -- an open door with a welcome mat and a lamp lit inside.
65. **Jude** -- a shield with a sword behind it and a small anchor at the base.

## Revelation (Book 66)

66. **Revelation** -- a lamb standing before a throne, with a rainbow arc above and a river running from the throne toward a golden city gate. Give this one a full sheet. It is the last square on the chart and it should feel like an ending.

## How to Use These Pages to Actually Teach the Bible's Structure

Coloring the symbol is step one. What turns it into learning is what you say while they color.

**Say the section name every single time.** "This is Habakkuk. Habakkuk is a Minor Prophet." Repetition of the *category* is what eventually lets a child find Habakkuk in a real Bible, because they'll know to look near the end of the Old Testament rather than flipping blindly.

**Give one sentence of context per book, not a lesson.** "Nehemiah rebuilt the wall around Jerusalem after the people came home." One sentence, tied to the symbol they're coloring. Nine-year-olds do not need more, and they retain the one sentence.

**Have them tell you the symbol back.** Cover the chart. "What's the picture for Jonah?" This flips coloring into recall, which is where memory actually forms.

**Post the chart in order and leave it up.** A hallway chart gets walked past dozens of times a day. That passive exposure does more than any drill.

**Play "find it fast" once the section is colored.** Call a book, kids race to point to its square, then to find it in a real Bible. The symbol becomes the bridge from picture to page number.

## Printing and Chart-Building Tips

**Six squares per page for the chart version.** Draw a 2-by-3 grid on a sheet, one book per square with its name lettered underneath. Eleven sheets covers all 66, and a grid page prints far cheaper than 66 individual sheets.

**Grayscale, draft mode, always.** These are line drawings. Color ink on black outlines is money set on fire, and draft mode roughly halves consumption with no visible difference.

**24 lb paper minimum if markers are involved.** Standard 20 lb copy paper bleeds through instantly. Card stock at 65 lb is worth it only for the chart squares you'll tape up and keep.

**Print one full-page version of the five or six books you're studying in depth,** and keep the rest as grid squares. Detail where it matters, efficiency everywhere else.

**Laminate one blank grid and use dry-erase markers** if you want to run the whole exercise more than once, with different kids or different years.

## What Faithful Kids Actually Offers Right Now

We are working toward hosted coloring sheets. They do not exist yet, and we'd rather say so than hand you a broken link. What is finished, free, and printable today is three complete packs:

- The **[Bible Trivia Pack](https://faithfulkids.app/printables/bible-trivia-pack)** -- 100 questions across easy, medium, and hard rounds, every answer cited.
- The **[30-Day Family Bible Challenge](https://faithfulkids.app/printables/30-day-challenge)** -- a daily reading plan that walks the whole story arc these 66 books tell.
- The **[Bedtime Bible Kit](https://faithfulkids.app/printables/bedtime-bible-kit)** -- seven short readings built for the wind-down routine.

If you print one thing tonight, print the Bedtime Bible Kit. A books-of-the-Bible chart is a long project that needs a table and a free afternoon; the bedtime kit attaches to a routine you already have, which is why it's the one that survives a busy week. **[Print the free Bedtime Bible Kit](https://faithfulkids.app/printables/bedtime-bible-kit)**, then start the chart on Saturday.

For more coloring ideas beyond the book symbols, our story-by-story guide to [Bible coloring pages for kids](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/bible-coloring-pages-for-kids) covers 20 scene themes, and the full [free Bible printables for kids](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/free-bible-printables-for-kids) roundup sorts every printable type by age and job. Families using Faithful Kids often watch a story on video, then color that book's symbol the same week -- the video carries the narrative, the square anchors where it lives.

We have 16 [Bible coloring pages to print](https://faithfulkids.app/printables/bible-coloring-pages) covering the stories most children meet first.

Print the [books of the Bible word search](https://faithfulkids.app/printables/bible-word-search/books-of-the-bible) for the table, or let them play it on screen. Either way it is free.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What are the eight sections of the Bible for kids?

Law, History, Poetry and Wisdom, Major Prophets, Minor Prophets, Gospels and Acts, Letters, and Revelation. That's 5 plus 12 plus 5 plus 5 plus 12 plus 5 plus 21 plus 1, which totals all 66 books. Teaching the sections first gives kids a filing system, so a new book name lands in a drawer instead of floating loose.

### What age should kids learn the books of the Bible?

Ages 6 to 10 is the sweet spot. Younger than 6, focus on a handful of familiar books rather than the whole list. By age 10 most kids can learn all 66 in a few months if the symbols and a song are both in play. The real goal isn't recitation, it's being able to find a passage in a physical Bible without help.

### How long does it take to color all 66 book symbols?

At one book per week, about sixteen months; at one section per sitting, about eight sessions. Most families land in between, doing a section every week or two across a school year. The Minor Prophets go fastest because twelve simple symbols fit on two grid sheets and take a single afternoon.

### Do you have printable books of the Bible coloring pages to download?

Not yet. Our three free downloads today are the [Bible Trivia Pack](https://faithfulkids.app/printables/bible-trivia-pack), the [30-Day Family Bible Challenge](https://faithfulkids.app/printables/30-day-challenge), and the [Bedtime Bible Kit](https://faithfulkids.app/printables/bedtime-bible-kit). The 66 motifs above are written so you can draw them yourself in a few minutes each, or search for existing versions using the described image.

### Are these symbols traditional or made up?

A mix, and that's fine. Several are long-standing church symbols -- the eagle for John, the lion for Mark, the lamb for Revelation -- while others here are simply the clearest scene from that book. Nothing about a symbol is doctrinal; it's a memory aid. If your child invents a better picture for Obadiah, use theirs.

### Should we color the books in Bible order or by section?

By section, in Bible order within each section. Jumping around breaks the mental filing system, but tackling a whole section at once shows kids that these books belong together. Then arrange the finished squares strictly in order on the wall, so the chart reads exactly like a table of contents.

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