Free race cars printable
3 Monster Truck Wheel Pattern Challenges
Draw stripes, dots and zigzags on three original monster truck coloring pages with oversized wheels and separate free PNG downloads.
A giant wheel is an inviting place to start coloring. It has enough room for a child to invent a bold pattern before deciding what color the rest of the truck should be. These three original BoysColor pages each offer a different wheel shape and a different prompt: stripes on a muddy rally truck, dots on a desert truck, and zigzags on a fairground truck.
The three sheets are separate free downloads, not stages that must be finished in one sitting. A child can use the suggested pattern, change it, or ignore it and simply color the trucks. The colorful cover above shows finished examples; the real black-and-white sheets are below.
Before the wheels roll
Print the page you want at Fit to page on Letter or A4. The second sheet is landscape, so let the printer rotate it rather than squeezing it into a portrait layout. Choose two or three crayons with enough contrast that the wheel pattern is easy to see. Thick crayons work for the broad tire sections; a colored pencil helps with smaller marks.
Point to the closest wheel and ask what makes it look ready for its scene. The mud page may need a tough-looking tread, the desert page may have a dotted hub, and the fairground page can use a playful zigzag. These are design ideas, not claims about how real tires are built. Let the child choose colors first if they prefer.
- Choose one of the three trucks.
- Pick two or three contrasting colors.
- Start with the biggest visible wheel.
1. Stripe the muddy rally wheel
This truck is beside a checkered flag and a patch of mud. Its foreground tire has broad curved bands that are easy to follow with a crayon. Color every other band one color, then fill the spaces between with a second color. The printed bands can act as guides; there is no need to draw a perfectly straight line.
For another version, add one small mark to each stripe, such as a dot or a short line. Then color the truck body in one of the wheel colors so the design feels connected.
- Color alternate tire bands in two colors.
- Add an optional small mark in each stripe.
- Use one tire color on the truck body.
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Ask your child: Would this truck race through mud or drive around it?
2. Dot the desert wheel
On this desert sheet, the large near wheel has broad open wedge shapes around the hub. Invite the child to put one large dot in each open wedge, then choose whether all the dots match or alternate two colors. Count the filled wedges together if counting is enjoyable, but do not present a particular number as a hidden answer: the goal is to repeat a visual idea around the wheel.
The desert hills and cactus give this truck a different setting from the muddy rally. Use one warm color for the background and a cooler color for the dots, or reverse that choice.
- Put a large dot in each open wheel section.
- Choose one color or alternate two.
- Color the desert with a contrasting shade.
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Ask your child: Would your desert truck use matching dots or two alternating colors?
3. Invent a zigzag for the fairground wheel
The third truck rolls toward a finish arch near a fairground. Its enormous front wheel has spacious blank rings. Draw a slow zigzag around one ring, using the printed circles as a guide. A wobbly zigzag is fine. Repeat on a second ring if the child enjoys it, or leave that ring a solid color for contrast.
This is the most open-ended sheet. The child might prefer triangles, lightning shapes, or no repeated marks at all. Their choice is the design.
- Choose one broad ring.
- Draw a zigzag slowly around it.
- Color another ring differently and name the design.
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Ask your child: What would your truck team call this wheel design?
Mix the ideas on another day
Print a favorite sheet again and switch the pattern. Put dots on the rally truck’s broad bands, stripes inside the desert spokes, or alternating colors on the fairground rings. Repeating one page with a new choice offers another design challenge without requiring a new download.
Choose only one page if time is short. The activity has worked when the child made a choice about the wheel and had room to color it. The rest of the truck can wait. For a different monster truck puzzle, try the site’s color-by-number guide: it follows a fixed key, while these three leave the pattern to the child.
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