Bright, delightful and cheerful, sunflowers are truly the happiest flowers you can find. Don’t you just want to smile when you see a sunflower? Their fun spirit is absolutely contagious. You’ll instantly brighten someone’s day when you give him or her beautiful sunflower coloring sheets!

The beauty of the sunflower dates very far back to at least 2600 BC in Mexico. The Aztecs and the Incas used the sunflower as the symbol of their solar deity. In modern day, it is the state flower of Kansas, the national flower of Ukraine and one of the city flowers of Kitakyushu, Japan. Sunflowers are so popular that they have been the subjects of many paintings, including Van Gogh’s most famous still life, “Sunflowers.” Now they can become your own source of artwork with sunflower coloring pages.

For spring flowers, Sunflowers have a lot of uses. Sunflower seeds are sold as a popular snack food, made famous at baseball games. Or top off a salad with the seeds. Even birds enjoy sunflower seeds in bird feeders! Sunflowers can also be made into a peanut butter alternative and sunflower oil. Possibly one of the most interesting, and not widely known, fact about sunflowers is that they can be used to extract toxic ingredients from soil, like lead, uranium and arsenic.

After learning all this about sunflowers, you must want sunflower coloring pictures to print! Well, you’re in the right place to start fun coloring projects. And because these pictures are free to print, this will be the best art project yet!