Bubble tea colouring page

A tall cup with a domed lid, a wide straw and a heap of round pearls filling the bottom.

A tall tapered cup stands upright in the middle of the sheet. A domed lid sits on top with a rim band across it, and a wide straw comes through a hole in the dome and stands up at an angle, its cut end visible at the top. Inside the cup a horizontal line marks the surface of the drink, and below it the straw continues down through the liquid. The bottom quarter of the cup is filled with a heap of round pearls, drawn as separate circles stacked in three rough rows. The cup, the lid and the straw are all completely plain — there is no label, no logo and no lettering anywhere.

The drawing divides into three areas that behave completely differently, which is unusual on a subject this simple. The domed lid is a single smooth shape. The body of the drink is one very large open field. And the pearls are a dozen small circles crowded together. A sheet with that spread suits two people working at once, since the pearls and the drink are not the same kind of job at all.

The pearls are worth doing first. They overlap, so each one is a circle with pieces bitten out of it by the ones in front, and colouring them all the same dark tone is the reading that matches the drink. Leaving alternate pearls lighter is the version that makes the heap look three-dimensional, and it is easier than it sounds because the drawing has already stacked them in rows.

The drink above them is the largest area on the page and the one that decides the sheet's colour. Because the straw runs down through it, it is split into two tall lanes rather than one field, and those two can differ slightly — a shade deeper on one side of the straw than the other reads as depth in a glass. A flat single fill also works and takes a fraction of the time.

The straw is a long narrow lane with an open cut end at the top, and it is the one shape here that benefits from a strong contrasting colour. It crosses both the lid and the drink, so whatever goes on it appears in two places, which ties the top and the middle of the drawing together. Its cut end is a small ellipse and can be left white to look like an opening.

The domed lid is a broad shape with a rim band beneath it, and leaving the dome white while colouring the band is the quickest way to make the lid look like clear plastic. Filling the dome makes it opaque, which is a fine choice but a different object. Leaving the paper blank here does more work than filling it would.

Bubble tea usually gets a pale creamy drink with dark pearls, and the drawing is built around that contrast: the pearls are drawn as separate circles precisely because they need to be visible against whatever is above them. Any colour works for the drink as long as it is lighter than the pearls; if the drink goes dark, the pearls should go light instead, and the sheet still reads.

Print at actual size on plain A4 paper so the overlapping edges between the pearls stay open. If markers are the plan, use them on the drink and the lid and keep a pencil for the pearls, or the heap will merge into a single dark block. Cut out along the outline and the cup comes away with the straw attached and standing above it, which is a tall narrow shape that suits a window better than a shelf.

Published 29 August 2026Updated 29 August 2026615 words