Every year on 23 September, Saudi Arabia marks the unification of the Kingdom by King Abdulaziz in 1932, the year the state took the name the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In Saudi schools it becomes a week of flags, songs and a great deal of crayon, and coloring is a good way to get a five-year-old asking what the day is for. Everything here is free to print, from Saudi National Day coloring pages to classroom ideas.
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Saudi National Day 2026 at a glance
The 96th National Day was on Wednesday 23 September 2026 (12 Rabi’ al-Thani 1448 AH). The slogan is عزّنا بطبعنا (Izzuna bi-tab’ina), the same one used in 2025, now with a new design. The General Entertainment Authority announced the 2026 identity on 27 July.
The 96 identity, in words a child can follow
The slogan عزّنا بطبعنا is hard to squeeze into one English line. Izz is pride, honor and strength. Tab’ is nature or character, the good habits you carry around with you. So the slogan says that our pride comes from who we are and how we behave. To a six-year-old I would put it simply: “We are proud of our good character.”
The 2026 design uses geometric lines and patterns taken from traditional Saudi weaving, and the poster is titled “Six values, one identity”. Every phrase begins with Izzuna, “our pride”, and ends with a different value.
The official 2026 poster. Each value has its own small picture and its own color.
| Phrase | Say it | In English | For a child |
|---|---|---|---|
| عزّنا بشجاعتنا | Izzuna bi-shaja’atina | Our pride is in our courage | Doing the right thing even when you are a little scared, like telling the truth or saying sorry. |
| عزّنا برؤيتنا | Izzuna bi-ru’yatina | Our pride is in our vision | Looking ahead, picturing something good and walking toward it one step at a time. |
| عزّنا بأصالتنا | Izzuna bi-asalatina | Our pride is in our roots | Loving our language, our kind customs and our grandparents’ stories, and passing them on. |
| عزّنا بهمّتنا | Izzuna bi-himmatina | Our pride is in our determination | Trying again and finishing what you start, like climbing a mountain step by step. |
| عزّنا بجودنا | Izzuna bi-joodina | Our pride is in our generosity | Giving freely and happily: your time, your help, or half of your snack. |
| عزّنا بكرمنا | Izzuna bi-karamina | Our pride is in our hospitality | Welcoming a guest warmly and offering the best you have. |
Children always ask whether jood and karam are the same. They overlap. I explain it this way: jood is giving freely to anyone who needs something, and karam is how we treat a guest. Lending your pencil to a friend who forgot his is jood. Offering coffee and dates to a visitor is karam. That is a teaching shortcut, not a dictionary definition.
On the poster each value has its own picture: a tree for roots, the coffee pot (dallah) for hospitality, a vessel for generosity, a star pattern for vision, a sword for courage and a mountain for determination.
The six official scenes: courage, vision, roots, determination, generosity and hospitality, each in front of woven textiles.
These six pictures are a ready-made set of coloring ideas. Let a child draw one symbol, then fill the background with repeating shapes the way a weaver would.
Free Saudi National Day coloring pages (PDF and images)
To save a page on a computer, right-click the image and choose “Save image as”. On a phone or tablet, press and hold the image and choose “Download image” or “Save to Photos”. The PDF buttons are better for printing, since each is a complete pack in the right order. Most are US Letter size, so on A4 paper choose “Fit to page” in the print window (the 2021 pack is already A4). If an image saves as .webp and your printer app refuses it, print from the PDF.
The عزّنا بطبعنا pack, 15 pages
This pack was drawn for the 95th National Day in 2025. The slogan has not changed, so it still fits 2026. Most pages in the PDF show the number 95, and two of them appear below with a caption saying so. Five pages carry no number at all, and those come first.
A child with a flag and the slogan in big outline letters to fill in.
A boy with the flag, good for the flag lesson below.
“Our pride is in our roots”: a tree in a patterned frame. There are lots of tiny shapes, so it suits seven and up with sharp pencils.
“Our pride is in our hospitality”: the coffee pot in its own patterned frame.
A family of five under “Our pride is in our roots”. A good page for talking about what grandparents taught us.
Shows the number 95. The palm over two crossed swords is the state emblem, which the palm-tree craft below starts from.
Shows the number 95. A busy scene with room for plenty of green.
Older packs that still work
These three come from earlier years. Some pages carry an old number or slogan, but many are plain flags, maps and skylines.
“Color your homeland”: a skyline with fireworks, no number. The pack also has an astronaut-and-rocket page for “We dream and we achieve”.
Four round pictures with big areas to color, easy for the youngest.
A heart-shaped maze: help Mona reach her brother Ahmed. It is also good practice for pencil control.
A dot-to-dot camel: join the dots, then color. Other pages in this pack show the 2021 number and slogans.
Classroom and home activity ideas
Color the flag the right way
Start with the flag, because children remember it better when they are asked to get it right. The background is green. The Shahada and the sword underneath are white, so on a black-and-white page that means coloring around the writing and never over it. A green pencil held lightly works better than a marker, which bleeds across thin Arabic lines. Because the flag carries the Shahada, I ask children to treat the finished page with care: it goes on the wall, never on the floor. Pick a page where the writing on the flag is drawn in outline, like the boy above.
A paper palm tree
The state emblem is a palm tree above two crossed swords, and the palm is the part small hands can make. Trace a child’s hand four or five times on green paper and cut the shapes out (or tear them, for the very young). Glue them as fronds above a trunk made from a strip of brown paper. Color the emblem on the camel page first, so the children have a model beside them.
Patterns from traditional weaving
The 2026 design borrows from weaving, so let children try some. Paper weaving suits ages five to seven. Fold a sheet of colored paper in half and draw parallel lines from the fold, stopping about 2 cm before the edge. Cut along the lines, then weave strips of another color, each 2 cm wide, over and under. Tape the ends at the back. Four- to six-year-olds can print rows of triangles with a potato or a sponge instead. The teacher does the cutting of the potato, always.
“What makes me proud” cards
Read the six values aloud, then give each child a card with this frame: “I am proud of my ____. I show it when I ____.” A child who picks generosity might finish it with “I am proud of my kindness. I show it when I share my snack.” Younger children draw their answer and you write the sentence underneath. Pinned in a row, the cards become the poster’s six values in the children’s own words.
Saudi National Day slogans, 2020 to 2026
Since 2021 each slogan has stayed for two years, so pages made for one year usually fit the next.
| National Day | Year | Slogan | Say it | In English |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96th | 2026 | عزّنا بطبعنا | Izzuna bi-tab’ina | Our pride is in our nature |
| 95th | 2025 | عزّنا بطبعنا | Izzuna bi-tab’ina | Our pride is in our nature |
| 94th | 2024 | نحلم ونحقق | Nahlum wa nuhaqqiq | We dream and we achieve |
| 93rd | 2023 | نحلم ونحقق | Nahlum wa nuhaqqiq | We dream and we achieve |
| 92nd | 2022 | هي لنا دار | Hiya lana daar | It is our home |
| 91st | 2021 | هي لنا دار | Hiya lana daar | It is our home |
| 90th | 2020 | همة حتى القمة | Himma hatta al-qimma | Determination all the way to the summit |
The 2021 and 2022 slogan comes from folk poems and songs that call the homeland a home.
National Day pictures and backgrounds
Eight pictures for a class display, a greeting or a screen background. A caption gives a year only when the picture itself shows one.
A poster with the date front and center.
A father and child on a camel.
A cartoon girl in green. Handy for a name tag.
A cream-and-gold background with the date.
“Dam izzuk ya watani”, May your glory last, my homeland.
A greeting-card style picture with the words “Saudi National Day” in Arabic.
From 2022: a green ribbon around the same line of calligraphy, with the number 92 in the middle.
From 2022: “Nafkhar bi-majdik”, We are proud of your glory, above a green skyline.
Quick questions
Which pages suit younger children?
For three- and four-year-olds, look for big shapes: the child with a flag, the four circles and the dot-to-dot camel. The patterned tree and coffee pot suit seven and up.
Do you have other coloring pages?
Yes. Our Islamic printable worksheets include coloring pages of mosques, camels and more, and the Arabic alphabet worksheets are a quiet next step once the coloring is done.
