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3×3 Puzzle Template & Coloring Pages

Use these free printable templates as coloring pages or craft patterns. Choose Black and white for detailed line art to color on paper, or Outline for a simple shape to trace onto paper, card or felt and cut out. Set your size, save a PDF, and print at 100% or Actual size.

Make your own 3×3 paper puzzle with nine blank interlocking pieces. Draw inside the outlines, enlarge them for wall crafts, or export SVG files. The first nine choices are blank; nine illustrated garden pieces follow as an optional version.

Print the complete 180 mm board

For pieces that fit together, use these full-board PDFs. Print at 100% or Actual size, without Fit to page. Each board is 180 mm wide and uses the same scale.

Cut along the puzzle boundaries on the complete picture. The blank cutting template has only the shared outlines, for tracing or adding your own picture. This is a paper craft, not a precision jigsaw; small fitting differences are normal. Adults should help with scissors.

1. Choose a design

2. Set illustration size and style

Size details

Width starts at 1 cm, with no fixed 100 cm limit. Height keeps the original proportions. Large designs can span up to 100 printed sheets. In free arrangement, use Fit all designs after enlarging a design; adding sheets alone does not enlarge it.

Outline: outer contour for tracing and cutting out. Black and white: detailed line art for coloring pages and craft templates. Color: ready-made decorations.

Place multiple illustrations wherever you like, at any size.

Paper, line thickness and mirror

Tiled printing

Applies when printing across multiple sheets. With no overlap, trim the blank margins and align the image edges.

Save / load settings

Save a settings file to reuse later on this template page. Includes automatic arrangements, free layouts, paper, sizes and line thicknesses. Loading replaces the current settings; Undo restores them. Files are processed on your device.

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Save / Print

Print at 100% / Actual size.

Resize and print your puzzle pieces

The 18 choices (nine garden pieces and nine matching blank pieces) can be saved separately in Color, Black and White or Outline as PDF, SVG or transparent PNG. Individual resizing and free placement are useful for decorations, but do not automatically preserve the assembled picture: setting every piece to the same width will not make a matching puzzle. Use the full-board downloads above for assembly.

How do I make a large matching blank puzzle?

Choose Blank puzzle pieces 1–9. The tabs make their bounding widths different: do not give every piece the same width. For an approximately 90 cm square board, select cm and use these widths: pieces 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9: 30 cm; pieces 2 and 8: 40.2 cm; pieces 4 and 6: 35.1 cm. Keep the same scale factor for all widths if you change the board size. PDF tiles oversized pieces across pages; SVG preserves vector outlines. Arrange rows 1–3, 4–6, 7–9 without rotating or mirroring. Allow small paper-craft fitting differences.

How many pictures are included?

One 3×3 puzzle layout: nine blank pieces first, then an optional garden picture divided into the same nine pieces. There are 18 selectable options, not 18 different pictures. The whole-board PDFs are supporting print files.

Can I color the puzzle myself?

Yes. Print the black-and-white complete board, color the picture, then cut along its shared puzzle boundaries.