Comic templates to print

A storyboard to plan a story, a film or a comic

A storyboard is a plan for a story, drawn in boxes. Filmmakers make one before they film. Draw quick pictures in the boxes and write what happens on the lines underneath.

A free printable storyboard template for kids: six panels with two writing lines under each, on one sideways page. Plan a comic, a film or a story. Free, nothing to sign up for, and nothing you draw ever leaves the paper.

Letter is the US and Canada size; A4 is the size nearly everywhere else. It prints on one page, sideways.

Storyboard, 6 panels1 page · Letter · landscape

Storyboard, 6 panels1 page · A4 · landscape

How to use it

Print the page sideways, at 100% size.
Draw a quick sketch in each box. Fast and messy is right for a plan.
On the two lines under each box, write what happens, or what someone says.
Use it to make your real comic, a play, or a film with a phone and some toys.

Peabody's tips

A storyboard is for planning, so stick figures are perfect.
Draw an arrow in a box to show which way something moves.
Number your boxes if you change the order. Plans are meant to change.

Printing it right

Pick the button for your paper. In the print box, keep the size at 100% (sometimes called “Actual size”), not “Fit to page”, so the panels come out the size they were drawn. The page is black lines on white, so a black-and-white printer is all you need, and it uses very little ink. Every line sits at least 0.4 inches from the edge, inside the part of the page that home printers can reach.

More comic templates

All seven are on the comic templates page. Want a page with a story idea at the top? The Comic Page Maker makes one in three taps.