25 Lollipop Coloring Pages - Free!

Not only do kids love a sucker, or a lolly, but adults also enjoy this peculiar and delicious sweet.

And the best thing about lollipops is that they come in sizes for every taste and occasion. Excellent desserts to eat after a long day at school, right?

Now, how much do you know about lollipops? Surely you know they're the favorite sweets of many kids, but do you know a little about their history? Their production? How they're made?

We would love to teach you more about them. These sweets have different names in each country. In some they're known as candy lollipops, suckers, lollies, or sweet pops.

This dessert is actually a kind of reinvention of candy, so its preparation and ingredients are very similar.

If you want to learn more about lollipops you just have to dare to color the drawings we bring for you, this way you'll be able to learn a lot about your favorite sweet. Try it! You'll like it a lot.

1. Lollipops have their origin in the Middle Ages, or so they say. It was a long time ago!
2. In the Middle Ages, the nobility used to eat cooked sugar with the help of little sticks they used as handles. Does that remind you of any familiar sweet?
3. In Venezuela this popular sweet is known as a sucker.
4. In countries like Spain, it's known as a lolly, and in Brazil as a sweet pop. How interesting!
5. The word “lollypop” refers to lollipops in the United States, although in its early days it referred more to soft candies.
6. The Romani have sweets that are quite similar to lollipops, like caramelized apples, which are pierced with a stick used as a handle.
7. The modern invention of the lollipop is still a mystery, that is, it's not known who was the first to invent it.
8. The United States claims authorship of the lollipop in the 20th century.
9. The first references to the lollypop date back to the 1920s.
10. In Spain, lollipops were introduced thanks to Enric Bernat in 1958, through the Chupa Chups brand.
11. George Smith of Connecticut says he was the creator of the “lollypop” in 1931. The name comes from a very famous racehorse of the time.
12. In the 20th century, machines for mass-producing lollipops emerged. Many were already being produced at the same time!
13. July 20th is International Lollipop Day. And what better than to celebrate it with this treat?
14. It's said that this candy is derived from the old pirulí, a cone-shaped candy from Havana.
15. Have you ever blown through the hole in lollipop sticks as if it were a whistle? Well, this works to hold the sucker better.
16. Unlike the pirulí, the lolly has a flat cylindrical shape, whereas the pirulí has a cone or pyramid shape with a point.
17. The Bon Bon Bum is one of the most famous lollipops around the world, and they have an annual production of 172 million pops.
18. In lollipop production, when a smooth paste forms, they wait until the candy is moldable to make the lollipops.
19. In the Middle Ages, the nobility used to eat cooked sugar with the help of little sticks they used as handles. Does that remind you of any familiar sweet?
20. The idea of the modern lollipop arose as a treat that would allow young people not to get their fingers dirty.
21. The company Chupa Chups established itself in the global market in the 50s, and thanks to it, lollipops were introduced to Spain.
22. The wrapping machines for Bon Bon Bum pack between 700 and 800 lollipops per minute. That's a lot!
23. The sticks that hold some lollipops have a hole, have you noticed? Their function is to hold the treat well.
24. The first references to the lollypop date back to the 1920s.
25. When lollipops are cold, you have to pack them very quickly so that moisture doesn't affect them.