Letter C Coloring Page with a Kitten and a Cherry-Topped Cupcake

A wide-eyed kitten sits next to a tall cupcake under a big capital C and a smaller lowercase c on this letter C coloring page. The cupcake has a swirl of frosting, a cherry on top and a pleated paper liner. The kitten has a fluffy chest, long whiskers and a tail that curls up beside it.

It is a free printable for preschool and kindergarten classes, around ages 3 to 6, and for families who make an alphabet book at home. The letters are open curves with no holes inside, which makes them a simple first shape to color.

How this coloring page was created

We typed this idea into Colorin AI to make the page: "the capital letter C and the lowercase letter c side by side, drawn large as hollow outlined letters ready to color across the top half of the page, with a cat and a cupcake below them".

The words "hollow outlined" turned each letter into a thick outline with an empty inside, wide enough to color with a crayon. "Side by side" set the capital C and the lowercase c next to each other, and the lowercase c is drawn smaller, so the size difference between the letters shows at a glance. "Below them" put the cat and the cupcake together in the lower half.

Details of This Letter C Coloring Page

The capital C and the lowercase c have the same shape at two sizes. That makes the page a clear example of a letter that looks almost the same in uppercase and lowercase. Cat and cupcake begin with the hard c sound, the same sound as k.

A speech therapist can ask a child to say "cat" and "cupcake" aloud before coloring them. A teacher can also point out that cherry starts with the letter c, with a different sound.

The kitten sits facing forward with two pointed ears and a small tuft of fur on top of its head. Its eyes are large, with two white shine spots in each, and its small rounded nose sits above an open smiling mouth. Three whiskers spread from each cheek. A fluffy tuft of fur covers its chest, its front paws rest side by side, and its tail curls up on the left side of the page.

The cupcake liner has a wavy top edge, and six straight lines divide it into seven strips. The frosting winds up in a spiral of rolls that get narrower toward the top, and a round cherry sits on the highest roll. The cherry stem curves to the right and ends in a tiny heart.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

The seven strips of the liner are made for a pattern. A child can color every other strip, or give each strip its own color, and the liner looks like a real paper cup. Pink or white frosting with a red cherry is the classic look, and the heart on the stem can be red to match.

For the kitten, gray, orange or cream all work, with a lighter shade for the tuft on its chest. Leave the shine spots in its eyes white so the eyes stay bright.

To make a C page with a child's name or their own favorite animal on it, generate a letter page of your own.

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