76 Cat Coloring Pages

These free cat coloring pages come as 76 printable sheets, all drawn in the same round, big eyed style, and the range of what the cat is doing is the point. There is a wizard cat stirring a cauldron under hanging herbs, an astronaut cat, a pirate with a treasure chest, a baker, a diver, a scientist in a space station, and a cat on a throne in a castle.

The rest split into two calmer groups. One is flowers, and there are a lot of them: a kitten curled inside a sunflower, another under lavender, others with peonies, roses, daisies and hydrangeas. The other is the ordinary cat life anybody with a cat recognizes, sitting in an open cardboard box among the packing paper, asleep in a woven basket, by the fireplace, playing with a ball of yarn. Every page is free, downloads as a PDF, prints on Letter or A4, and you can print it as many times as you want.

Want a cat doing something we did not draw, like playing a violin? Make that one in seconds.

What can you do with these 76 cat pages?

The first thing worth doing is coloring one as your own cat. The cat is the one animal here that a lot of people already own, so the sheet stops being a generic printable the moment the markings match the one asleep on the sofa, and a child will work much harder on a page that is a portrait of somebody they know. That is usually the difference between a page that ends up on the fridge and one that ends up in the recycling.

The costume pages are also an easy way to talk about jobs without turning it into a lesson. The baker has an apron and a tray, the scientist has the space station around her, the diver has the tank and the chest, so a child can tell you what each one does from the objects alone. Ask Colorin AI for a cat doing the job someone in your family does.

And the flower pages are the ones to keep for cards. A kitten inside a sunflower or under a peony crown, colored and trimmed, is a birthday card for a cat person, and there are enough of them in the set to make several without repeating yourself.

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What colors do you use for cat coloring pages?

Cats are the rare subject where the answer is a short list of real names, so the useful move is to pick one before the pencil touches the paper. An orange tabby is orange with darker stripes and a pale chin. A tuxedo is black with a white chest and white paws. A calico is patches of orange, black and white, and almost every calico in the world is female, which is a good fact to hand a child halfway through a page. A Siamese is cream all over with a dark face, ears, paws and tail.

The good part is that one sheet covers all of them. Print the same cat four times and you can hand back an orange tabby, a tuxedo, a calico and a Siamese, and they will look like four different cats, which is a trick this subject gives you and most others do not. The Siamese is the one to try first if you want the biggest result for the least work, since it is really four dark patches on a pale cat and it comes out looking deliberate every time. And whichever coat you choose, spend the effort on the eyes: green or amber does more for a cat page than anything you do to the fur. Want the tabby stripes drawn right into the artwork so you can just fill them in? Ask Colorin AI for a striped tabby.

How we made this collection

Here is what sets this collection apart from a stock coloring site: none of these pages existed until we asked for them. We described each scene in a single sentence, typed it into Colorin AI, and it drew the whole thing, the potion bottles on the shelf and the herbs hanging from the ceiling included. The formula behind every one of them is the same: a cat, dressed as something, somewhere that explains it.

The wizard page started as a kitten in a pointed hat stirring a bubbling cauldron, with potion bottles on a shelf and dried herbs hanging above. Take the hat off and put the cat in a helmet and you get the astronaut page. Drop the costume entirely and sit it in a flower and you get the sunflower page. One noun for the outfit, one for the room around it.

Making a card for a cat person? Make their cat holding a bouquet.

Why are cat coloring pages so popular?

Cat coloring pages are popular because the cat is the animal most likely to already be in the house. A child who colors one is not coloring an animal from a book, they are coloring something that is asleep three feet away, and that closeness is why the category never goes quiet the way seasonal ones do. Adults look for them for the same reason, usually the flower and window ones rather than the pirate.

The shape is what makes 76 pages possible. Two triangles for ears and a tail is enough for a cat to survive any costume you put it in, so a cat in a space helmet still reads instantly as a cat, and the collection can wander from a cauldron to a cardboard box without ever losing the animal.