Saint Francis of Assisi smiles in a garden on this Catholic saints coloring page, wearing a friar's robe with a rope belt and a round halo behind his head. One small bird rests on his shoulder and a second bird perches on his raised hand. A spotted deer looks up at him from one side, and a rabbit sits near his feet on the other. The robe and the animals are large shapes and the knotted rope takes more patience, so the page has medium difficulty for ages 6 and up.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "Saint Francis of Assisi in a hooded friar's robe tied with a rope belt, with a halo around his head, smiling in a garden with small birds on his arm and a deer and a rabbit beside him, drawn with clean outlines, the whole figure kept small enough to leave a wide white margin below it, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page".

How to use it

A catechist can say the saint's name and add one sentence about his life. Saint Francis is known for his love of animals, and a well-known story tells of him preaching to the birds. Children can color the page on his feast day or during a unit on the saints. To color the saint your parish is named for, make a page of that saint.