Cat Coloring Pages

Cats choose their own spots, and in the free cat coloring pages below each one has found a different place: a rainy windowsill, a patchwork quilt, the bench of an upright piano, a tiled roof above the city. The cats have round heads, big eyes and clean outlines, and what surrounds them ranges from a bare cushion for a toddler to a whole furnished room for a grown-up.

Where the cats turn up, sorted by mood:

• Sleepy cats on a stack of books, in a basket, under a quilt and wrapped in a checked blanket on a windowsill.
• Cats with yarn, from a tuxedo cat with a paw on one ball to a fluffy cat tangled in a whole room of wool.
• Kittens in a bubble bath, pouncing on a toy feather, hiding in a decorated box and pulling a book off a shelf.
• Dressed-up cats: a chef, an astronaut, a princess in a crown and a gentleman in a top hat and monocle.
• Cats outdoors, chasing butterflies, sitting in a boat among lily pads, or perched on a branch full of birds.

Cozy cat coloring pages: naps, books and rainy windows

A large part of the collection is the cat at home, doing what cats do best. One sleeps on a pile of books beside a cup of tea, one curls up in a basket, one watches the rain from a window seat with a crayon and a basket nearby. Another sits in a laundry basket of folded towels, bubbles in the air and a rubber duck below.

These pages have a lot of furniture to fill, so they reward a slow pace. A good habit is to choose the cat's colors first, then pick a room palette that stands apart from them: a ginger cat on a blue quilt, a gray cat on a yellow armchair. Without that contrast the cat melts into the cushions.

More cats asleep on bookshelves, towels and plaid cushions share that mood in the cozy coloring pages.

Kitten coloring pages for little hands

For the youngest colorers, the kitten coloring pages are the place to start. A round head and big eyes give small hands a large target.

• A kitten standing next to a toy feather, ready to pounce.
• A kitten asleep on a round cushion among moon and star pillows.
• A kitten playing with a ball of yarn beside its food bowl.
• A kitten on a bookshelf, pulling a book from the row under a globe.

The kitten in the clawfoot tub, under the shower head and beside a heart curtain, is a favorite for bath time talk. Children who want only baby cats will find a whole collection of them in the kitten coloring pages, with kittens in teapots, sun hats and curtains.

How to color a tabby, ginger or tuxedo cat

Most children want to color the family cat, and a cartoon outline takes real coat colors well. Cat coats follow a few rules, and a page colored by those rules looks like a real cat.

Tabby cats

Every tabby carries a dark mark on its forehead shaped like the letter M. The stripes come in a few patterns: mackerel (thin stripes down the sides, like a fish skeleton), classic (wide swirls with a bullseye on each flank) and spotted.

1. Color the whole cat in a light brown or gray.
2. Draw the stripes on top with the same pencil, pressed harder.
3. Add rings around the legs and the tail, and the M on the forehead.

The striped tabby on the porch step, between two potted ferns, already has its stripes drawn in, so the method works right away.

Ginger, black and white, and black

• Ginger cats: pale orange on the belly, a deeper rust along the back, a chin left almost white. Most ginger cats are male.
• Calico and tortoiseshell cats (patches of orange and black) are almost always female, because the gene for orange sits on the X chromosome.
• Tuxedo cats, like the black and white cat beside two balls of yarn, need only the chest, paws and muzzle left white.
• Siamese cats are pale with dark ears, face, paws and tail. The dark color grows on the cooler parts of the body, which is why Siamese kittens are born almost white.

Eyes are the place to go bright: green, amber, copper or pale blue, with a small white dot left uncolored so the cat looks alive.

Black cat coloring pages and Halloween cats

The black cat in this collection sits in a garden of roses with a butterfly beside it, which is an easy page to keep all year. Filled in solid black, a cat turns into a flat silhouette. Shade the body dark gray first, save the deepest black for the ears, the tail tip and the outline, and let a sliver of white paper run along the spine where light would shine on the fur.

For a Halloween cat, the Halloween coloring pages have a cat in a witch hat riding a broomstick, a black cat leaping over a picket fence and another sitting on a carved pumpkin under a crescent moon. The ghost coloring pages add a friendly ghost blowing soap bubbles around a black cat. A green or orange pair of eyes is all a Halloween black cat needs to stand out.

Cat and dog coloring pages for two kids

Cat and dog coloring pages are often wanted together, usually by a parent printing for two children who each have a favorite. The dog coloring pages are drawn in the same style, so a mixed stack looks like a set, and one of them shows a golden retriever puppy tangled in yarn while a kitten watches from a chair.

The friendship coloring pages have a puppy and a kitten asleep together in a wicker basket. For a pair of cats, the Valentine's coloring pages show two cats on a rooftop with their tails curled into a heart, and a mother cat curled around her sleeping kittens belongs to the Mother's Day coloring pages.

Funny cat coloring pages: chef, astronaut and pianist

Some sheets give the cat a job, and these are the ones children laugh at:

• A cat chef in an apron and tall hat, baking a heart-shaped cake.
• A cat astronaut in a space helmet, floating among stars, planets and a rocket ship.
• A cat playing an upright piano under sheets of music pinned to the wall.
• A princess cat on a pillow, wearing a crown, with a castle and the moon behind her.
• A cat drinking from a teacup beside books and a feather quill.

There is also a cat island with houses, trees and a compass, ringed by paw prints, which can turn into a treasure map if a child adds a dotted path and an X. Space fans can follow the astronaut to the planets coloring pages, where another cat sits on the Moon.

Simple cat pages for toddlers, cat coloring pages for adults

A two- or three-year-old needs one cat and very little else, like the fluffy cat licking its paw on a cushion, the kitten with the feather or the cat beside a can of cat food. A tap on Quick to color brings those lone cats on plain ground to the front of the grid:

• A playful kitten pouncing on a feather toy
• A fluffy cat licking its paw on a cushion
• A kitten asleep among star and moon pillows

The cat coloring pages for adults are the ones where patchwork, wicker, bookshelves and garden flowers reach every corner of the sheet. Lots of detail lines up those crowded rooms and gardens:

• A princess cat in a crown on a cushion
• A black cat and a butterfly among roses
• A cat on a wicker chair watching a bird

The cat mandala, a ring of smiling cat faces with little hearts between them, sits between the two. Grown-ups who enjoy it will like the adult coloring pages or the round designs of the mandala coloring pages.

The garden pages bring in other animals worth a bright color. The butterflies around a sundial lead to the butterfly coloring pages, and the Maine Coon on a branch among flying birds to the bird coloring pages.

Christmas cats, the Cat in the Hat and other famous cats

Cats turn up all over the site:

• A Christmas cat: a kitten in a stocking, holding a candy cane and a teddy bear, hangs among the Christmas coloring pages.
• The Cat in the Hat, in his striped top hat and bow tie, in the Dr. Seuss coloring pages.
• Cakey Cat and Pillow Cat in the Gabby's Dollhouse coloring pages.
• A cat shaped like a loaf of bread in the kawaii coloring pages.

Fans of Pete the Cat, the cool cat of James Dean's picture books, can turn any sitting cat here into Pete: color him blue, give him big yellow eyes, and draw a pair of white sneakers on his feet.

For wild cats, the cheetah coloring pages include a serval, a smaller spotted wild cat with very big ears.

Printing cats for a fridge gallery or a cat book

Each cat downloads as a 300 dpi PDF cut to A4, filling an A4 page at actual size. Letter-size paper calls for fit to page, and the cat shrinks a little but keeps every whisker. For a cat coloring book for a birthday or a long car trip, tick Add to pack under your favorites and one PDF holds them all.

Each setting is pictured in the printing guide. These cats were drawn here, and families, schools and parties can print them freely.