Cat Coloring Pages for Kids — Free & Printable

The Sitting Kitten. The classic portrait, and the very first cat in our library: a friendly kitten sitting up tall and facing you, big round eyes, whiskers out, tail curled up beside it. Big simple shapes make this the easiest cat for the youngest colorists — in its colored version it is a soft grey kitten with green eyes and a pink nose.

The Striped Tabby. A tabby on the move, standing in side profile with its tail held high. The stripes are the whole fun of this page: color them in orange like a classic ginger tabby, in grey, or in rainbow order — every stripe is its own little coloring decision.

The Sleeping Cat. A cat doing what cats do best: curled up fast asleep in a round bed, tail wrapped around, little Zzz letters drifting up. Real cats sleep about 12 to 16 hours a day, so this is the most honest cat in the set — a calm, gentle page that is perfect for quiet time.

The Kitten and the Yarn. Playtime: a kitten with one paw raised, mid-pounce on a big ball of yarn, with a loose strand curling across the floor. The yarn ball is a page inside the page — color it one bright color, or give every loop of yarn a different one.

The Friendly Cat Face. Just the face, big and friendly: pointy ears, round eyes, whiskers, and a smile. The face close-up is the fastest page to finish and the most fun to decorate — this one has patches on its fur, so it is made for calico colors: white, orange, and black.

The Cat at the Window. A cat on a windowsill, nose up, watching a butterfly flutter past outside. Cats are champion watchers — a windowsill is their television. The window frame and the butterfly make this the most detailed page in the set, a good next step for older kids.

All six outline pages and all six colored versions are completely free — no account, no sign-up, no watermark. Just open, print, and color.

Every cat in the set also has a finished colored version. They are lovely to look at on their own — and on the kids page they do something special, explained below: they draw their own outlines first, and then their colors fade in.

Coloring tip: kids can copy the colors from the finished versions, invent completely different ones, or color the outline first and then check their finished cat against the colored one. Start with the real cat palette — orange tabby stripes, soft grey, jet black, or calico patches of white, orange, and black — and do not forget the pink inner ears and pink nose on every cat.

The cats live in the kids section of TimelapsePhoto.art, in the Animals category, alongside the fox, bear, dog, sheep, elephant, and unicorn pages. Printing takes less than a minute:

1. 1. Open the kids page and tap the Animals category to see all six cat pictures.
2. 2. Open the outline picture you want, then use your browser print option (or save the image first and print it). The high-contrast black-and-white outlines print cleanly on standard letter or A4 paper.
3. 3. Color away. Crayons, markers, and colored pencils all work well on the bold outlines. Try an orange tabby with darker stripes, a grey cat on a teal bed, a cream kitten with a bright pink yarn ball, a calico face, or a black cat against a blue window sky.

Here is the part that makes these cats different from a static printable. On the kids page, press play on a cat and it draws itself stroke by stroke, like an invisible hand is sketching it. With the colored versions, there is a second act: once the outline is complete, the full color fades in, so a plain line drawing turns into a finished colored cat right before your eyes.

Teachers can build a whole cat moment around this. On the free For Teachers & Schools page, you can select all six cats — outline and colored versions alike — and play them as one continuous drawing show on the classroom screen, add your school logo, loop it for quiet time, or record it as a single video.

Kids own finished pages can join the fun as well: photograph a colored cat, upload it to the drawing animation tool, and watch their exact artwork redraw itself as a video — free, with no sign-up. And if your family has a real cat, our pet photo to coloring page guide shows how to turn its photo into a printable page of its very own.

1. Cats are champion sleepers. A pet cat sleeps about 12 to 16 hours a day — some sleep even more. That is why the sleeping cat in this set looks so content: napping is a cat’s full-time job, with breaks for snacks and play.

2. Whiskers are sensors. A cat’s whiskers can feel tiny changes in the air and help the cat judge whether it can fit through a gap. Whiskers are so sensitive that cats use them almost like extra eyes in the dark — never trim them.

3. A group of cats has a funny name. A group of cats is called a clowder, and a group of kittens is called a kindle. So the six cats in this set, colored together, make one very cheerful clowder.

4. Cats have more bones than people. A cat has over 230 bones — more than a human — and no collarbone, which is part of why cats are so bendy and can squeeze through surprisingly small spaces.

5. A cat has been to space. In 1963 a French cat named Félicette became the first — and still the only — cat to travel to space and come back safely. She has a statue in her honor, which feels exactly right for a cat.

Cats are six faces in a much bigger library. The kids page now has more than 110 printable outline pages across 14 categories — Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, Sea Animals, Animals, Dinosaurs, Space Explorers, Princess, K-Pop Stars, Mermaids, Fairies, Unicorns & Rainbows, Kid Superheroes, and Kawaii Food — every one free to print, and every one able to draw itself. Start with our bear coloring pages or fox coloring pages, our dinosaur coloring pages, or the seasonal sets: free Christmas coloring pages and free Thanksgiving coloring pages.

Want a coloring page of your own cat? The free photo to coloring page converter turns any photo — your cat, another pet, a family picture, a favorite toy — into a printable outline page, right in your browser, with a Color by Number mode too.