Cat Playing With Yarn Coloring Page

About this coloring page

A round-faced cat sits with a ball of yarn, the thread unwinding in loops across the floor in front of it. The unwound thread is what makes this drawing more interesting than a plain cat: it is one long line travelling across the page, and following it with a crayon is a genuinely useful bit of practice for a child still learning to control where the tip goes. The cat itself is built from large simple shapes, with the face, ears and paws clearly separated so a tabby or a patched cat is easy to do without any planning. Most children color the yarn to match the cat, which nobody should discourage, though a contrasting thread is what makes the picture read from across the room. Printed as a cat coloring sheet the yarn thread runs close to the edge in places, so print with a margin rather than borderless if you intend to trim or frame it.

Color suggestions

• Ginger cat, blue yarn
• Grey tabby with white paws
• Black cat with a red ball of yarn
• Patchwork cat in any three colors

Did you know?

• Cats have five toes on each front paw but only four on each back paw, which is why their front and back prints look different.
• A cat's purr sits at roughly 25 to 150 hertz, a range that has been linked in studies to encouraging bone and tissue healing.