Kitten With Wool Coloring Page

About this coloring page

A kitten sitting with a bow on its collar and a ball of wool beside it. The wool is the useful part: it is drawn as a spiral, so following it round with a crayon is genuine practice at controlling where the tip goes, and it does not matter at all if a child strays. The kitten itself is built from large simple shapes with the face, ears and paws clearly separated, so a tabby or a patched kitten is easy without any planning. The bow takes one bright color and finishes the picture. Ginger, grey tabby, black, white and tortoiseshell are all real, and mentioning that a tortoiseshell cat is almost always female is the kind of fact children repeat to people. Printed at A4 the kitten and wool together fill the sheet with a clean margin. On ordinary paper all three of crayon, pencil and marker behave, though the spiral of the wool is fine enough that a thick tip will lose it.

Color suggestions

• Ginger with a white chest
• Grey tabby stripes
• Black with white paws
• Bright wool in a contrasting color

Did you know?

• Kittens are born both blind and deaf. Their ear canals open at about a week and their eyes at around ten days, and every kitten's eyes are blue at first regardless of what color they will end up.
• Tortoiseshell and calico cats are almost always female, because the genes for orange and black fur both sit on the X chromosome and a cat needs two of them to show both colors.