Bunny Coloring Pages

Rabbits and hares are not the same animal, and the difference shows up the moment you start coloring one. A rabbit is born blind and hairless in an underground burrow, it sits compact, and its ears stay shorter against the head. A hare is born furred with its eyes open, above ground, and it carries longer ears and much longer hind legs. This collection covers both, plus the storybook Easter bunny that belongs to neither. Every page downloads as a free printable PDF sized for US Letter paper, 8.5 by 11 inches, with instant download and no account needed.

Simple sheets keep the animal as one large shape with a clean outline, which is what a three to six year old can actually finish. Cute Baby Bunny Sitting In The Grass, Bunny Holding A Large Carrot and Sleeping Bunny Curled Up In A Basket each give one subject and an uncluttered background. Fluffy Lop Eared Rabbit With Long Ears and Bunny Peeking Out Of A Flower Pot add a little more line work without crowding the page. These are the cute bunny coloring sheets for kids to start with.

Detailed sheets carry fur texture, foliage and more than one animal, and they hold an adult for an hour or longer. Wild Rabbit In A Woodland Clearing and Mother Rabbit With Her Baby Bunnies In The Burrow are the two most demanding pages in the set. Angora Rabbit With Long Fluffy Fur is the texture study, and Snowshoe Hare In A Winter Landscape is the one design here that belongs to January rather than spring, since the hare turns white in winter and brown again in summer.

Easter drives most of the year's demand for free rabbit coloring pages, so this collection meets it head on. Easter Bunny With A Basket Of Eggs and Bunny Surrounded By Spring Flowers And Butterflies print heavily through March and April, and both pair with the wider Easter set. Rabbit Eating Vegetables In A Garden, Two Bunnies Hopping Through A Meadow and Bunny In A Teacup With Ribbons And Bows work in any month.

Two decisions separate a convincing rabbit from a flat one. The first is the ears. Rabbit ears are thin enough that light passes straight through them, so the inner ear reads as a warm glow rather than a solid block. Leave the inner ear pale, lay a soft pink or peach down the center only, and keep the edges lighter than the middle. The second is that almost no wild rabbit is a single color. A cottontail is agouti, meaning each individual hair carries bands of brown, black and tan, and the result is a speckled gray brown back over a pale belly and a bright white tail. Build it with a light tan base across the whole animal, scribble a darker brown over the back and shoulders only, then leave the chin, belly and tail almost untouched. That contrast is what makes the tail read as a signal flag, which is exactly what it is.

The set has since grown well past the basics in two directions. Breed sheets now cover the Holland Lop, the Rex with its dense velvety coat, the Miniature Lion Head and the long legged jack rabbit, which are the pages to reach for when a child wants to color their own pet accurately. Playful scenes cover the rest: a bunny astronaut, a wizard bunny with a wand, a rabbit family picnic, a bunny baking cookies and a bunny reading a bedtime story to a row of babies.

More line art in this direction: Puppies, Foxes and Easter.