Chicken Coloring Pages
Free printable chicken coloring pages featuring baby chicks, smiling hens, crowing roosters, nesting scenes and detailed feather patterns.
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A chicken is one of the easiest animals for a child to draw and one of the most satisfying to colour, because every part of it is a different shape. A round body, a fan of tail feathers, a crest of comb on top and a pair of scaly legs underneath. These 15 free printable chicken coloring pages are built around that, from a single chick standing in the grass to a full rooster with every feather outlined for an adult. Every design downloads as a free PDF sized for US Letter paper, so you can print one at the kitchen table or thirty for a classroom.
The baby chick sheets come first, because that is what most people arrive looking for. Cute Baby Chick Standing in the Grass carries the thickest outlines in the set and has no interior lines at all, so a three year old can fill it without fighting the page. Baby Chick Hatching Out of an Egg puts two big separate shapes on the sheet and catches the moment children always ask about. Three Baby Chicks Standing in a Row works as a counting page as well as a coloring page. Big Smiling Cartoon Chicken is the simplest sheet here, one bird face on with nothing else around it.
The hen and rooster coloring sheets are where this set earns its name. Smiling Cartoon Hen Standing and Cartoon Rooster Crowing in the Morning print as a pair and make the difference between the two birds obvious in a second. Rooster Standing on a Wooden Fence Post adds straight plank shapes to balance all those curves. Hen Sitting on a Nest of Eggs and Mother Hen With Her Baby Chicks cover the two scenes that come up in every farm topic at school, and Chicken Coop With a Hen in the Doorway hands you a building to colour instead of a bird.
Pick your colours before you start, because real chickens are not one flat shade. A Rhode Island Red runs deep red brown across the whole body. A Plymouth Rock wears narrow black and white bars. A Leghorn is plain white with a bright comb, and a Buff Orpington is a soft golden colour all over. The comb, the wattles and the bare skin around the face stay red on almost every breed, and the beak and legs run yellow or slate grey. Colour the comb and wattles first and the bird reads as a chicken no matter what you do with the body. On the cartoon sheets you can throw all of that out and make the whole flock turquoise. It still works.
Five sheets step up in difficulty and drop the cartoon proportions. Detailed Rooster With Long Tail Feathers and Hen With Detailed Feathers in the Farmyard draw every feather as its own closed shape and reward a fine tipped pen. Rooster and Hen Standing Together in the Barnyard puts both birds on one sheet at full size. Patterned Chicken With Farm Flowers fills the body with bands of dots, teardrops and scallops inside a ring of open flowers, and Chicken Mandala With Eggs and Feathers rings a single face with repeating eggs and feathers for the adult at the table.
More printable line art in the same style: Farm Animals, Owls and Easter, where the chicks turn up again alongside the eggs and bunnies.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between a hen and a rooster on a coloring page?
Look at three things. The comb on top of the head is tall and spiky on a rooster and low and small on a hen. The tail is a long arch of curved sickle feathers on a rooster and a short flat fan on a hen. The wattles hanging under the beak are much larger on a rooster. Roosters also stand taller and hold their necks more upright. Print Cartoon Rooster Crowing in the Morning next to Smiling Cartoon Hen Standing and a child will spot all four differences without being told.
What colors should I use on a chicken?
Match a real breed and the sheet looks convincing straight away. Rhode Island Reds are deep red brown, Plymouth Rocks are barred black and white, Leghorns are white, Buff Orpingtons are golden, and Australorps are near black with a green sheen. Keep the comb and wattles red on all of them, and colour the beak and legs yellow or grey. Baby chicks are not always yellow either, so brown, grey, black or striped chicks are all correct.
Which chicken coloring page is easiest for a preschooler?
Big Smiling Cartoon Chicken has the fewest separate areas and the thickest lines, so it suits a child from about age three. Cute Baby Chick Standing in the Grass and Three Baby Chicks Standing in a Row are the natural next steps. Leave the two detailed feather sheets, the patterned chicken and the mandala for age eight and up.
How do I draw a chicken step by step?
Start with two circles, not with the outline. Draw a large circle for the body and a smaller one above and to one side for the head, then join them with two short curved lines for the neck. Add a triangle beak, one round eye and a comb of three or four bumps on top of the head. Hang two small rounded wattles under the beak. Draw one curved line inside the body for the wing, then a short fan of feathers at the back for the tail. Finish with two thin legs and three toes on each foot. Copy the pose from Smiling Cartoon Hen Standing while you work.
How long does it take a chick to hatch from an egg?
A hen sits on her eggs for about 21 days. The chick breaks out using a small hard point on the tip of its beak called an egg tooth, and the job takes the better part of a day from the first crack to the moment it is free. The egg tooth drops off within a few days and never grows back. Baby Chick Hatching Out of an Egg is the sheet to print while you explain it.
Can I print these chicken coloring sheets for a whole class?
Yes. Every design downloads as a free PDF and prints on standard US Letter paper. There is no account, no watermark and no limit on copies, so a classroom farm topic, a library group or a spring party all work.