Pig Coloring Pages

Draw the body first and draw it too fat. Almost everyone makes a beginner pig too thin, and a wide oval reads as a pig long before any detail is added. Put a smaller circle at one end for the head, overlapping the body rather than sitting beside it. Add the snout as a flat disc on the front of that circle with two small ovals inside, then two triangles on top for ears. Four short stumps underneath do for legs. Finish with the tail, one loose corkscrew, which is the single line that removes all doubt about what animal it is. Smiling Cartoon Pig Standing is built in exactly that order, so keep it beside you while you work.

Wild boar, the ancestor of every domestic pig, are dark brown to near black with coarse bristly hair, and their piglets are striped light and dark for camouflage. Pink is not original at all. It came out of selective breeding for pale skinned animals, and even now it is only some breeds: a Berkshire is black, a Tamworth is ginger red, a Gloucestershire Old Spot is white with large dark patches, and a Hampshire is black with a white band across the shoulders. So there is no wrong answer on these pages. A black pig, a ginger pig and a spotted pig are all as real as a pink one.

Color a sheet, cut the pig out, glue it to card and tape a craft stick to the back for a puppet. Pig Face Close Up is the one for that, because it is already head sized. Punch two holes at the ears, thread elastic through and the same sheet becomes a mask. A paper plate makes a good pig with nothing but a cardboard tube snout and two folded triangles. Pink playdough plus two buttons and a pipe cleaner tail takes about four minutes. And a coin bank made from a clean plastic bottle, four bottle caps for feet and a slot cut in the top is the classic, with a colored sheet from here glued on the side.

Pig Face Close Up has the thickest outlines and the fewest separate areas of anything here, and it suits a child from about age three. Pig Rolling On Its Back is nearly as forgiving, since almost the entire drawing is one enclosed circle. Pig Waving Hello and Smiling Cartoon Pig Standing are the natural next steps at four or five. Leave Pig Looking Over A Fence and Pot Bellied Pig Resting Under A Tree until seven or eight, because the fence boards and the tree canopy both need a steadier hand.

No, and deliberately so. Peppa Pig, Piglet from Winnie the Pooh and the Minecraft pig are all owned characters, and we do not draw or host them. Everything on this page is original artwork of ordinary pigs, which means you are free to print it, copy it for a classroom and hand it out without worrying about who owns the drawing. If a child specifically wants a named character, a coloring page is not the place to look for one.

Yes. Every sheet downloads as a free PDF and prints on standard US Letter paper. There is no account to create, no watermark across the artwork and no limit on how many copies you make, so a classroom set, a farm themed party or a library craft hour all work. The three or four simplest sheets are the ones worth printing in bulk, because young children go back to the same favorite again and again.