Farm Animal Coloring Pages
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Cute farm animal coloring pages featuring cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, horses, and busy barnyard scenes.
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Farm animals are usually a toddler's first drawing subject, and the reason is sound: each animal is one simple silhouette attached to one memorable sound. These farm animal coloring pages keep that simplicity, cows and calves, hens and chicks, pigs in mud, sheep, goats, donkeys and ducks, with thick outlines and very few internal lines. Each downloads as a free printable PDF sized for US Letter paper.
Happy Cow Standing in a Meadow is the best of these for a first coloring attempt, since the body is one large shape and the patches can be filled in any order. Mother Hen With Baby Chicks introduces counting alongside coloring. Pig Playing in the Mud is the one that gets chosen, every time, by anyone under five.
For a very young child, the useful instruction is not "stay in the lines" but "which color is the cow?" Naming the animal and its color while filling it in does more for the activity than accuracy does, and the large shapes here are drawn to make that possible.
There is one technique worth teaching even at this age, and the cow is the place to do it. Ask the child to leave part of the cow white rather than filling every bit of it, since a Holstein is white with black patches and not the other way round. Deciding which parts stay untouched is a real drawing decision, and it is far easier to make on a shape this large. The hen page rewards the same thinking: chicks are a soft yellow that reads best if the pencil stays light, and pressing hard turns them orange. On the pig, keep the mud brown well away from the pig's back so the animal still separates from the puddle it is sitting in. None of this needs saying out loud if a child is happy just filling shapes, but it is there if they want more to do.
Related sets: Horses, Turkeys, Tractors and Puppies.
Chickens have outgrown this hub and now have a set of their own. Chicken Coloring Pages holds 15 free printables covering hens, roosters, baby chicks, nesting scenes and a chicken coop, so start there if the barnyard bird is what you came for.
Frequently Asked Questions
What age are these farm animal pages for?
What colors should a cow be?
The familiar dairy cow is a Holstein, white with irregular black patches, no two animals patterned alike, which means whatever a child does is correct. Jerseys are a soft fawn brown, Herefords are red-brown with a white face, and Highland cattle are shaggy ginger. All are accurate.
Are pigs actually pink?
Many farm breeds are, but not all. Berkshires and Large Blacks are black, Tamworths are ginger red, and Gloucestershire Old Spots are white with black spots. Pigs roll in mud because they cannot sweat and it is how they cool down and protect their skin from sunburn, which is worth mentioning alongside the mud page. Our pig coloring pages go further into breeds, with a big spotted pig, a pot bellied pig and thirteen more sheets.
What is the difference between a sheep and a lamb?
A lamb is simply a sheep under a year old, so it is a difference of age rather than of kind. Lambs are drawn with shorter legs relative to the body and a tighter, curlier fleece, which is why Baby Lamb Sleeping in the Hay wants a lighter pencil than the grown Fluffy Sheep Standing in the Grass does.
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