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Free Cattle Coloring Pages
Eight free printable cattle coloring pages, from a leaping calf for little hands to a shaggy standing cow for older kids. Download the PNG or print straight from this page.
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8 Cattle designs to color
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Cattle Coloring Page - Cute Smiling Face
Cattle Coloring Page - Simple Lying Down
Cattle Coloring Page - Longhorn Standing
Cattle Coloring Page - Spotted Standing
Cattle Coloring Page - Mother And Calf
Cattle Coloring Page - Humped Droopy Ears
Cattle Coloring Page - Detailed Shaggy Standing
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2. Print or download
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3. Color it in
Crayons, colored pencils or markers — plain paper works fine.
Every sheet is sized for landscape US Letter (11" x 8.5") at 200 DPI, so it fills the page without cropping. A4 works too — choose "fit to page" when printing.
while you color…
6 fun facts about the cattle
Cattle is the family name — cows, bulls, oxen and calves all belong to it.
A calf can usually stand up within an hour of being born.
Cattle can see almost all the way around themselves without turning their heads — about 330 degrees.
Longhorn cattle can grow horns longer than a grown-up is tall.
Cattle have no upper front teeth; they pull grass with their tongue and a hard pad on the roof of the mouth.
A cow's moo is unique, like a fingerprint — other cattle in the herd can tell who is calling.
About the cattle coloring page
Cattle is the name for the whole farm family: cows, bulls, oxen and calves. People have kept them for about 10,000 years for milk, meat, leather and for pulling ploughs. Children meet them on farm visits, in picture books and as the letter C animal, which makes a cattle page an easy one to sit down with.
Coat colour is wide open. Dairy cattle are often black-and-white patches. Others are warm brown, cream, ginger, or pale grey. The long-horned ones can be speckled; the shaggy ones of the Scottish hills are usually honey or ginger. There is no single "right" colour, so children can copy a breed they know or invent a rainbow cow. Point out the pink nose, which stays pale on almost every real animal.
The eight designs get steadily harder. First is a leaping calf with a big empty body — thick outlines for toddlers still learning to stay inside the lines. Next a close-up smiling face, then a cow lying down with a few large spots. A longhorn with sweeping horns and a plain body sits in the middle. After that the detail climbs: a spotted dairy cow standing in profile, a mother nuzzling her calf, cattle with a shoulder hump and drooping ears, and finally a shaggy standing cow whose coat is drawn in for children who like a long, careful project.
Every sheet prints on landscape US Letter paper at 200 DPI, so the animal fills the page without being cut off. Plain copier paper is fine for crayons and colored pencils. If you are using markers or paint, slightly thicker card stock stops the colour bleeding through — worth doing on the shaggy cow, where the fur lines sit close together.
In the classroom these pages pair well with a lesson on farm animals, on where milk comes from, or on the letter C. The mother-and-calf sheet is a simple baby-and-grown-up comparison. Print two or three different designs and let each child pick: the leaping calf is finished in a few minutes, while the shaggy cow can fill a whole quiet afternoon, which keeps a mixed-age table busy at the same time. The cow pages cover the dairy side of the same animal, the horse the rest of the farm, and the animal printables everything wild.
