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Free Chick Coloring Pages
Eight free printable chick coloring pages, from a round standing chick for little hands to a flapping chick with every wing feather drawn in. Download the PNG or print straight from this page.
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8 Chick designs to color
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Chick Coloring Page - Cute Sleeping
Chick Coloring Page - Cute Head Tilt
Chick Coloring Page - Cute Waddling
Chick Coloring Page - Chirping Pair
Chick Coloring Page - Stacked Trio
Chick Coloring Page - Huddled Trio
Chick Coloring Page - Flapping Wings
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1. Pick your sheet
Preview any design below and choose the one you like best.
2. Print or download
Print straight from the page, or save the PNG to print later.
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.
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6 fun facts about the chick
A chick hatches by using a small bump on its beak, called an egg tooth, to crack the shell. The bump falls off a few days later.
Baby chickens are covered in soft fluffy down, not the stiff feathers a hen has.
A chick can walk and peck for food within a few hours of coming out of the egg.
Most chicks are yellow, but some hatch brown, black, or striped like a chipmunk.
Chicks stay warm by huddling together or tucking under their mother's feathers.
It takes about five months for a chick to grow into a hen or a rooster.
About the chick coloring page
A chick is a baby chicken. It hatches from an egg after about three weeks, covered in soft down instead of the stiff feathers a hen or rooster will grow later. Chicks stay close to their mother, peep when they are hungry or cold, and peck at crumbs within hours of hatching. They cannot fly; those little wing-stubs are for balance and warmth until real flight feathers grow in.
Colouring a chick is almost always a yellow job, but not a one-yellow job. The down is pale lemon, the beak and feet are orange or pinkish, and the eyes are dark with a tiny white highlight. Some real chicks are brown, black or striped, so children who want a different bird are not wrong. Leaving a small uncoloured patch on the chest or the top of the head reads as a shine on the fluff. Markers fill the big round bodies fast; colored pencils let older kids shade the down in two yellows.
The eight designs run from easiest to hardest. The round front-facing chick comes first — thick outlines, a huge empty body and two simple wings, right for toddlers. Then a sleeping chick curled up with its eyes shut, and a standing chick with its head tilted. Next is a chick waddling in side view, one foot lifted. After that the pages hold more than one bird: a chirping pair facing each other, three chicks stacked in a tower, and three chicks huddled wing-to-wing. The last sheet is a chick flapping both wings, with each flight feather drawn as its own shape.
Every sheet prints on landscape US Letter paper at 200 DPI, so the chick fills the page without being cut off. Plain copier paper is fine for crayons and colored pencils. Use slightly thicker card stock for markers or paint on the last two designs, where the huddle and the open wings sit close together and can bleed shut on thin paper.
In the classroom these pages pair well with a lesson on farm animals, on life cycles (egg, chick, hen), on spring and Easter, or on the letter C. The standing chick is finished in a few minutes; the stacked trio makes a cheerful wall display; the flapping wings can fill a quiet afternoon. Print a few different designs and let each child pick the one that matches their patience that day.
