How to color the cat playing with a yarn ball page
Begin with the body. It is one large shape, so one tap (or a few long pencil strokes in the same direction) covers most of the page and shows right away how the cat will look.
Step by step
- Fill the body, head and tail with the main fur color.
- Color the inside of both ears and the small nose pink.
- Fill the yarn ball with a color that stands out from the fur: blue against ginger, or red against grey.
- Give every second stripe on the yarn a darker shade of the same color, so the ball looks wound.
- Finish with the loose thread on the floor in the yarn color.
Tips for this picture
- The eyes are already drawn in black with a white highlight. Leave them alone and the cat keeps its bright look.
- On paper, press lightly on the body and harder near the outline. The edge gets darker and the cat looks round without any extra color.
- Online, use Fill for everything here. The yarn stripes are small, so zoom in before you tap them.
Common mistakes
- Using the same color for the cat and the yarn: the paw disappears into the ball.
- Coloring over the whiskers with a dark marker. Use a pencil there, or stop just short of them.
Print it instead
Download the PDF in US Letter or A4 and print at actual size (100%), in black and white. Use copy paper for pencils and crayons, cardstock for markers. More printing notes are on the cat coloring pages page.
