How to color Cat in a Hot Air Balloon by number
Start with number 2 (Sand). It has the most areas on this page, 17 of 101, so the picture takes shape quickly. This is a Medium page: some areas are small. Colored pencils or fine-tip markers are easier to control than crayons here.
Suggested order
- 2 Sand: 17 areas
- 8 Apricot: 14 areas
- 3 Blush: 13 areas
- 10 Caramel: 11 areas
- 1 Butter: 9 areas
- 4 Lavender: 9 areas
- 9 Peach: 7 areas
- 5 Dusty Blue: 5 areas
- 12 Orange: 5 areas
- 6 Mint: 4 areas
- 7 Ginger: 4 areas
- 11 Cream: 3 areas
Tips for this picture
- The balloon stripes each have their own number. Color one stripe from top to bottom before you move to the next, and you will not mix them up.
- Sand (2) and Apricot (8) are close in tone and both sit on the cat. Turn Numbers on while you work on the face.
- The basket weave is the slowest part: small scales in Caramel (10) and Orange (12). Zoom in online, or use a sharp pencil on paper.
- On paper, color the light shades first (11 (Cream) and 2 (Sand)) and the darkest, 7 (Ginger), last. Dark pencil smudges into light areas if you do it the other way round.
- Online, choose a number and press Find to jump to the next area with that number. A wrong tap does nothing, so you cannot spoil the page.
- Stuck on a color? Switch the preview above to Answer, or look at page 2 of the PDF.
More help: how to print color by number pages · how to choose a difficulty (Medium is explained there).
