How to color Cat with a Balloon by number
Start with number 4 (Cream). It has the most areas on this page, 7 of 15, so the picture takes shape quickly. This is an Easy page: the areas are large, so crayons and thick markers work well, and a young child can finish it in one sitting.
Suggested order
- 4 Cream: 7 areas
- 2 Butter: 5 areas
- 1 Peach: 1 area
- 3 Lavender: 1 area
- 5 Dusty Blue: 1 area
Tips for this picture
- The balloon is one single area, number 3. Let a small child start there: one tap, one big purple shape, and the page already looks half done.
- Cream (4) covers the tummy, paws and tail tip, seven areas in all. It is a good number for practising "find all the fours".
- On paper, color the light shades first (4 (Cream) and 2 (Butter)) and the darkest, 5 (Dusty Blue), 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 (Easy is explained there).
