Cat Color by Number Printable, Plus 7 More Animal Pixel Pictures

The orange tabby cat opens first: press Print, or pick a dog, a dragon or a unicorn under More options.

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Color by number: Cat

Color each square by its number. Squares with no number stay white.

1111
111111
111121121111
111121121111
113411113411
113411113411
111115511111
441114411144
111141141111
441111111144
1111111111
11111111

To color on screen, choose a color in the key, then tap the squares.

Cat, 12 by 12, 5 colors.

Answer key: prints on page 2.

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Print gives a blank worksheet, and the colored answer key on page 2 when that box is ticked. Colors you fill in on screen stay on screen. By keyboard: the arrow keys move around the grid, Enter colors a square, a digit colors it by that number and Backspace clears it.

Next step Print a black cat from the Halloween setMake an animal word search

How it works

This cat color by number printable is an orange tabby built from squares. Under Size, Easy 12 by 12 draws a face. Detailed 24 by 24 draws the whole cat on a rug. Seven more animals share the page, dinosaur to butterfly.

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Small grid, a face. Big grid, a whole cat

The easy Cat and Dog are faces, close up, so the eyes, nose and whiskers get squares of their own. On the detailed grids the tabby sits on a rug and the dog stands in grass beside a bone.

The easy Cat has 124 squares to color, 98 of them orange. A black cat is in the Halloween set.

The unicorn stays white

A white unicorn has one problem on a worksheet like this: there is no number for white. Here the head is held by what surrounds it. The easy grid uses 61 squares of blue sky, the detailed one a black outline of 64 squares. Tell pupils the head stays empty.

  • The easy Horse is 72 squares in only 3 colors, black, brown and green.
  • The Dinosaur is a green sauropod, 63 squares on the easy grid, the quickest picture here.
  • Dragon color by number printable: red, with a purple wing, a yellow belly and a small flame.

Questions and answers

Which animal color by number printable takes longest?

The Cat, at both sizes: 124 squares on the easy grid and 425 on the detailed one. The easy Dragon has 82 squares and the easy Turtle 83. Among the big grids the Unicorn is lightest at 198, because its head stays white.

Are the dragon and the unicorn characters from a film?

No. Both are plain storybook animals of our own drawing. The unicorn and the color by number printable dragon can be photocopied for a class. They pair well for a fairy tale unit.

What kind of butterfly is in this set?

A male eastern tiger swallowtail, a yellow North American butterfly with black stripes. The points on its back wings are how swallowtails got their name. Its key has 4 colors at both sizes: 114 squares easy, 324 detailed.

Does the Cat print on one page?

Yes, one page of Letter or A4 at either size. The colored answer key prints as page 2. Untick Answer key on page 2 under More options when you copy for a class.

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Pets 2

  • Cat An orange tabby cat with green eyes, brown stripes and black whiskers. The easy grid is the face alone, close up, with a red nose. The detailed grid shows the whole cat sitting on a light blue rug, with pink inside the ears, a pink nose and a striped tail curling up one side. Easy: 5 colors, 124 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 425 squares to color.
  • Dog A yellow dog with floppy brown ears. The easy grid is the face from the front, with a black nose and a red tongue hanging out. The detailed grid shows the whole dog from the side on green grass, with a brown patch on its back, two brown socks, a red collar with a gray tag, a pink tongue and a gray bone waiting by its nose. Easy: 4 colors, 108 squares to color. Detailed: 8 colors, 283 squares to color.

Field and pond 3

  • Horse A brown horse seen from the side, with a black mane and tail, standing on green grass. The easy grid gives it black hooves. The detailed grid adds a yellow sun, gray hooves, a black eye and nostril, and light green tufts in the grass. Easy: 3 colors, 72 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 308 squares to color.
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Field and pond, continued

  • Swallowtail butterfly A yellow and black swallowtail butterfly with its wings open, a blue spot and a red spot on each hindwing, and a tail at the bottom of each. The detailed grid gives each forewing four black stripes and each hindwing a row of blue spots. It copies the male eastern tiger swallowtail of North America, and the forked look of the back wings is how swallowtails got their name. Easy: 4 colors, 114 squares to color. Detailed: 4 colors, 324 squares to color.
  • Turtle A turtle seen from above, with a green head, black eyes, four green legs and a brown shell with orange patches. The detailed grid turns the patches into 7 shell plates, each orange with a yellow middle, and adds light green marks on the skin and light blue ripples in the water. Easy: 4 colors, 83 squares to color. Detailed: 7 colors, 334 squares to color.

Long ago and make-believe 3

  • Dinosaur A long-necked green dinosaur with orange spots, the kind called a sauropod. The detailed grid adds a light green belly, a yellow sun, brown ground and a fern. No animal that has walked on land was bigger than the largest sauropods. Easy: 3 colors, 63 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 278 squares to color.
  • Dragon A red storybook dragon breathing a small orange and yellow flame, with a purple wing and a yellow belly. The detailed grid stripes the belly yellow and orange, lines the wing with pink, and adds gray horns, gray back spikes, a gray tail tip, black claws and gray rock to stand on. Easy: 5 colors, 82 squares to color. Detailed: 7 colors, 325 squares to color.
  • Unicorn A white unicorn's head with a yellow horn. The white is never colored. On the easy grid a blue sky holds the shape, with a red and purple mane. On the detailed grid a black outline holds it, the horn is striped yellow and orange, the mane falls in pink, purple and light blue bands, and yellow stars sit around it. Easy: 5 colors, 96 squares to color. Detailed: 7 colors, 198 squares to color.

How this list was compiled: Our own pixel pictures, drawn square by square for this site on 12 by 12 and 24 by 24 grids. Nothing is traced, scanned or copied from clip art, and no picture shows a character from a film, show, book or game: the dragon and the unicorn are plain storybook animals of our own drawing. The color and square counts in each description were counted from the finished grids. The butterfly and dinosaur facts were checked against Wikipedia in September 2026 and are told in our own words. Licence: own work

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