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By: Papaya Ink Team · Last updated: October 14, 2026

Cats do not pose, so somebody has to draw them for you. These cat coloring pages are our collection of house cats and pedigree breeds – long-haired and short-haired, round-faced and lanky, the kind that sits in boxes and the kind that sits in fountains – drawn at a size that leaves room for real shading. Every cat here is an original Papaya Ink drawing; nobody is borrowed from a cartoon.
The collection comes in two formats, and the Show me buttons above the grid sort them. Black & White sheets are clean line art, the classic coloring page. With Color Sample sheets are our copy-coloring format: the top half is a finished color version, the bottom half is the same drawing as line art, with a dashed line between them to fold or cut along. Copy the sample stroke for stroke, or use it as a starting point and change the breed. Click any picture and the PDF opens in a new tab, sized for US Letter and fitting A4 without adjustment. One note on the color-sample sheets: a black-and-white printer turns the sample into gray tones, so they look best from a color printer.
Cats reward patience in the coloring. Fur reads best built in layers – a light base, then short strokes in a darker shade following the direction of the hair, then the darkest tone only in the shadows under the chin and along the belly. Leave a white highlight in each eye and a dot on the nose, and the cat looks alive. The line-art sheets suit a quiet evening with pencils; the simpler scenes work for kids and for anyone who likes a page that finishes in one sitting.
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8 Fun Things to Make with Your Cat Coloring Pages
- Kitty Greeting Cards. Print a kitten on cardstock, color it in, cut it out, and glue it to the front of a folded card. The kitten in the flower basket makes a purr-fect birthday card.
- Bedroom Door Sign. Color the sleeping kitten page, write your child's name in the starry sky, and tape it to the bedroom door as a "quiet, please" sign.
- Paper Puppets. Cut out the colored kittens, glue each one to a craft stick, and put on a puppet show. The three kittens with the toy mouse are a ready-made cast.
- Season Wall Calendar. Pick the fall leaves, pumpkin, beach, and snow pages, color them, and hang them in a row as a four-seasons wall display.
- Bookmarks. Color a kitten, cut a tall strip around it, and laminate it with clear tape – a sturdy bookmark for school books.
- Window Suncatcher. Color the butterfly page with bright markers, rub a little vegetable oil on the back to make the paper translucent, and tape it to a sunny window.
- Storytime Starter. Let your child pick any colored page and tell you the story of what happens next – great for building imagination and vocabulary.
- Fridge Gallery. Start a rotating "cat of the week" gallery: each finished page gets its moment on the fridge before the next one takes its place.




