Farm coloring pages to print

Where can I find farm animal coloring pages to print?

This page has eight printable farm coloring pages: a cow, a pig, a hen with her chicks, a horse, a sheep, a duck, a barn and a windmill. Each drawing prints on one sheet as a black outline only, with large closed shapes. You can choose a version with or without a background, and print one or two per page.

How to use it

1. Tap the name of a drawing: cow, pig, hen and chicks, horse, sheep, duck, barn or windmill.
2. Choose with background, which adds ground, clouds and a sun, or figure only, which leaves the drawing large on the page.
3. Choose full page or two per page. The second option prints the same drawing twice, with a cut line in the middle.
4. Tap Print the sheet. In the print window, keep the scale at 100% (or choose Fit to page on Letter paper).

Activity ideas

• Before coloring, ask what sound each animal makes and make the sounds together.
• Talk about what comes from each animal: milk from the cow, eggs from the hen, wool from the sheep.
• The name is printed in outline letters. Coloring the letters helps early readers.
• With the figure only, the child draws the background: the fence, the field, the duck pond.
• Cut out the animals, the barn and the windmill and glue them on a poster to build a whole farm.

Fun facts from the farm

• A cow eats grass and gives the milk that becomes cheese, butter and yogurt.
• A hen lays eggs. When she sits on them, the chicks hatch in about three weeks.
• A sheep's wool is cut and spun into yarn for warm clothes. Then the wool grows back.
• A pig likes mud because it cools the skin and protects it from the sun.
• A duck has skin between its toes that helps it swim.
• A baby horse is called a foal, and it can stand up soon after it is born.
• A barn stores the harvest, the feed and the tools. A windmill uses the wind to grind grain or pump water.

Printing tips

• The drawing is an outline only, with no filled areas, so it uses very little ink.
• Print in black. The draft mode of your printer already gives a good line for coloring.
• For crayons and poster paint, a slightly heavier paper wrinkles less.
• Two per page goes further in class: each sheet serves two children.

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