Cheetah Coloring Pages

Every spot is a ring, not a blob

A cheetah is normally drawn with solid black spots. It looks right in a photograph and it is hopeless on a colouring page — a few hundred filled dots, none of which can be coloured. On all twenty pages here every spot is an open ring with white paper inside it, so you can colour the spots as well as the cat.

The two dark lines that run from a cheetah’s eyes down to its mouth get the same treatment. They are drawn as outlines rather than solid stripes, so the face stays open too — and so do the nose, the ears, the paws and the rings on the end of the tail.

The fastest animal on land

One page shows a cheetah at full sprint, legs stretched right out, with dust kicking up behind it. Another has one sitting up on a termite mound scanning the plains — the pose cheetahs really use to look for a meal. There is also one stalking through tall grass and one drinking at a waterhole with the ripples spreading out from its muzzle.

Cubs

Cheetah cubs have a long crest of soft fur running down their head and back, called a mantle, which grown cheetahs lose. It is drawn on every cub here as separate tufts you can colour. There is a cub with a butterfly on its nose, two cubs play-fighting, a mother washing hers, and a family of four under an acacia.

A mask and a pattern sheet

One page is a cheetah face mask with a dashed line to cut along, two eye holes and a small hole at each side for string. Another is nothing but cheetah print — the whole sheet covered in open rings of different sizes, some with smaller rings inside them, to colour however you like. It makes good wrapping paper.

Which page to start with

The simple cheetah is the easiest page here — big rounded shapes, very thick outlines and only a dozen large spots. The mandala, the patterned cheetah and the realistic portrait are the slow ones and work better with fineliners than pencils.

Printing

Print at 100% scale rather than “fit to page”, and match the file to your paper — Letter or A4. The button at the top bundles all twenty into a single download.