Cat Playing a Guitar Colouring Page

This cat is up on its back legs, front paws busy on a guitar almost as big as its own body. One paw rests on the neck near the round tuning pegs, the other sits over the sound hole ready to strum. The guitar has a wide rounded body, a circular sound hole, a small rectangular bridge, and a long neck, all drawn as separate, easy-to-find shapes. Behind the cat, its tail curls right round into a full spiral loop, and its round eyes and open, smiling mouth give the whole page a cheerful, mid-song look.

What makes this one worth printing is the size of the spaces. The cat's head, body and legs are all big rounded areas a young child can fill in without straying over a line, and the guitar body is the same, one broad round shape rather than a cluster of small ones. The few fiddly bits, the tuning pegs, the sound hole ring, the bridge, are small but few in number, so a child can take them slowly with a fine-tip pen once the big areas are done, or skip them altogether without the page looking unfinished. It is a good one for talking about the guitar's parts, or just for picking two colours, cat and instrument, and going for it.

Because almost everything on the page is a large, separate shape, this sits at the easy end of the colouring sheets in this set. It suits a child who is still working on staying inside the lines and wants a page that looks finished fast, while the handful of small details give slightly older siblings something extra to aim for.