🦜 Birds
Owl on a Branch Colouring Page
Ages 2–5
🦜 Birds
Hen With Baby Chicks Colouring Page
A big hen with a raised wing stands over three chicks, one of them perched beside a cracked, empty eggshell.
- Suitable for
- Ages 3–5
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Medium
- Printing
- Black & white
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What your child practises
- Colours the hen's large rounded body and raised wing in broad, even strokes
- Keeps colour inside the eggshell's narrow zigzag crack
- Fills three separate chick shapes without mixing them into the hen's outline
- Counts aloud with a grown-up: one hen, three chicks, one eggshell
- Chooses different colours to tell the hen apart from her chicks
About this worksheet
A plump mother hen stands in the middle of the page with her comb up, her beak open in a smile, and one wing raised high above her back. Three chicks gather around her feet: one stands to her left with its mouth open, one peeks out from behind her raised wing, and the third sits on the right next to an empty, cracked eggshell with a jagged zigzag edge.
The hen's body and wing give a child plenty of open space to colour in one steady sweep, which suits little hands that are still learning to stay inside a line. The three chicks are smaller and rounder, so filling them in is a quick, satisfying task rather than a slog. The cracked eggshell is the one part that asks for more care, since its zigzag edge is narrower than the rest of the page and makes a good talking point about how the chicks hatched.
Next to other birds in this set, this sheet sits in the middle for difficulty: most of it is big and forgiving, but the eggshell and the chicks' small feet need a steadier hand. It works well for a preschooler colouring alone, or for a slightly younger child who colours the hen while a grown-up or older sibling takes the eggshell.
How to use this sheet
Start with the hen's big body and wing, then let your child colour the three chicks. Save the eggshell's zigzag crack for last, as it's the fiddliest part, and talk about how the chicks hatched from an egg just like it.
