Easy coloring page of a seated cat with collar tag, potted plant, rug, and small shelf of boxes.

Curious Cat with Collar by the Plant Shelf

A calm cat sits tall on a striped rug, wearing a round tag while a leafy pot and tidy shelf wait nearby.

🎨 How to color it

Color the cat’s coat honey orange, the collar bright teal, the leafy plant spring green, and the shelf boxes soft tan and sky blue. Use broad crayon strokes for the cat’s big body and tail, then switch to a sharper pencil for the whiskers, collar ring, and tiny shelf dots. Try giving the round tag a shiny gold center, like it has caught a secret bit of light.

The story behind this coloring page

Tansy’s Secret Sound Game — Under the warm stripe of afternoon sun, Tansy tapped her round collar tag on the rug: ting, ting, pause. She had invented a game called Secret Sound Steps. Read the full story →

Under the warm stripe of afternoon sun, Tansy tapped her round collar tag on the rug: ting, ting, pause. She had invented a game called Secret Sound Steps. If the next sound answered, she would follow it. From the high little shelf came a dry papery tick-tick, softer than a seed in a cup. Tansy left her cozy sun stripe, padded past the cool plant pot, and stretched up on careful toes. A leaf brushed her ear, and her tag bumped the pot with a loud clink.

“Who’s playing?” Tansy whispered. Behind the crisscross box, three dust-speck dots wiggled into a tiny trail, pointing to a spilled pinch of birdseed. Tansy could have batted it everywhere, but she carried one seed back in her mouth and set it in the sun. Soon sparrows tapped at the window, answering ting with peck-peck-peck. Tansy’s joy puffed so big she called the whole room to listen. Can you find the tag that started the secret sound steps?