Doodle chicken life cycle with hen, egg in nest, hatching chick, arrows, labels, lab flasks, and magnifying glasses

Hen, Egg, and Hatching Chick Life Cycle

A labeled hen, a nest egg, and a hatching chick follow bold curved arrows among sunny science tools and leafy doodles.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Chicken collection, made for ages 8–12 and drawn in a Doodle style.

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🎨 How to color it

Color the hen warm chestnut brown, the egg pale cream, the hatching chick buttery yellow, and the science flasks soft aqua. Use sharp colored pencils for the feather scallops, cracked shell lines, tiny leaf stems, and the words “EGG,” “HEN,” and “HATCHING CHICK.” Try making the three big arrows a bright sky blue so the life-cycle path loops clearly around the page.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 95 zones and 16 colors, sized for adults. Tiny unnumbered slivers borrow the color of their neighbors, and the little model above shows the finished page whenever you want to check your work. More grids like this live in our color by number gallery.

Prefer classic line art? Open this drawing as a regular coloring page.

The story behind this coloring page

The Arrows That Came Home — Under the warm schoolyard sun, Cressa scratched three words in the dust: HEN, EGG, CHICK. Read the full story →

Under the warm schoolyard sun, Cressa scratched three words in the dust: HEN, EGG, CHICK. She wanted the hatchlings to know where they came from before the rain washed her lesson away. But every straight line she drew between the words looked like a road leading off the yard. The chicks peeped and wandered after them, bumping test tubes, sniffing vinegar, and leaving tiny dusty prints on the magnifying glass.

Then an ink-black moth slipped from a cloud-shaped shadow and landed on Cressa’s beak. Its wings smelled faintly of wet paper. Without a sound, it flew in a bending path: from Cressa to the egg, from the egg to the cracked shell, from the chick back to Cressa. Wherever it passed, a dark curved mark stayed in the air for one breath, then settled onto the dust.

Cressa copied the curves with her claw. The chicks stopped wandering. The lesson no longer pointed away; it turned back like a wing returning to the nest. Ever since, life-cycle arrows bend in circles, because every new chick carries the way home inside it. If you trace the arrows next time, can you feel them bringing you back under the warm schoolyard sun?