Hen with three chicks on a winding path by a barn, silo, haystack, trees, fence, clouds, rocks, and grass.

Hen Leading Chicks Along the Farm Path

A watchful hen steps along a curving farm path while three chicks trail behind near the barn, silo, haystack, and leafy trees.

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 Standard style.

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🎨 How to color it

Give the hen soft buff feathers, her comb and wattle a clear barn red, the three chicks sunny yellow, the barn weathered red, and the silo pale blue-gray. Use sharp colored pencils for the hen’s layered wing and tail feathers, then switch to broader strokes for the barn walls, path, and rounded clouds. Try making the winding path fade from tan near the hen to soft gray near the barn, like a secret trail getting quieter as it curves away.

The story behind this coloring page

Hazel’s Moon-Pebble Game — Under the first silver cloud of evening, Hazel scratched three pale pebbles into a row and tapped them with her beak. Read the full story →

Under the first silver cloud of evening, Hazel scratched three pale pebbles into a row and tapped them with her beak. “Moon-pebble, moon-pebble, show me where,” she whispered, because she had just invented a game: follow the lightest stone and find the night’s first secret. Her chicks peeped close to her feet. The path beyond the barn smelled of cool dust and hay, and Hazel’s favorite spot by the warm wall suddenly felt very far behind.

The palest pebble rolled away by itself—tick, tick, tick—past the grass clumps and toward the silo shadow. Hazel stepped after it, though the weeds brushed her legs like wet feathers. A cricket buzzed so loudly she nearly turned back. She paid her small price at the bend: one perfect tail feather snagged on a thorn and stayed there, trembling in the dark.

At the haystack, the pebble stopped beside a tiny door made of straw. Inside, fireflies blinked over a cracked eggshell cup filled with dew. Hazel understood the secret: the farm had a night pantry for creatures too small to reach the trough. She carried the dew cup home in careful steps, and next time you trace the curving path, see if the first silver cloud still points to Hazel’s moon-pebble game.