Animal coloring pages

I've hunted down the best animal coloring pages online!

I think you'll enjoy these animal coloring pages - they contain a fantastic variety of animals, all with good printable quality.

Young children love animals; they find them fascinating and funny - as well as fearsome!

There's such a lot to learn about, too.

Big teeth, huge eyes, wagging tails, flapping fins and wings - these animal pages are a great way to help your kids learn about the wonderful world of wildlife.

You could keep your child's animal coloring pages in a themed scrapbook - add cutouts from magazines, leaflets from the zoo, animal word lists... use your imagination and you can end up with a great resource you can use again and again.

Animal coloring pages from around the web

Up to Ten Coloring
Find the animal coloring section, and you're on your way to coloring in a buzzy bee, a baby bear, a cuddly kitten and many more.

Up to Ten's printables are very good quality, and just right for small children. If you haven't visited their site before, you won't be disappointed - there are over 800 games on the site covering a variety of topics, not just the coloring. Enjoy!

Buttonwood Park Zoo
The Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford Massachusetts has a nice collection of animal themed coloring pages. An elephant, fish, fox or beaver would make a good start, as would the turtle who is now sitting on my desk!

If your kid is an animal lover, check out this FREE Zoobooks Issue and Tiger Poster!

Next up:

Reid Park Zoo
Next it's off to Tucson Arizona, and the Reid Park Zoo fun and games page. Scroll down a little to the three printables - a sheet with animals of Africa all together on a page, which makes for a great color-in, animals of Asia on another, as well as a flamingo printout.

Butterfly coloring pages
Here's a lovely selection of butterflies - color in a fluttering butterfly, a butterfly on a leaf, or even a happy butterfly! There's also a butterfly bookmark to make - what a good idea.

US Environmental Protection Agency
These animal coloring pages feature endangered animals in the United States.

My picture of an orconectes shoupi is just fine... that's a Nashville Crayfish. The big-eared bat looks quite ferocious, although the Florida manatees look a little more cuddly! All in all - an extremely interesting set of creatures.

EcoKids
Here's another great site - EcoKids, from Earth Day Canada's environmental education program.

There are great animal coloring pages including

• amphibians
• birds
• invertebrates
• mammals
• reptiles
• underwater creatures

- as well as plant printouts! There are tons of other resources on this site I'm sure you'll enjoy, too. I'll certainly be taking another look.