Mouse Coloring Pages (mice)
Mice have been scurrying through stories for thousands of years, from Aesop's fables to the clock in Hickory Dickory Dock. Along with the storybook mice there's a big batch of cartoon mice, a few cheese lovers and some realistic field mice for older kids.
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Cartoon Mouse Coloring Pages
A mouse's whiskers are some of its most important tools. They brush against walls and the ground to help it find its way in the dark. They even pick up tiny changes in the air around it.
Simple Mice
Big shapes and bold lines. These are a good pick for preschoolers.
Mice and Cheese
Cartoon mice love cheese, but real mice aren't that keen on it. They'd much rather eat seeds, grains and fruit. Biscuits and other sweet things are a big favourite too.
Mice with Personality
Mice chatter to each other all the time, but most of their squeaks are too high for people to hear. Male mice even sing little songs to impress the females.
Mouse Art
Realistic Mouse Coloring Pages
Mice are mostly awake at night. They spend the day tucked in their nests and come out after dark to look for food. They're great climbers and good swimmers, and they can jump about 30 cm straight up. A mother mouse can have a new litter of babies every few weeks, so a single mouse can have dozens of babies in a year.
Mice in Stories and Myths
The Dormouse from Alice in Wonderland
At the Mad Hatter's tea party the Dormouse keeps nodding off in the middle of the conversation. By the end the Hatter and the March Hare are trying to stuff him into the teapot. Real dormice are famous sleepers too. They hibernate for months every winter.
The Battle of Frogs and Mice
A funny ancient Greek poem that pokes fun at the Iliad. A frog king offers a mouse a ride across a pond on his back. When a water snake appears the frog dives and the mouse drowns. The mice put on armour made of bean pods and go to war, and even the gods get involved. It was once credited to Homer, but it was probably written later.
The Lion and the Mouse
The Little Red Hen
The mouse is one of the hen's friends who won't help plant the wheat, cut it or grind it into flour. When the bread comes out of the oven, though, everyone wants a slice.
The Night Before Christmas
The famous 1823 poem starts on a quiet Christmas Eve when "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." This little mouse seems to have stayed up for a midnight snack anyway.
The Night Before Christmas coloring pages
Mouse Games and Puzzles
In the nursery rhyme a mouse runs up the clock, the clock strikes one and down he runs. It's one of the oldest nursery rhymes in English and was first printed in the 1740s.
