Squirrel Coloring Pages
Squirrel coloring pages for kids to print and color. Pick from cute cartoon squirrels, realistic ones, a baby squirrel and a red squirrel. Plenty of them come with acorns, pinecones and autumn leaves, and there are a few connect the dots worksheets too.
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Cute and Cartoon Squirrels
These squirrels are all about big eyes and even bigger acorns. Gray and brown are the classics but a purple squirrel sounds pretty great to me. Real squirrels can swivel their back feet around to face backwards so they can run headfirst down a tree trunk. Draw a tree behind your squirrel and you can show off that trick.
Realistic Squirrels
Most gray squirrels have a gray back and a white belly with a touch of brown here and there. Start with a light color and build the darker shades up slowly. Colored pencils are perfect for fur because you can use short strokes the way the hairs grow. Leave the edge of the tail a little lighter and it will look fluffy. Squirrels use that tail for balance and for staying warm and for sending signals to other squirrels.
Beatrix Potter, the author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, gave her red squirrel Nutkin tufted ears, a bushy tail and a very cheeky streak. While the other squirrels bring Old Brown the owl polite presents, Nutkin just sings riddles at him. It doesn't end well for his tail.
Beatrix Potter wrote about grey squirrels too, and Timmy Tiptoes is her best known. Other squirrels think he's been stealing nuts, so they shut him in a hollow tree. When he finally gets home, he and his wife Goody fasten up their own nut store with a little padlock.
Flying Squirrels
The northern flying squirrel is a small, silky-furred squirrel, about 10 to 12 inches long from nose to tail, with huge dark eyes and a flat, feathery tail. It can't really fly. A loose fold of skin stretches between its front and back legs, and when it leaps from a high branch with its legs spread out it glides, steering with its tail, for 150 feet or more. It lives in conifer and mixed forests across Canada, Alaska and the northern US and down the Appalachian Mountains, and it comes out at night to eat fungi, lichens, nuts and seeds. Its favorite food is truffles, underground fungi it sniffs out and digs up, and it spreads the spores around the forest in its droppings. Under a black light its fur glows pink!
For coloring, go for soft cinnamon-brown fur on the back with a creamy white belly, a darker brown in the shadows, and don't forget those big dark eyes.
Grey Squirrels
The eastern grey squirrel is one of the biggest tree squirrels in eastern North America, about 16 to 20 inches long from nose to tail, with the bushy tail making up about half of that. It lives in hardwood forests, parks and backyards from Texas up into southern Canada, and it loves acorns, hickory nuts and other seeds. It buries them in lots of little hiding spots and finds many of them again by memory and smell. It sleeps in a leafy nest called a drey, built in the fork of a tree. Not every grey squirrel is grey! Black ones are common in the north, and a few are white. Around 1900 grey squirrels were taken to Britain, where they've crowded out the native red squirrel.
For coloring, go for soft grey fur with a brownish tint on the back, a white belly, and a bushy tail with pale white-tipped hairs.
Red Squirrels
The red squirrel is a small, rusty-coated tree squirrel, usually 7 to 8 inches long with a bushy tail nearly as long as its body. In winter it grows tufts of fur on its ears. It lives in conifer forests across Europe, Asia, and (the American red squirrel, a close relative) North America, where it feeds mainly on pine and spruce seeds. It stashes cones in underground caches called middens for the winter, and it’s known for loud, scolding chatter when something disturbs its territory.
For coloring, go for rusty orange-red fur with a creamy white belly. Add a darker red-brown in the shadows and don’t forget those ear tufts.
Squirrels in Autumn
Autumn is squirrel season. They spend the cooler months burying acorns and nuts to eat later. Some of those nuts never get dug up and a few even grow into trees. Try warm oranges and reds and yellows for the leaves and a cooler brown or gray for the squirrel so it stands out. This group goes from easy pages for little hands to fine line pages for grown-up colorers.
Baby Squirrels
Baby squirrels are called kits. They are born with no fur and their eyes shut and they stay in the nest for the first couple of months. This kit is much fluffier than a real newborn so go ahead and give it soft brown or gray fur.
Squirrels at School
These four squirrels have been busy with school, reading and math and science. Finish the lesson by coloring them in. They make a quiet activity for the classroom or the kitchen table.
Native American Art Squirrel
This squirrel is drawn in a Native American art style. Instead of coloring it one flat shade try filling the body with patterns and bright colors. Stripes and dots and zigzags all work well.
Native American coloring pages
Connect the Dots and Dotted Outlines
Join the dots to uncover the squirrel and the acorn. One page counts from 2 to 20 and the other goes through the alphabet from a to m. The dotted outline page is the easiest of the three. Trace over the dotted lines first and then color it in.
Autumn dotted outline worksheets