Wild creativity with free cougar coloring pages for kids. This collection of 20 detailed pages allows you to bring color to this majestic cat.
Cougars are found throughout North and South America, and they’re known by many names.
These largely solitary creatures can live in a wide range of environments and operate at pretty much any hour of the day.
They’re beautiful and elegant creatures who also form a valuable part of any ecosystem they’re in.
In this collection, you’ll get to see some cougars in many different kinds of situations and environments, and you’ll even get to see some little cougar cubs!
There will also be some fun facts about cougars that you can read and enjoy as you color.
20 Free Cougar Coloring Pages To Print And Color
1. Cougar Climbing A Mountain Coloring PDF
Cougars often live in mountainous regions, and this is partly why they’re sometimes called mountain lions. While they often live in rocky mountain areas, they can also be found in forested areas, swampy terrain, and even snowy places.
2. Cougar Surveying Territory
Cougars are territorial creatures, and this one is perched high on a rock as it surveys its surroundings. They will attack humans if they feel threatened, but such attacks are very rare, and they usually try to stay away from people.
3. Cougar Drinking Water
Cougars sleep for up to 18 hours a day, but even with all that sleep, they still need to find time to stay hydrated! This one is enjoying a quiet moment with a nice drink of water.
4. Cougar Exploring Rocky Terrain
This scene shows off another environment that a cougar would live in, as you see some trees in the background. They live in many places, from the Yukon region in Canada all the way to the Andes in South America. This means they have had to adapt to many different kinds of terrain.
5. Cougar Hiding Behind The Bushes
When you’re a wildcat, you need to be really sneaky and careful when hunting. This cougar is taking things slowly as it hides in the bushes, watching and waiting for its next meal. Cougars need to hunt a big animal like a deer around once a week in order to survive comfortably.
6. Cougar Leaping Across A Creek
Cougars are incredibly nimble and athletic, and seeing one leaping over a creek would be something to see! Cougars operate at different times of the day depending on when they need to hunt, so you could choose many different colors for the sky.
7. Cougar Looking Out On The Valley
Because cougars like to stay on higher terrain, they will often see you before you see them. This cougar has the high ground and is surveying all it can see below.
8. Cougar Lying On A Ledge
Anyone who owns a house cat will know that they love to be lazy. Cougars may be much larger and more dangerous, but they still love to have naps and be lazy from time to time.
9. Cougar Descending A Cliff
When descending a cliff, it can be easy to lose your footing and tumble down into danger. Luckily, cougars are fleet of foot and can easily make their way down sheer cliffs. Cougars are relatively small and do have some natural predators, but the International Union for Conservation of Nature has analyzed the number of cougars in the wild and determined their numbers are healthy and not in danger.
10. Cougar Resting On A High Rock Coloring Sheet
Imagine looking up to see a cougar watching you from a high rock! If you ever find yourself in this situation in real life, experts advise that you slowly back away by maintaining eye contact.
11. Cougar Resting Under A Tree
Some cougars live in very hot environments, and so they will need to find some shade under a tree in order to stay cool.
12. Cougar Stalking Prey
We should try to color quietly, as this cougar is trying to be stealthy as it hunts its prey. While cougars prefer to hunt larger creatures like deer, they sometimes hunt smaller creatures like rodents and even insects when times are tough.
13. Detailed Cougar On A Rocky Cliff
The details on this cougar are really impressive, and there are so many ways to color these details. When I color these kinds of small details, my go-to medium to use is colored felt-tip pens.
14. Cougar With Open Mouth
When you first saw this page, you may have assumed that this cougar must be roaring. However, cougars actually can’t roar. They can growl, scream, and purr, so it could be making those noises or even yawning.
15. Cougar Walking Along A Canyon Edge
I would be nervous walking along such a narrow canyon edge, but this cougar seems very confident in itself as it navigates this ridge.
16. Cougar Walking At Night
It’s time for a nighttime scene as this cougar goes for an evening stroll. As we touched on before, cougars do occasionally operate at night under some conditions.
17. Cougar Walking Through Snow
Things are getting chilly in this next scene! This cougar is surviving out in the snowy tundra, and it at least makes it easier for it to track its prey.
18. Cougar In A Forest
This forest setting is gorgeous with how many details there are. You can use a lot more colors on this page than on many others in the collection, so go wild with your creativity!
19. Cougar Watching From A Tree Branch
Cougars are very good at climbing, and so seeing one resting in a tree is not that unusual.
20. Cougar With Cubs Coloring Page
Cougars can have between one and six cubs, and it results in cute scenes like this one! Here’s one more fun fact. Cougars are known by many names, and in English they have over 40 names, like puma or mountain lion. For this distinction, they have won a world record for having the most names of any animal.After You Color Your Cougar Pages
- Draw some prey for the cougars to hunt, like deer or small rodents.
- Look up as many names for a cougar as you can and write them around one of the cougars
- Draw some cartoon people observing the cougars from a safe distance. Perhaps they could be modeled after you!