Baby Chick
Toddler · 2–3A fluffy baby chick with a tiny triangle beak, a curl of feathers on its head, and two skinny feet. There are only four shapes to fill, all of them large, so a toddler can finish this page in one happy sitting and still feel proud of it. Most children reach straight for yellow, which makes it a good page for practising a single color and staying inside a very forgiving outline. Coloring a chick is a lovely way into talking about eggs hatching, about baby animals and their mothers, and about being gentle with small creatures. Print it on A4 or US Letter, or color it online with tap-to-fill.
A very simple bird
A chick is a round yellow body with a tiny beak, small wing and two feet — the simplest bird on the site and one of the easiest pages here to finish. It pairs naturally with the hen page and with the dinosaur egg.
The round body is a single large area, which makes this a good page for a child working on filling evenly.
Where eggs come from
This is the page for the conversation about eggs in the fridge, which is one children ask about and adults often fumble. The straightforward version: hens lay eggs whether or not there is a rooster, and the ones we eat are the ones that were never going to become chicks.
Frequently asked questions
- Do the eggs we eat have chicks in them?
- No. Hens lay eggs regardless of whether a rooster is present, and shop eggs are unfertilised — they were never going to become chicks.
- What age is this page for?
- Two to four. Four regions, one of them large and the rest very small and skippable.
