Goat
Toddler · 2–3A friendly goat face with two curved horns, long floppy ears, a soft muzzle, and a little beard under its chin. The horns and the beard are the parts children notice first, and both are separate shapes, so there is a natural order to work through: horns, ears, face, muzzle, beard. The outlines are thick and the spaces are generous, which suits a two- or three-year-old with a fat crayon. Coloring a goat is an easy way into talk about farm animals, about which animals have horns and which do not, and about the funny noise a goat makes. Print it on A4 or US Letter, or color it online with tap-to-fill.
Horns, ears and a beard
The goat has six regions, which is a lot for a toddler page, but they are all distinct and well separated: face, horns, ears, muzzle and beard. The beard is the feature children find funniest and the one that makes a goat unmistakable.
The horns curve backwards and are drawn as their own region, which means they can be a different colour from the head — and they usually are in real goats.
Goats eat almost anything
Not tin cans, despite the cartoons, but a genuinely wide range of plants including things other livestock refuse. They are also excellent climbers, which is worth mentioning because footage of goats standing on almost vertical walls is the sort of thing a five-year-old will want to see twice.
Frequently asked questions
- Do goats really eat anything?
- They eat a much wider range of plants than sheep or cattle and will investigate almost anything with their mouths, but the tin-can version is a cartoon invention.
- What age is this page for?
- Three to six. Six regions, which makes it busier than most of the farm pages here.
