Cat coloring pages and an actual cat on your lap.

Is there an easier weekend afternoon than one cat on your lap and one cat in your hand? Probably not.

The set below leans into what cats actually do: nap, stretch, occasionally chase a ball of yarn, and once in a while look at a fish with quiet professional interest. None of these pages are busy. None of them have ninety details. Most of them have a cat doing one specific thing, framed simply enough for a five-year-old to fill in without help.

A note on age: a four-year-old can color any of these. So can a forty-year-old. Cats are forgiving subjects. The outline does most of the work.

The cats in this corner of the collection are not doing anything. That is the point. A cat asleep on a cushion, a kitten in a basket with one paw hanging out, a long-haired thing draped across a rug. Color these slowly. Pick a single color and shade across the whole body. The lines do the rest.

For the kid who wants something to actually happen on the page. A kitten mid-pounce at a ball of yarn, two kittens wrestling, a small head peeking out of a paper bag. These pages reward bright crayons. Bright pink yarn, an orange tabby, a green paper bag. Logic does not apply to cats; it does not need to apply to the coloring either.