Farmer Coloring Pages: 30 Farm Chore Scenes from Planting and Feeding Chickens to Pouring Milk, a Tractor and Beekeeping

One farm job per page is the rule in these farmer coloring pages, each shown as a portrait of the person doing it, drawn with fine, detailed outlines: woven baskets, wood grain on crates, cabbage leaves and stalks of wheat are all picked out line by line. The farmers range from young adults to grandparents with white beards and headscarves, and most wear the classic work outfit of overalls, rolled sleeves, rubber boots and a straw hat. A gambrel barn or a split-rail fence sits behind many of them.

Thirty jobs through the farm year

In the vegetable garden: dropping seeds into a furrow (01), watering cabbages and lettuce from a can (02), pulling a fat carrot from the row (03), setting a seedling into a raised bed (16), picking tomatoes off a staked vine (17), forking up potatoes (18), picking ears of corn (19), tending sunflowers taller than the gardener (20) and potting plants in a greenhouse (26).

Fields and orchards: picking apples (06), driving a tractor across a plowed field (07), tying wheat into sheaves (08), lifting a pumpkin from its vine (12) and reaching for pears while a boy holds the basket (27).

Barn and yard work: stacking hay bales by a cart (09), sweeping straw from the barn floor (10), mending a fence rail with a toolbox at hand (22) and pushing a loaded wheelbarrow (21).

Caring for the stock: scattering grain for hens (04), pouring fresh milk into a tall can (05), leading sheep through a gate (13), lifting a honeycomb frame in a veil and suit (14), collecting eggs from the nesting box (15), brushing a pony (23) and tipping a bucket of scraps for the pigs (24).

From farm to table: filling the farm stand with apples, carrots and cabbages (11), scrubbing vegetables under a tap (25), sorting apples into bushel baskets (28), packing a crate with carrots and squash (29) and the family portrait that closes the book (30).

Level of detail

Expect full scenes rather than simple outlines. The wheat field (08), the pumpkin patch (12) and the potato rows (18) are full of overlapping leaves, while the greenhouse (26) and the tractor (07) have more open space inside large shapes. Colored pencils or fine markers handle the small areas better than chunky crayons. Every page has a title across the top and its number at the bottom.

The color reference pages

The reference book keeps a cheerful farm palette: denim-blue overalls, red barns, bright green grass, orange carrots and pumpkins, golden wheat and hay, and a purple tractor. Shirts change from page to page in red, lavender, sage and sky blue. The reference has the same page names as the outlines, so 14-beekeeper in the color folder is the beekeeping scene you are coloring.

Printing the book

Pick the US Letter or A4 PDF to match your paper and print portrait, one-sided, at Actual Size or 100%. The cover is PDF page 1 and the jobs are pages 2 to 31, so to print only the farm stand (11) choose PDF page 12. For a single page at US Letter size, the PNG files print the same way at 100%. Print one test sheet first to see how the fine lines come out on your printer.

Questions

Is this a book of farm animals?

No. Every page shows a person doing a job. Animals turn up on eight pages, always as part of the work: hens and chicks being fed (04), a cow behind the milk can (05), three sheep led through a gate (13), bees around the hive (14), hens in the coop at egg time (15), sheep grazing behind a fence repair (22), a pony being brushed (23) and two pigs at the feed trough (24). The other pages are crops, fields and the barn.

Are there children on any pages?

Three. A girl helps her mother set a seedling into a raised bed (16), a boy holds a basket under a pear tree while a woman picks (27), and a girl carries a bunch of carrots between her parents in the farm family portrait (30), the same picture used on the cover.