Grab your green crayons and get ready for a wonderfully cute St. Patrick’s Day coloring adventure! This St. Patrick’s Day coloring page features an adorable cat dressed in a festive leprechaun costume, combining two things that are difficult to resist: cute animals and holiday fun.
The little cat is ready for March 17 in its leprechaun-inspired outfit, giving kids plenty of opportunities to experiment with green, gold, orange, rainbow shades, and whatever other colors they love.
You can give the costume a traditional emerald-green look, create a pastel St. Patrick’s Day outfit, add rainbow details, or forget holiday colors completely and design the most colorful leprechaun cat imaginable.
Whether you need a simple classroom activity, something fun to print for St. Patrick’s Day at home, or just an adorable cat to color, this printable is ready for a little creative magic.
🐱 Meet the St. Patrick’s Day Cat
The star of this coloring page is the cute cat dressed up for St. Patrick’s Day.
Start with the cat itself.
If you want realistic colors, try:
- Orange
- Gray
- Black
- White
- Cream
- Brown
- Calico colors
Then choose a contrasting green for the costume so the clothing stands out against the fur.
An orange cat in an emerald-green outfit creates a classic St. Patrick’s Day combination, while a gray or white cat looks especially cute with bright Kelly green.
Of course, this cat does not need to look realistic at all.
Color it lavender, pink, turquoise, blue, or rainbow striped. A magical St. Patrick’s Day cat can be any color you imagine.
🎩 Design the Leprechaun Costume
The leprechaun-inspired outfit is where the holiday fun really begins.
Green is the traditional choice, but using several different greens will make the picture much more interesting.
Try combining:
- Emerald
- Kelly green
- Forest green
- Mint
- Lime
- Olive
- Sage
Use a deeper green for the hat or jacket and lighter shades for smaller details.
Then add black, brown, yellow, or gold for belts, buckles, shoes, and accessories.
If your coloring supplies include metallic gold, this is the perfect page to use it.
✨ Make the Hat the Star
A festive hat can become one of the most colorful parts of the whole picture.
Start with green, then decorate it with your own details.
Add:
- A black hatband
- A golden buckle
- A tiny shamrock
- Rainbow stripes
- Polka dots
- Stars
- Hearts
- Glittery-looking highlights
You could even create a rainbow hat by dividing it into colorful sections.
For a softer look, try mint green with pale yellow, lavender, and peach accents.
There is no rule saying a leprechaun hat has to be one shade of green.
☘️ Add Shamrocks Around the Cat
Turn the original coloring page into a larger St. Patrick’s Day scene by drawing shamrocks around the cat.
Traditional shamrocks have three leaflets and have long been associated with St. Patrick and celebrations on March 17.
Draw several small shamrocks around the edges of the picture.
Then hide one special four-leaf clover somewhere among them.
Challenge someone else to find it when you are finished.
For more clover-filled coloring fun, explore our Four-Leaf Clover Coloring Pages.
🍀 Shamrocks and St. Patrick’s Day
The shamrock is one of the most recognizable symbols associated with St. Patrick’s Day.
A well-known tradition says St. Patrick used its three leaves to explain the Christian Trinity. However, historical research from the National Museum of Ireland notes that this particular story developed relatively late.
What is well documented is the long tradition of wearing shamrock on St. Patrick’s Day.
Today, shamrocks appear everywhere during March celebrations—from clothing and decorations to cards, crafts, and coloring pages.
That makes them an easy addition to your leprechaun cat picture.
💚 See How Many Greens You Can Use
Instead of reaching for a single green crayon, turn the page into a green-color challenge.
Collect every shade of green you can find.
Try:
- Yellow-green
- Lime
- Grass green
- Mint
- Kelly green
- Emerald
- Sage
- Olive
- Forest green
- Blue-green
Use one green for the hat, another for the clothing, and several more for shamrocks and other decorations.
Younger children can practice identifying different shades, while older kids can blend colors together to create shadows and highlights.
🌈 Add a Rainbow
Rainbows have become another favorite part of modern St. Patrick’s Day imagery.
Draw one behind the cat or add a small rainbow in an empty corner.
Use a familiar rainbow palette of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, or create your own.
A pastel rainbow could use:
- Pink
- Peach
- Pale yellow
- Mint
- Baby blue
- Lavender
You can also make a rainbow completely out of green shades.
For more colorful designs, visit our Coloring Pages of Rainbows.
🪙 Draw Some Lucky Gold Coins
No playful leprechaun-inspired scene is complete without a little treasure.
Draw a few round coins around the cat’s paws.
Color them yellow or gold, then add orange or brown along one edge to make them look slightly dimensional.
Leave a tiny white section uncolored as a highlight.
You could also decorate each coin with a small symbol.
Try:
- A shamrock
- A cat face
- A star
- A rainbow
- A heart
- A four-leaf clover
For a more detailed St. Patrick’s Day treasure design, try our Clover and Coins St. Patrick’s Day Coloring Page.
🧚 Discover a Little Leprechaun Folklore
Leprechauns come from Irish folklore and were traditionally imagined quite differently from the cheerful green-clad characters commonly seen in modern St. Patrick’s Day decorations.
Old folk stories frequently describe leprechauns as small supernatural figures associated with shoemaking, hidden money, cleverness, and trickery.
Stories about people attempting to capture a leprechaun and discover hidden treasure often end with the leprechaun outsmarting them.
That gives you a fun story idea for the cat on this page.
Perhaps this cat is not simply wearing a costume.
Maybe it really is the cleverest little leprechaun cat in Ireland.
👞 Design Some Magical Shoes
Because shoemaking appears so often in leprechaun folklore, spend some extra time on the cat’s shoes—or draw a pair nearby.
Create tiny magical shoes decorated with:
- Gold buckles
- Shamrock patterns
- Rainbow soles
- Green laces
- Stars
- Stripes
- Polka dots
Perhaps the cat has just finished making them.
Draw a tiny shoemaker’s workbench in the background and add a second pair waiting to be completed.
🌈 Create a Green-and-Rainbow Palette
If you love bright colors, combine traditional St. Patrick’s Day greens with a rainbow.
Use emerald and forest green for most of the costume, then add small bursts of:
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Blue
- Purple
The rainbow colors can appear on the hatband, bow tie, socks, shoes, or background decorations.
This keeps the picture looking distinctly St. Patrick’s Day while giving you plenty of colors to work with.
🌷 Try a Pastel March Palette
March is also a month associated with the transition toward spring in the Northern Hemisphere, so soft spring colors work beautifully on this page.
Try:
- Mint
- Lavender
- Pale yellow
- Peach
- Baby blue
- Soft pink
Give the cat a mint-green hat, lavender bow tie, peach accessories, and pale yellow details.
Add pastel shamrocks and a soft rainbow around the background.
Continue the March theme with our March Coloring Page.
🧡 Create a Classic Orange Cat
One particularly striking combination is an orange cat with a green costume.
Start with light orange or peach across most of the fur.
Add darker orange stripes along the tail, face, and body. Keep the chest or paws cream-colored if you want additional contrast.
Then use emerald or Kelly green for the leprechaun outfit.
Gold buckles and black accessories finish the classic palette.
The orange-and-green combination is bright, cheerful, and perfect for a March coloring page.
🖍️ Practice Simple Shading
Older kids can use the page to experiment with shading.
Choose where you imagine the light is coming from.
If the light comes from the upper left, keep those parts of the cat and costume lighter. Gradually add darker colors toward the lower right.
For green clothing, begin with light green and add emerald or forest green to the shadowed areas.
For orange fur, begin with peach and layer darker orange or brown into the shadows.
Even simple shading can make a coloring page look much more dimensional.
✏️ Give the Cat a Name
Every good character needs a name.
What would you call a cat dressed like a leprechaun?
Maybe:
- Lucky
- Clover
- Paddy
- Emerald
- Shamrock
- Goldie
- Rainbow
- Sprout
Or invent something completely original.
Write the name somewhere on the page and decorate the letters with shamrocks, stars, or tiny paw prints.
📖 Write a Leprechaun Cat Story
Once the picture is colored, imagine what the cat is doing.
Perhaps the cat discovered a secret patch of clover.
Maybe it guards a hidden pot of treasure.
Perhaps it follows rainbows across the countryside searching for magical treats.
Or maybe this is simply a mischievous house cat that found a St. Patrick’s Day costume and decided to wear it.
Ask:
Where does the cat live?
What treasure does it guard?
What happens if someone finds it?
Does it have magical powers?
Younger children can tell the story aloud, while older children can write a short story to accompany the finished coloring page.
🔎 Create a St. Patrick’s Day I Spy Game
Add several tiny objects throughout the picture and turn the finished page into an I Spy activity.
Hide:
- 5 shamrocks
- 4 gold coins
- 3 stars
- 2 rainbows
- 1 four-leaf clover
Then give the page to someone else and ask them to find everything.
You can make the objects obvious for younger children or hide them inside patterns and background details for a more difficult challenge.
🧮 Turn Coloring Into a Counting Activity
The St. Patrick’s Day theme makes it easy to sneak in a little counting practice.
Ask children to:
- Draw three shamrocks.
- Add four coins.
- Use five shades of green.
- Draw six rainbow-colored stars.
- Add seven tiny paw prints.
Then count everything once the picture is complete.
This makes the printable useful for preschool, kindergarten, homeschool, or early elementary activities while still keeping creativity at the center.
🐾 Add Tiny Paw Prints
Give the picture a playful cat-themed background by adding paw prints around the scene.
Draw a trail leading toward the cat.
Where did it come from?
Perhaps the paw prints lead from a pot of gold.
Maybe they disappear beneath a rainbow.
They could even lead toward a hidden pile of treats.
Color some paw prints green, others gold, and a few in rainbow shades.
This is an easy way to personalize the original picture without needing complicated drawing skills.
🏡 Build a Whole Scene Around the Cat
The coloring page can become the starting point for a much bigger illustration.
Draw a background featuring:
- Rolling hills
- A tiny cottage
- Clover fields
- A garden
- Clouds
- A rainbow
- A winding path
- A treasure chest
- Flowers
- Trees
Perhaps the cat lives in a tiny cottage at the end of a rainbow.
Maybe there is an entire village of leprechaun cats nearby.
There is plenty of room for imagination.
🐱 Make a Whole Family of Leprechaun Cats
One leprechaun cat may not be enough.
Grab another sheet of paper and draw several more.
Create a parent cat, kittens, or a whole group of feline friends dressed for St. Patrick’s Day.
Give each one a different hat and outfit.
One could wear forest green, another mint, another rainbow colors, and another gold.
Display the whole family alongside the original coloring page.
Cat lovers can also browse our Cute Coloring Pages for more adorable designs.
💌 Make a St. Patrick’s Day Card
Turn the finished cat into a handmade St. Patrick’s Day greeting.
Mount the colored page—or a smaller copy of it—onto folded cardstock.
Inside, write a cheerful message such as:
“Have a Purr-fect St. Patrick’s Day!”
“Wishing You Lots of Luck!”
“Lucky to Have You!”
“Hope Your Day Is Paws-itively Magical!”
Add shamrocks and paw prints around the message.
A cute cat makes an especially fun alternative to a traditional St. Patrick’s Day card.
✂️ Turn the Page Into a Craft
The finished coloring page can be used for several simple crafts.
Try turning it into:
- A greeting card
- March wall art
- Classroom décor
- A scrapbook page
- A notebook cover
- A holiday poster
- A bulletin-board decoration
- A homemade placemat
You can also glue construction-paper shamrocks or gold circles around the border.
Cotton balls can become clouds, while small pieces of colored paper can create a rainbow collage.
🏫 Use It for a Classroom St. Patrick’s Day Activity
This cute design is easy to use for a classroom or homeschool celebration.
Print a copy for each child and provide crayons, markers, or colored pencils.
Encourage everyone to create a completely different version of the cat.
One student might choose traditional green, while another creates a rainbow cat and another uses pastel colors.
Display all the finished pictures together.
Even though everyone began with the same coloring page, the different palettes and extra details can make each cat look unique.
🎭 Create a Costume-Design Challenge
Use the coloring page as a simple fashion-design activity.
Ask each child to create a unique St. Patrick’s Day costume for the cat.
The rules can be simple:
The costume must include green.
It must include one shamrock.
It must include one completely unexpected color.
Everything else is up to the artist.
At the end, compare the different costumes.
There is no winner—the goal is simply to see how many different ideas can come from the same picture.
☘️ Create a Complete St. Patrick’s Day Coloring Collection
After finishing the leprechaun cat, continue coloring your way through March 17.
For another cute character scene, try our St. Patrick’s Day Coloring Page: Cute Leprechaun with a Pot of Clovers and Rainbow.
If you prefer detailed designs, print the Clover and Coins St. Patrick’s Day Coloring Page.
For lots of lucky leaves, explore the Four-Leaf Clover Coloring Pages.
You can also browse our complete St. Patrick’s Day Coloring Pages collection to find all of the holiday designs in one place.
💚 Have a Purr-fect St. Patrick’s Day
This St. Patrick’s Day coloring page brings together the cuteness of a playful cat with the green-and-gold fun of March 17.
Color the leprechaun costume in traditional emerald green, create an orange-and-green kitty, experiment with pastels, add a rainbow, hide a four-leaf clover, scatter gold coins around the page, or turn the whole picture into a magical feline adventure.
When the coloring is finished, use the page for a story, counting game, classroom display, greeting card, or holiday craft.
Most importantly, make your St. Patrick’s Day cat completely your own.
Happy coloring! 🍀🐱
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📚 Sources
- National Museum of Ireland — A History of St. Patrick’s Day Traditions and Customs
- National Museum of Ireland — St. Patrick and Folk Tradition
- Dúchas — National Folklore Collection
- Met Éireann — St. Patrick’s Day: A Walk Through Ireland’s Climate on March 17th
