Giraffe Coloring Pages – 34 Long Neck Giraffe Scenes

Giraffes are easy to love and surprisingly fun to draw, from that impossibly long neck down to the patchwork of spots that never quite repeats. This collection of 34 giraffe coloring pages follows them across the savanna, under acacia trees, and into the middle of a giraffe family, so there is always another scene waiting once the crayons come out. Whether your child wants a simple portrait or a busy river crossing, there is a page here to match the mood.

Browse the 34 Free Giraffe Coloring Pages

All 34 giraffe coloring pages below are free and printable. Just click on the picture you like, and the full-size PDF will open, ready to print at home or at school. Every sheet is formatted for A4 paper, and the designs range from very easy outlines for little ones to detailed scenes for older kids and adults who enjoy extra shading.

On the Savanna

Smiling giraffe on the savanna

A tall, smiling giraffe stands in side view on a strip of ground with two grass tufts, with two puffy clouds behind its long neck. Large rounded patches cover the body, and the tail ends in a bushy tuft. The open shapes and thick outlines make it easy to color.

Giraffe beside a flat-topped acacia tree

A giraffe stands in three-quarter view with its long neck stretched upward, next to a flat-topped acacia with forked branches. Grass tufts dot the ground and a rolling hill line runs behind. The many angular patches on the neck and legs call for a steady hand.

Walking giraffe at sunrise

A giraffe strides across open grassland while a half-circle sun with seven rays rises behind a low hill. A small acacia, bushy hedge lines, tall grass blades in the corners and a rock fill out the scene. The wide sun rays and big spots are easy to fill in, and the tail tuft has finer hair strokes.

Long-Necked Giraffe with Clouds and Wheat Grass

This portrait-style sheet shows a young giraffe with big lashed eyes, two tufted horns and a stretched neck lined with a braided mane. Three clouds float above, a tall stalk of seed-headed grass rises at the lower left, and small tufts sit near the hooves. The neck spots are large and open, while the leg spots shrink to smaller shapes.

Giraffe Looking Back Over Its Shoulder

Seen from behind, a giraffe turns its head to glance back with a smile. Large rounded patches cover its body, a tufted tail hangs down, and a ringed sun and a single cloud sit above a gently curved ground line. The big rump patches are easy to fill, while the face and tail tuft need a careful hand.

Giraffe Wading Through a River

Water ripples circle the hooves of a giraffe wading through a shallow river. Rounded stones fill the foreground, and a baobab-style tree, bushes, two clouds and a plain round sun sit behind it. The water lines and stones are simple, but the many neck and body patches take patience.

Eating and Drinking

Giraffe Nibbling Thorny Acacia Leaves

A tall giraffe stretches its neck up and sticks out its tongue to pick leaves from a thorny acacia branch in the top corner. A flat-topped tree stands on the horizon, and fallen thorny twigs, grass tufts and loose leaves lie on the ground. The tiny oval leaflets are fine work, while the large neck and body patches are easy to fill.

Giraffe Drinking at a Waterhole

With its front legs splayed wide, a giraffe bends its long neck down until its muzzle touches a puddle, sending out three ripple rings. Big patches mark the body, a flat-topped acacia stands on the far hills, and grass tufts frame the pond. The open patches are quick to fill, while the ripples and the two pom-pom horn tips reward a steady hand.

Giraffe Reaching for a Leafy Branch

Standing tall on a ground line, a giraffe stretches its neck up until its muzzle touches a leafy branch in the top corner. Two rolling hills sit behind it, and the tufted tail hangs down. The patches are large and open, so this is an easy sheet, and the leaf outlines are the only small shapes.

Giraffe with Two Oxpeckers on Its Back

Two small oxpecker birds perch on the back of a standing giraffe, right where the neck meets the body. Behind it a flat-topped acacia rises, and grass tufts sit around the hooves. Oxpeckers really do ride giraffes to pick off ticks. The birds are tiny, but the large body patches are easy to fill.

Giraffe Leaning Into a Thorny Bush

A giraffe bows its long neck down from the left so its muzzle touches a thorny bush with many small leaves on the right. A dry creekbed with rounded stones runs across the front, with a small acacia and grass tufts behind. The bush leaves are the finest detail, while the large body patches stay easy.

Giraffe Family

Mother Giraffe Nuzzling Her Newborn Calf

A tall mother giraffe bends her neck in an arch to touch noses with a wobbly-legged calf. A small flat-topped acacia and low bushes stand in the distance, with grass tufts in front. The mother’s patches are large and open, while the calf’s are smaller and more numerous.

Baby Giraffe Between Two Big Flowers

A smiling baby giraffe stands on a small grassy mound between two oversized six-petal flowers with leafy stems. It has big round eyes, two knobbed horns, a tufted tail and rounded patches on its neck and body. The bold, open shapes suit first-time colorers.

Giraffe Mother and Calf Walking by a Pond

Side by side, a tall adult giraffe and a small calf stride to the left across open ground, with a rounded hill and bushy shrubs behind them. A wavy pond edge, pebbles and grass tufts fill the foreground. Both have knobbed horns, tufted tails and smiling faces, and the mother’s large patches are easy to fill in.

Two Giraffes Necking Together

Two young giraffes cross their long necks in an X while standing on grass, their heads turned toward each other. A round-topped acacia stands on the right, and tufts of grass dot the ground. Large, rounded patches cover both bodies, so the open shapes are easy to color.

Four Giraffes in Descending Height

Four giraffes stand in a row and shrink in height from a tall adult on the left to a small calf on the right. Two flat-topped acacias, a rounded hill, bushes, grass tufts and fallen branches fill the scene. The fine, densely patterned patches make it a demanding sheet.

Sleepy Giraffe Calf Resting Beside Its Mother

A calf lies curled on the grass with its head tucked toward its chest, while the tall mother stands over it. A round-topped acacia and a low hill sit behind them, and grass tufts dot the ground. The patches are medium-sized and easy to fill, and the mother’s long neck leaves a lot of open space.

With Other Animals

Giraffe Above Four Grazing Antelope

A tall giraffe with a tufted tail looks off to the right while four antelope graze in the grass at its feet, two of them with ringed, curved horns. Two flat-topped acacias and a row of low bushes sit on the horizon. The giraffe’s patches are large and open, but the antelope and grass tufts add finer work.

Giraffe and Ostrich at the Pond

An ostrich with a fluffy plumed body stands upright beside a giraffe that bends far down to sip from a rippling pond. Cattails and tall reeds line the bank, and a large round sun sits in the upper corner. The ostrich’s feathers are fine scalloped shapes, while the plain sun and water leave big open areas.

Giraffe and Elephants at a Baobab Waterhole

A giraffe strides across cracked dry ground toward a pond where an adult elephant and a calf dip their trunks into rippling water. A big baobab tree, low bushes and distant hills fill the background. The giraffe’s patches are large and open, while the cracked earth and the elephants’ wrinkled trunks call for finer work.

Giraffe Standing in the Rain

Under two puffy clouds, a smiling giraffe tilts its head up into falling raindrops while it stands beside a puddle dotted with ripple rings. A flat-topped acacia and low bushes sit on the horizon. The big, open neck patches suit bold color, while the many raindrops are small shapes.

Giraffe and Resting Male Lion

A tall standing giraffe with rounded patches on its neck and legs looks down toward a maned lion lying in the grass. A flat-topped acacia and low bushes sit on the horizon behind them. The lion’s mane is drawn with many fine pointed tufts.

Movement and Rest

Galloping Giraffe with Dust Clouds

Mid-gallop, a giraffe leaps across the grass with all four legs off the ground, its tail tuft flying behind it. Puffs of dust and small round pebbles trail its hooves, and a low sun, rolling hills and a lone acacia sit in the background. The large hexagonal patches are easy to fill in.

Giraffe Mother and Calf at Sunset

An adult giraffe bends its long neck to touch noses with a smaller calf, and both stand in front of a huge round sun with ten straight rays. A flat-topped acacia stands at the right. The large, irregular patches leave plenty of room for broad strokes of color.

Resting Giraffe Beside an Acacia

A giraffe rests on the ground with its legs folded under its body and its head raised, smiling. Its neck and body carry outlined patches, a small acacia with a cloud-shaped crown stands behind it, and grass tufts sit around the edges. The patches vary in size, and the biggest ones on the body are easy to fill.

Giraffe with Butterfly on Its Horn

A smiling, long-necked giraffe with long eyelashes stands in three-quarter view while a small butterfly rests on one of its pom-pom horns. Two rounded hills sit behind it, and rounded patches cover the neck and body, with a few tiny dots on the legs. The patches are bold and open, so thick markers work well.

Giraffe Under a Big Shade Tree with Two Birds

Two small birds with spread wings fly on either side of a standing giraffe with pom-pom horns. Behind it, a broad tree with a scalloped, cloud-like crown and a forked trunk rises from a gently curved ground line. The tree crown is one large open shape, so it works well for a wide marker.

Zoo and Special Places

Boy Feeding a Giraffe at the Zoo Fence

A boy in a T-shirt and shorts stands at a wooden fence and holds up a leafy branch to a giraffe that bends its long neck down to take it. A thatched shelter, rocks, bushes and trees fill the enclosure behind them. This is a dense, detailed scene with lots of small patches and wood grain, so fine-tip pens suit it best.

Giraffe Inside a Barn with a Hay Pile

Inside a timber-framed barn, a smiling giraffe stands tall with its head near the rafters. Behind it, open double doors show a small landscape with two clouds and a rolling hill, and a heap of loose straw lies in the front corner. The hay is drawn as many thin crossing strokes, so it needs a fine-tip pen.

Giraffe Crossing in Front of a Safari Jeep

A tall giraffe strides across a dirt track while three cheering children in safari hats wave from an open-top jeep behind it. Tire tracks run along both sides of the track, and a flat-topped acacia tree and distant hills fill the background. The large, patchy spots on the giraffe’s neck and body are big enough for wide markers.

Giraffe Beside a Height Measuring Post

A young giraffe with a smiling face stands next to a tall wooden post marked with 18 tick lines, as if measuring its height. A three-rail fence and small grass tufts sit behind and around its legs. The spots are large and open, so broad markers work well.

Spot Patterns

Ring of Six Giraffe Faces

Six cartoon giraffe heads form a circle, each turned so its neck points to the center. Every face has big sparkling eyes, a smiling snout, two ball-tipped horns and leaf-shaped ears. The clean, open outlines suit thick markers, and the matching faces make it easy to try a different color scheme on each one.

Giraffe Patch Pattern

A full-page giraffe skin pattern made of about two dozen irregular, rounded patches, separated by narrow gaps and arranged like a mosaic. No animal is shown. A large patch in the middle of the page is the biggest area. The shapes range from small to large, and all outlines are clean and closed.

Giraffe with Flower and Star Patterns

A standing cartoon giraffe with a long neck and a gentle smile, its coat covered in flowers, stars and leaf shapes instead of ordinary spots. A round-topped acacia tree and a small bush with two grass tufts fill the background. The shapes are large and closed, so the sheet suits broad markers.

Giraffes at a Glance

Giraffes are gentle giants of the African savanna, and once you know a few real facts about them, coloring their portraits gets a lot more fun and a little more accurate too. Here is what makes a giraffe a giraffe, from its towering height down to the pattern on its coat.

A Giraffe’s Neck and Height

Giraffes are the tallest land animals on Earth. Adult bulls stand about 5 to 5.5 meters tall, and cows are a little smaller. That long neck is not built from extra bones, though. Giraffes have exactly seven neck vertebrae, the same number humans have, but each one can be more than 25 centimeters long, which is what gives the neck its reach.

What Giraffes Eat and Drink

A giraffe’s tongue is dark and about 45 to 50 centimeters long, which lets it wrap around leaves on thorny acacia trees without getting scratched. Giraffes eat leaves, shoots, flowers, and fruit, picking their way through treetops that most other animals cannot reach. A full-grown giraffe needs around 30 kilograms of greens every day to keep up its size. Since those leaves already hold plenty of water, giraffes only need to drink now and then, which is handy on a dry savanna.

Family, Sleep, and Spots

No two giraffes share the same spot pattern; it works almost like a fingerprint, so every sheet in this gallery can be colored a little differently and still look right. Calves are already about 1.8 meters tall and weigh around 100 kilograms at birth, after a pregnancy of roughly 15 months, and they can stand and walk within a short time of being born. Giraffes barely sleep, often just one to two hours a day in short naps, usually while standing up. Their closest living relative is not the zebra but the okapi, a shy forest animal with a similar shape but a very different coat. The name giraffe comes from the Arabic word zarafa, which traveled through Italian as giraffa before settling into English and German. In the wild, giraffes live in the savannas and dry woodlands south of the Sahara, and a group of them is called a tower. Sadly, their numbers have dropped sharply in recent decades, and the species is now listed as vulnerable by the IUCN.

Before You Start Coloring

Each PDF in this set is sized for A4 paper, so a home or school printer will handle it without any adjustment. Regular printer paper works fine for crayons and colored pencils, while a slightly heavier cardstock holds up better to markers, gel pens, or watercolor paint. When you print, choose the “fit to page” or “actual size” setting rather than “shrink to fit” or borderless printing, so the outlines stay crisp and centered on the page. Printing in grayscale is perfectly fine, since the pages are already designed as black and white line art.

For toddlers and preschoolers, pick the very easy pages with a single large giraffe and thick, simple outlines that are easy to stay inside. Early elementary kids tend to enjoy the pages with a bit of savanna scenery, an acacia tree, or another animal to color alongside the giraffe. Older kids and adults who like to add shading, patterns, or fine detail will get the most out of the busier scenes, such as the detailed portraits and the river crossing, where there is plenty of background to fill in.

Things to Make With Your Finished Pages

A finished giraffe page does not have to go straight into a drawer. Here are a few simple ways to give it a second life.

• Hang a few pages together on a bedroom wall or a classroom board for an instant safari gallery.
• Fold a smaller sheet in half to make a homemade birthday, thank-you, or get-well card for a family member.
• Punch holes along one edge and tie several pages together with ribbon or string to make a simple giraffe-themed storybook.
• Laminate a favorite sheet and use it as a durable placemat for lunch or for a zoo-themed birthday party.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are the giraffe coloring pages free to print?

Yes. Every page in this gallery is completely free to download and print, at home or at school, and you can print as many copies as you need.

What age group are these pages best suited for?

The gallery covers a wide range, from very simple outlines that suit toddlers and preschoolers to detailed scenes that older kids, teens, and adults will enjoy. Check the description under each thumbnail to see roughly where a given sheet falls on that scale before you print it.

What color should I use for a giraffe?

A real giraffe has a tan or cream coat with brown or orange patches, each one shaped a little differently, plus a dark, almost blue-black tongue. That said, there is no single wrong answer here. Sticking close to those real colors is a nice way to learn about the animal, but a purple, rainbow, or polka-dot giraffe is just as valid if that feels more fun.

Can teachers use these pages in the classroom?

Yes. The pages work well for a savanna or Africa unit, an animal report, a quiet-time activity, or a reward worksheet, and teachers are welcome to print copies for their whole class.

What paper works best for printing?

Standard printer paper is enough for crayons, colored pencils, or fine markers. If you plan to use paint or heavier markers, a light cardstock will hold up better and is less likely to wrinkle or let color bleed through.

Do the pages have to be colored exactly like a real giraffe?

Not at all. Coloring is meant to be relaxing and creative, so feel free to follow the real tan-and-brown coloring one day and experiment with completely different colors the next.

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Matthew Matthysen is an educated multidisciplinary artist and illustrator. He successfully completed his art degree at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, majoring in art history and contemporary drawing. The focus of his thesis was to explore the philosophical implications of the macro and micro-universe on the human experience. Matthew uses diverse media, such as written and hands-on components, to explore various approaches that are on the border between philosophy and science.

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