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Giraffe Coloring Pages for Kids

Check out these giraffe coloring pages that you can print and color with your crayons. These long necked fellows are just adorable. Some even have their necks in a knot! Make your giraffes any color you want or keep it more realistic. You can make purple and green spots or brown and orange. The choice is yours as you color these giraffe coloring pictures.

Just click on an image to open the giraffe coloring sheet in a new browser window/tab. From there you can use your browser's print funtions to print off your favorite giraffe or print them all and make a giraffe collage. You can even give a completed giraffe picture to all your friends and family members.

Check out these fun facts about giraffes just for kids. You can learn something new about these tall animals or see what you may already know. Then you can tell your mom and dad all about giraffes to show how much you have learned.

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Giraffe Coloring Pages for Kids

These giraffe coloring pages are mostly cartoon characters with the extra long necks and cute little spots. Pick your favorite or color them all for lots of coloring fun.

For even more giraffe coloring pages, check out this zoo animals coloring pages with giraffes, lions, hippos and more.

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Fun Facts About Giraffes for Kids

After having fun with your giraffe coloring pages, now it's time to learn all about giraffes with these fun facts just for kids. Learn what they eat, where they live, how tall they really are and many more fun facts. You can tell your friends, parents and even teachers all about giraffes after reading these facts. So have fun learning about these long legged, tall necked mammals.

Do you know how tall a Giraffe is?

The giraffe is the tallest mammal due to their long neck and legs. Their legs alone can stand about 6 feet tall (1.8 m). The entire giraffe with the legs and neck can grow as tall as 14 to 19 ft tall (4 to 6 m). I bet if they had hands they could really dunk a basketball with their height.

Do you know how much a giraffe weighs?

A giraffe can weigh about 1,750 pounds up to 2,800 pounds. That's 794 to 1,270 kg. These gentle giants are one tall and heavy animal.

Do you know what giraffes eat?

Giraffes are herbivores, meaning they only eat vegitation like leaves, grass and other plant vegitation. No meat for these guys. Giraffes use their long legs, tall neck and long tongue to eat tasty morsels from branches off of trees. Since few animals can get to the tasty treats, giraffes have plenty to fuel their large bodies.

Do you know how fast a giraffe can run?

You would think with their long legs and neck it would be difficult for a giraffe to move around too quickly. But these guys can run up to 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers an hour). These top speeds are only short spurts but they can cruise along at 10 miles per hour over longer distances.

Do you know how many giraffe's make up a herd?

The female giraffes and their babies usually make up a herd without the males, but they enjoy company. A herd can be anywhere from a couple dozen to as many as 40.

Other Fun Facts About Giraffes

When a female giraffe gives birth to their babies (fawns) they do this standing up. This means a baby giraffe has a drop of about 5 feet to the ground when they are born. Talk about being dropped on your head as a baby!

A giraffe can go up to two weeks without water. They get most of their water in the leaves they eat.

A giraffe only get a few moments of really deep sleep. They lay down and rest their long necks on their back haunches when sleeping.

Ever see birds resting on giraffes? Well these little birds are a giraffe's friend. They are Oxpeckers, or tick birds, and they eat the ticks and insects off of the giraffe.

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