Easy • 25x21 • 408 beads • 7 colors
Catnap on a Clementine
A sleepy black cat curled on a bright clementine cushion, charted as a compact 25x21 perler bead pattern with 7 colors and warm orange contrast.
Cat Perler Bead Patterns
10 cat perler bead patterns, from full-body basket cats and action poses to a fish-snack kitty and a sleepy cushion cat. Every chart comes with bead counts, a color key, and a printable PDF.
10 patterns · 21–63 grid · 3–19 colors · Printable PDF
All cat patterns
Open any card for a larger chart preview, the exact bead count, the full color key, and the option to edit colors before exporting a PDF.
What makes these 10 cat charts different
This page is cats only, from full-body pet portraits to smaller playful designs. Three are cat-bed portraits — a gray-and-white cat curled in a basket, a calico sprawled belly-up, and a gray-and-white cat sitting upright. The set also includes a stretch, a side-flop, a mid-air pounce, a big orange cat mid-yawn, a fish-snack kitty, and a sleepy cushion cat. Grids run 21–63 pegs with 3–19 colors, which finishes at roughly palm to postcard size.
Which cat pattern to start with
Judge by color count before grid size. Paws-Up Gray Cat uses just 3 colors, so bead sorting is quickest there, and Catnap on a Clementine is the smallest chart at 25×21. The calico runs to 19 colors with several close neutrals, so sort by color code before placing a single bead. Larger charts need joined pegboards, so check the grid size before placing a single bead.
Printable PDF charts with bead counts and color keys
Each cat links to a full detail page listing grid size, bead count, color count, and the printing workflow. Cats are unforgiving here — grays, creams, and whites sit close together, and one swapped neutral flattens the whole face — so it pays to read the color key before you start. You can also open the chart in the editor, swap in beads you already own, and export a clean printable PDF from there.
What to make with a cat perler bead pattern
The three basket charts have compact silhouettes with little dead space, which makes them the best picks for framing or a shelf piece. The stretch and the side-flop are wide, landscape-shaped builds that sit well along a bookshelf or on top of a monitor. The leaping cream cat carries the most motion, so it reads best as a magnet, keychain, or bag charm. For a gift set, pick three charts from the same color family so the finished pieces hang together.
Keep browsing
Cats are one slice of the animal category. The animals page adds dogs, bunnies, penguins, and lambs built the same way and printed through the same workflow, while the cute patterns collection cuts across species if you want to pick several charts for one themed set.