According to Wikipedia : A coloring book is a variety of book containing line art for a reader to add color using crayons, coloured pencils, marker pens, paint or other inventive media. Coloring books are typically utilized by children, though coloring books for adults are also available. They cover a wide selection of subjects, from straightforward stories for kids to complex or abstract designs for adults. The golden age of coloring books is thought to be the 1960s.shape coloring pages
Coloring books are where most kids start to develop their inventive dexterity. They're available relatively cheap, they're often related to cartoon characters or objects familiar to toddlers. They supply guidelines for kids who are learning to control their hand movements by'coloring inside the lines'.
the 1st coloring book,'The Little Folks' Paint Book' was published in 1879. Crayola introduced the crayon in 1903. And the average American kid spends twenty-eight mins a day coloring and wears down about 730 crayons by the age of 10. Between oldsters and schools, roughly 2.5 bn. crayons are purchased annually.
Just like reading stories in picture/illustrated books with their kids, parents frequently use coloring pages to educate youngsters and stretch their imagination. Standard coloring pages provide outlines within which youngsters can color, but some art educators believe that free-form pages are an even better tool. A fine example of these coloring books can be discovered at CreativeColoringBooks.
occasionally, you will find official cartoon or TV character sites ( such as PBS programs ) will make available coloring pages for free to their fans. And there are many other sites that distribute coloring pages of those copyrighted characters. Sounds like perilous legal ground ...but, surprisingly, I have not heard about any of these sites being prosecuted for copyright infringement. So they will probably continue to make them available.
A well-categorized coloring site is a great resource for teachers and fogeys, as well as for children themselves. And the best sites have preformatted the pictures for straightforward printing.
My favourite coloring site features 2 different kinds of coloring.
First, there's the click-to-color pages, where babies click the color they need, then click on the part of the picture where they want to apply the color. This site features some 140 animals pictures that may be coloured in this fashion.
Secondly, there are the downloadable, printable coloring pages...organized into classes like bird species, cat breeds, dinosaurs, dog breeds, universal animals, holiday & seasonal photographs, insects, medieval, legendary, music-related, ocean life, people and their roles and wonders of the world.
Not only do these pages'scratch the itch' of very young artists, but they can also double as quality clip art pictures.
you'll find this terrific resource at . You may want to check out my other guide on shape coloring pages
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