Occasionally, you'll 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 dangerous legal ground ...but, surprisingly, I've never heard of any of these sites being prosecuted for copyright infringement. So they'll probably continue to make them available.
Coloring books are a thing of the past. Kids today aren`t as thrilled by a basic coloring book as children a generation ago. That is because these children have been spoiled by all the fantastic new methods of coloring using the computer or with fancy markers and pens. While you might get away with a coloring book and crayons for a long car trip, don`t expect your school age children to sit quietly at the table coloring pictures the old fashioned way - there is a something better around, and they know it.
Doing a search on Google for printable coloring pages will bring up numerous different websites that offer you coloring pages to print. Google even offers a selection of pages with everything from dragons to princesses and Dora the Explorer to animals and sports cars. Each picture is accompanied with a link to the website it was taken from, so you get a huge range of websites you can look on to find different kinds of coloring pages. This is a wonderful resource that provides you with a diverse collection of free, printable coloring sheets. Individual character websites also often have great coloring pages to print. For example, by searching Google for the Strawberry Shortcake website, you can print a large number of high quality coloring sheets that will delight any little girl. You can try looking up other favorite characters for your child, such as Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder, and Curious George, and you’ll find some free coloring sheets you can print out at each site. It’s like having a hundred different coloring books at your disposal all the time.
Self Esteem and Confidence Improvement – Kids give themselves a huge boost when they successful start and complete any task or assignment. The same goes for educational coloring pages. As they regularly complete each coloring page, it builds positive self-esteem in them and their confidence level, causing them to increase with each coloring pages to print completed. Rapid Knowledge of things – Like already said picture lessons are easily retained by children more than any other thing. When they have pictures to color (say an animal), they take notice of the lines, shape, form and names. This will help them recognize such picture next time they see it. Easy recognition of things helps build their overall knowledge with time.
