Just like reading stories in picture/illustrated books with their children, parents often use coloring pages to teach children and stretch their imagination. Standard coloring pages provide outlines within which children can color, but some art educators believe that free-form pages are an even better tool. A good example of these coloring books can be found at CreativeColoringBooks.
Simple narration of Biblical stories may not create interest in them. But stories accompanies by colorful visual medium like Biblical coloring pages would strike their imagination and they would be able to related the narrations well with pictures. The color pages usually make perfect alphabet games as they come in funny shapes or associated with things children love like doggy, monkey, fairy, flowers, garlands, cartoon characters and others. Children love such visual medium and the Biblical pages too can be used to teach them various things.
Secondly, there are the downloadable, printable coloring pages...organized into categories such as bird species, cat breeds, dinosaurs, dog breeds, generic animals, holiday & seasonal images, insects, medieval, mythical, music-related, ocean life, people and their jobs and wonders of the world. As you take a step down memory lane, specifically recalling your favorite childhood pastimes, I'm sure you, like myself, can remember the pure and simple emotions you felt while occupying yourself and your time with those activities.
All you really need to do is get on the internet and type in a search. Just type in ”Halloween coloring pages” and you will come up with 1000's of different sites that are linked to Halloween, and there will be so many Halloween coloring pages to choose from. Just go to a number of dissimilar sites and download or print whatever ones you like the best. It is a good idea to pair the Halloween coloring pages with the age of the people who will be coloring them in. The older the youngsters, the more complicated the pages can be. If you have mostly toddlers, pre-schoolers, or kindergartners, you will want to stick with basic, simple coloring pages that have large expanses to color and simple things like pumpkins or witches or black cats.
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