For less than $10 you can buy a jumbo coloring book and a box of Crayola crayons. There is nothing like the smell of new crayons and getting reacquainted with your favorite color as well as opening a fresh coloring book and looking through all the possibilities before choosing your first page to color. (You can also search the Web for the many sites which offer free, printer-friendly coloring pages.)
But other than all this, it is the vast amount of creativity that your child will produce on paper that you will be most amazed at. Children can imagine stuff, and they love to experiment. They are bound to do so even in the area of hues and shades, and will be quite eager to try out various color combinations and shading techniques on these coloring pages. Believe me, coloring pages are the first step to producing very highly artistic individuals, who will be much more perceptive than their peers, and will show a greater amount of creativity in all their endeavors.
Coloring pages can provide enrichment by providing pictures of numbers, letters, animals, and words, so that your child will expand their knowledge in a number of areas. Your child will receive the greatest educational benefit when the coloring pages bring all of these elements together, such as when there is a picture of an animal with it's name written on the page, or when numbers are shown with the name of the number written out, or even a two-sided coloring page with one side showing the letter, number or word, and the other side of the page depicting an animal whose shape resembles the letter or number on the previous page. Take for example a coloring page that has a number one, along with a giraffe that is reminiscent of a number one in it's shape. Your child will not only have fun coloring the number and animal, but their lesson will also include writing the number one and being introduced to a giraffe.
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.
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