A note to parents and care providers: If you look around, you'll find articles praising coloring books/pages for helping to developing fine motor control, eye-to-hand coordination, color discrimination, and so on; and other articles condemning them for squelching creativity and independent thought. As is so often the case with child care, we believe it is not so much what you do as how you do it. It is possible to encourage creativity with a "coloring page" or discourage it with a blank sheet of paper. Give children many other opportunities to create "from scratch" (paints are especially good for this, as are an assortment of geometric shapes that can be pasted down); and when using coloring pages, view them as a springboard to help children find their own way of using them. There are no wrong colors; there is nothing wrong with going "outside the lines" and additions/changes should be encouraged. Be quick to notice where they have shown creativity. When appropriate, you might find a way to help the child develop their own ideas, such as: "I really like it! Is there anything else you'd want to have in this picture?".
Jack o' Lantern Pumpkin to color (PDF)
Farm Scene to finish and color (PDF)
The Peacock Coloring Book (19-page PDF)
A Book for You (intro-to-reading picture book)
Lined Paper for Beginning Writers
Bottom-half-only Wide-lined Paper for Young Author/Illustrators
Owl_and_Pussycat,_Duck_and_Kangaroo.pdf
THE_TALE_OF_BENJAMIN_BUNNY.pdf
THE_TALE_OF_JEMIMA_PUDDLE-DUCK.pdf
THE_TALE_OF_THE_FLOPSY_BUNNIES.pdf