Happy Easter Everyone!
Inspired by egg painting, I’ve put together a list of coloring resources. My son was really into coloring last year and we must have printed out a few hundred different trains and dinosaurs to color. Besides being good for fine motor skills, they say it’s therapeutic right? Here is a list of sites where you can access coloring pages for your kids or yourself:
Illustrator Elise Gravel has a whole slew of wonderful free printable on her website, including a coloring page to “draw funny viruses” and one where the child should draw the “cure they came up with: http://elisegravel.com/en/livres/free-printables/…
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Italian artist Kanjano provides adorable Alphabet illustrations to color with quarantine theme. Follow on Instagram:
@kanjano_org
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MoMA is offering coloring pages by artist Louise Lawler, and you can apparently submit your colored pictures for them to post on Instagram. Click on the links to download in the article here: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/257
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Hypoallergic provides this list of museums also offering free downloadable coloring pages, including the Getty, Smithsonian, and Russian State Library:
https://hyperallergic.com/…/free-downloadable-coloring-boo…/
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Crayola
Of course the company that makes the crayons and markers has a huge assortment of free downloadable line art you can choose from here: https://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-p…/new-coloring-pages/
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Super Coloring
Thousands of searchable and downloadable images to print and color at home: http://www.supercoloring.com/sections/coloring-pages
They also have some dot-to-dot and drawing tutorials and puzzle games
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Aardman
At first I thought this was also a free download, but I love Aardman, so I would probably buy it. You can order the Aardman Animation Coloring Book here (13€)
https://shop.colouringheaven.com/…/products,issue-13-aardma…
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We don’t use an app for coloring so I wouldn’t know what to recommend, but you can check out this article on the “top ten” kids coloring apps of 2020 if you don’t have a printer at home: https://www.lifewire.com/best-kid-coloring-apps-4174282
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Also—coloring beyond the lines….there are limited spaces, and it starts next week, so I’d like to recommend:
Little art lab’s Family Journaling online classes for ages 6+. Wednesday April 15th 16:00-18:00 (CET) or Saturday April 18th 10:30-12:30 CET, 50€ + VAT for a family of up to 4. For more info: https://www.thelittleartlab.com/…/art-creative-journaling-f…
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