Toddler Coloring Pages - Part 2

Color, color, color kids sure love to color. Well, I know mine do!

Below are more links that will take you right to some great coloring pages of characters loved by many children.

• Coloring is an excellent and fun way for children to exercise their fine motor skills.
• Small children have better control with thick crayons.
• Never expect your child to color better than they can - everyone is different!
• Remember to always compliment your child on their artwork, even if it is just scribbles!
• Ask your child to describe the pictures they draw - this helps to build their imagination.
• When coloring with your child don't forget to color a bit out of the lines - By your coloring perfectly could discourage your child from wanting to color.

Print and color these great coloring pages found at www.nickjr.com and treehousetv.com:

Ni Hao Kai Lan Coloring Pages
Toopy & Binoo Coloring Pages
Max & Ruby Coloring Pages
Caillou Coloring Pages
Miss Spider's Coloring Pages
In the Night Garden Coloring Pages

Valentine/Spring Hand Flower

This is what my children had made for their Grandmother for Valentine's Day but it would also make for a nice Spring time craft.



Needed
Paper
Crayons, pencil crayons and/or markers
Scissors
Glue
Anything else you would like to add

Directions
I will discribe the way my kids and I made this but it can be made many different ways......

1. Take paper and trace out your child's hands. Depending on age the child can do this themselves. There are three kids in our family so we traced out both hand of each child once - making 6 hand traces.

2. Have children color their own hands that were traced. I had each child use one color for both the hands but different colors for each child.

3. After they are done coloring cut out each hand. Again, depending on age the child can do this themselves.

4. Glue hands together to make a flower. (see above picture)

5. draw out a stem with its leaves, color and cut

6. Glue flower to stem

7. Your flower is done unless you would like to add anything else to it. Seeing that my kids made this as a Valentine's gift they decided to use glitter glue to make a heart in the middle of it. (Red and Gold)

This is a fun family activity so enjoy and be creative!

In Spirit Of The Olympics

I don't know about you but I love the Winter Olympics!

Here is an activity for schools to have their students participate in. My daughter's school is doing this in spirit of the beloved winter games and I just had to share this idea....

The school she goes to is grades K-5 so what the school has asked is that each grade level freeze a block of colored water and bring in on a certain day. Block of ice can be made from an ice cream container or anything that size.

Now each of those grade levels has a certain color they are to freeze - Blue, Black, Red, Yellow and Green. My daughters grade color is Blue for the first ring in the Olympic rings.

You have probably already guessed what they are going to do with these blocks of ice by now.... Yes, they are going to make the olympic rings down in the lower field of the school yard.

Here are some pictures of the great job the kids did!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here are some great activities for the kids to keep them busy on Valentine's Day. Just click the link to take you to it:
Hearts Dominoes Game
Fix The Hearts
Valentine Crosswords
Valentine Word Search