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You can find more on Valentine coloring pages including pictures you can download, print and color for free, on this blog that treats toe subject of coloring pages. Besides sheets with Disney characters, you’ll also find there many other types of coloring pictures and books, all available free of charge for all visitors. How many times have you simply sat there with a box of crayons or coloring pencils and a coloring book or coloring pages and just enjoyed yourself for a little while? It really is not that surprising that there are as many adults that really love coloring as there are children that love this activity. Too many times adults sit there and hide the fact that they still like or love to color as much as their kids, or the kids in their lives, do. Think about this and answer this question if you possibly can; what is the matter with saying that you like to color on SpongeBob coloring pages?

This coloring pages are wonderful for helping children to get excited about the holidays too. For example you can print those for what is just around the corner including Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Easter. In fact, they can even give those beautifully colored pages to other people as gifts for that particular holiday time. If you want your children to get the most from it, allow them to sit with you at the computer and choose the pictures that they would like. They are going to be more inclined to spend time coloring them when they have had some input about what they will look like. Even though coloring books typically aren't expensive, you will find they have plenty of pages that the kids simply skip over. With creating your own though, you can be certain every single page is going to be a hit. With single pages too each child can work on one of them independently instead of sharing the same coloring book.

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.

The first coloring book, "The Little Folks' Paint Book" was published in 1879. Crayola introduced the crayon in 1903. And the average American child spends 28 minutes a day coloring and wears down about 730 crayons by the age of 10. Between parents and schools, roughly 2.5 billion crayons are purchased each year.