Frog to color

Apart from the great amount of emotional satisfaction that these coloring pages will provide your kids with, they will also help in the development of their finer motor skills, such as finger dexterity, eye-hand coordination etc. and increase their mental capacity, by developing their concentration power, determination, and the likes. Coloring pages will help your child understand various concepts, and even aid you in reciting various stories and fairy tales to them, making it a fun-filled activity, instead of mere bed-time reading.

All kids like to color, but there are important reasons to encourage and guide this activity beyond the simple hedonistic impetus to have fun. Coloring Builds Fine Motor Skills – Perhaps the biggest benefit children get from coloring pages of animals or their favorite cartoon characters is the development of fine motor skills. This includes learning the proper way to hold the crayon, marker or colored pencil they are using to draw with. When supervising young children learning how to color use gentle instructions to encourage them to hold the writing implement near the tip, cradled between the tips of their thumb, index finger and middle finger. Many children grab the crayon in their fist. Correcting this improper usage is an important first step towards real penmanship.

When you print out free pages for Easter for your kids to color you are introducing them to a fantastic activity. They will learn color coordination as they experiment with how different colors look when paired up with each other. While they will come up with some wacky color combinations in the beginning, eventually they will start determining what colors look more natural when pair with each other. With Easter coloring pages kids are able to be really express their creativity as you can use very bright color combinations and design fun eggs, silly Easter bunnies, and beautiful Easter baskets. Kids will also learn how to better control their hand control while they are coloring. The more and more that they practice the more control that they will get with their hands as they color the more polished that their work will look. Kids will be so proud to here the complements that they will get with their coloring work when they finish no matter what their skill set happens to be. Coloring Easter pages can be a great confidence booster for all children.

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.