Coloring Fun for Kids and Grownups

Loveable Mermaid

2011-10-04T21:32:00.002-04:00

Mermaid Digital Stamp

Get in the groove for luau or tropical fantasy with this hip mermaid coloring page.

Use this lovely lady-fish to creat a tee shirt transfer or digital stamp for paper crafts, or just color in the details with markers or colored pencils.

Nothing fishy about this lovely mermaid - she's giving us a friendly sign and wearing a big smile.

Free for any non-commercial use. Fee free to share this page as a link ...

Play Ball! Baseball Cap Coloring Page

2011-08-23T15:31:00.000-04:00

The baseball season is coming down to final playoffs - for players of all ages from tee ball to MLB. Color in your team hue and add numbers or logos to this outline drawing of a baseball cap.

Baseball hat coloring page is also a handy digital stamp. Free for non-commercial use, download from the web site.

Happy Kangaroo Coloring Sheet

2011-08-06T14:24:00.002-04:00

This week I'm drawing animal coloring pages, animals from places far from my home. Australia is about as far as you can travel from the USA .

Here's a happy kangaroo picture just off my drawing board. He's joined the free animal coloring pages collection at Lee Hansen Graphics.

Happy Kangaroo coloring page is a free download you can use for non-commercial use. Check the site's terms of use. Enjoy!

Spotted Salamander Coloring Page

2011-05-16T12:21:00.000-04:00

The next printable nature coloring picture in my wildlife series is the spotted salamander. These blue black beauties with yellow spots grow up to 6 inches long. I hear they mostly journey at night, so you may not have seen one in the wild unless you go out looking for them in early spring on a full moon evening.

Printable salamander coloring page, free for any non commercial use.

Slow and Steady Turtle Coloring Page

2011-05-12T07:35:00.000-04:00

Spring time brings back all the wetland creatures who sleep in the mud during the cold winter months.

Here's a new printable turtle coloring page that's realistic enough to satisfy adult coloring fans but simple enough for younger artists to tackle with earthy or bright colors

Gnome Sweet Gnome Coloring Page

2011-03-26T09:55:00.000-04:00

I'm still chuckling to myself after viewing the animated film Gnomeo and Juliet.

Seeing all the cute garden gnomes and other statues in the film brought spring just a few steps closer, and so will coloring in this cute little old guy. Grab a copy of this gnome coloring page from the Fairy Coloring Pages collection and add your own spring hues.

Will the Ground Hog See His Shadow?

2011-02-01T18:20:00.000-05:00

At our house it's doubtful that Punxatawney Phil will see his shadow on Ground Hog Day - we're getting hit with the snow storm of the century.

The bad weather just makes it perfect for a Ground Hog Day arts and crafts day. This new printable ground hog coloring page is ready to go, and free for home or classroom use.

Review: Creative Platypus Coloring Crafts for Adults and Kids

2011-01-26T15:20:00.002-05:00

The creative folks over at Creative Platypus, LTD in Eugene Oregon recently sent me a sample packet of their popular adult coloring products to play with and review. The samples I received are spread all over the studio right now, and it's hard to decide which one to try out first. They include two types of adult coloring crafts: quality line art drawings and black velvet coloring crafts.

The collection of artistic coloring posters features beautifully detailed drawings by different artists, each printed on heavy white stock. The coloring posters in my sample set range in size from 10" x 14" mini-posters printed with detailed outline drawings of endangered species, wildlife, fairies and pets to a challenging, highly detailed 22" x 32.5" surrealistic cats art poster.

My favorite in this set is the cats art poster. It's an engaging drawing of 2 cats stepping out of a picture frame that looks like a window and into a reading room filled with books, flora and fauna. A mouse sits on the table reading a book by candle light while birds perch on the picture frame watching as the cats reach for a fishbowl. This big (22" x 32") poster is delightful as a black and white drawing; when colored with markers or colored pencils it will be a gorgeous work of art to frame or mount.

The second collection in the samples is a set of heavy outline fuzzy black velvet coloring craft pieces in various sizes and shapes featuring both secular and Christian themes. The smallest black velvet outline pieces are sturdy die-cuts printed on extra heavy card stock and fitted with hangers or magnetic backing. These ready to color in and create door hangers and small signs could be gifts for friends or family members. Also included in this set is a large square velvet poster with a Celtic mandala and a set of four Christan mini posters.

A unique activity piece round out the velvet outline pieces: a double-sided 10" x 16" die-cut cross with a floral velvet coloring craft on one side and on the back a series of scene panels filled with people, animals and angels. The back features a word puzzle plus a hidden picture game with more content available for the activity at the web site.

Stuff2Color.com artists and creative minds at Creative Platypus have put together a collection of wonderful coloring crafts that will appeal to older kids and adults. If you're looking for artistic resources for your classroom or home school students, teen or adult activity group or even just for yourself, visit Stuff2Color.com to see what they have to offer.

Dazed 80's Printable Coloring Page

2011-01-25T12:06:00.000-05:00

It's always fun to find a new site offering original, printable coloring pages and coloring books. I just discovered another one with pages that will appeal to kids and one retro coloring page that tugs at my baby boomer heart. It's for kids but it's also a cool adult coloring page.

My Paper Monkey offers a unique selection of printable coloring pages - simply sign up to login and download the freebies.

Mandala Coloring Pages

2010-12-14T15:11:00.001-05:00

Sometimes it's fun to color a design that's not organic or based on reality but one with more imaginative geometric symmetry, like a kaleidoscope design or a mandala.

You can use paint, markers or colored pencils to add your favorite hues to decorate your mandala coloring picture, or you can print off your favorite design to use as a pattern for embroidery, sand painting, mosaics or patchwork.

Mandala Coloring Books has dozens of free resources for you. Enjoy.

Fall Leaves and Acorns Coloring Page

2010-11-16T12:45:00.000-05:00

Oak leaves and acorns for the squirrels and deer are sure signs that autumn is here. Print and color in this fall leaves coloring page with your favorite crayons, colored pencils or water colors. Or get creative and use this artwork as a craft pattern for yourself or your favorite kiddos.

I used this drawing to create an iron on transfer. I want to use the iron ons to make washable fabric Thanksgiving place mats. I'll embroider some and give a few to the kids to decorate with fabric markers. We can use the place mats every year for the entire fall season.

If I sew up the place mats from recycled white sheets they'll be a doubly-green holiday craft project. Find lots more printable coloring pages in the Thanksgiving coloring pages collection at Pastiche Family Portal.

Fall Season Coloring Activity

2010-09-10T09:06:00.000-04:00

All the leaves have fallen from this autumn tree. Add some fall leaf coloring shapes or cut outs of colorful fall clip art leaves and other autumn pictures to this printable tree poster. You can also color in the scene and paste on real leaves you collect in your neighborhood or yard.

4 Seasons Coloring Pages - Fall leaves coloring activity page

Simple Stars Pattern

2010-08-19T16:56:00.000-04:00

Shapes intrigue me and stars are one of my favorites. Stars are brilliant and I don't mean that as a pun - they're suitable for all sorts of decoration or design work and can symbolize anything from heavenly bodies to holiday sparkle to magic to a knock on the head. You can color stars white or yellow or any color you like, make them look like a quilted design or you can give them a cute face.

What can you design with this sheet of stars coloring page?

Mandala Coloring Page

2010-08-19T16:46:00.000-04:00

This is a challenging circular design to color, but isn't that the point with a coloring mandala?

I like the openness of this mandala. It has some blank areas that will allow me to add my own designs or doodles.Even better: the page it's on has 11 more printable coloring page mandala drawings.

Race Cars Coloring Printables

2010-08-04T17:26:00.000-04:00

Race lovers, rev up your engines - we've got printable sheets of cool cars of all sorts, ready for you to color.

NASCAR coloring pages, race car coloring sheets, hot rod cars to color, classic cars coloring pages, Disney Pixar cars coloring sheets, and yes, even international racing cars printable coloring pages!

Flag Day Coloring Page

2010-06-14T09:57:00.000-04:00

Color in the red, white stripes and blue field behind the stars on the USA flag coloring poster - today is Flag Day!

Color by Number Printables

2010-05-18T16:16:00.001-04:00

Color By Number Printables - Best of the Web

Spring Lambs Coloring Sheet

2010-03-31T12:35:00.000-04:00

Baby animals arrive in the spring, along with new grass and fresh flowers as the earth renews herself.

Enjoy this printable baby lambs coloring page - just in time for Easter or any spring celebration.

Shamrocks Coloring Sheet Printable

2010-03-16T10:44:00.000-04:00

Shamrocks coloring sheet for St. Patrick's Day arts and crafts fun. Color with pencil, marker or crayons, or use these clover outlines to create stencils for other Celtic crafts.

Flower Power VW Bus Coloring Sheet

2010-02-12T17:32:00.000-05:00

Add your own groovy decorations to this VW bus coloring page. It's only one of a whole set of design posters and complex pictures to color - for adult coloring, craft designs or a trip down memory lane.

New Year Party Coloring

2009-12-29T07:49:00.000-05:00

The clock face says it all - it's a few minutes before midnight in this New Year coloring page decorated with balloons and confetti.

Alphabets and Monograms

2009-12-24T11:36:00.000-05:00

Letters of the Alphabet coloring pages appeal to all ages. You can find ornate monograms to use as artwork and posters or for non-coloring crafts or you can go with simpler designs for children to color. I like to use alphabet letters in line art form to design patterns for other crafts.

For relaxation with markers and colored pencils, my favorite alphabet coloring pages are replicas from vintage books and manuscripts.

Alphabet Coloring has many resources for adult coloring and coloring for kids of all ages and levels; it's also got listings to printable coloring pages featuring every letter of the alphabet on its own or as a complete letter set.

Dragon Coloring Page

2009-10-28T16:11:00.003-04:00

My latest coloring pages discovery at DeviantArt - dragons.

cynder line art free to use by *Dragon-wisper on deviant ART

blue tree dragon line art by *color-me-club on deviant ART

Complex Celtic Star Design

2009-08-18T11:02:00.004-04:00

This complex adult coloring page has a star motif in the center but the decorative borders, swirls and connected edges remind me of Celtic knot patterns.

Whatever you want to call this design, it's challenging enough for adult coloring enjoyment with markers or colored pencils.

July 4th Coloring Poster

2009-07-02T09:56:00.003-04:00

Make a poster for Independence Day with this Three Cheers for the Red, White and Blue US flag coloring poster featured in the Patriotic Coloring Book at Pastiche Family Portal.

Happy Birthday, USA - July 4th!