Step-by-step drawing guides, printing tips and coloring ideas for all ages.
A child sits at a table with a green crayon in one hand and a blue crayon in the other. They are looking at a drawing of a forest, but they are not just coloring trees. We want to show you how to use these simple pages to build logic, reading, and science skills.
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A two-year-old grips a chunky green crayon in a tight fist and makes a single, jagged line across a white page. We have over 2,000 free printable coloring pages to help you match the right image to your child's current stage of development.
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A single sharp yellow pencil rests on a wooden table next to a stack of paper. You have ten minutes before the next chore starts, and the house is finally quiet enough to hear the clock tick. This short window of time is all you need to turn a blank page into something finished and calm your mind.
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Twelve children are crowded around a small kitchen table, each reaching for the same blue crayon. You need a way to keep the peace and keep them busy while the pizza is in the oven. This article explains how to use printable coloring pages to organize your next birthday party without spending a lot ...
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Each coloring tool is good at one kind of page and bad at another, and most of the frustration at the coloring table comes from the mismatch. What crayons, colored pencils, watercolor pencils, markers and gel pens each do well, and which pages to hand them with.
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Every one of our drawing tutorials is done in one of three kits: graphite, ink or marker. What each kit is for when the job is drawing the outlines, not coloring them in, and how to tell which one a subject wants.
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A tin box of sixty-four crayons sits on a kitchen table, but half of them are missing their paper wrappers and the blue one is snapped in two. This happens because the tools we give kids often do not match the paper or the project they are working on. We want to show you how to pair the right marker...
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Six pages worth printing first, a table setup you only do once, and five ways to make one stack of paper last a whole rainy afternoon. All free, all sized for Letter and A4.
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The drawer of thirty printed pages that fills the gaps in a school day: early finishers, morning work, unit tie-ins, the calm-down corner, and how to print them without losing an afternoon.
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Four settings fix almost every bad print: the PDF button, Fit to page, Normal quality in black only, and the right paper for markers. Here's the once-and-done version.
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Ten ordinary things that happen when a kid sits down with a page and a box of crayons, and the exact page we'd hand over for each one.
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