Family Activities

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A black-and-white line-art drawing of an open classroom door on a sheet of paper, with colorful crayon light, stars and confetti spilling out through the open doorway and lifting up off the page into

Back to school coloring pages for first-day butterflies

Color the backpack, the bus, and the classroom door before the first day arrives, and watch the big morning start to feel a little smaller.

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A child's bright crayon and marker style drawing of a single cheerful hot air balloon with rainbow striped panels floating over a green patchwork countryside, playful hand drawn look with bold happy c

Color your way through a hot air balloon flight

One balloon, one morning flight, and a page to print for every part of it, from the first burner roar to a sky full of color.

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A field guide style plate showing five different autumn leaf shapes arranged in a neat row: maple, oak, ginkgo, sweetgum and birch, drawn as clean black and white line art in a coloring page style, bu

Autumn leaf coloring pages, sorted by the tree they fell from

Fall leaf pages grouped by the tree they fell from. Color the shape, then go outside and find the real one.

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A child's bright crayon drawing of a cheerful yellow school bus driving along a sunny road, colored with visible waxy crayon strokes, simple and joyful, no text or letters anywhere, horizontal composi

Back to school coloring pages, matched to the moment your kid is in

One page for the jittery night before, another for the rushed first morning, and a calm one for the walk home after day one.

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A clean black-and-white line art coloring page of a happy sitting mixed-breed dog, where only the fur on one shoulder and one ear is filled in with visible warm colored-pencil strokes while the rest s

Color the coat first: dog coloring pages for real-looking fur

The secret to a dog that looks real is in the strokes. Four coat types, four pencil moves, and pages to print for every kind of pup.

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Overhead flat-lay of several stacked reams and loose sheets of paper in different thicknesses and shades of white and cream, arranged neatly with crayons, felt-tip markers and colored pencils, one fre

Best paper for coloring pages, and when plain copy paper is plenty

Markers bleeding onto the table? Here is which paper to print coloring pages on, by tool and by budget, and when cheap copy paper is genuinely enough.

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A pencil line art drawing of a horse on a sheet of paper where the colored mane and tail lift up off the page and turn vivid and flowing in the air, a few crayons resting beside the paper, playful and

Horse coloring pages that are really two pages in one

The coat asks you to stay in the lines. The mane asks you to let go. Horse and pony pages for careful hands and wild ones, plus real coat colors.

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A clean black and white line art coloring page of a friendly excavator on a construction site, drawn in bold simple outlines, with only its round safety warning beacon light glowing bright colored yel

Construction truck coloring pages, and the one job each machine does

Meet the construction crew one page at a time: what the digger, crane, mixer, and dump truck each do, ready to print.

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A cozy coloring corner on a living room floor near a glowing television, two young children lying down coloring soccer-themed pages with crayons, scattered coloring pages and a cup of crayons, warm ev

A coloring corner that keeps kids happy through a World Cup match

Set up a simple coloring corner so the kids stay happy and you actually get to watch the match. What to pack, and how to time it to the ninety minutes.

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A child's vivid crayon-style drawing on white paper of a huge whale shark next to a tiny lanternshark to show the size gap, bright waxy blue and grey colors, bold playful strokes, cheerful, no text or

Shark coloring pages, from the biggest gentle giant to the one that fits in your hand

Sharks come in wild sizes. Color them from the school-bus-long whale shark down to the one small enough to hold in your hand.

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Flat overhead view of a homemade tournament wall chart on a big sheet of white paper, a bracket of empty hand-drawn boxes connected by lines, several brightly colored small paper flags placed in some

Turn the World Cup into a color-in wall chart for kids

Channel all that tournament energy into a wall chart your kids color a flag into after every match. Here is how to set it up in about five minutes.

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A clean black and white line art coloring page of a standing unicorn with a long flowing mane and a single spiraled horn, where only the horn and one sweep of the mane burst into vivid rainbow color w

Unicorn coloring pages for kids who know the difference

Classic unicorns, cute foals, rainbows and castles, and the real difference between a unicorn, a pegasus, and an alicorn.

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