Family Activities

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A child's hands hold up a Brandenburg Gate coloring page in front of the real gate in Berlin; the left half is coloured in warm red and yellow crayon, the right half in blue and green, split by a pencil line.

German Unity Day coloring pages, and the picture that only works in two halves

The day two Germanys became one, told in three dates, with a gate page that only works once two people have each finished a half.

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A child's hands hold a sheet of paper up against a bright window, showing a crayon drawing of an adult elephant with a smaller calf beside it, colored in grey and blue.

Elephant coloring pages for the kid who is about to be the big one

The herd's own story, told in pages: the long wait, the night the calf arrives, and the job the older one gets on the morning after.

4 min read

A half-coloured printable page of a diamond kite with a looping bow tail lies on a pale wooden kitchen table, beside a handful of loose crayons and a ball of white string.

Kite coloring pages, and the page that explains why it goes up

Colour them at the table in the morning, fly the real one after lunch. One page draws the two arrows that explain the whole trick.

4 min read

Cozy autumn nature table on a low wooden shelf, with acorns, conkers, oak leaves, a pinecone, feather, smooth stone, colored pencils, and hand-colored nature pages featuring leaves and woodland animal

The autumn nature table, and the pages that go on it

A shelf for what your kid brings back from the walk, and the coloring pages that turn it into a scene. Five steps, one afternoon.

5 min read

A large, friendly green felt dragon sitting on a wooden table, facing a small wooden toy knight who holds a round blue shield.

Michaeli dragon coloring pages, in order from fierce to friendly

The 29 September festival puts a dragon in front of one small brave person. The same set of pages, laid out from the fiercest to the friendliest.

4 min read

A clean black-and-white line art coloring page of a friendly jack-o-lantern next to a sitting black cat on a porch, only the candle glow inside the pumpkin colored in warm orange, everything else unco

Halloween coloring pages, and the real story behind the spooky stuff

Color a jack-o-lantern, ghost, or black cat, then find out where each Halloween tradition actually came from, all the way back to an old Irish autumn.

4 min read

A cozy blanket-and-cushion fort by a large rain-streaked window, warm string lights, a child's coloring pages and crayons and colored pencils spread on a soft rug inside, a mug of cocoa, golden aftern

What to do with kids on a rainy day, before the tablet comes out

The tablet is the easy answer on a wet afternoon. Here is a calmer one: low-prep, screen-free activities matched to your kid's age and mood.

6 min read

A partially colored dog coloring page resting on a warm wooden kitchen floor, a soft out-of-focus real puppy nosing the edge of the paper, scattered crayons nearby, cozy morning light, cinematic story

Dog coloring pages sorted by the one you already know

Dog coloring pages sorted by silhouette, so a kid can find the one that looks like a dog they actually know.

3 min read

A painterly storybook illustration of a great horned owl perched on an oak branch at dusk, warm autumn light with soft golden and deep blue tones, large expressive amber eyes, cozy and atmospheric woo

Owl coloring pages where the eyes do all the work

Get an owl's two big eyes right and the whole bird has a personality. Printable owl pages from cute faces to great horned owls and moonlit branches.

4 min read

A child's hands holding up a freshly printed black-and-white line-art coloring page of a friendly animal, a home printer softly out of focus behind, bright cheerful room, warm natural light, horizonta

How to print coloring pages at home so they come out right

Most printing problems trace back to three settings. Here is how to get a clean, full-size coloring page at home every time, without wasting ink.

4 min read

A clean black and white line art coloring page of an apple tree heavy with fruit, all apples drawn in plain outline except three apples fully colored in glowing ripe red, warm and inviting, thick clea

Apple coloring pages that follow an orchard day from tree to pie

A set of apple coloring pages laid out as one orchard afternoon, from the first tree you pick to the pie that cools on the windowsill that night.

3 min read

A clean black and white line art coloring page of one large maple leaf with five pointed lobes and detailed veins, a few lobes filled with warm autumn color fading from green at the base to gold then

Fall leaf coloring pages where no color is wrong

Print maple, oak, and ginkgo leaves, then color them any shade you like. The gold and scarlet were hiding in the green all along.

4 min read