Sunday, November 30, 2008

Narnia Crafts

Below are some links to Narnia crafts.

Narnia Craft Ideas
Lion Paper Model Craft
Witch Crafts

Friday, November 28, 2008

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Turkey Coloring Pages

Thanksgiving is today, so below are some turkey coloring pages to entertain cranky kids (and inpatient adults) while dinner is being prepared.

Turkey Coloring Page
Turkey Coloring Pages
More Turkey Coloring Pages

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Turkey Crafts

Thanksgiving is tomorrow, so here are some turkey crafts.

DLTK's Turkey Crafts - Includes Autumn Leaf Turkey, Fan Turkey, Fingerprint Turkey, Hand and Foot Turkey, Paper Plate Turkey, and more

Pine Cone Turkey
Thanksgiving Turkey Bowl
Maple Leaf Turkey Craft

Friday, November 21, 2008

Pilgrim Coloring Pages

Thanksgiving is coming up, so below are some links to Pilgrim coloring pages.

Dr. Pat's On-line Pilgrim Coloring Book - This site has some good detailed coloring pages including Mayflower, Squanto, turkey, and cornucopia. There is also a second version here.

Pilgrim Hat Coloring Page
Thanksgiving Coloring Pages

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Traffic Light Day Coloring Pages and Crafts

Today is known as Traffic Light Day. The Traffic Light was patented on November 20, 1923. On this 85th anniversary of the patent below are some links to traffic light coloring pages and crafts.

Traffic Light Coloring Page
Traffic Light Bookmark
Traffic Light Coloring Page

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Rocky and Bullwinkle Coloring Pages

Rocky & His Friends first appeared on ABC on November 19, 1959. Two years later it moved to NBC and became known as The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle. In honor of the show's first television appearance below are some links to Rocky and Bullwinkle coloring pages.

Rocky and Bullwinkle Coloring Pages
More Rocky and Bullwinkle Coloring Pages

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Mickey Mouse Coloring Pages

Mickey Mouse first debuted 71 years ago on November 18, 1928. In honor of the anniversary of his debut below is some links to Mickey Mouse coloring pages.

Mickey Mouse Coloring Pages - 30 different Mickey Mouse Coloring Pages

Mickey & Friends Coloring Pages - Variety of different Mickey Mouse and Friends Coloring Pages

Mickey Bookmark

Mickey Mouse Coloring Pages

Mickey Greeting Cards

Mickey Calendar

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Native American Crafts

November is Native American Heritage Month. Below are link to some Native American themed Crafts.

Enchanted Learning's Native American Crafts - Crafts include things like Tee Pee, Totem Pole, Rattle, Canoe, and Dreamcatcher

Making Friends' Native American Crafts - Crafts include things like Arrowhead Necklace, Tee Pee Bank, Kokopelli Necklace, Native American Sand Art, and Pocket Dream Catcher

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Recycle Crafts

Today is America Recycles Day. Below are some crafts that involve recycling items.

Crafts from Trash - Several craft ideas including TP Roll Binocular Craft, Milk Jug Mask and Bank Craft, Cardboard House Craft, Fish Puppet Craft, and Pop Bottle Goldfish Craft

Crafts Using Empty Jars
Crafts Made from Recycled Paper Tubes
Crafts Made from Recycled Containers
Crafts Made from Recycled Computer Stuff
Recycled Egg Carton Crafts

Friday, November 14, 2008

Native American Coloring Pages

November is Native American Heritage Month. Below are link to some Native American themed coloring pages.

Native American Pendants
Dream Catchers
DLTK's Native American Coloring Pages - Tee Pee, Man in Headdress, Hoop Dance, etc.
Native American Coloring Pages - Totem Pole, Canoe, Drum, Bow, etc.
Canku Ota's Coloring Pages
Native American Coloring Pages - Pottery, Bow and Arrows, Kachina Dolls, etc.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Veteran's Day Coloring Pages and Crafts

Today is Veteran's Day. In honor of the day why not do some related coloring or crafts. Also, can be a good way to entertain the kids on the day off from school. Below are links to some coloring and craft pages.

US Patriotic Holiday Coloring Pages
Enchanted Learnings' Veteran's Day Crafts and Printables Page
Remembrance Day/Veteran's Day Activities

Monday, November 10, 2008

Sesame Street Coloring Pages

Sesame Street first premiered on November 10, 1969. On this the 39th anniversary of the continuing kid's show celebrate with some coloring. Below are some links to Sesame Street coloring pages to print and color.

PBS Kids Sesame Street Coloring Pages: This site has them organized by character. It appears all the coloring pages have the characters with a number or letter.

Sesame Street Scene Coloring Pages: These are a little more interesting to color, as they are scenes.

Seasame Street Printables: This site has number and letter coloring pages. It also has game and puzzle printable activity pages.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Paper Airplane Crafts

In honor of Aviation History Month below are some websites with paper airplane instructions.

Paper Airplane Science Experiment
Paper Boomerang - This is not exactly an airplane, but the boomerang is kind of cool and it does fly.
Historical Paper Airplane Designs - This includes WWII planes.
Hoop Airplanes
Unique Paper airplanes
Supposedly the Best Paper Airplane in the World
More Classic Paper Airplane Designs

Friday, November 7, 2008

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Coloring Pages for All Saints Day

As you might know November 1st is celebrated as All Saints Day by many Christians. Thus as my NaBloPoMo post for today includes links to coloring pages of different Saints I found online.

Coloring and Word Searches
St. Nicholas Coloring Pages
Saint Coloring Pages - The links to downloadable saint coloring pages are in the right column of the page.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Playhouse Disney Halloween Party Crafts

The other day I wrote about doing these Playhouse Disney Halloween Party ideas on my Tots TV Watch blog. I thought it would be a good to post about them here, too.

Little Einsteins Halloween Party: The pages for helping plan a Little Einsteins party for Halloween includes Halloween recipes, witch hat craft, pumpkin hat craft, bat wings costume craft, spider legs costume craft, and pumpkin sticker decorating craft.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Halloween Party: The pages for this party includes some more Halloween recipes, spider Mickey craft, Mickey magician hat craft, Minnie witch hat craft, pumpkin streamer craft, centerpiece craft, spider art, and Minnie's pumpkin decorating craft.

Friday, August 8, 2008

Olympic Opening Ceremonies Are Today!

This is the final day of the Coloring and Craft Blog Countdown to the Olympics. Perhaps you can gather you crafts and coloring together and have a fun Olympic themed party as you watch the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008.



Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown pages are of some recipe ideas to make and enjoy, as related to the Olympics.

Olympic Rings Doughnuts and Biscuits - This site has two recipes of making doughnuts and biscuits that look like the Olympic rings. Both pretty easy to at least get kids involved in decorating.

Easy Chinese Recipes - This site has a few easy to make at home Chinese recipes. If you are too lazy to do this, then you could order Take Out Chinese, but these are pretty easy to cook up at home.

Beijing Olympic Recipe Ideas - This site includes some Chinese recipes included fortune cookies, which are actually Chinese American, but fun nonetheless.

Historic Greek Foods - Here are some Historic Greek foods in honor of the setting of the Ancient Olympic games.

Past Olympic Village Recipes - This site has some interesting recipes that were served to the athletes at the Olympic Village at past Olympic games.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

1 Day Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Olympic Preschool Printables. The printables on this site include an Olympic torch maze and ideas for Olympic Day games.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

2 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Gold Medals Craft. This craft is of making gold medals, which you can then use in your own mini-Olympics. You can vary and make the different colors of silver and bronze as well.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

3 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Make Your Own Olympics. This site has ideas for making your own Olympics at home. This includes making an Olympic torch, Water Weights, and Olympic Pins.

Monday, August 4, 2008

4 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Olympic Torch Memory Game. Yeah, this is an online game, but I was thinking that after you check it out you can challenge the kids to make their own version. Thus it would turn into a craft project.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

5 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Olympics Cyberhunt. This is a fun fill in the blank trivia worksheet with online links to help figure out the answers.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

6 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown pages are Swimming Coloring Pages. I did not find any good single pages with swimming coloring pages, so instead below is a list of some of the swimming coloring pages I found.

Woman Swimming
Ernie Goes Swimming
Diving
Synchronized Swimming
Boy Jumping in Swimming Pool

Friday, August 1, 2008

7 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Sports Coloring Pages and Posters. This site has coloring pages for pretty much every Summer Olympic games event. Just scroll down a little to the section of Summer Sports.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

8 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Country Flags. This site has flags for countries around the world. Color ones that interest the kids or do ones that have hosted the Olympic games before.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

9 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Olympic Games Worksheets. This site has several Olympic themed worksheets for an Olympic themed educational unit. Could be useful to help get some learning in before school starts again. The sheets include Venn Diagram, Olympic emblem worksheet, and Acrostic poem.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

10 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Olympic Word Searches. This page has three different Olympic Word Searches. One is of ancient Olympics, one is about summer Olympics, and one is about general Olympics.

Monday, July 28, 2008

11 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is ActivityVillage.co.uk's Writing Page and Frames. This page has several different Olympic themed writing pages with images and lines. Also, it has a few printable frames.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

12 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is ActivityVillage.co.uk's Olympic Printables. This part of their site has several Olympic themed printables that can help you have a fun Olympic themed event, although they are not exactly specifically coloring or craft pages, but close enough. They include Olympic medals, invitations, posters, and score sheet.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

13 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is ActivityVillage.co.uk's Olympic Craft Page. This site has a few crafts themed to the Olympics. This includes Paper Plate Olympic Rings, Make Your Own Olympic Medals, and Make an Olympic Torch.

Friday, July 25, 2008

14 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is DLTK's Summer Sports Coloring Pages. This site has a variety of coloring pages of different summer Olympic sports including baseball, gymnastics, and volleyball.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

15 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is KT Teddy Goes to the Olympics Coloring Pages. This site has only a few coloring pages, but they are cute and unique being of a bear with different Olympic themed things added. Best part is they are made for the 2008 Olympics specifically.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

16 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Awesome Clipart for Educator's Olympic Coloring Pages. These can be used as clip art, but are also usable as coloring pages. They are a little annoying because depending on your browser you will have to download them as PDFs before opening them. Also, the title is not exactly descriptive with them being the different event symbols and just being labeled as Summer Olympics 1 through 30.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

17 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Activityvillage.co.uk's Olympic Coloring Page. This site has several coloring pages of the Beijing 2008 Olympic mascots, which are cute kiddish looking characters in the colors of the Olympic rings. It also has a coloring page of the Olympic rings and a few of the summer Olympic sports.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Countdown to Olympic Games with Olympic Coloring Pages

18 more days until the beginning of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. As a way of counting down I am going to post at least one website with some Olympic or summer sports related coloring and/or craft pages.

Today's page is DLTK's Olympic Themed Coloring Pages. This site has several different coloring pages including ones of the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens mascots. The general Olympic ones includes Olympic medal, rings, and torch coloring pages.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Fireworks Crafts

The 4th of July is approaching and a recent experience of stopping at fireworks stands in states that they are legal with a kid that never got to walk around and choose fireworks to buy got me thinking of some fireworks themed things for kids that live where you cannot legally have/buy fireworks. Thus I looked up some fireworks crafts that are a good safe alternative for kids to enjoy making.

Glitter Fireworks
Fireworks Mobile
Glittering Fireworks

Monday, June 2, 2008

Indiana Jones Coloring Pages

I am working on planning an Indiana Jones birthday party for my brother and was looking for coloring pages. Thought I might as well share the ones I found.

Indiana Jones Digitally Rendered Coloring Pages: These are interesting and include scenes from the latest movie, however, as coloring pages they are not the clearest things. I, however, really like the Lego Indiana Jones ones, such as this one.

Good Indiana Jones Coloring Pages: This site has six scenes from the original movies and they are much better done to actually be colorable.

Indiana Jones Character Coloring Pages: This site has five coloring pages that are purely of Indiana Jones.

Indiana Jones A to Z Coloring Book: This is not the best done artwork, but it is unique and a fun way of learning more about Indiana Jones for newer fans.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Mother's Day Crafts

Mother's Day is coming up this Sunday. Here is a list of a few different craft projects I found online that would be fun for kids to make and give to their moms for Mother's Day. Certainly more precious a gift than anything store bought and it also is a great way to entertain the kids.

Flower Door Stop: This is an interesting craft using a coffee can and involves making fake flowers. If you have flowers in your backyard or somewhere else nearby you can pick them from, then that would be another option and potentially add to the time (and fun!) of making this gift. You could also try out these Coffee Filter Flowers as a fake flower alternative or to add variety to the bouquet.

Bouquet of Photo Flowers: Make these and put in a vase you already have or perhaps combine this craft with the Door Stop one above. If you go the route of using a vase you already have, then perhaps you can let the kid(s) decorate it with paints. Or you can try this Laundry Bottle Vase craft.

Home Sweet Home Photo Gallery: This is a cute craft involving making a house shaped diorama and adding photos in the house windows.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Baseball Coloring Pages

With the Major League Baseball season now under way it seemed a good time to find some baseball themed coloring pages for the kids to color. Here is some of my favorites I have found on the web. This should keep baseball fans busy for at least one rain delay.

Berenstain Bears Playing Baseball
Bat, Ball, and Mitt
Baseball
Batters at Bat
Dinosaur Pitching
Barney and BJ Playing Baseball
Baseball Mitt
Baseball Character
Catcher
Umpire
Wheelchair Baseball Player
Banana Batter

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Pope Coloring Pages



Saw Pope Benedict XVI in D.C. yesterday and decided it would be an interesting topic for the blog to find Pope coloring pages. Did not find much, but was surprised to find several Pope coloring pages.

Roma's Pope
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
Pope Playing Organ

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Printable April Fools Pranks

The Family Fun website has some good printable April Fools pranks. There are some for parents to play on kids and some for kids to play of parents. The ones for parents to play on kids include a Chore Camp Brochure and April Fools Word Scrambler. The ones for kids to play on parents include Fake Candy Wrapper and a Fake Field Trip Permission Slip. April Fools may be almost over, but if you have do not done any tricks yet, then these are some easy last minute jokes that are not too mean.

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Sunday, March 9, 2008

St. Patrick's Day Coloring and Activity Pages

Click on the thumbnails below to see the large version of the coloring pages and activity pages I created for St. Patrick's Day. I did more, but my stupid scanner does not properly scan them in for some reason.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Presidents Coloring Pages

Since President's Day is this Monday, I thought I would share some coloring pages of Presidents for kids to enjoy over this holiday weekend.

Coloring Pages for all the Presidents
President's Day Banner
Lincoln Memorial

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Valentines Crafts

If you have not had enough of doing Valentines crafts or just want to entertain the kids today, then here are some different Valentines related crafts.

3D Hearts
Stained Glass Hearts
Pop Up Card

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Abraham Lincoln Crafts and Coloring




Today is Lincoln's Birthday and next Monday is President's Day, so here are some links I found with Lincoln related crafts and coloring pages to celebrate these holidays.

Lincoln Coloring Page
Lincoln Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Lincoln Word Search
Printable Book About Lincoln

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Mardis Gras Coloring and Crafts

Today is Mardi Gras, so I thought maybe I should do a post on here with some links to some Mardi Gras coloring pages and crafts. I found some really cool stuff and below are the links to the sites I liked the most.

Mardi Gras Posters
Masks
Word Search
Jester Hat
Crayola Mardi Gras Coloring Page

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Valentines Coloring and Activity Book

I just published a Valentines Coloring and Activity Book that is available for purchase on Lulu.com. It is an ebook and only costs $1. It features 15 pages of coloring and activity pages. Included are coloring pages of a heart balloon scene, cupcakes, a rose bouquet, and more. Activities include a heart maze and a word search. All pages were handdrawn by me. You can purchase it here.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Valentines Coloring Pages

I am working on a handdrawn Valentines Day coloring and activity book to sell on Lulu. I decided to share a few of the coloring pages in the book for free. The images are below and if you click on them you can see them in a larger version and download them to your desktop to print them out.