Best Sites to Find Coloring Activities

If you are a parent or educator looking for ways to help foster motor skills in early childhood development you may be looking for coloring activities. With all of the sites on the internet it may be overwhelming trying to determine which would be the most helpful. Following are a brief description of highly rated sites that will provide coloring activities for early childhood development-

•ABC Home Preschool This is a resourceful site for parents teaching their children preschool at home. This is the site of the original “use and reuse” wipe-off ABC Home Preschool Workbooks which have a complete 9 month curriculum. This site also offers online courses for parents to learn how to home school their children during the preschool years.

•Childfun Early Childhood Education Center This is a highly rated site for crafts for kids, preschool activities & parenting advice! A wide variety of coloring activities are available for preschool ages through elementary school.

•Early Childhood.Com This site provides an interactive resource for teachers and childcare specialists. In addition this site has an open forum for sharing the newest arts and crafts ideas, (lots of coloring), discussions, articles, and links connecting the user to other sites relevant to their needs. User’s can also choose to be immediately connected to over 2,000 children’s products, by Discount School Supply. This site provides literally 100’s of coloring activities for a variety of ages.

There are dozens of Internet sites to find coloring activities.

•Early Childhood Educators’ & Family Web Corner This site is an index to all things Early Childhood. The site provides more coloring activities that most other sites. In addition to coloring activities there are calendars, teacher pages, family pages, articles, Child Chat, Message Boards, conferences, magazines & newspapers, Book Center, Hot Topics, shopping and online courses.

•Early Head Start National Resource Center The Early Head Start National Resource Center provides training and technical assistance to Head Start’s new Early Head Start program. This program supports the healthy development of infants, toddlers, and their families, and pregnant women. There are numerous activities available on this web site.

•ECEtraining.netThe goal at ECE Training is to provide quality Early Childhood Education training that preschool and childcare teachers can take back into the classroom the next day. This includes coloring activities for early childhood development. The web site directors strive to create trainings that are high interest and practical. These trainings qualify for in-service training hours in many states.

• Free Kids Coloring This website has countless coloring pages in many categories, all in PDF format. Site originator is a proponent of safe Internet surfing with kids.

•Gryphon House Early Childhood Teacher & Parent Resources This site has free activities, arts & crafts, (lots of coloring) teaching strategies, math & science, language arts, circle time, staff and program development.

•Idea Box Early Childhood Education and Family Resources (theideabox.com)-This site has: Idea of the Day, Idea of the Week, Coloring Activities, Seasonal, Games, Music & Songs, Recipes, Craft Recipes, Crafts, Newsletter, and Monthly Contest & Activity Pages.

•The Perpetual Preschool This site was built to celebrate the creativity and dedication of all those who contribute to the early childhood education of young children. Site originators ask that users add to this site by sharing their wonderful ideas for working with young children. Their goal is to make The Perpetual Preschool an invaluable asset to Early Childhood Educators across the world!