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My kids were thoroughly enchanted with Arthur, a book we read as part of the Memetales Readathon this week about a dog who is desperate to find a home. They thought it would be fun to have some book-themed coloring pages, so I used my new Wacom Bamboo Capture Tablet to create some simple animal coloring pages - follow the link to download these free coloring pages! We made pages for most of the animals that Arthur the dog tries to impersonate.
Emma colored the bottom row, Johnny’s are the five orange line drawing pieces, and Lily colored the remaining three. I love that they each found their own style! And, can you spot a couple of Johnny’s ducks in the bottom right corner? We laminated those, and the kids enjoy playing with them!
I love that my kids get so excited about coloring pictures mom drew!
Four-year-old Johnny put his own artistic slant on the drawings, and two-year-old Lily traced the letters as well as coloring the pictures:
I loved the details that six-year-old Emma put into coloring her fish:
Would your kids enjoy this? You can download the coloring pages for free here! I’d love to see what your kids do with them!
Disclosure: We receive copies of the books that I provide activities for as part of the MeMeTales Summer Readathon.
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It always amuses me when my kids want to color the things I’ve drawn, too.
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These are cool!
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maryanne Reply:
June 30th, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Thanks! Glad you like them :)
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These are precious! Quite the artistic mommy! :)
Mommy drawn pictures trump all!
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So fun!
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Love, love, love you coloring pages!!! Excellent drawing and so full of personality – great job on the tablet! I think a lot of artist types don’t believe in color books/pages but my daughter loves them. She gets inspired by the art and actually many artists work professionally in this kind of collaborative way with someone doing the drawings and another doing the ink, color, etc. We will definitely be printing these out – thanks!
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maryanne Reply:
July 1st, 2012 at 11:24 am
Thank you, Ann!
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They did such a great job! I loved getting to see how each child choose to color their pictures,
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Lovely project!
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Yea! Awesome to see the tablet already put to good use. These are great!
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maryanne Reply:
July 2nd, 2012 at 10:25 am
Thank you, Elisa!
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Wow, Johnny is becoming quite an artist while his older sister entered “realistic” period :)
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Wow! Beautiful art work.. You should let them pursue this talent. They have a big potential in painting. Thanks for sharing the photos.
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I love how proud each of them looks with his/her pages, and they should be! Thanks for linking up to The Sunday Showcase!
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