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The Benefits of Coloring:

Coloring is not only a fun activity, but it also has many benefits for children, including:

  • Development of fine motor skills: Coloring requires using small muscles in the hands and fingers, helping to develop fine motor skills.
  • Improves focus and concentration: Coloring can help children focus and concentrate on a specific task, which can be helpful for their academic performance.
  • Reduces stress and anxiety: Coloring can be a calming activity, helping reduce stress and anxiety in children and adults.

Encourage your child to use their favorite colors and get creative with their coloring. You can also use this printable to talk about springtime and narwhals, teaching your child about nature and animals. The Printable Spring Narwhal Coloring Page from Learning Resources is an excellent activity for children of all ages. It promotes the development of fine motor skills, improves focus and concentration, and helps to reduce stress and anxiety. Download the printable today and encourage your child to get creative with their coloring, spending quality time together as a family.

Printable Camp Learning Resources Merit Badges
Printable Camp Learning Resources Merit Badges

Join our email list for more free activities!

Keep the learning going all summer long with our free activities at Camp Learning Resources and earn your merit badges! Print and color your merit badges as you follow our weekly learning activities!

The Benefits of Coloring:

Coloring is not only a fun activity, but it also has many benefits for children, including:

  • Development of fine motor skills: Coloring requires using small muscles in the hands and fingers, helping to develop fine motor skills.
  • Improves focus and concentration: Coloring can help children focus and concentrate on a specific task, which can be helpful for their academic performance.
  • Reduces stress and anxiety: Coloring can be a calming activity, helping reduce stress and anxiety in children and adults.

Encourage your child to use their favorite colors and get creative with their coloring. You can also use this printable to talk about springtime and narwhals, teaching your child about nature and animals. The Printable Spring Narwhal Coloring Page from Learning Resources is an excellent activity for children of all ages. It promotes the development of fine motor skills, improves focus and concentration, and helps to reduce stress and anxiety. Download the printable today and encourage your child to get creative with their coloring, spending quality time together as a family.

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Picture of the printable with text that reads "Spring Narwhal Coloring Page"

Get Creative with Learning Resources' Printable Spring Narwhal Coloring Page

Spring is here, and what better way to celebrate than with a fun and creative activity for your child? Learning Resources has created a Printable Spring Narwhal Coloring Page perfect for kids of all ages. 

The Benefits of Coloring:

Coloring is not only a fun activity, but it also has many benefits for children, including:

  • Development of fine motor skills: Coloring requires using small muscles in the hands and fingers, helping to develop fine motor skills.
  • Improves focus and concentration: Coloring can help children focus and concentrate on a specific task, which can be helpful for their academic performance.
  • Reduces stress and anxiety: Coloring can be a calming activity, helping reduce stress and anxiety in children and adults.

Encourage your child to use their favorite colors and get creative with their coloring. You can also use this printable to talk about springtime and narwhals, teaching your child about nature and animals. The Printable Spring Narwhal Coloring Page from Learning Resources is an excellent activity for children of all ages. It promotes the development of fine motor skills, improves focus and concentration, and helps to reduce stress and anxiety. Download the printable today and encourage your child to get creative with their coloring, spending quality time together as a family.

Picture of the printable with text that reads "Spring Narwhal Coloring Page"
Get Creative with Learning Resources' Printable Spring Narwhal Coloring Page

Spring is here, and what better way to celebrate than with a fun and creative activity for your child? Learning Resources has created a Printable Spring Narwhal Coloring Page perfect for kids of all ages. 

The Benefits of Coloring:

Coloring is not only a fun activity, but it also has many benefits for children, including:

  • Development of fine motor skills: Coloring requires using small muscles in the hands and fingers, helping to develop fine motor skills.
  • Improves focus and concentration: Coloring can help children focus and concentrate on a specific task, which can be helpful for their academic performance.
  • Reduces stress and anxiety: Coloring can be a calming activity, helping reduce stress and anxiety in children and adults.

Encourage your child to use their favorite colors and get creative with their coloring. You can also use this printable to talk about springtime and narwhals, teaching your child about nature and animals. The Printable Spring Narwhal Coloring Page from Learning Resources is an excellent activity for children of all ages. It promotes the development of fine motor skills, improves focus and concentration, and helps to reduce stress and anxiety. Download the printable today and encourage your child to get creative with their coloring, spending quality time together as a family.

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Unleash Your Child's Creativity with Learning Resources' Color Your Own Rainbow Printable

Coloring is one of the most popular activities for kids, and it's no surprise why. It's a fun and engaging way to stimulate creativity and improve fine motor skills. That's why Learning Resources has created a Color Your Own Rainbow Printable that will entertain your little ones and help them learn about colors and shapes based on our new Rainbow Sorting Activity Set!

How to use the Color Your Own Rainbow Printable

Using the Color Your Own Rainbow Printable is easy. Download the printable from the Learning Resources blog and print it out on a piece of paper. Then, give it to your child with some crayons, markers, or colored pencils, and let them unleash their creativity. Encourage them to experiment with different colors and patterns and see how many different variations of the rainbow they can create.

The Benefits of Coloring: 

  • Improved Fine Motor Skills: Coloring helps children develop their fine motor skills, which are essential for tasks like writing, drawing, and using scissors.
  • Increased Creativity: Coloring allows children to experiment with different colors and patterns, which can help them develop their creativity and imagination.
  • Learning About Colors and Shapes: Coloring can also help children learn about colors and shapes, essential building blocks for learning.

Conclusion: The Color Your Own Rainbow Printable from Learning Resources is a great way to encourage your child's creativity and help them learn about colors and shapes. It's a fun and engaging activity that your child will surely enjoy and has many benefits for their development. So, download the printable today and let your child unleash their inner artist!

Image of a rainbow and worksheet with text that reads: "Color Your Own Rainbow Worksheet"
Unleash Your Child's Creativity with Learning Resources' Color Your Own Rainbow Printable

Coloring is one of the most popular activities for kids, and it's no surprise why. It's a fun and engaging way to stimulate creativity and improve fine motor skills. That's why Learning Resources has created a Color Your Own Rainbow Printable that will entertain your little ones and help them learn about colors and shapes based on our new Rainbow Sorting Activity Set!

How to use the Color Your Own Rainbow Printable

Using the Color Your Own Rainbow Printable is easy. Download the printable from the Learning Resources blog and print it out on a piece of paper. Then, give it to your child with some crayons, markers, or colored pencils, and let them unleash their creativity. Encourage them to experiment with different colors and patterns and see how many different variations of the rainbow they can create.

The Benefits of Coloring: 

  • Improved Fine Motor Skills: Coloring helps children develop their fine motor skills, which are essential for tasks like writing, drawing, and using scissors.
  • Increased Creativity: Coloring allows children to experiment with different colors and patterns, which can help them develop their creativity and imagination.
  • Learning About Colors and Shapes: Coloring can also help children learn about colors and shapes, essential building blocks for learning.

Conclusion: The Color Your Own Rainbow Printable from Learning Resources is a great way to encourage your child's creativity and help them learn about colors and shapes. It's a fun and engaging activity that your child will surely enjoy and has many benefits for their development. So, download the printable today and let your child unleash their inner artist!

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6 Surprising Benefits of Drawing with Crayons

6 Surprising Benefits of Drawing with Crayons

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Whether your little one is scribbling colorful scratches or drawing turquoise tadpole people, the simple act of coloring is a golden opportunity for growth and development. Read on to discover some of the surprising benefits of coloring time, including:

 

Introducing Cause and Effect

Each time a toddler scribbles on paper with a crayon, they’re learning more about cause and effect. Move a crayon across a paper and get a colorful scribble. Do it again, and the same thing happens!

 

Fine Motor Skills

No matter how your little one holds their crayon, they’re building the fine motor muscles and skills they’ll need later on to hold a pencil, use a fork, and button their shirt. To learn more about the different pencil grips, your child will use and how to teach your child to write, visit this blog.

 

Hand-Eye Coordination

Picking up a crayon and placing it in a certain spot on the paper builds kids’ hand-eye coordination. As hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills develop, kids will gain control, and their artwork will blossom.

 

Creativity and Imagination

Choosing their colors and making their marks, be they scribbles, lines, shapes, people, or more developed scenes, enables kids to express themselves on paper, in full color.

 

Focus and Attention

Toddlers and preschoolers are just beginning to build their ability to focus on a single task. Focusing on coloring or drawing helps develop your little one’s attention span.

 

Vocabulary

At first, you’ll talk your little ones through their creations, reinforcing the names of the colors they’ve chosen and the shapes they’ve made. As your child grows, they’ll tell you about their work, what it is and what it means. These conversations are an opportunity to build your little one’s vocabulary.

 

So you see, there are big-time benefits to coloring! Wondering what your child might be able to draw when? Remembering that children develop at their own pace, many kids can color the following things at these ages:

 

  • 15-18 Months  
    • Scribbles, vertical lines, horizontal lines
  • 24-36 Months
    • More controlled scribbling, loops, spirals, rough circles, V shapes.
  • 3-Year-Olds
    • Circles, squares, X shapes, dots, tadpole people (heads with legs)
  • 4-Year-Olds
    • Various shapes, pretend letters, stick figures, suns, houses
  • 5-Year-Olds
    • Shapes, letters, more detailed people (including hair, hands, fingers, and feet), animals, trees, rainbows, more detailed houses
6 Surprising Benefits of Drawing with Crayons
6 Surprising Benefits of Drawing with Crayons

Join our email list for more free activities!

Whether your little one is scribbling colorful scratches or drawing turquoise tadpole people, the simple act of coloring is a golden opportunity for growth and development. Read on to discover some of the surprising benefits of coloring time, including:

 

Introducing Cause and Effect

Each time a toddler scribbles on paper with a crayon, they’re learning more about cause and effect. Move a crayon across a paper and get a colorful scribble. Do it again, and the same thing happens!

 

Fine Motor Skills

No matter how your little one holds their crayon, they’re building the fine motor muscles and skills they’ll need later on to hold a pencil, use a fork, and button their shirt. To learn more about the different pencil grips, your child will use and how to teach your child to write, visit this blog.

 

Hand-Eye Coordination

Picking up a crayon and placing it in a certain spot on the paper builds kids’ hand-eye coordination. As hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills develop, kids will gain control, and their artwork will blossom.

 

Creativity and Imagination

Choosing their colors and making their marks, be they scribbles, lines, shapes, people, or more developed scenes, enables kids to express themselves on paper, in full color.

 

Focus and Attention

Toddlers and preschoolers are just beginning to build their ability to focus on a single task. Focusing on coloring or drawing helps develop your little one’s attention span.

 

Vocabulary

At first, you’ll talk your little ones through their creations, reinforcing the names of the colors they’ve chosen and the shapes they’ve made. As your child grows, they’ll tell you about their work, what it is and what it means. These conversations are an opportunity to build your little one’s vocabulary.

 

So you see, there are big-time benefits to coloring! Wondering what your child might be able to draw when? Remembering that children develop at their own pace, many kids can color the following things at these ages:

 

  • 15-18 Months  
    • Scribbles, vertical lines, horizontal lines
  • 24-36 Months
    • More controlled scribbling, loops, spirals, rough circles, V shapes.
  • 3-Year-Olds
    • Circles, squares, X shapes, dots, tadpole people (heads with legs)
  • 4-Year-Olds
    • Various shapes, pretend letters, stick figures, suns, houses
  • 5-Year-Olds
    • Shapes, letters, more detailed people (including hair, hands, fingers, and feet), animals, trees, rainbows, more detailed houses
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3 Fun and Educational Halloween Themed Activities

3 Fun and Educational Halloween Themed Activities

What with all the costumes and candy, Halloween seems like pure, pumpkin-spiced fun. But there’s loads of learning to be had, too! Halloween is the perfect theme for countless educational activities you can do at home with your little ones. So, break out your scissors and crayons and let’s get learning with the smarts & crafts, story starters, and STEM building activities below!

Directed Drawing

Sharpen those listening skills, practice following directions, and sneak in some simple math vocabulary with a directed drawing activity! Start with a blank sheet of paper, then guide your kids, step by step, to draw Frankenstein’s head. Instructions are below:
  1. Draw a large rectangle, short sides up and down, long sides on the sides, to form the head.
  2. Add a rectangular ear on either side of the head.
  3. Add a zig zag line just below the top of the head to make hair.
  4. Draw two parallel lines coming out of the bottom of the head to form the neck.
  5. Add the start of another rectangle beneath the neck to form the top of the body.
  6. Draw two circles for eyes and two half circles inside the circles to form pupils.
  7. Add rectangular eyebrows at an angle over the eyes.
  8. Add a rectangular mouth.
  9. Using the bottom of the mouth as the base, draw three triangles, then connect the pointed tops of the triangles to the top of the mouth’s rectangle to form teeth.
  10. Shape a nose between the eyes and the mouth, however you like.
Once the outline of Frankenstein is complete, kids can go crazy with details – add bolts, scars, etc. Outline the creation in Sharpie, and color him in with crayons, colored pencils, markers, even watercolor paints. You’ll be surprised how differently each of your children’s drawings are!Monster Drawing Monster Drawing Monster Drawing Monster Drawing

Spooky Stories

Halloween is prime time for spooky storytelling and writing! Next time you’re in the car, waiting at the doctor’s office, or sitting in a restaurant, try starting a spooky story. Open with something like “The little boy creeped up the front steps and knocked on the door of the spooky, spooky house. When the door opened he saw…” Then pass it on to the person to your left!Spooky StoryElementary-aged kids can actually write their own terrifying tales, with the help of some simple story starters. Give them an opener, like the one above, or ask a question like “If you were a mad scientist, what kind of being would you create?” or “Have you ever heard a scary noise? What did you imagine was making the noise?” Remind your writer(s) to use descriptive language, idioms, onomatopoeia, and personification. Add some pictures to complete these monster-ific masterpieces! 

STEM Sculptures

Put all that Halloween candy to good use, with STEM sculptures! Use candy pumpkins and toothpicks to create STEM structures designed to introduce early math and science principles like gravity, balance, angles, and more. Younger kids can try building a simple tower with a three-pumpkin base supporting a single, floating pumpkin. Challenge older kids to create a taller tower, pyramid, spiral, or spider web!Pumpkin Candy Sculpture Pumpkin Candy SculptureThere’s plenty of learning and fun to be had this fall. Sneaking an educational element into your child’s day can be as simple as counting and sorting Halloween candy, collecting leaves for crayon rubbings, or weaving a paper plate spider web. The learning is always there – you just have to look for it!
3 Fun and Educational Halloween Themed Activities
3 Fun and Educational Halloween Themed Activities
What with all the costumes and candy, Halloween seems like pure, pumpkin-spiced fun. But there’s loads of learning to be had, too! Halloween is the perfect theme for countless educational activities you can do at home with your little ones. So, break out your scissors and crayons and let’s get learning with the smarts & crafts, story starters, and STEM building activities below!

Directed Drawing

Sharpen those listening skills, practice following directions, and sneak in some simple math vocabulary with a directed drawing activity! Start with a blank sheet of paper, then guide your kids, step by step, to draw Frankenstein’s head. Instructions are below:
  1. Draw a large rectangle, short sides up and down, long sides on the sides, to form the head.
  2. Add a rectangular ear on either side of the head.
  3. Add a zig zag line just below the top of the head to make hair.
  4. Draw two parallel lines coming out of the bottom of the head to form the neck.
  5. Add the start of another rectangle beneath the neck to form the top of the body.
  6. Draw two circles for eyes and two half circles inside the circles to form pupils.
  7. Add rectangular eyebrows at an angle over the eyes.
  8. Add a rectangular mouth.
  9. Using the bottom of the mouth as the base, draw three triangles, then connect the pointed tops of the triangles to the top of the mouth’s rectangle to form teeth.
  10. Shape a nose between the eyes and the mouth, however you like.
Once the outline of Frankenstein is complete, kids can go crazy with details – add bolts, scars, etc. Outline the creation in Sharpie, and color him in with crayons, colored pencils, markers, even watercolor paints. You’ll be surprised how differently each of your children’s drawings are!Monster Drawing Monster Drawing Monster Drawing Monster Drawing

Spooky Stories

Halloween is prime time for spooky storytelling and writing! Next time you’re in the car, waiting at the doctor’s office, or sitting in a restaurant, try starting a spooky story. Open with something like “The little boy creeped up the front steps and knocked on the door of the spooky, spooky house. When the door opened he saw…” Then pass it on to the person to your left!Spooky StoryElementary-aged kids can actually write their own terrifying tales, with the help of some simple story starters. Give them an opener, like the one above, or ask a question like “If you were a mad scientist, what kind of being would you create?” or “Have you ever heard a scary noise? What did you imagine was making the noise?” Remind your writer(s) to use descriptive language, idioms, onomatopoeia, and personification. Add some pictures to complete these monster-ific masterpieces! 

STEM Sculptures

Put all that Halloween candy to good use, with STEM sculptures! Use candy pumpkins and toothpicks to create STEM structures designed to introduce early math and science principles like gravity, balance, angles, and more. Younger kids can try building a simple tower with a three-pumpkin base supporting a single, floating pumpkin. Challenge older kids to create a taller tower, pyramid, spiral, or spider web!Pumpkin Candy Sculpture Pumpkin Candy SculptureThere’s plenty of learning and fun to be had this fall. Sneaking an educational element into your child’s day can be as simple as counting and sorting Halloween candy, collecting leaves for crayon rubbings, or weaving a paper plate spider web. The learning is always there – you just have to look for it!
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