Do you remember how much you loved to color as a child? You would curl up in another world with your coloring books and crayons, and time would pass almost unnoticed. Kids these days love to color, plus we now know that coloring is a great pre-reading activity that helps kids develop the hand-eye coordination they’ll need to write. Coloring books are still available in stores if you like, but you’ll also find plenty of printable coloring pages online that will give your child a much wider range of topics to choose from than you’ll find in books.

When people first started accessing the internet, there were only a few sites that offered free printable coloring pages. Most of their offerings were rough drawings or produced very small images. Now, however, there are a multitude of sites that will allow you to print high-quality coloring sheets on just about any topic you choose.

DLTK is one of the leading craft sites for kids and has been adding to their list of materials for many years. On this site you can find almost any kind of printable coloring pages you want. For example, you can get numerous prints for different holidays throughout the year. These pages have been designed with children of all ages in mind, and you can find both secular and religious themes. You can find many coloring pages of cartoon characters on the DLTK site, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Spiderman, Scooby Doo, and the Powerpuff Girls. You can also find the coloring sheets to tell the whole story of “Brown Bear, Brown Bear”, which is a favorite book for children.

If you do a Google search for printable coloring pages, you will come across many different websites offering you printable coloring pages. Google even offers a selection of pages with everything from dragons to princesses and Dora the Explorer, animals and sports cars. Each image is accompanied by a link to the website it was taken from, so you get a wide variety of websites that you can check out to find different types of coloring pages. This is a wonderful resource that provides you with a diverse collection of free printable coloring sheets.

Individual character websites also often have great coloring pages to print. For example, by Googling the Strawberry Shortcake website, you can print out a plethora of high-quality coloring sheets that will delight any little girl. You can try looking up your child’s other favorite characters, like Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder, and Curious George, and you’ll find some free coloring sheets that you can print off at each site. It’s like having a hundred different coloring books at your disposal all the time.

There’s never been a better time to be a kid than now, and free printable coloring sheets are one of the great perks for kids who have come out of our technological age.