Growing up, I remember my mum used to buy me coloring books. She would bring me home a couple whenever she can. She knew too well that that I loved to color, and she used to tell me that the one thing that can easily pacify me on a very humid summer day was to be handed out a coloring book and my trusty Crayola set. Mum cheerfully recalls that I was a happy kid.
Now that I am a mother myself, I am thankful that my daughter took on this lobve for coloring books. It was actually one of the primary …read more

Sherry had a great question yesterday in her post about keeping kids occupied. I commented that maybe printing out some coloring pages would help and thought I’d expand on that a little bit and list some of my girls’ favorite coloring sites.
We’ve been doing coloring pages for years and years now. Every once in a while we’ll pick up a coloring book at the store but they seem to have less interest in those (especially as they get older), but coloring pages don’t lose their charm because they get to pick specifically what they’re in the mood for.
They’ve also …read more