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Posted: June 10 2013 at 6:17pm \| IP Logged

Dover publishes such wonderful coloring books on a huge variety of topics.

But... does anyone have older kids who are still big fans of doing a lot of coloring?

Is there another way you use these coloring books to enhance your studies of various subjects?

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Posted: June 10 2013 at 7:17pm \| IP Logged

My oldest daughter loved Dover coloring books all the way through high school. We used them as part of history, biology . . .

She loved paper dolls, too.

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Posted: June 10 2013 at 7:33pm \| IP Logged

I have always loved the Dover coloring books! I discovered them when my oldest was in the 4th grade, and since then, it's the only kind of coloring book I buy. There are so many on a variety of topics and the illustrations are lovely! Very realistic!

My older kids do really enjoy the Dover coloring books. I like to keep one or two around that pertain to a particular period of history we're studying or a science/natural history topic, and then the kids work in it on Fridays. I also like to pull them out when the day has fallen apart and I'm just looking for something simple to direct hands but not tax minds.

These are also wonderful to bring out if you're doing a read aloud - say for example, reading classic fairy tales - and then let the kids color in Great Fairy Tale Illustrations. But the options here are almost endless! Just think of a great science/lit/history topic and there is probably a wonderful Dover coloring book that would complement it, and they really are great for working in during a read aloud.

SeaStar wrote:

Is there another way you use these coloring books to enhance your studies of various subjects?

Every now and then a child will be particularly proud of a page and they'll cut the page out and add it to their Book of Centuries, or if they're working on a natural history book with a theme, they may add one of their pictures to their notebook. I have one that likes to cut the coloring books up and add pictures to notebooks...and two others that really prefer an intact coloring book with the pages all together and finished.

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Posted: June 11 2013 at 6:56am \| IP Logged

Thank you Jen that was a very inspirational post!

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Posted: June 11 2013 at 8:01am \| IP Logged

I'm definitely ordering coloring books for the coming year, on medieval and science/nature themes, as well as general art history. My rising 4th grader loves a Still Life coloring book I bought a year or so ago -- it's a great way to enhance picture study, since the colorer notices details while coloring that might get missed while simply looking.

I have found that my girls have liked coloring more than my boys, but I'm going to add some to my rising-5th boy's school box as well. He can use the fine-motor-skills practice even now.

And I love the thought of adding pictures to notebooks -- we haven't done that yet, but I think I'll suggest it! I'd like to keep "Famous Men" notebooks this year, as a version of a Book of Centuries, and coloring pages would get my boy, especially, off the hook of having to *draw* illustrations (we've never yet managed to buy timeline figures!).

I might even require something like this for my high-schooler's history/literature notebook, though coloring is not one of his inclinations at all.

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Posted: June 11 2013 at 11:37am \| IP Logged

This is all very helpful to me.

My ds has never been one to like coloring, BUT he will paint anything.
This reminds me that I can have him paint the pictures with watercolors- we have done this successfully several times with projects that require coloring.

I think the Dover pages are sturdy enough to take watercolor paint and not buckle too much. I can definitely see ds painting Paul Revere's ride or a soldier scene to add to his American history notebook next year.

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