The advantages of coloring pages:
1) Self expression - coloring on a blank "canvas" (notepad), is a way for children and adults alike to express themselves. You can inform a lot about the method an individual is feeling by the images that they draw, the colors that they use, etc. It is very important to give children a possibility to express themselves, and not all children express themselves through words and through writing, lots of usage art.
2) Color acknowledgment
3) Treatment - for many people (myself consisted of) coloring is therapeutic. Regardless of whether it's doodling, or coloring the "best photo ever", coloring can be a way to de-stress, after a hectic early morning of school work, wind down, and calm down, after the tensions of a day at school or work.
4) Grip/Control - lots of children find out how to hold a pencil, pen, marker, or colored pencil, by very first knowing how to hold a crayon. The little muscles needed for penmanship later on start to be developed while coloring.
6) Building motor abilities
7) Focus - Taking notice of a single job for a length of time is essential for coloring and for all sorts of things throughout one's life.
8) Limits - Another thing that children gain from coloring pages, with preprinted pictures on them, is how to accept limits. While a toddler or young child may scribble all over a coloring sheet, with no respect for the limits (lines on the coloring page), as the kid grows older, they will start to appreciate those lines, and make an effort to color between them. While I encourage blank paper coloring for free expression as often as possible, for lots of preschoolers pre-printed coloring pages are their very first exposure to printed limits. This early exposure to limits in print, will be a huge help when handwriting time comes around, and the kid has to appreciate the limits of the preprinted handwriting lines on the paper.
9) Milestone - This is the last little "importance" of coloring that I will mention in the meantime, and that is that coloring in the lines is a milestone, a sense of achievement, the primary step towards a successful scholastic profession for lots of children. For lots of children coloring in the lines is simply as crucial as counting to 10, counting to 100, reciting the alphabet, learning the multiplication truths, and so forth. It's a milestone that says "yes I can" do whatever I stumble upon, and it provides children with pride, a sense of self worth, and assists them to feel accepted in a society that is often fast to judge, and slow to react. This sense of achievement will bring them through life, and help them not to quit so easily, when something new occurs.
Back To Gerbil Coloring Pages Collection