Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 4/21/2007 10:26:00 AM Author: Chris (vstchris@yahoo.com) Subject: what coloring sheets teach It teaches them about color. It allows the children who like coloring to do it. It helps them to further refine their small muscles. It gives them another opportunity for choice. It lets them see how lines and shapes come together, encouraging them to make their own drawings. I hated coloring but my sister loved it and colored with her twin boys all the time. They all loved it. One of them is now a clothes designer. I use to think that their was no place in the preschool classroom for coloring a picture but now, after years experience, I realize that it's just another choice. It how it's presented by the teacher that is the problem. They are the ones restricting children's creativity, not a coloring sheet. What I learned about coloring is that no door for learning should be shut from a child. A child is not wrong for wanting to color a coloring sheet. I have to admit that I have never done it in the classroom because it was banned in Head Start but since I started finding out how many truly creative people loved it, I started to change my view. I challenge you to go and ask the most creative people you know about it and see what you get. Name: Email: Subject

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