Fall Coloring Pages and Favor Idea

Wanted to share a fun free fall coloring page I have to offer! Now doesn't that look fun to color? And they aren't just for kids! Grown-ups can have fun coloring too!

I also have one sectioned into smaller cut-apart boxes which would be fun for  party favors, trick-or-treat bags, or for a fun activity to keep the kids busy while waiting for Thanksgiving dinner.



(For non-commercial, personal use only.)

Here's how to turn this into a fun favor (or even something to give out to Trick-or-Treaters):

1. Click on the image above for a larger, printable version. 
2. Right click and save it on your computer.
3. Print it.
   
4. Cut out along the dotted lines.
5. Cut out cardboard slightly larger than the picture (old cereal boxes work good for this) to make a solid surface for kids to draw on, and staple several leaf pictures on. Put these in a plastic or cello wrap baggie with fall colored crayons.  Ask kids to color each leaf differently, just like the fall leaves outsides are all different colors and shades.
6. ALTERNATIVE IDEA: Take a couple crayons and a small rubber band (like the little ones used for hair-braids), then wrap each coloring paper you just cut out around the crayons and secure with the rubber band.  
   

Wha-la! A fun party favor that costs next to nothing!

These are just a couple of the coloring pages you can print for free from my site. See more here.

And here's some examples of them colored by my readers over at Scribbleprints...

 Beeb colored the following.  She didn't have crayons ready, so she used a 

purple sharpie and a pink hi-lighter to make her Psychedelic Leaves. 

Petra's son colored this leaf.  Love it!

Oh, and here's how I colored mine...




OK, ok...so that really isn't made from the print-outs. Actually, that's the original design which I sell on printed products in my shops. I made the black and white version afterwards especially for the coloring pages. Hope you enjoy it! Please be nice and only use these for personal or classroom use, thanks!

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I'm sharing this at Hip Homeschool Blog, Printable Thanksgiving Activities Link Up, and lots of other great homeschool link-ups.

Caves: Free Printable Book

I made a cave book for my kiddo while we were studying the Stone Age.   There's a lot of other uses for this little book, though.  The center is designed to be cut out revealing a picture on a second page.  Subsequent pages could be used using these two pages again.

You could use this book to make a story or non-fiction book about...

• Caves (of course)
• Cave Art
• Bats
• Hibernation
• The Stone Age
• David and Saul's Encounter in the Cave (1 Samual 24)
• Platos Cave Allegory
• Etc.

Here's what my son did with it for the stone age.   You can see he drew a girl, a fire, cave art, and a lizard.   If I were to do this again I would have the second page be black construction paper and then have my son use light colored crayons to draw on top of it.

You could also shrink the size of this (easy to do in printer settings) and use this as part of a lapbook.

Click Links Below to Download Pages

Cave Cover

Cave Blank Pages Template

More Fun Cave Ideas

Caves Unit Study

My Pinterest Page With More Fun Cave Ideas

My Favorite Cave Non-Fiction Book

 

One Small Square: Cave 

We did whole unit on caves lasting several weeks using this book as our spine last year after visiting a nearby cavern (really, it would be more ideal for reading BEFORE going as it has several activities to do inside a cave, but it worked great as a follow up too).

The book is beautifully written and illustrated, and chalk full of great information, activities, and experiments to do.  It encourages kids to look at one small square of a cave thoroughly...thus the name.  This is one of a series of various other environments (backyard, forest, pond, jungle, african savana, etc.).  

Link to book above is an affiliate link through which I

can earn commission. 

TERMS OF USE

You are free to use this cave printable however you would like in your homeschool or for classroom or other educational or play use.  If you want to use it commercially, or make alterations and share it for free, see additional terms at the bottom of this page.

ADDITIONAL TERMS FOR SHARING/ALTERING

If you want to share this somewhere, THANKS...you're welcome to share a link to this post and use a picture from this page (but please don't share the files directly, thank you).

You are welcome to make some alterations to this and distribute/share your altered version directly on your own blog or site, if you do the following:

• YOU MUST INCLUDE A LINK TO MY BLOG ON THE PAGE YOU SHARE IT.
• The resource must be offered FREE.
• You must keep my copyright info on the front page (adding your own info too  is fine...or moving it to another spot on the page, but it must still be there.  I don't care about the second or later pages). 
• Please let me know about it by sharing a link in the comments.  Most likely I'll add a link to it on  this page.

If you want to make alterations to this, but offer it commercially (for sale), we can work that out.  It involves giving me credit and letting me have a free copy to use myself or share with friends, but you will need to contact me at ecarian@yahoo.com to sort out the details.