Winter coloring pages might just be what you need to keep your kids entertained during those long winter nights and cold days when they are unable to spend much time out doors. If you have a computer and a printer, many Internet sites offer high quality pictures that you can print off for your children to color. These pictures include everything from snowmen to snowball fights to indoor scenes with a Christmas tree and a crackling fire. There are literally hundreds of sites that offer thousands of pictures that will keep your children occupied for hours and help you to maintain your sanity during this season of shorter days and longer nights. If you do not have access to a printer many libraries will let you print copies for a nominal fee. Your children will enjoy their coloring sessions much more if they are able to choose which pictures they want to color. As always it is a good idea to be there with your children when they are online searching for just the right picture or pictures to print out and color.
Many Internet sites that offer winter coloring pages also have a slew of other things you can do with your children to keep them occupied during the long winter months and during school vacation and snow days. There are online jigsaw puzzles that can be put together online. Your children can find craft projects that they can work on. Most are age related and can be as simple as those that require a couple of hours in one afternoon to other projects that are more advanced and that will require several days or weeks to complete and are most appropriate for older children. There are fun recipes that you and your children can make together. These will include not only tasty food recipes but also directions and ingredients needed to make play dough. Realizing how important education has become in todays fast paced and technology advanced world many sites also offer educational projects that will keep your children learning and their minds sharp. You can teach your little ones the value of money by printing out play money for them to learn how to count with. You can also print out posters of the human body as well as the various organs in the human body to teach your children how the body works. There are also free online educational videos that will help your younger children learn the alphabet and how to count.
So the next time your children start complaining about how bored they are and it is to cold to send them outside find an Internet site that offers free winter coloring pages which they can print out. This will give them hours of enjoyment and perhaps a little peace of mind for you as well.
