Color by Numbers - Animal Coloring Pages for Kids (part II)

Here's part II of the Color by Numbers - Animal Coloring Pages for Kids.

Have the kids grab their favorite crayons, colored pencils, markers or water colors and then use the guides with each image to choose the right colors.

To print out the color by numbers animal coloring pages just click on the below links, what for the image to load and then use your computers print button.

Color by Numbers - Find the Animals - what animals can you find.

Color by Numbers - Horse

Color by Numbers - Animal Coloring Pages for Kids (part I)

Kids love to color by numbers. They have fun while coloring and it helps them practice identifying numbers and colors.

Below is a list of free printable color by numbers animal coloring pages for kids. Have the kids grab their favorite crayons, colored pencils, markers or water colors and then use the guides with each image to choose the right colors.

To print out the color by numbers animal coloring pages just click on the below links, what for the image to load and then use your computers print button.

All New Crafts for Thanksgiving

We've come across a free Thanksgiving crafts e-book that we want to share with all of our readers.

All New Crafts for Thanksgiving by Kathy Ross and illustrated by Sharon Lane Holm, has some wonderful and different Thanksgiving crafts for you and your children to work on.

With fifty pages, your kids will have plenty of Thanksgiving crafts to design. Crafts include:

Coloring and Crafts for Kids

Coloring and craft projects for kids are easy using glue, scissors, a pencil, markers or crayons and construction paper.

In the following video, Cori DiSimone, who teaches art classes at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona talks about some coloring and crafts you can do with your kids. The project for which Cori talks about is what she calls "using a found object and creating a composition around it."

Grab the kids and have them work together on this for a wonderful collaborative work of art.

Halloween Coloring Pages - BOO!

Here's a couple of Halloween coloring images all with the word BOO!

My kids were going through the ghost coloring page and said there were no images with the word BOO! So, as they found them, I've posted them here for you to print out and color.

BOO! Pumpkin - this one is neat because you can change the template, the font and the text.

BOO! Two Pumpkins

Kids Halloween Events and Freebies

Parents searching for safe, family-friendly Halloween fun can bring their children to the following Halloween store events for a howling good time. I couldn't leave us parents out, so there are a couple of freebies for us.

Just be sure to to call each Halloween event, store location to to confirm participation.

Bass Pro Shops Halloween Event 2010:

Cereal Character Pumpkin Carving Guides

Haunt your pumpkins with characters from your favorite cereals. Bettyrocker has exclusive jack o' lantern, Cereal Character Pumpkin Carving Guides of the whole cereal gang.

Lucky Charms Leprechaun, Trix Rabbit, Honey Nut Cheerios Bee, Chip the Cookie Crisp Wolf, Franken Berry, Count Chocula and Boo Berry are all ready to come to life as jack o' lanterns on your front steps!

The cereal character stencil guides are free to download when you become a member of the Betty Crocker website (signing up for their website is free also). After signing up, you can download and then print out your favorite cereal character pumpkin stencils.

Make a Mini-Pumpkin Bat in 4 Steps - Kids Halloween Craft

Teach your children how to make fantastic Mini-Pumpkin Bats in four easy steps. This cute Halloween craft is very easy to make requiring just a few simple materials to complete.

Materials needed to complete your Mini-Pumpkin Bat:

Mini pumpkins
Construction Paper
Toothpicks
Glue
Magic marker (any color you like)
Scissors

Free Happy Halloween Coloring Book Download from Land O Lakes

Get a free Happy Halloween coloring book from Land O Lakes.

The Happy Halloween coloring book is eleven pages long and images include Halloween Jack O' Lanterns, ghost, haunted house, Halloween trick-or-treaters and more.

The Happy Halloween coloring book is available in PDF format and you can print out the whole book or just individual pages.

Pumpkin Stencils and Carving Templates

We've come across some new pumpkin stencils and patterns for your children (with your help) to enjoy carving into their pumpkins.

Along with the old pumpkin stencils post here on Fun 4 The Children(see list at bottom of this post) and these new ones, your children should find some wonderful patterns to carve into their pumpkins.

Pumpkin Stencils: Disney Pumpkin Carving Patterns - seven original Disney pumpkin patterns from Cartoon Jr., including Disney princesses and our favorite Disney villains.

2 Free Multimedia Children's Books

STORY TIME FOR ME is offering 2 Free Multimedia Children's Books.

"STORY TIME FOR ME is a unique literary website designed specifically for toddlers and children in early elementary school, allowing them to read and listen to enjoyable, online interactive picture books."

The multimedia children's storybooks are narrated by professional actors who bring excitement and drama to their story, while providing hours of independent reading, discovering and learning. Their children's storybooks can help to improve your child's reading skills with interactivity as well as making reading fun, educational and enjoyable!

Free Bowling Passes from Brunswick Bowling Centers - Halloween Offer

Brunswick Bowling is offering free bowling passes with their "No Tricks, Just Treats" Halloween promotion.

They are providing these Free Bowling Passes as an added "safe" gift to pass out to the kids who are Trick or Treating in your neighborhood.

The coupon are good for one (1) free game of bowling at Brunswick Bowling Centers, any time lanes are available. Limit one coupon per household. The free bowling passes are valid October 31 - November 23, 2010. You can print out as many of these coupons as you would like.

Easy Halloween Crafts & Homemade Halloween Decorations: Blogger Edition 2010 eBooks

One of our favorite websites on the Internet is FaveCrafts. We refer to them on many different post here on Fun 4 The Children for craft project, eBooks and more.

I very happy to find out they have two new free Halloween eBooks, Easy Halloween Crafts & Homemade Halloween Decorations: Blogger Edition 2010.

The Halloween crafts and decorations in these eBooks are geared more for us parents and older children, BUT the little ones can always help with certain portions of each craft and decoration.