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Description of Coloring Pages: these merpeople were drawn by L. Frank Baum, illustrator and author of The Wizard of Oz, mermaids, tails, under water kingdom, ocean, three coloring pages of sea fairies
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Sample coloring pages about fairies found in this file.
A fairy (also fay, fae, fair folk; from faery, faerie, "realm of the fays") is a type of mythical being or legendary creature in European folklore, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural.
Sometimes the term fairy is used to describe any magical creature, including goblins or gnomes: at other times, the term describes only a specific type of more ethereal creature or sprite. The concept of "fairy" in the narrow sense is unique to English folklore, conflating Germanic elves with influences from Celtic and Romance (French) folklores, and later made "diminutive" according to the tastes of Victorian era "fairy tales" for children.
Fairies have their historical origin in the conflation of Celtic (Breton, Welsh) traditions in the Middle French medieval romances. Fairie was in origin used adjectivally, meaning "enchanted" (as in fairie knight, fairie queene), but was used as a name for "enchanted" creatures from as early as the Late Middle English
period. In English literature of the Elizabethan era, elves became
conflated with the fairies of Romance culture, so that the two terms
began to be used interchangeably.
The Victorian and Edwardian eras saw an increase in interest in fairies. The Celtic Revival
viewed them as part of Ireland's cultural heritage. Carole Silvers and
others suggest that the fascination of English antiquarians arose from a
reaction to greater industrialization, and loss of folkways.
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Description of Coloring Page: Walter Crane, text "I Saw Three Ships", "I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)" is a traditional and popular Christmas carol from England. The earliest printed version of "I Saw Three Ships" is from the 17th century, possibly Derbyshire, and was also published by William Sandys in 1833.
The lyrics mention the ships sailing into Bethlehem, but the nearest body of water is the Dead Sea
about 20 miles (32 km) away. The reference to three ships is thought to
originate in the three ships that bore the purported relics of the Biblical magi to Cologne Cathedral in the 12th century. Another possible reference is to Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia, who bore a coat of arms "Azure three galleys argent".
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Description of Coloring Page: Walter Crane, bread seller, basket of hot cross buns, mother and two children, English village, "Hot Cross Buns" is an English language nursery rhyme, Easter song and street cry referring to the spiced English bun associated with Good Friday known as a Hot Cross Bun. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13029.
"Hot cross buns!
Hot cross buns!
one a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns!
If you have no daughters,
give them to your sons.
One a penny two a penny,
Hot cross buns!"
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Description of Coloring Page: Walter Crane, text "How Does My Ladys' Garden Grow?", an English lady dressed in a straw hat carries a watering can, flowers with faces, Cockle shell garden boarder
"Mistress Mary, Quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With Silver Bells, And Cockle Shells,
Sing cuckolds all in a row."
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Description of Coloring Page: "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" is one of Aesop's Fables. It is number 352 in the Perry Index and type 112 in Aarne-Thompson's folk tale index. Like several other elements in Aesop's fables, 'town mouse and country mouse' has become an English idiom. Read more...
Beatrix Potter's enchanting story about a country
mouse who visits town. Read by Grampa Beesley.
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Description of Coloring Page: Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about two hundred species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the gregarious burrowing owl. Read more...
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Samples from this collection of classic nursery rhymes, poems and lullaby coloring pages.
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in
Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the late
18th/early 19th century. In North America the term Mother Goose Rhymes, introduced in the mid-18th century, is still often used.
The oldest children's songs of which we have records are lullabies, intended to help a child sleep. Lullabies can be found in every human culture. The English
term lullaby is thought to come from "lu, lu" or "la la" sounds made by
mothers or nurses to calm children, and "by by" or "bye bye", either
another lulling sound or a term for good night.
Until the modern era lullabies were usually only recorded incidentally
in written sources. The Roman nurses' lullaby, "Lalla, Lalla, Lalla, aut
dormi, aut lacta", is recorded in a scholium on Persius and may be the oldest to survive.
Many medieval English verses associated with the birth of Jesus
take the form of a lullaby, including "Lullay, my liking, my dere son,
my sweting" and may be versions of contemporary lullabies. However, most of those used today date from the 17th century. For example, a well known lullaby such as "Rock-a-bye, baby on a tree top", cannot be found in records until the late-18th century when it was printed by John Newbery (c. 1765).
The figure of Mother Goose is the imaginary
author of a collection of fairy tales and
nursery rhymes. Read more...
In the early 19th century printed collections of rhymes began to spread to other countries, including Robert Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1826) and in the United States, Mother Goose's Melodies (1833). From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes—for instance, in "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" which combines the melody of an 18th-century French tune "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman" with a 19th-century English poem by Jane Taylor entitled "The Star" used as lyrics.
There have been several attempts, across the world, to revise nursery
rhymes (along with fairy tales and popular songs). Even in the late 18th
century we can sometimes see how rhymes like "Little Robin Redbreast" were cleaned up for a young audience.
In the late 19th century the major concern seems to have been violence
and crime, which led leading children's publishers in the United States
like Jacob Abbot and Samuel Goodrich to 'improve' Mother Goose rhymes.
It has been argued that nursery rhymes set to music aid in a child's development. Research also supports the assertion that music and rhyme increase a child's ability in spatial reasoning, which aid mathematics skills.
I have restored the following illustrations and simplified some of them for little ones to color. I will include the nursery rhymes along with the coloring pages so that parents or teachers may read or sing the words aloud to their children as they color. Please read and agree to the Terms of Use before downloading, printing and coloring these resources.
Description of Coloring Page: bird, wings, feathers, Red Crossbill hanging upside down from a fir branch, cone seed
The red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, also known as the common crossbill
in Eurasia. Crossbills have distinctive mandibles, crossed at the tips,
which enable them to extract seeds from conifer cones and other fruits.
Adults are often brightly coloured, with red or orange males and
green or yellow females, but there is wide variation in colour, beak
size and shape, and call types, leading to different classifications of
variants, some of which have been named as subspecies. Read more...
"Red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra) singing and feeding on a stump in the
Squamish River Estuary. The males have a red/orange coloration, while
the females are green and yellow in color."
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Description of Coloring Page:bird coloring, maple tree and leaves, red-eyed vireo,
The red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus) is a small American songbird, 13–14 cm (5.1–5.5 in) in length. It is somewhat warbler-like but not closely related to the New World warblers (Parulidae). Common across its vast range, this species is not considered threatened by the IUCN. Read more...
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Samples from this collection of toy coloring pages.
A toy is an item that can be used for play. Toys are generally played with by children and pets.
Playing with toys is an enjoyable means of training young children for
life in society. Different materials like clay and plastic are used to
make toys enjoyable to all ages. Many items are designed to serve as
toys, but goods produced for other purposes can also be used. For
instance, a small child may pick up a household item and "fly" it
through the air as to pretend that it is an airplane. Another
consideration is interactive digital entertainment. Some toys are
produced primarily as collector's items and are intended for display only.
The origin of toys is prehistoric; dolls representing infants, animals,
and soldiers, as well as representations of tools used by adults are
readily found at archaeological sites. The origin of the word "toy" is
unknown, but it is believed that it was first used in the 14th century.
Toys are mainly made for children.
Playing with toys is important when it comes to growing up and
learning about the world around us. Younger children use toys to
discover their identity, help their bodies grow strong, learn cause and
effect, explore relationships, and practice skills they will need as
adults. Adults use toys to form and strengthen social bonds, teach,
remember and reinforce lessons from their youth, discover their identity, exercise their minds and bodies, explore relationships, practice skills, and decorate their living spaces.
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