The Letter "F" is for: fox, feathers, folding, freshly, frog, farmer, fire engine, fairy and fish

F stands for Fish, for Francis and Feel

       Our letter order does not agree with that of the Phoenicians or the early Greeks. Our sixth letter, F, is missing in classical Greek, but it is found in earlier writings. It comes from a Phoenician representation of a hook or nail (?) "vau." The Hebrew form resembles the latter object. The nail was important in shipbuilding, a common industry of the early traders. When the Greeks used this letter they called it "digamma" (double gamma) and its form represented one "gamma" (Greek c) superimposed over the other. The Romans called it F (ef) and during the reign of Emperor Claudius the consonant V was represented by the F inverted. This was done because the Latin alphabet had but one character to represent U and V and OCTAVIA became OCTA(F upside down)A. 

Our "F" Coloring Pages Thus Far:

1. "F is for fast, furry, fox" alphabet coloring page, plus letter/word recognition and tracing
2. "F is for fancy fairy" alphabet coloring page, letter recognition, sentence with word "fairy" practice upper and lower case Ff, practice tracing your letters 
3. "F is for fish" alphabet coloring page, letter recognition, sentence with word "fish" practice upper and lower case Ff, practice tracing your letters , two versions
4. "F is for feathers" alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the word " feathers ", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
5. "F is for fire engine" alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the words " fire engine ", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
6. "F is for farmer" alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the word "farmer ", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
7. "F is for frog" alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the word "frog", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
8. "F is for fan"  alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the word "fan", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
9. "F is for freshly pressed" alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the word "freshly", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
10. "F is for folding" alphabet coloring pages, sentence with the word "folding", practice upper and lower case letter Ff, letter recognition
11. Identify Color Words: school of fish because "F" stands for fish
12. "F is for furry" alphabet coloring page 
13. "F" is for friend coloring page 

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More About The Letter "F":

• The Illuminated Letter "F" at The Grimm Scriptorium
• F is for Fowls Primer Page 
• "F is for Franklin" Primer Page

Color The Frog Prince

Description of Coloring Page: Illustrated by J. D. Batten, well, stones, lost golden ball, frog, enchantment, princess, steps, water

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Fairy Tales from Around The World

Selection of fairytale themed coloring pages from this blog.

       "Fairy tales are stories that range from those originating in folk lore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. A modern definition of the fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monologue in German, is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale"; written by "a single identifiable author"; can be characterized as "simple and anonymous"; and exists in a mutable and difficult to define genre with a close relationship to folktales." Wikipedia

• Fairyland Links: Fairy Tales On The Web 
• Beautifully illustrated fairy tales 
• Villains serve an important purpose in children's literature
• Restored fairy tale coloring from Thrifty Scissors: Snow White, Cinderella, Red Riding Hood

      Below is my expanding collection of fairy tale coloring pages. The stories themselves are not included on the pages but I will give links to those web masters who carry them along with the images.

1. Color The Frog Prince
2. Color sleeping beauty and her prince
3. More of Sleeping Beauty and Her Prince
4. "Faithful John" Fairy Tale
5. A coloring page of faithful John
6. Color Cinderella, Her Prince and Step Sisters
7. Color Blue Beard and His Last Wife
8. Color "The White Snake"
9. Color Rapunzel by Walter Crane
10. The Golden Bird Coloring Page
11. A Coloring Page of Rumpelstiltskin
12. The Elves and The Shoemaker
13. Goldilocks and The Three Bears Coloring
14. Color Snow White and Rose Red 
15. The Frog Prince Coloring Page - includes text
16. Color The Three Bears with a broken chair
17. Color a pig's straw house and a panting wolf...
18. Practice printing and color "Little Red Riding Hood" 
19. Color Goldilocks eating little bear's porridge!
20. Color Hansel and Gretel who find a candy cottage!
21. Color Cinderella and her glass slipper
22. Color Little Red Riding Hood
23. Color Puss and Boots
    

The Frog Prince Coloring Page

 

Description of Coloring Page: text "youngest King's daughter. Open to me! By the well water What promised you me? Youngest King's daughter Now open to me", frog prince, deep well, golden ball, playing princess 

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"F is for frog" alphabet coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: letter Ff identification, practice tracing the letter Ff, upper and lower case Ff, amphibian, frog

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Amphibians, Crocodiles and Reptile Coloring Index

Samples of reptile coloring pages found in this index.

Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia. Modern amphibians are all Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terrestrial, fossorial, arboreal or freshwater aquatic ecosystems. Thus amphibians typically start out as larvae living in water, but some species have developed behavioral adaptations to bypass this. The young generally undergo metamorphosis from larva with gills to an adult air-breathing form with lungs. Amphibians use their skin as a secondary respiratory surface and some small terrestrial salamanders and frogs lack lungs and rely entirely on their skin. They are superficially similar to lizards but, along with mammals and birds, reptiles are amniotes and do not require water bodies in which to breed. With their complex reproductive needs and permeable skins, amphibians are often ecological indicators; in recent decades there has been a dramatic decline in amphibian populations for many species around the globe. Read more...

• Color this larva of the tiger salamander
• "F is for frog" alphabet coloring page
• Color This Speckled Salamander
• A coloring page of a Natterjack toad 
• Color this shy cave salamander
• An adult mudpuppy for coloring
• Color this swamp toad from India 
• Color a Hellbender
• Color a Common Toad

Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) or true crocodiles are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Crocodylinae, all of whose members are considered true crocodiles, is classified as a biological subfamily. A broader sense of the term crocodile, Crocodylidae that includes Tomistoma, is not used in this article. The term crocodile here applies only to the species within the subfamily of Crocodylinae. The term is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes Tomistoma, the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharials (family Gavialidae), and all other living and fossil Crocodylomorpha. Read more...

•  A Long Lazy Alligator for You To Color
• Crocodiles and Iris Design

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology.

       Because some reptiles are more closely related to birds than they are to other reptiles (e.g., crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards), the traditional groups of "reptiles" listed above do not together constitute a monophyletic grouping (or clade). For this reason, many modern scientists prefer to consider the birds part of Reptilia as well, thereby making Reptilia a monophyletic class. Read more...

• A coloring page of a sea turtle
• Color a creeping turtle
• Color a giant upland tortoise
• Color "The White Snake" by Walter Crane  
• A slithering fox snake can be fun to color 
• Identify and color the parts of a rattlesnake

Looking for bird coloring pages? Search the Bird Coloring Page Index

The sun and the frogs coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: swamp, frogs, cat tails, stun, trees water, gather

Rejoicing on their tyrant's wedding-day,

The people drown'd their care in drink;

While from the general joy did AEsop shrink,

And show'd its folly in this way.

"The sun," said he, " once took it in his head

To have a partner: so he wed.

From swamps, and ponds, and marshy bogs,

Up rose the wailings of the frogs.

"What shall we do, should he have progeny?"

Said they to Destiny;

'One sun we scarcely can endure,

And half-a-dozen, we are sure,

Will dry the very sea.

Adieu to marsh and fen!

Our race will perish then,

Or be obliged to fix

Their dwelling in the Styx!'

For such an humble animal,

The frog, I take it, reason'd well' 

Fable Meaning: Humble creatures choose wisely.

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