Color Your World

      This coloring page collection includes those people, places and things associated with the specific countries, nationalities and cultures listed below.

Coloring pages of Japanese people, places and things:

• Coloring Pages of Portraits: Asian Schoolboy and Asian Schoolgirl
• Color these two plant and insect patterns from Japan
• Color a fish out of water...
• A repeating Japanese flower pattern for coloring
• A Very Old Design from Japan
• Color Rainy Days in Kimonos
• Color these fantastic Japanese carp!
• Color a lovely Japanese lady
• Two Coloring Pages of Rice Mill Workers
• A Suketsune of Japan for Coloring
• A coloring page of a Japanese peacock
• Color Japanese Children at Play
• Color The Bell of Japan
• Color Japanese Iris (two sheets) 
• Japanese Crane Coloring Page 

Coloring pages of Indian (India) people, places and things:

• Squawking Birds in Flight
• Color a design drawn with insect motifs
• Color a Sunflower Carving from India
• A farmer and his water buffalo coloring page
• Color This Indian Potter
• "P is for painter" alphabet coloring page
• The Lady and The Peacock
• Color an ancient pattern from India
• Color these enamellers from India
• Color Men Riding an Elephant in India
• Color a Peacock Pattern Inspired by India
• Dancing Bird Pattern from India
• "E is for Elephant" alphabet coloring page

Coloring pages of Ancient Greek and Roman people, places and things:

• Coloring Sheets of Sculpted Figures on Greek Pottery
• Ancient Pottery from Greece, Tuscany and Rome
• Mythologies: Color Perseus drinking from a pool * Color Ulysses Outwitting the Cyclops * King Midas and His Golden Touch * A coloring page of Theseus and the minotaur * Color the Great Wooden Horse * Color Heracles clubing the hydra with nine heads... *
• Ancient Greece Tags at Color The Bible
• Roman Tags at Color The Bible
• Greek Orthodox Tags at Color The Bible

A penmanship peacock feather fan for practice...

        Above is a sample of how your peacock feather fan should look. It's o.k. if your fan has more flourishes etc... Every feather is unique to the little artist drawing it. The reason for the exercise here is to inspire young students to practice swirls and curls similar to cursive writing and enjoy themselves in the process of it. The teacher or parent should print out the above sample for their student to look at.

       You may wish to laminate this image so that a child can practice drawing curves over and over with a dry erase pen.

       Most teacher's stores have laminating machines. You can take your prints there and have them covered for pocket change. In St. Louis, The Teacher's Lounge laminates paper items for a small fee.

A peacock showing off his beautiful feathers.

The Lady and The Peacock

Description of Coloring Page: flower garden, ornamental trees, costume form far East, peacock, by Dugald Stewart Walker

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Color a Peacock Pattern Inspired by India

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the largest available design.

Description of Coloring Page: peacock pattern, reworked and modified by Grimm, designs inspired by India, shapes

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• Here is a naturalistic version of peacocks from a Western artist

A coloring page of a Japanese peacock

 

Description of the coloring page: Japanese designs, peacock in a tree, feathers

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Bird Coloring Page Index

Samples from this collection of bird coloring pages.

       Birds (Aves) are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterized by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) ostrich. They rank as the class of tetrapods with the most living species, at approximately ten thousand, with more than half of these being passerines, sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds. Read more...

My Restored & Original Bird Coloring Page Index:

1. A colorful page of a playful parakeet 
2. Color this Red-eyed Vireo
3. Color the Rooster, Hens and Chicks 
4. The Lady and The Peacock
5. Here are some chickens for you to color...
6. This Red Crossbill is hunting for food
7. Feeding the swans coloring page
8. She spies the nest... 
9. Color these diving birds... 
10. Color these two birds speaking to eachother 
11. "B is for bluejay" alphabet coloring page
12. Color this happy ostrich family 
13. "Q is for quail" alphabet coloring page
14. Feeding Her Feathered Friend 
15. "F is for feathers" alphabet coloring page
16. The Winter Lunch Coloring Page
17. The Stork Pays a Call 
18. Looking Out For Birds...
19. "W is for woodpecker" alphabet coloring page 
20. Color squawking birds in flight
21. The Gentleman Duck
22. Color this dressed up duck!
23. The Swan Primer Page
24. Color These Geese Going for A Swim
25. More barnyard friends to color
26. "G is for geese" alphabet coloring page
27. Color the Great Escape!
28. "Q is for quack!" alphabet coloring page
29. A singing nightingale just for you...
30. "O is for owl" alphabet coloring page
31. Color the hens at the gate
32. Color these children watching the birds 
33. The "New Parents" Shading Page
34. The swan and the cook coloring page
35. Topography of A Bird 
36. A Large Thanksgiving Turkey! 
37. The owl waits patiently for you to color his feathers... 
38. Color a Japanese Peacock 
39. Practice shading this really fuzzy looking owl 
40. Practice shading a rose-crested cockatoo 
41. Practice Shading an Eagle
42. Birds and Berries to Color
43. Color These Peacocks In Love
44. Feeding The Birds of The Forest
45. Color my dove of peace...
46. A Yellow Warbler for coloring...
47. A Blackburnian Warbler looking skyward
48. Color a Black Throated Warbler perched on a tree 
49. Japanese Crane Coloring Page
50. Birds among the ivy coloring page
51. Color these tiny humming birds!
    
52. A coloring page of a cardinal
53. Here are some shore birds for coloring
54. Students can color a crane and it's dinner
55. Color white percon geese...
56. Color and write about nesting robins
57. Color and write about red-headed woodpeckers
58. Articulated Turkey Paper Doll
    

Looking for Land Animal Coloring Pages? Search My Land Animal Coloring Pages Here

Additional Bird Coloring Collections:

• Cute Bird Coloring Collection from Birdorable
• United States, State Birds and States Represented at Education.com
• Bird Shapes, Coloring Fun from Mr. Printables
• Stylish Bird Coloring from madebyjoel
  

Garden and Flower Coloring Index

Sample garden and flower coloring pages from this collection.

       Both child and adult level coloring pages are included in this index. I will identify the adult level coloring pages with an * asterisk.

1.  Color a child dancing with flowers
2. "T is for tulip" alphabet coloring page
3. "D is for dandelion" alphabet coloring page
4. "A is for apron full of blooms" alphabet coloring page
5. "V is for violets" alphabet coloring page
6.  "P is for picnic" alphabet coloring page
7. Bunnies stroll through the park coloring page
8. A little girl waits by the garden gate
9. Color A Thought by Robert Lewis Stevenson *
10. Color these children watching the birds

Coloring Pages of Gardens: Cultivated plants inside of landscapes, both naturalistic and fantasy, will be linked to here.

1. Color these lovers for Valentine's Day (in a garden) *
2. The Fairy Lullaby Coloring Page *
3. Color this garden buzz... *
4. The Lady and The Peacock * 
5. The queen's ladies in waiting coloring page *
6. Color Heavenly Places! *
7. The Singing Wind and Her Companions *
8. Color this pony ride through the woods *  
9. Color This Child Chasing Rabbits!
10. Color this little girl catching butterflies
11. To Elsie Coloring Page and Poem
12. Color The Cherry Tree 
13. The Treasure Box
14. Reading in the garden arbor
15. Birds among the ivy coloring page *

Coloring Pages of Gardeners and Equipment:

1. Color the children pushing a wheelbarrow
2. "G is for gardener" alphabet coloring page
   

Coloring Pages of Pastoral Scenes: A pastoral lifestyle that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art and music that depicts such life in an idealized manner, typically for urban audiences. Read more... 

1. Color a few country cottages
2. Watching the clouds float by...
3. Looking out for birds
4. Running and playing with friends
   

Coloring Pages of Flowers: A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, or shells etc... Here I will list both loose flowers and also flowers in containers.

1. Color these two sisters arranging flowers
2. A Basket of Roses Coloring Page *
3. A coloring sheet of morning glories
4. Color these pretty roses
5. A coloring page of daffodils
6. Color this lovely vase of roses *
7. Practice Shading a Vase of Sunflowers
8. Color a Stylized Flower
9. Color these snapdragons
10. A Floral Coloring Page of Daffodils
11. A lovely bouquet of flowers for you to color... *
12. A spring floral wreath for coloring
13. Japanese Iris in A Stream (two pages)

Fresh Fruits and Vegetable Coloring Pages: In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

1. Color fresh fruit and flowers
2. Color a Flower Sampler (raspberries, daisies and roses)
3. Color this basket of strawberries
4. "B is for banana" alphabet coloring page
5. "G is for grapefruit" alphabet coloring page
6. "C is for carrots" alphabet coloring page
7. Color this chef baking an apple pie
8. Bunny picking strawberries
9. Coloring page of fruit
10. Someone picked these apples for our coloring collection
11. A lemon attached to a branch
12. Color These Oranges
    

Coloring Plant/Floral Designs and Patterns: Emphasis on Design, Pattern, Rhythm and Repetition:

1. A repeating Japanese flower pattern for coloring *
2. A coloring page of a lily *
3. Color a Sunflower Carving from India *
4. Color in this floral motif *
5. Color some giant hydrangia by Grasset *
6. Garden Blooms and Lady *
7. Gathering the Roses *
8. Color A Bouquet of Wild Roses *
9. Color Poppies in Stained Glass *
10. Color sea holly on a black background*
11. A sweet pea design for adult coloring*
12. Arum lily coloring page

Botanical Illustration:  is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species, frequently in watercolor paintings. They must be scientifically accurate but often also have an artistic component and may be printed with a botanical description in book, magazines, and other media or sold as a work of art. Often composed in consultation with a scientific author, their creation requires an understanding of plant morphology and access to specimens and references. Visit my Botanical Print Index.

Color These Peacocks In Love

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Description of Coloring Page: peacocks seated on a garden wall, sunflowers, trees, garden plants, cloudy day

Don't forget to drag the png. or jpg into a Word Document and enlarge the image as much as possible before printing it folks. If you have a question about this adult coloring page, just type into the comment box located directly below this post and I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can.

• Here is another peacock radial design from my Grimm's Scriptorium blog

Repeating, Allover Design Index

Sample repeating patterns for coloring from this collection.

 

        Both child and adult level coloring pages are included in this index. I will identify the adult level coloring pages with an * asterisk.

1. Repeating pattern: scalloped design
2. Repeating pattern: abstract flowers
3. Repeating pattern: diamonds and triangles
4. Repeating pattern: daisy design *
5. Color this floral rhythm... *
6. Flowers on a grid are fun to color
7. Adult flower garden design *
8. A crazy iron works design *
9. A repeating tulip pattern for coloring
10. Dancing moth design *
11. Color this fern tangle *
12. A gorgeous Gothic Italian design *
13. A tangled Gothic design *
14. Color a peacock pattern inspired by India *
15. Dancing bird pattern from India *
16. Repeating pattern: spade shaped leaves and flowers *
17. Repeating pattern: diamonds
18. Color an Autumn inspired design
19. The Belle Etoile heraldry coloring page *
20. Color a sunflower carving from India *
21. Color Japanese children at play *
22. A very old design from Japan *
23. A repeating Art Nouveau design for coloring *
24. Color these two plant and insect patterns from Japan *
25. "Be mine" Valentine garland coloring page *
26. Color a Valentine bouquet *
27. Color sea holly on a black background*
28. A sweet pea design for adult coloring*
29. A Celtic Knot Pattern for Coloring*
30. Two Italian Renaissance Panels for Coloring *
31. Color this pattern with angular lines and swirling stems...
32. This pattern includes paisley, circles and dots...
33. Pattern with clover and feathers for coloring... 
34. A floral patterned coloring page by kathy grimm *
35. Bell shaped flowers in a repeating pattern... *
36. A jumble of flowers and stems in a pattern... *
37. Color interlocking circles and squares... 
38. Color Sweet Treats from The Ice Cream Parlor * 

More Shapes and Patterns:

• Find more shapes and patterns for kids here

Color these lovely Spanish ladies

Description of Coloring Page: Spanish fashions, peacock feather fan, headdresses, long gowns, by Jose Pinazo
 

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"She never told her Love..." coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: by William Shakespeare,"A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and ..." Orsino believed about women's love, Act 2 Scene 4, from "Twelfth Night", a lady waits in the garden at night, urn, peacock, lavish blooming trees and fragrant lilies, formal gown

 

Don't forget to drag the png. or jpg into a Word Document and enlarge the image as much as possible before printing it folks. If you have a question about this adult coloring page, just type into the comment box located directly below this post and I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can.

Illustrated Works by Dugald Stewart Walker

photo of D. S. Walker

      Dugald Stewart Walker born in 1883, died in 1937, was an early twentieth century American illustrator. He was also a native of Richmond, Virginia, and studied drawing at the University of Virginia and the New York School of Art.

       His first comprehensive suite of color and monotone illustrations appeared in Stories for Pictures (1912) and in the Foreword for that title written by Mackay, Walker was described in the following terms:

"Dugald Stewart Walker, a new artist of remarkable talent, suggesting Rackham and Dulac but entirely original in spirit and execution."

       Two years after that debut, his generously illustrated version of Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (1914) appeared - a title that benefited significantly from Walker's editorial involvement in the project - and over the following decade, many other commissions followed. Walker's Foreword to Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (1914) provides some insight into his approach, inspiration and intentions through his work:

"I have never been anywhere except Richmond, Virginia, and New York, because I have always been told that only grown-up people were allowed to travel. But the good East Wind and the kindly Moon have taken me on rapturous journeys high above the world to get an enchanted view of things. In this book I have put some of my discoveries, but if you are looking here for real likeness of the things that any one could see if he were grown up, you had better close the covers now. You cannot expect me to draw an exact picture of the North Pole or of a Chinese lady's feet or of a sea-cucumber. But if you are interested in what the East Wind or the Father Stork or the Moon told me, then look with my eyes and you will not mind very much if the courtiers in the ogre's court, or the dock leaves in the Garden of Paradise, are not just as a grown-up person thinks they should be. After all is said and done, what the young ones say about it is the all-important matter."

       A decade after his significant literary contribution to Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (1914), Walker published a short story (dedicated to Charles White Whittlesey) entitled The Dust of Seven Days. The frontispiece to that Limited Edition appears to depict Mr Valiant-for-Truth from The Pilgrim's Progress as he is transported to Heaven - a particularly fitting subject given Walker's dedication.

        His work was noted for its fine detail, elaborate stippling, and lavish design. I will file his  illustrations here, as I clean and restore them, for those of you who would like to color his work.

• The Lady and The Peacock
• Color Heavenly Places!
• Twin Stags Design 
• The Southern Wind
• Fountain maiden coloring sheet
• Color Two Tiny Friends
• The fairy babies waiting to be born
• Color The Fairy Mirrors...
• Color These Gnomes and Toadstools by D. S. Walker
• Elves Painting Flowers
• Egyptian Fairy Queen Coloring
• The Singing Wind and Her Companions
• Color these singing mountain fairies
• Father Time Coloring Page by Walker 
• Color The Daydreamer

Cursive Practice Sheets

Sample of a Cursive Writing Chart included with
early second grade reader.

       Cursive, also known as longhand, script, handwriting, looped writing, joined-up writing, joint writing, or running writing is any style of penmanship in which the symbols of the language are written in a conjoined and/or flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster. Formal cursive is generally joined, but casual cursive is a combination of joins and pen lifts. The writing style can be further divided as "looped", "italic", or "connected"

       Starting in the 1930s and 1940s, colleges discarded the teaching of handwriting techniques from curriculum. Students in college at that time therefore lacked the handwriting skills and ways to teach handwriting. Those who went into education at the time did not value cursive as much as the generation before them, and they were unsuccessful in passing the skills to the next generation. In addition to the new technology that would become popular over the following decades, cursive seemed inefficient compared to the technology that could produce information more quickly. One of the earliest forms of new technology that caused the decline of handwriting was the invention of the ballpoint pen patented in 1888 by John Loud. Two brothers, Laszlo and Gyorgy Biro further developed the pen by changing the design and using different ink that dried quickly. With their design, it was guaranteed that the ink would not smudge, as it would with the earlier design of pen and it no longer required the careful penmanship one would use with the older design of pen. The ballpoint pen was mass-produced and sold for a cheap price, changing the way people wrote. Over time the emphasis of using the style of cursive to write slowly declined, only to be later impacted by other technologies.

       Throughout recent years cursive has been on a downward slope due to its lack of necessity. It has been an open topic whether cursive could be soon removed from all schools. Most of school is geared toward helping students pass and take whichever route in life they choose, whether it may be college or going straight to the workforce. No option out of school requires a student to know cursive. Furthermore, teachers prepare students for using computers in their future, and cursive writing is generally thought to be of little value. The FairFax Education Association is the biggest teachers union in the country and even they have called cursive a “dying art.” Common Core for most educational institutes is to let teachers teach what is required and tested through various standardized tests. Thus, rendering cursive non-essential when it comes to a student trying to graduate from their various high schools, what makes this most important is that the “No Child Left Behind” law does not test schools on cursive also meaning that most teachers, teach toward their respective standardized test. Simply put however, many consider cursive too tedious to learn and believe that it is not useful in the long run for school. Wikipedia

• Create a Manuscript to Cursive Chart and view "Illiteracy in America" at my Thrifty Scissors Blog
• My lesson for a cover of a penmanship book that I used with older elementary students and a few more penmanship animals from the same blog

       I believe that parents/educators should continue to teach their children cursive reading and writing while they are still very young. The reason for this is a simple one. If your child does not learn to read or write in cursive, then he or she will become vulnerable to those members of the society who have this easy advantage over them. Every citizen of the United States should be able to read the following: download the high-resolution Declaration and read aloud before graduating from eighth grade.  Incidentally, my children could read this when they were in fourth grade.

Begin to teach your second grader (age 8 or 9) cursive handwriting: Parents/Teachers may like to practice movements with their first grader ( age 6 and 7) prior to second grade writing and reading lessons. Remember that levels in pen work do not always accurately reflect the ages of students. Levels are determined by the progression of aptitude which is directly influenced by familiarity of small motor movements. So, if a student is unaccustomed to writing, he or she may need to begin with pen work at a different age or grade level than what was previously taught in American public education institutions.

Beginner pen work:

• Cursive Writing Tips
• Practice Six Movement Exercises for Cursive
• Practice Small Cursive Letters  (lower case)
• Practice the Extended Cursive Letters (lower case)

Intermediate pen work:

• Three step-by-step quill pen flourishes 
• Practice a penmanship swan...  

Advanced pen work:

• A penmanship peacock feather fan for practice... 
• The eagle captures the viper flourish design...

 First-grade pupils practice cursive on their classroom chalk board in 1909.

The Letter "P" is palace , paddleboat, pumpkin pies, pretty princess, presents, painter and picnic

P stands for Peacock, for Prince, and for Pay.

       Many letter pictures run in pairs-- finger and hand, water and fish-- and now after eye we find mouth "pi" (pe) which represents the lower lip. The Greeks made little change in the name or shape at first, but later they introduced the angles and made the downward strokes equal. The Romans formed the letter by continuing the curve farther than the Phoenicians and called it "pe" (pay).

Our "P" Coloring Pages Thus Far:

1. "P is for palace" alphabet coloring page
2. "P is for pretty princess" letter P identification, upper case Pp, recognize P in a sentence, trace and color
3. "P is for painter"  letter Pp identification, upper and lower case Pp, recognize P in a sentence, trace and color
4. "P is for presents" two versions, letter Pp identification, upper and lower case Pp, recognize P in a sentence, trace and color 
5. Color the things that are pink because "P" is for pink
6. "P is for picnic" alphabet coloring page, the word "picnic" in a sentence, letter recognition 
7. Color the things that are purple because "P" is for purple
8. "P is for pumpkin pies for sale" alphabet coloring page, practice upper and lower case Pp 
9. Identify Color Words: pairs of mittens because "P" can also stand for pairs 
10. Identify Color Words: ladies purses because "P" stands for purses 
11. "P is for paddleboat" alphabet coloring page, practice writing "Pp" recognize Pp in words and sentences 
12. "P is for picket fence" alphabet coloring page 

Search for more of our English Alphabet Letter Coloring Pages:
Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  and  Zz

More About The Letter "P":

• The Illuminated Letter "P" at The Grimm Scriptorium
• P is for Pigs Primer Page