Parents need to know that this suprisingly creative coloring site provides endless colors, patterns, and textures for elementary school-age kids and up to create online works of art. This is a cut above the typical print-and-color coloring book sites that feature the same old cartoon characters with little complex patterning or individual creative license. Here, kids can choose from numerous picture, styles, and outlines to color in digitally, or they can upload photos or their own drawings to color online (and print out if they wish). Use Firefox as your browser for best results.
Educational value:Art education: Patterns, colors and turning images into your own artwork. Techno education: Uploading photos and drawings and turning them into coloring pages (may require parental assistance for younger users).
Positive messages:This site brings coloring pages to a whole new creative level for everyone from elementary school kids to adults.
Consumerism:There's a tab called Friends of Scrapcoloring that lists other sites and organizations that link to this site, but it's unobtrusive and family-friendly.