Showing posts with label Coloring Pages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coloring Pages. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

"Snow White" at Thrifty Scissors

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      "Snow White" is a German fairy tale known across much of Europe, and is today one of the most famous fairy tales worldwide. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales. It was titled in German: Sneewittchen (in modern orthography Schneewittchen), and numbered as Tale 53. The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854.
      The fairy tale features such elements as the magic mirror, the poisoned apple, the glass coffin, and the characters of the evil queen and the seven dwarfs, who were first given individual names in the Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1912) and then given different names in Walt Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Grimm story, which is commonly referred to as "Snow White", should not be confused with the story of "Snow White and Rose Red" (in German "Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot"), another fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm.
      In the Aarne-Thompson folklore classification, tales of this kind are grouped together as type 709, Snow White. Others of this kind include "Bella Venezia", "Myrsina", "Nourie Hadig" and "Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree". Read more . . . 
      The coloring pages below are based upon a very old European fairy tale version of "Snow White." I have redrawn them entirely for printing and coloring. Teachers and homeschoolers may print unlimited copies of these particular images for their classroom activities. The captions below describe the event in the story illustrated. Read the full version of the story here.
A Queen, Snow White's mother, sat at her palace window, which had an ebony black frame, stitching her husband's shirts.
"Take the child away into the forest. I will never look upon her again. You must kill her, and bring me her heart and tongue for a token." (said the evil stepmother to the huntsman)
"Oh, heavens! oh, heavens!" said they; "what a beauty she is!" and they were so much delighted that they would not awaken her, but left her to sleep, and the seventh Dwarf, in whose bed she was, slept with each of his fellows one hour, and so passed the night.
"What! are you afraid of it?" cried the old woman. "There, see—I will cut the apple in halves; do you eat the red cheeks, and I will eat the core." (The apple was so artfully made that the red cheeks alone were poisoned.)
Then they ordered a case to be made of glass. In this they could see the body on all sides, and the Dwarfs wrote her name with golden letters upon the glass, saying that she was a King's daughter.
Full of joy, the Prince answered, "You are safe with me." And he told to her what she had suffered, and how he would rather have her than any other for his wife, and he asked her to accompany him home to the castle of the King his father.
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Monday, November 18, 2013

Coloring Page of "The Woodcutter's Song"

      The above coloring sheet is from "Walter Crane's Painting Book" for children.  I have also included the small color image below by Crane for coloring reference. These were also included in the original coloring book when it was first published in 1880. I have posted the Mother Goose Rhyme that I believe Crane to have made the illustration for. These rhymes were well known in the late 1800s but are no longer chanted by the school children of today.

The Woodcutter’s Song
Oak logs will warm you well  
That are old and dry  
Logs of pine will sweetly smell   
But the sparks will fly 
Birchs long will burn too fast  
Chestnut scarce at all sir  
Hawthorn logs are good to last  
That are cut well in the fall sir 
Surely you will find  
There´s no compare 
with the hard wood logs  
That´s cut in the winter time 
Holly logs will burn like wax
 
You could burn them green  
Elm logs burn like smouldering flax  
With no flame to be seen  
Beech logs for winter time  
Yew logs as well sir  
Green elder logs it is a crime  
For any man to sell sir 
Surely you will find  
There´s no compare 
with the hard wood logs  
That´s cut in the winter time 
Pear logs and apple logs 
 
They will scent your room  
and cherry logs across the dogs  
They smell like flowers of broom  
But ash logs smooth and grey  
Buy them green or old, sir  
and buy up all that come your way 
They´re worth their weight in gold sir 

Coloring Page of "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"

      The above coloring sheet is from "Walter Crane's Painting Book" for children.  I have also included the small color image below by Crane for coloring reference. These were also included in the original coloring book when it was first published in 1880. I have posted the Mother Goose Rhyme that I believe Crane to have made the illustration for. These rhymes were well known in the late 1800s but are no longer chanted by the school children of today.
 
The most common modern version of the rhyme is:
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush.
Here we go round the mulberry bush
So early in the morning.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

"Little Red Riding Hood" at Thrifty Scissors

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      Little Red Riding Hood, or Little Red Ridinghood, also known as Little Red Cap or simply Red Riding Hood, is a French and later European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings. The story was first published by Charles Perrault. Little Red Riding Hood is number 333 in the Aarne-Thompson classification system for folktales. Read more . . .
      The coloring pages below are based upon a very old European fairy tale version of "Little Red Riding Hood." I have redrawn and resized them for printing and coloring. Teachers and homeschoolers may print unlimited copies of these particular images for their classroom activities.
Little Red Riding Hood gives her mother hugs and kisses before starting her
 long journey through the woods to visit her elderly grandmother. See, her mother has
made up a basket of food for her to take.
Color this picture of Little Red Riding Hood walking through the woods.
Above is a coloring page of Little Red Riding Hood knocking at her
grandmother's cottage door.
Color this picture of Little Red Riding Hood asking the wolf, who is in
disguise, "Grandmother, what big eyes you have?"
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Teachers may print out this picture puzzle of Little Red Riding Hood.
Spin it around and try to find the Big Bad Wolf hiding somewhere in the woods.

"Cinderella" at Thrifty Scissors

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       Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, (French: Cendrillon, ou La petite Pantoufle de Verre, Italian: Cenerentola, German: Aschenputtel) is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune. The oldest documented version comes from China, and the oldest European version from Italy. The most popular version was first published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697, and later by the Brothers Grimm in their folk tale collection Grimms' Fairy Tales.
       Although both the story's title and the character's name change in different languages, in English-language folklore "Cinderella" is the archetypal name. The word "cinderella" has, by analogy, come to mean one whose attributes were unrecognized, or one who unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period of obscurity and neglect. The still-popular story of "Cinderella" continues to influence popular culture internationally, lending plot elements, allusions, and tropes to a wide variety of media. Read more . . .
       The coloring pages below are based upon a very old European fairy tale version of Cinderella called, "The Little Glass Slipper." I have redrawn and resized them for printing and coloring. Teachers and homeschoolers may print unlimited copies of these particular images for their classroom activities.

In this coloring page Cinderella's step-mother made her do all the hard work
of the house; scrub the floor, polish the grates, wait at the table,
and wash up the plates and dishes.
You can color the picture of the day, Cinderella's two step-sisters received an invitation
 to a ball that was to be given at the palace of the King, in honor of his son
 the Prince, who had just come of age. An invitation to this ball being a great honor,
the sisters were in high glee, and at once began making ready to appear there in
 grand style.
This coloring page shows that Cinderella soon dried her tears; and when her godmother said,
"Fetch me a pumpkin," she ran and got the largest she could find.
This coloring page shows that there was a great stir at the palace when the splendid carriage
was driven up, and Cinderella alighted. The Lord High Chamberlain himself escorted
 her to the ball-room, and introduced her to the Prince, who at once
claimed her hand for the next dance. Cinderella was in a whirl of delight,
and the hours flew all too fast.
Color Cinderella as she jumps up from her seat by the side of the Prince, rushes across
the room, and flies down stairs, at the stroke of midnight.
In this coloring page, the King's son decides he will marry the lady who is able to wear the glass slipper which was dropped
at the late ball at the royal palace.
This coloring page illustrates Cinderella consenting to become the prince's wife. Their wedding soon took place, the festivities attending it being the most splendid that had ever been seen in the kingdom.

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Print and cut-out the mystery jigsaw to find out who is pictured.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Color and Shade Vintage Racing Cars

      Above and below are "digital tracings," of vintage race cars. Students may practice shading techniques on top of the printed digital tracing. After a student learns shading techniques with a number 2 pencil, he or she may choose to try working with colored pencils or even watercolors in order to enhance the digital tracing above. 
      Advanced students may be challenged to color and shade the digital tracing in colored pencils.


      I have included below a video of vintage race cars by Chris Ashworth. These Indy Cars are from the 1950s and were shown at the Michigan International Speedway. You can click on the lower right hand part of the video to visit youtube and read more about it.
      Also watch more video that I've linked to below in order to see the equipment of the cars and how these were typically finished before drawing on top of your own digital tracings.


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Coloring Pages of Antique Automobiles

I will upload many more cars here eventually. I have dozens on file but they need to be redrawn and resized for the internet.
Old-fashioned Chevrolet.
   
Old Studebakers are from 1906. Have fun coloring pictures of the cars driven by your great grandparents!
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Color This Bird in A Meadow by Kate Greenway

This bird in a meadow was illustrated by Kate Greenway in 1880 for a young student's paint book.

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Color An Elephant

 
       Elephants are ubiquitous in Western popular culture as emblems of the exotic because their unique appearance and size sets them apart from other animals and because, like other African animals such as the giraffe, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, they are unfamiliar to Western audiences. Popular culture's stock references to elephants rely on this exotic uniqueness. For instance, a "white elephant" is a byword for something expensive, useless and bizarre.
       As characters, elephants are relegated largely to children's literature, in which they are generally cast as models of exemplary behavior, but account for some of this branch of literature's most iconic characters.

Many stories tell of isolated young elephants returning to a close-knit community, such as:
Other elephant heroes given human qualities include:
More than other exotic animals, elephants in fiction are surrogates for humans, with their concern for the community and each other depicted as something to aspire to in stories like:
      Print and color my elephant below after watching the video of the elephant in this post. Look carefully at the color of his skin and how you might shade in different areas of his body and the rocks that surround him in order to make him look three dimensional.  I have shaded parts of him already to help you get started.


Color Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

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       William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), in Le Claire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US Army as a scout. One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill became famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes, which he toured in Great Britain and Europe as well as the United States.
Newspaper ad from 1902 about Buffalo Bill
      William Frederick Cody ("Buffalo Bill") got his nickname after the American Civil War when he had a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. Cody earned the nickname by killing 4,280 American bison (commonly known as buffalo) in eighteen months, (1867–1868). Cody and William Comstock competed in a buffalo-shooting match over the exclusive right to use the name, which Cody won by killing 68 bison to Comstock's 48.
      Cody had documented service as a soldier during the Civil War and as Chief of Scouts for the Third Cavalry during the Plains Wars. He claimed to have had many jobs, including as a trapper, bullwhacker, "Fifty-Niner" in Colorado, a Pony Express rider in 1860, wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, and a hotel manager, but historians have had difficulty documenting them, and he may have fabricated some for publicity.
      He became world famous for his Wild West shows, which toured in Great Britain and Europe. Audiences were enthusiastic about seeing a piece of the American West. The adventure story writer Emilio Salgari met Buffalo Bill in Italy, saw his show, and later featured him as a hero in some of his novels. Read more . . .

"This is an experiment of mine, being a compilation of the footage of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show shot by the Thomas Edison film company. The source is the Library of Congress' American Memory archives, and the footage of the parade, Annie Oakley, Native American dancing and bronc riding is everything on there I could find related to Buffalo Bill. The music is a recording of a turn-of-the-century Pianola roll."

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"Buffalo Bill The Hero Horseman who has ridden from ocean to ocean; from the Rio Grande to the Danube;
 o'er mountain peaks and plains, thus saluting more people than any other living man. You will find him in the
saddle twice daily, rain or shine." This drawing originated from an actual newspaper ad of Buffalo Bill's
Wild West Show in 1902. Enjoy coloring part of America's western past.

Coloring Pages of Pilgrims

       Pilgrims (US), or Pilgrim Fathers (UK), is a name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Their leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters who had fled the volatile political environment in England for the relative calm and tolerance of 16th–17th century Holland in the Netherlands. Concerned with losing their cultural identity, the group later arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America. The colony, established in 1620, became the second successful English settlement (after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607) and later the oldest continuously inhabited English settlement in what was to become the United States of America. The Pilgrims' story of seeking religious freedom has become a central theme of the history and culture of the United States.
A coloring page of Pilgrim children.

Color this picture of a pilgrim father and mother.

A coloring page of a Pilgrim lady's costume.
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Color a Chef Presenting The Thanksgiving Turkey!


Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Practice Shading An Owl

This owl is wide awake. Give him big yellow eyes and practice shading in all of his little feathers.
       Above is the "digital tracing," of the image. Students may look at the original sample below in order to practice shading techniques on top of the printed digital tracing. After a student learns shading techniques with a number 2 pencil, he or she may choose to try working with colored pencils or even watercolors in order to enhance the digital tracing above.