Silhouette of Mother and Child In A Garden

A silhouette of a mother and child touching noses;
 they are pictured with a vase of lilies.

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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.

More Cinderella Coloring Pages:

• Disney Junior's Cinderella coloring pages
• Cinderella coloring pages from fullcoloringpages.com

More "Cinderella Stories" Online:

• Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
• Cinderella" (Aschenputtel)
• Cinderella Ballet, Bolshoi Theater, 1960
• Judi Dench and Julie Andrews version of Cinderella made in 1957
• Lotte Reiniger's Cinderella from 1922
• "Cinderella" book reading
• Kelsey imagines that she is Cinderella (adorable)
• "Cinderella" Christmas Panto

Cinderella in Ads:

• No Sink Smog with Bab-O: Cinderella- 1952 cartoon commercial
• Hanes Pantyhose, 1980

Modern Versions of "Cinderella" movie trailers:

• "Ever After" starring Drew Barrymore
• Remake of Cinderella starring Whitney Houston
• "Elle: A Modern Day Cindrella Tale"
• "A Cinderella Story" starring Hillary Duff
• "Ella Enchanted" starring Anne Hathaway 
• Three Wishes For Cinderella 1973, (full film)

Cinderella Web Pages:

• Cinderella Around the World
• Project Gutenberg compilation, including original Cendrillon
• Photos and illustrations from early Cinderella stage versions, including one with Ellaline Terriss and one with Phyllis Dare
• Parallel German-English text of brothers Grimm's version in ParallelBook format
• Follow my Fairy Tale Theme Board for Early Learning Centers
• My favorite version of Cinderella from my childhood, "Three nuts or Three wishes  for Cinderella." Visit the fan site here.

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

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.

More Related Content:

• Cablevision "Vanderbilt Cup Races"
• Famous Monaco Historic Classic Grand Prix 2010
• 1925 Bugatti Type 13 Brescia drive by + sound 1080p HD
• 1929 Monaco Grand Prix

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!

Find More Cars to Color:

• Color automobiles from the 1950s and 1960s
• Classic cars from Kids-n-fun
• Muscle Car Coloring Pages
• nice little racing cars 
• Lego Cars

Working With Melted Crayons

"This little video shows you how to use the melted crayon technique on a die cut and then etch into it to bring out details. The etched lines may then be covered in crayon again to darken them or left as light lines.

The die cut is available from www.paperthreads.com; just laury
For a limited time I will be giving away the die cut files for this little fish on my blog justlaury.paperthreads.com
( by downloading the little fish you are agreeing to abide by my terms of use as listed on my blog)"

Music is from superfan2010.com
Carly Comando's Cordelias Lullaby
find more of Carly's music at www.deepelm.com or on itunes
video by Laury Vaden

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.

More About Kate Greenaway:

• Kate Greenaway's Cards
• Find embroidery patterns by illustrator, Kate Greenway here.

Color Two Billy Goat Friends

      I've included the video below so that teachers and parents can show the video and then talk with their student or child about the colors and characteristics they see in the real Nubian goats before making selections of materials to color their own picture.

Additional coloring pages of goats:

• Baby goats with their new horns
• A wide variety of goats drawn in many different styles
• Very simple billy goat for your little one to color

Color This Barnyard Scene by Kate Greenway

      This coloring page is from the one from one of the earliest coloring books published in the United States. The author was George Weatherly and the illustrator Kate Greenaway, "The little folks nature paint book" was published in 1880.

      In the 1800s coloring books included poems and stories as well as coloring pages. Students were expected to use watercolors to fill in the illustrations instead of crayons.

      You can paint this coloring page with watercolors if you print it out on water color paper. This is a sturdier paper with a slight texture that "grips" the watery paints so that these will not run or pool all over the paper's surface.

"A video about one of the first famous Children's Literature authors, Kate Greenaway. The video reveals how colored children's books were made, using wood blocks that had the pictures and text etched out in them."

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:

• The Elephant’s Child from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories (1902)
• Dumbo (1942)
• The Saggy Baggy Elephant (1947). 

Other elephant heroes given human qualities include:

• Laurent de Brunhoff's anthropomorphic Babar (1935)
• David McKee's Elmer (1989)
• Dr. Seuss's Horton (1940).

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:

• A Flower for Amborse by Anna and Edward Standon (1967).

      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."

More Related Coloring Pages:

• Wild West Wanted Posters
• Buffalo Bill, May 11, 1887
• Portrait of Buffalo Bill
• Stamp of Buffalo Bill that you can color

"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.

Learning to Color With Block Crayons

     " Now available for purchase. "Coloring with Block Crayons" offers block crayon coloring lessons by the author of the book "Coloring with Block Crayons." In the DVD she will teach basic techniques and the ins and outs of drawing landscapes, plants, animals and people."

To purchase visit at "teach wonderment."

Unique Coloring Pages for Kids

I am particularly interested in listing individual artists here who post original collections. Does this apply to you? Secondly, because my traffic is family oriented, please do not write and suggest pages with adult content. If you would like to have a link here and your pages are original, you may make a suggestion to pickandprintgallery@yahoo.com

1. Sesame Street Coloring Pages - Sesame Street Print and color or color online all your child's friends from Sesame Street. This site also features live events about Sesame Street across the United States and takes visitors behind the scenes of Sesame Street. Actor interviews, special interactive features, everyone will enjoy these coloring pages.
2. Phee McFaddell draws charming fairies and also offers paper masks for visitors both young and old to color.
3. Crayon Palace is my coloring blog for both school children and adults. There are a wide variety of topics. Visitors may print unlimited numbers of pages for educational institutions, home school and retirement centers for the elderly!
4. Coloring Castle offers a wide selection of original coloring pages. Many of the coloring pages will appeal to older children and adults as well as young children. The mandalas are exceptional, so I have linked directly to these here.
5. Daily Coloring Pages has advanced coloring pages for adults. These are far less common on the internet, so I've included a link here for those of you searching for free resources to share in retirement facilities and hospitals.
6. Multicultural Graffiti Art -Free Printable Coloring Pages - Free Graffiti ... Graffiti Diplomacy is a Brooklyn based website offering some very unique coloring pages. I love these unusual graffiti coloring pages.
7. Printable Coloring Pages: Fun Downloadable Coloring ... - Art is Fun These printable coloring pages for adults and teens are by artist Thaneeya McArdle. These coloring pages will appeal to those of you who enjoy folk art!
8. Yellow Bird Project : Indie Rock Coloring Book "Andy J. Miller, a talented illustrator, collaborated with YBP to produce this unique expression of art and music." An artistic coloring book for those of you who love to be challenged and also for the collector I think.
9. Artist Coloring Page - Boy Artist - Twisty Noodle For those of you who still believe that coloring pages are for kids only, I've included here a site for young children. Many of these resources are actually from very old clip art files. However, the site is put together very well and the images have been thoroughly cleaned and maintained. Parents can apply for a membership as well.
10. HeyHey Colors - street art based ipad colouring book app HeyHey Apps is a Belgian based software company creating apps for kids. The artwork of street artist Bue the Warrior is featured here and I love his collection. This site is very appealing to adults as well as children.
11. Free Art Coloring Pages « MuseumChick | Danee Gilmartin For homeschoolers and teachers looking for coloring pages of artworks to reinforce art history lessons.
12. Britto Coloring Book This coloring book based upon the artworks of Romero Britto. Teach little ones about color and pattern.
13. Free Educational Coloring Pages This coloring book features famous works of art and facts about the artist. Another collection that is valuable as a teaching resource.
14. Kathleen Rietz - Children's Book Illustrator "I'm a freelance artist, photographer, writer and art teacher. My hope is to make a positive difference in the world." Her collection is very appealing to parents and kids. The pages are original to her alone.
15. The Doll Coloring Book is our family blog about all kinds of doll play. Featured there is a large collection of doll coloring pages and paper dolls.
16. Coloring-pages-for-all-ages.com/guest-artists.html This website features guest artist submissions by: Rachel Pitler, Michael C. Hsiung, Nakisha VaderHoeven, Bedo Shamelian and Diane Wallace. 
17. Cartoons and Free Printable Coloring Pages by Maui Artist, Guy ... " Guy Junker is a Maui Artist known for his petroglyph paintings but before his fine art carreer he was a cartoonist and illustrator.  This site not only contains many of his cartoon prints but also his online Coloring Book Club which features stacks of Free Printable Coloring Pages for your kids.  This is a great resource for teachers, parents and grandparents." Love it.
18. Jeannie Vodden Art » Coloring pages Coloring pages by Jeannie Vodden are original and available in large file format. The mermaid is my favorite!
19. Between the Lines A Coloring Book "lively new collection of work by Vito Acconci, Rita Ackermann, John Baldessari, Jeremy Blake, Will Cotton, R. Crumb, Keith Haring, Sol LeWitt, Robert Longo, John Lurie, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jason Middlebrook, Julian Opie, Laura Owens, Alexis Rockman, Kenny Scharf, William Wegman and John Wesley, among others." Published by RxArt is a not-for-profit organization. Adults and collectors will love it.
20. Dulemba Coloring Pages Free coloring pages available here from illustrator,  Elizabeth O. Dulemba. Coloring images are for young children and feature literacy and holiday topics.
21. The Coloring Barn A free collection of kids coloring pages, all subjects, all original to the site as far as I can tell. The collection is nicely done. 
22. Creative Cuties An original coloring page collection by artist Heather Sybil Chavez. Ms. Chavez is from Pasadena, California.  Her work is very stylized.
23. Free Coloring Pages from Nicole Nicole Florian draws many subjects for children to color. She also sells ebooks. Her style is very distinctive and her collection is large.