Getting young kids to indulge in productive activities can be quite a chore. The most common complaint that most parents have is that kids get bored easily and it’s difficult to hold their attention for longer than a few minutes.
That’s where a site like TheColor can help. It is an online coloring site that aims to make coloring an educational and fun experience for kids. The coloring pages are freely accessible and do not require any applets based on Java or Flash to be able to use them.
Coloring pages are available in many categories from fairy tales and Greek mythology to Christmas and World Peace Day. Each one has a decent number of coloring pages. Once you choose a picture, you get to see a full size version and the color palette appears on the left-side of the page. You can choose between the initial palette or select the advanced one, which has around 192 colors.
Coloring the picture is easy. Just select the color you want and then click that part of the picture where you want the color to be filled in. Colored pictures can be emailed and printed as well. TopColor also lets you maintain your own gallery of colored pictures on its site though you need to register to use this facility. Another option the site offers is to let you submit your own coloring pages.
TopColor is nothing but an extension of the coloring books kids used earlier. The difference of course being that this is done online. Still, with more and more young children getting started with computers, these kinds of sites are a safe way to introduce children to the online world, don’t you think?
