Coloring Pages for Letter of the Week Preschool Curriculum

My preschool notebook. Lesson & color pages for week 8.

For our preschool curriculum (here) I use a lot of color pages.  What kiddo doesn't love to color?  Plus, it keeps them happily occupied while I'm trying to school the big girls.  ("happily" being the key word)  I have everything about the schedule and the individual lessons printed from the website (look under "Teaching the Concepts", "Planning Your Week", and "The Lessons") and in page protectors in a 3" three-ring binder.  All the color pages for each week are behind the lesson in the binder.  When we go to the library for school, I just pull out the page protectors and color pages I need and toss them into the bag with crayons.  We're good to go!

I print coloring pages from DLTK's coloring pages site.  I use DLTK's site a lot because I can easily find what I'm looking for.  Crayola has some wonderful coloring pages, too, that go along with the themes. And another place to check is Family Fun Magazine's Printable pages here.  I usually print a different coloring page for the theme for each day of the week.  Oh, I use another of DLTK's sites for the weeks we have "eyes" and "ears" for a theme.  Coloring pages for eyes and ears that aren't cross-section line drawings are few and far between.

While the kids are coloring, I'll recite the nursery rhyme of the week and the big girls usually join in.  I read a story from the recommended list in the afternoon - when I want them to be calm and settled.  (what isn't already in our collection comes from the library)

I print the letter and number coloring pages from Coloring Castle.  In order to get 11 - 25, I recommend using your favorite word processing program and an outline font or the outline functionality in font formatting (you can do the same to get letters, but I figure "why reinvent the wheel" when Coloring Castle already has them).  By the way, I got 100 from Crayola. 

I also use Coloring Castle to get the shape coloring pages.  There are a few they don't have, though, and for those shapes I use ABCTeach.

Googling "{theme} coloring page" is usually enough to give you many options -- "cow coloring pages" (as an example for the first week) will come up with something like this.  :)