Coloring Pages & Books: Castles
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Free Coloring Pages of Castles Available Online
Coloring is a fun and relaxing activity with the bonus that it also helps children develop skills such as color concepts, eye-hand coordination and picture comprehension.
You'll also find links to some coloring books available from Dover Publications featuring castles, knights and medieval tapestries. Dover's books can be a valuable resource for craft-minded adults and children. If your computer's printer has a scanner, you can get multiple uses out of the images in the books. The illustrations in the Dover books are often more detailed than the free online images and are good for coloring with pencils or fine-line markers.
Crayola's full line of crayons, washable markers and colored pencils is available from Amazon.
Free Coloring Page Sites
Rather than present individual images, these links are to pages that contain them. Typically the pages have links to other coloring projects as well.FreeColoringPagesFun.com - 16 pages of castle images
Family Fun - This Disney page has a castle with a garden maze in the foreground.
Coloring Pages for Kids has several castle images plus a good explanation of why castles were built.
Kids-n-Fun - offers 17 castles from basic to detailed images
Fantasy Jr. - This site offers a half-dozen castles and links to related pages.
Activity Village - This UK site has many links to other castle coloring pages
Coloring Book Fun - Five castles to color
Coloring Pages for Kids - Fantasy & Medieval coloring pages with castles, knights and Robin Hood
Coloring Castle - This site offers many different subjects for coloring and with a name like Coloring Castle, they've naturally got a few castles to color.
Hellokids.com Coloring Pages - This page features mostly haunted houses along with a few haunted castles.
Sand castles - Not all castles are made of stone and perched on rocky heights
Castles of the World Coloring Book
by A. G. Smith - from Dover Publications
This 48-page coloring book is for children ages nine to twelve. It contains 31 detailed images of castles from England, Scotland, Wales and several countries on the European Continent plus Japan.
The centerfold of the book features an illustration of a Norman castle from 1200 AD which details all the castle's parts.
There are captions for each castle giving information about it including when it was built.
Life in a Medieval Castle & Village Coloring Book
by John Green - from Dover Publications
The 41 images and text in this 48-page book are suitable for children aged four to eight, although even older children and adults will find the book interesting.
The lives of serfs, peasants, merchants and nobles are portrayed. They are shown blacksmithing, lumbering, weaving and defending.
Knights and Armor Coloring Book
by A. G. Smith - from Dover Publications
This coloring book contains 42 detailed illustrations for children four to eight, although older children and adults may find it interesting.
Knights from all over Europe and the British Isles are shown with their armor and weaponry. Illustrations are accompanied by texts.
The book's illustrations may also be useful in other types of craft projects such as woodburning.
Medieval Tapestries Coloring Book
by Marty Noble - from Dover Publications
This 32-page book's description says it's for children aged four to eight, but reviewers say many older children and adults enjoy it as well.
It contains 30 illustrations of actual medieval tapestries. Text on each page gives the name, country of origin and date of each tapestry.Su
Subjects include "Death on His Pale Horse" and "The Griffin Protects His Lady." The detail makes these coloring projects well suited to colored pencils or fine markers.
Crayola 64-Count Crayons
This classic pack comes with a built-in crayon sharpener on the back of the pack, plus a Try This feature that suggests fun projects. Also included are instructions with example drawings on how to create a flip book.
Looking for more colors and more varieties? Look here:
Amazon's full selection of Crayola crayons
Crayola 64-Count Washable Markers
These washable markers are similar to the 64-count crayons. Their small size is convenient for both children and adults, especially those who don't care to color using crayons.
More Crayola washable markers:
Amazon's full selection of Crayola Washable Markers
Crayola 50-count Long Colored Pencils
At less than 20 cents each, Crayola's colored pencils are a definite bargain. One Amazon reviewer noted that while they're not as high quality as pencils costing one to four dollars each, they come much closer in quality than one might expect. Reviewers mention the pencils have a good laydown of color and sharpen very well.
For children and adults coloring for school projects or just relaxation, this box of 50 colors is hard to beat.
Amazon's full selection of Crayola colored pencils
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Tipi
Apr 3, 2011 @ 6:45 pm | delete
- Castles always make one dream a bit, may all who color your castles have sweet dreams.
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mydietsolutions
Mar 26, 2011 @ 9:10 pm | delete
- Great job on the coloring pages castles
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