Coloring can help us relax and relieve stress. It does this by providing a consistent continual motion that helps relax your brain’s amygdala. This is the fear center of our brains. While many preschoolers are not big balls of stress, it does help them learn to calm down a bit. Coloring regularly has been shown to have similar affects of short mediation biologically. For youngsters, this skill helps them improve their vision and motor skills be bringing together an effort for the two hemispheres of the brain. In order to color your creative and logical motor centers must be in harmony. In a recent sleep study coloring one hour prior to bed has shown to improve enhance sleep as well as increasing melatonin levels long term.

Whether you use them as part of your Arts and Crafts curriculum or just keep them in a folder as extra credit or quiet time activities, the following collection has many different scenes available for your little ones to color. This set focuses on different common objects and daily activities. Project idea: Have your students create and decorate cardboard picture frames for their colored pictures and create a bulletin board art gallery! For extra fun, have your students add their own background details, other objects, or more to the given pictures to expand the story!