Coloring sure is fun for kids, but it can be too time-consuming within speech and language sessions (unless it's carefully structured). However, what if you could use a session to help students create a coloring page that they can complete at home?
You can do exactly that with Crayola Create & Color. This is a super-cool FREE site kids can use to combine Backgrounds, Pictures (i.e. associated or silly items inserted into the background), and word/thought balloons. The process of creating the printable coloring pages is a great context to develop spatial concepts, proposition use (for an App-lication of this type of activity, see Smarty Ears' House of Learning), description and story grammar. Sending the pages home would be a nice opportunity to generalize and further practice skills with parents. How psyched will kids be when they tell their parents they created their own coloring book?
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Crayola Create & Color
Labels:
association,
concepts,
description,
early elementary,
humor,
preschool,
story grammar,
syntax
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I found it a fun family craft - it just isn't something you can let kids do on their own while you try to fold laundry.
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