Majority of children love drawing, doodling, coloring, and painting, due to an innate artistic nature in all of them. Is it not quite common to see the kids take a pencil or a pen and draw haphazard lines on the walls? This tendency reveals the creative mind at work, with the power of imagination lurking inside trying to come out as a statement. The parents have a duty to convert this desire of the children to doodle into a positive manner. The best possible course for helping the kids express their artistic tendencies freely is to present them with coloring pages. Such sheets are freely available for download on various themes, such as comic and serious characters in TV series, movies and films, cartoons, and pictures of superheroes. Animals and other special characters are also all-time favorites of kids that inspire them and encourage them to the hilt.

Among such free pictures available for printing as coloring pages, several miscellaneous pictures that do not come under any single category but are still loved by children provide the parents an opportunity to gift their children with such pictures. Some of the miscellaneous pictures that could be accessed freely and downloaded for printing are animaniacs, banana, Bob the builder, Caillou, Clifford, Fifi, Franklin, Garfield, Jimmy Neutron, Marvin, Road runner, Taz, holidays, Action man, Olivier, Paddington bear, Dragon, Fairy, Elf, beautiful cars, and sport pictures.

These coloring pages are provided in dozens of varieties and could be easily downloaded, printed and compiled into a small booklet. The children would happily paint the colors. Initially, the kids could be provided with coloring pencils but those who show real talent could be encouraged further by introducing them to oil painting. It is quite possible that your kid might turn out to be another Picasso, Van Gogh, or Rembrandt, if you introduce the child to coloring pages at an early age and develop the interest in painting.