First let me tell you that one of the best purchases that I got this year for homeschooling was this laser printer (see image at the bottom). It's actually supposed to be wireless too but we don't exactly have that set up right now. Maybe I can get on Dan's tech schedule!
Click here to find this guy on amazon.
Having a laser printer means that you can now water color or BINGO marker and no longer will you have ink bleed!
Now for the coloring. You HAVE to check out the Tomie dePaola site for coloring pages! Specific look at this cool little Christmas ornament you can make. Click here for the PDF. SO cute! The directions are on a separate page so I'll clue you in that you cut this fellow out and then the top gets folded and becomes his hat! You can glue a cotton ball on the top and maybe just thread him through a little metal hook to hang him.
You can find Tomie's official coloring page here. I have to point out one more and that's the nativity that is listed on that page.
I'll add that for these projects I put a little heavier weight paper in the printer. Right now I'm using the stiffer "premium" drawing paper from discount school supply. It looks like it's just listed as "heavyweight" I guess. I wouldn't exactly call it the best paper (it bothers me that it is slightly off white) but it is a nice compromise for not buying super expensive water color paper.
Another 'trick' I've learned is to take out black ( and brown if you feeling extra confident!) from the water color tray. It makes sense to me because the black just destroys the other colors and it overpowers everything usually resulting in a blacky-green mush mess. You can even buy separate colors and just present the color combinations you want them to work with. You'll have to decide if this is stifling creativity or helpful herding =)
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