I am very much behind colouring pictures
I think they are a valuable tool for learning about colour, order, shapes, (eventually) precision - long live colouring !!
I loved colouring as a child and still do now, it's a great creative outlet and my children love to colour as much as I do!:soapbox:
How can they 'stifle' creativity when you can colour the picture any way you want to, then colour the same image thousands of times and still not have 2 the same?!?!?!?!
It doesn't
have to be finished there and then, so a child can go back and add to their masterpiece at any time.
While I appreciate that children get bored with things that they utilise too often, an opportunity for fun learning that doesn't have a rigid 'rule' is a rare commodity and we shouldn't let it go!
Right, steam vented, I'm gonna abseil off this huge soapbox now!