Make your own coloring book for free with clip art

It’s easy to make coloring pages for kids using clip art and Word; you can just edit the clips to make them black and white. Here’s how:

Here’s a good style for this project:
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This style is unsuitable for this project:
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Step 2:

Create a new Word document and insert the clips in it

Step 3:

Resize the clips to the size you want them to print them at, and place them as you want them to display when to print them. It’s important that you do this before editing the clip, because it will be much more complicated afterwards.

Tip: if you want to display only one image per page, insert a page break after each image (Insert > Page break)

Step 4:

Select the clip you want to edit and right-click it; click Edit picture

Step 5:

Select a part of the image; right-click and select Format Autoshape. Under Fill, select color and pick the white swatch. Under Line, select color and pick the black swatch. Repeat for each image part until everything is black and white.

Step 6:

if you want to put a caption under the images, you can easily do this with text boxes (Insert > Text box).

That’s it! You’re ready to print your own free, custom coloring book!

Notes:

For additional ideas see also: Customize your Clip Art with Word 2007 -- Friday, June 19, 2009.

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 01, 2008
  That's a fun idea! Good instructions on how to make your own coloring book pages.This idea can also be used to make applique' templates for sewing crafts.
• Anonymous
  May 05, 2008
  Do you know of any ways to take JPG files and reduce them to simple lines like this without using a photo editing program like Photoshop? I'd be glad to try it...
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  December 04, 2008
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  February 04, 2009
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• Anonymous
  February 27, 2009
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• Anonymous
  March 25, 2009
  Picture of a plain book to color.  
• Anonymous
  April 23, 2009
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• Anonymous
  June 08, 2009
  I Love you Charliegh and I Hope you keep this book forever!     Love your Brother            Wyatt Lewis
• Anonymous
  June 19, 2009
  Background and ideas: A previous blog entry discusses Word 2007’s ability to turn downloaded clip art
• Anonymous
  July 08, 2009
  Make your own coloring book, Part 2: (Customize your Clip Art with Word 2007) http://blogs.msdn.com/clip_art_and_media/archive/2009/06/19/customize-your-clip-art-with-word-2007.aspxBuilding on this blog entry: ungroup and re-group clip art shapes, create a scene, and/or integrate edited clip art with existing Word 2007 documents, themes, and effects.
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  July 13, 2009
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  December 16, 2009
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