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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:


Video: Make a coloring page with Office clip art

Step 1:

Select a bunch of clips you like and download or copy them to your machine.
Tip: for this to work, you need to make sure you choose a WMF image, not a PNG or a JPG.
Tip: for best results and to make this easy on yourself, select images made of simple shapes with few colors. Examples of good styles for this are #1450, #1434, or #1255.

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!

Posted: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:41 AM by camblog

Comments

Carol in Annandale, Virginia said:

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.

# March 2, 2008 2:48 AM

Linnea said:

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...

# May 5, 2008 8:02 PM

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how do you actually MAKE a coloring book

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