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.
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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!
