Let's Color (Kumon First Steps Workbooks) (Kumon Workbooks)

My 2-year-old son likes colouring on the coloured pictures of this book much more than he likes traditional plain colouring pages. He can not hold a crayon properly or colour properly yet so I appreciate the explanation of how these skills will develop, and the activities which are appropriate for him. First the pages let him scribble (spaghetti on a plate, for example) and then he will move on to simple colouring.

Its fun for kids and parents! Like it.

my 3 year old granddaughter loves this book - not as daunting as a whole page to colour and keeps here enthusiastic for longer

Just right for 2 1/2 year old - short activities, bright and cheerful !

Great way to introduce reason to more detailed colouring

It's good but would be even better if including colour pens.

grandkids love it

Thanks

I recently discovered the Kumon books and I am super pleased with them.I will be reviewing all those I have so it will help other parents get a better idea of what's inside. The LET'S COLOR book is very nice and is part of the Kumon First Steps series for ages 2 and up. I must say that this book isn't for the very young only. My son is 8, and is a very normal child in every way, yet like some children, has not been very quick to develop fine motor skills for writing, holding a pencil, cutting, etc. He has enjoyed all his Kumon books very much, and they are not babyish. LET'S COLOR is a very nice book for children who would be overwhelmed by a whole uncolored page being placed in front of them to "finish". I like that most of each page in LET'S COLOR is colored already and is very colorful; only a white circle, square, triangle (nice for teaching shapes along the way) is left blank for the child to color in. My son is very pleased with just a small bit of coloring to finish the picture. He especially loves when his colored pencil ( I recommend Prismacolors over crayons) matches almost exactly with the color of the object and when finished, you can't easily see where he did the coloring. Later pages have you color 2 or 3 parts of the picture, such as blue, green, and yellow circles on the beach ball, or 3 different colored balloons, or the yolk of the egg. Then the last few pages are having the child color the 2 flowers, the mane of the lion, the icing and candles on a birthday cake, or different parts of a clown. Even these pages with more white areas to color, are not overwhelming to a child, as the full picture is only about 8 inches square. My son enjoyed the first "scribble" pages, where you drew hair on a boy, spaghetti on a plate, sprinkles on the ice cream, water squrting out of the garden hose onto the children, etc. He has enjoyed coloring in this book as we have our read aloud time in the evening. Kumon uses high quality heavy paper, and the coloring pages are printed on one side only. I highly recommend it to any parent of young children, and would make a nice little gift with a new box of colored pencils or crayons. These are attractive when finished to give to grandma and grandpa to hang on their refrigerator. I really think you and your child will have fun with this book.

Es un cuaderno a todo color. El tamaño es la mitad de un folio. Como se puede ver en las fotos no hay mucho para colorear, en mi caso esto es mejor, me está ayudando a trabajar con mi hija los colores y a que coloree solo la parte blanca del dibujo, así le resulta sencillo y no se aburre. Al final trae una especie de pizarra para rotuladores y un diploma.

A mi hija le encantó, le duró un mes, y ahora me pide mas libros. Comprare el que sigue, si es que lo encuentro.

Great ideas! My 2,5 years old enjoys the tasks very much. Just like with the other Kumon set of books I limited the number of pics to 4-5 per session. She loves it so much that I put a string along the wall and clipped each picture for display as she wants to show Daddy and talk about the pictures. Her skills are certainly improving but of course she isn't able to color only within the line and I doubt she will be able to for a long time but that's normal.

The absolute best series of first skill learning books for toddlers. I bought this for my daughter at 2.5 years and now at 2.9 years she has completed the whole series and is so confident and proud of her work. Don’t hesitate to buy this!