Creating fun educational activities for my girls is one of the best part of being a homeschool mom.
This set of coloring pages offers an alphabet theme with fun animals and objects toddlers love.
Coloring is a great way to get quiet time in or bond with your little one – there’s nothing like watching them learn new things, is there?
This post includes two sets of coloring pages of animals and objects for young kids that are eager to learn.
The first is a simple coloring set that features large letters and pictures. The second activity set is for early preschool aged kids and includes:
- the letter objects begin with
- two or more pictures per page
- the name of each picture
- tracing lines for the capital and lower case letter
Download a couple of pages individually from the previews shown in this post or get the complete sets using the links provided below.
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Fun Ways to Actually Enjoy Coloring with Toddlers
Both of my girls absolutely loved naming animals and objects at this age and the oldest actually learned the alphabet before she was even 2 years!
These coloring pages for 2 year olds (and even preschool aged or older siblings, if they want!) feature a large object and the first letter of the name of the animal or object -each page also contains uppercase and lowercase forms of the letter to teach them to recognize both forms.
When my girls first started coloring, we really loved using these triangle crayons since they’re easy for small kids to hold and don’t break (not fun when it happens to your toddler)!
They also won’t destroy your grey coach like markers will – I have experience with this and have always recommended washable markers since that fateful day when my littlest one found where I keep the marker stash.
That said, on special occasions, we have a painting party once a month (something I started doing when my now 8 year old was two and I created these exact coloring pages for her – goodness, time flies).
I cover the table with an outdoor table cloth and then set up the girls with paper plates (also awesome for a huge variety of toddler crafts by the way!) for their paints and then let them color their hearts out.
We have a paint brush set like this for each child and I’ll also give them a couple of cotton swabs, cotton balls, and sponges to add some different textures too.
To get the most out of painting with young kids like two year olds, I recommend giving them two or three brushes and two or three colors at a time.
Then you can swap those brushes our painting supplies out and add one or two extra colors later to make the activity more interesting for them and last longer for you!
Ps choose washable paints and stay away from watercolor paints at this age – at just two years old, children have a hard time understanding that they need to dip their brush into the water first and then paint after, repeating this process each and every time.
Even my four year old has a tendency to get frustrated with these so we stick to the traditional classroom stuff.
More Fun Ways for Toddlers to Learn the Alphabet
- Alphabet magnets – these magnets were by far both of the kids’ favorite alphabet learning activity! I let them decorate the fridge of course, but also flipped over muffin pans to create more interesting surfaces to stick and group letters together. We also have a magnetic white board the kids like using at our homeschool table.
- Alphabet puzzle boards – both of the girls loved these Montessori wood puzzles and would do them over and over again throughout the day.
- Bounce Patrol’s phonics learning videos – here’s a playlist I created with the videos my kids liked to watch and sing along with. While I do studies with my Grade 3, I play these songs for my Pre-K student.
Here are a few page samples of the coloring sheets for you to checkout!
P is for pig.
This adorable little page features a simple and cute farm animal favourite.
S is for snake.
This happy critter offers tots a chance to mix it up with its spots.
U is for umbrella.
Encourage your little one to color each section of this object differently and practice naming each color as you go!
Coloring Pages of Animals and Objects
Download toddler alphabet coloring pages (26 pages).
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Croatian Toddler Coloring Pages (Hrvatska Abeceda Bojanka)
These pages have a special place in my heart 🙂
When I was growing up, we’d have to wait for my baba to come back from trips to Croatia for books and activities in our mother tongue.
You just couldn’t find that stuff here!
But now with the internet, Pinterest, and Google, everything is just a search and a click away.
Want to teach your little ones Croatian? Or just want a few extra colouring pages for toddlers?
Then check out some more designs below.
Contrary to English, the Croatian alphabet has a number of digraphs – DŽ, LJ, and NJ – two letters pronounced as one.
Hope you enjoyed that surprise trivia!
The Croatian word for bat is šišmiš – pronounced sheesh-meesh.
This was one of my favorite words as a kid so naturally, it had to be included!
How adorable is this squirrel, right?
ABC Bojanka
Download 30 Croatian coloring pages for toddlers -Abeceda – besplatne bojanke za djecu – za printanje i učenje slova (30 stranica).
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Thanks for reading, mama!
– Nikki
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