Kids love to color! It’s important for their future success in school because coloring practices their fine motor skills.

Also, if you’re like me, there are two things true about your home office: 1) it generates way too much paper, and 2) their are children underfoot with nothing to do but tell you they are bored.

The simple solution to both these problems is to print up coloring pages on the backs of all that scrap paper!

Supply your kids with environmentally friendly crayons like Prang’s soybean crayons or Stockmar’s beeswax crayons (available at Nuno Organic or Hazel Nut Kids.)

(and of course, use a recycled printer cartridge in your printer and recycle the pages after your kids are done!)

My favorite site for coloring pages are:

Sesame Street

Recycling Letters from Earth 911

Texas Parks and Wildlife coloring books

Celebrating Wildflowers coloring pages

There are more suggestions at Making Friends and this Squidoo lens.