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    You are here: Home / Art and Crafts Activities / Coloring Pages / Day and Night: City and Country Coloring Page for Kids

     

    Day and Night: City and Country Coloring Page for Kids

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    This adorable city and country coloring page from children's book author and illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg is the latest in our monthly series of free, printable coloring pages.

    The coloring page features dueling landscapes. On top is daytime in a bucolic countryside retreat complete with cute house and dreamy wishing well. If they look closely, your kids can find a couple of rabbits up to no good.

    Below the country scene is nighttime in the city. A horse and carriage clip clops in the park with high rise buildings peeking above the trees in the background.

    Finished city and country coloring page with colored pencils on orange background

    Print out the coloring page (By clicking on the following link you agree to our terms of service* see end of post: City and country landscapes coloring page

    Both Melanie and I encourage kids to create their own art from their boundless imaginations, but it cannot be denied that coloring pages are useful for restaurants and quick entertainment. Are you in the NYC area? You can cheer Melanie on in the Bike the Branches Brooklyn Public Library tour, and then head into a local branch to read one of her books.

    Turn the city and country coloring page into an activity:

    Many of Melanie's coloring pages can double as activity pages. I think it would be cute to cut these two scenes out, glue them to cardboard and create a backdrop to a play scene, the way we did with Melanie's cityscape coloring pages.

    You could even turn her multicultural kids into stick puppets or include the 3D pizza parlor and school.

    MORE COLORING PAGES:

    • Rainbow coloring page
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    • UFO coloring page
    • Village shops coloring page and template

    Meet the Illustrator:

    Melanie Hope Greenberg is an award winning author and illustrator of more than 15 children’s books. Her cheerful, vibrant illustrations can be found in books such as Good Morning, Digger, Down in the Subway and A City Is. Her very popular Mermaids on Parade  was selected as a Bank Street Best Book, and for the Texas Reading Club and PBS Kids Summer Reading Lists.

    Melanie also loves to visit schools and libraries to talk about the process of creating a book.

    Down in the Subway picture book cover
    Mermaids on Parade book cover
    Aunt Lilly's Laundromat

    *Terms of Service: You are welcome to download and print this coloring page as many times as you want for personal use. You may not upload this file to another website or database. All commercial use is prohibited. You are welcome to share this coloring page by sharing the link to this blog page. It is expressly forbidden to directly share the link to the document itself, thus bypassing this blog post. The copyright to this coloring page belongs exclusively to Melanie Hope Greenberg (used with her permission).

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    1. Melanie Hope Greenberg says

      May 09, 2014 at 11:02 am

      Thanks for the fun write up! What a cool idea to use the panels as stage backdrops. Finger puppets can apply here as well. Enjoy!

      Reply
    2. writersideup says

      May 12, 2014 at 9:09 pm

      Coloring was one of my all-time favorite things to do as a kid. I can't handle the smell of the crayons anymore *sigh* soooo...

      And as always, clever ideas, Erica! 😀

      Reply
      • Erica MomandKiddo says

        May 13, 2014 at 9:52 am

        Thanks!

        Reply

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