Let's Color! (Kumon First Step Workbooks)
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Book Reviews of Let's Color! (Kumon First Step Workbooks)
Book Review: Not your average coloring book!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a very active 2 year old and I was looking for workbooks that were both fun and educational. The pictures in this book are cute and colorful. I love that the illustrations of the children are very diverse. My child actually loves to sit down to do this workbook and many of the other Kumon books in this series. Getting a 2 year old to sit and color for 5 minutes is no small feat. The beginning pages are designed to help the child get used to holding crayons and scribbling.( for example he/she can draw spaghetti on a child's plate) By the end of the book, (about 38-40 sheets total) the colorful pictures have a few white areas that are left for the child to fill in. (for example, a bunch of purple grapes with one white circle or a birthday cake with white candles and a strip of icing).
This book is helpful for teaching toddlers how to hold a crayon and how to color. The paper is good quality. This is much better than a standard coloring book. We enjoyed this book with the "So Big" Crayola crayons.
Book Review: Kinah's Mom
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased this workbook for my three year old, noting that the workbook is suggested for 2 year olds and up. My daughter has already developed the intial fine motor skills for tracing her name, painting, coloring, pasting, modeling clay, using spray bottles, drawing circles, lines, rectangles, stick figures, etc., I purchased this workbook with the hope that we would re-trace any steps in the fine motor skill process that we may have missed. The book opens having the child draw "spaghetti" on a colorful plate in the workbook, draw the "dots" on a red strawberry, draw "raindrops" on a rainy day scene in the workbook. Several pages instruct the child to color in a white circle in the middle of a colorful object (i.e., a lemon, egg plant, green pepper, etc., Then the child will color in white squares on colorful objects. We have had fun with the workbook. And I'm hoping this practice book contributes postively to her penmanship and coloring.Book Review: Great Way to Teach Your Toddler to Color!
Summary: 5 Stars
I work as a kindergarten teacher and spend a lot of time at the beginning of the year helping students develop their fine motor skills. One of the best ways to work on these skills is to engage children with coloring. When I saw the beginner Kumon books, I immediately wanted to try them with my 2 1/2 yr old son, and I'm so glad I made the purchase. He absolutely LOVES these books! They are very colorful, the illustrations are great, and the directions are very specific. For example, one his favorites was to use a blue crayon to draw rain coming from the clouds. The books gradually become more difficult, and now he has to fill in a white area with a specific color. I tell him that we are working on "school" and he loves it! Because of the reasonable price, I have also bought these for his friends for birthday gifts as well! :)Book Review: Kumon books are great; this one starts good but is a little basic
Summary: 4 Stars
Bought the Color, Cut, and Paste for my son when he was two. This is probably the most basic of the three, and he has enjoyed it. The Kumon books are great because they progressively move into more difficult activities that are well-planned. The paper quality is high, and the activities are interesting - my son is always asking if he can work on his workbooks!
This particular book was fun for a while, but doesn't progress as fast as I think it could, so my son did grow board of it by age three. It's a good book for the younger crowd and to mix in an easy activity with an activity that might be a bit more challenging (like cutting). Definitely recommended, but gave it four stars only because it's our least favorite of the series.
Book Review: Fun with Markers
Summary: 5 Stars
My 3 year-old was able to color well when she wanted to. The problem was that she usually didn't want to. She usually just wanted to scribble and finish her pictures as quickly as possible. This book actually helped her focus a bit better and take more time with her work. I think it also helped that the paper quality was so high that we were able to use her markers to do the exercises. Obviously, with most coloring books, the markers bleed through the paper so badly you ruin the following pictures. There would occasionally be a dot or two on the following page when my daughter really got carried away with coloring a particular spot.