How to Make Coloring Book Pages From Pictures

Make a custom coloring book from your own pictures.

Create a coloring book from family photos by using tracing paper. When stacked underneath tracing paper and looked at under a strong light, the photo will be visible through the tracing paper. Marking the outline of the picture onto the tracing paper lets you then transfer the image to plain paper for a coloring book page by using a copying machine. Then arrange your custom coloring book pages into coloring book form.

Things You'll Need

• Photographs
• Tracing paper
• Black marker
• Copy machine
• Plain paper
• Three-hole punch
• Ribbon

Instructions

1. Lay a sheet of tracing paper over a photograph so you can see through the tracing paper to the photograph beneath.

2. Mark the outlines of the objects in the photo onto the tracing paper with a black marker.

3. Lay the tracing paper face-side down onto the glass tray of a copy machine loaded with plain white paper.

4. Press "Start" on the copy machine to make a copy onto plain paper of the traced outline of the photograph. This will create your black-and-white coloring book page.

5. Continue tracing and copying other photographs until you have enough for a coloring book.

6. Punch holes on the left-hand side of the coloring book pages with a three-hole punch. Use ribbon to loosely tie together the pages in book format.

Tips & Warnings

• Look for tracing paper at craft stores or art supply stores.

• Use a copying machine at your local library, or an office or copying store if you do not own one.

References

• Teaching preK-8: Getting Crafty