Halloween Coloring Pages for Kids Who Are Blind

Tips to Make Coloring & Painting a Multi-Sensory Activity

There are so many ways you can adapt coloring and painting to make it an enjoyable activity for kids who can't see the pictures. Get creative and think outside of the lines when you're planning your next art project with a child who is blind. Be sure to check out the tips below and then print your own Halloween Coloring Pages for the holidays!

1. Add Sound

~ Outline special coloring pages with tactile paint or glitter glue, let dry the color on top of the Crayola Color Wonder Sound Studio!

~ Place any coloring page atop the Crayola Color Me A Song to hear music while you color. Great to teach cause and effect because the faster you color, the faster the music plays!

~ The Crayola Musical Rub-Art Station provides music similar to the Color Me A Song studio, but also adds texture with rubbing plates. It's also great for kids who aren't ready for grasping a crayon or brush because you just have to rub the crayon flat on the page to color and activate the music!

~ The No Time for Flashcards Blog "Painting with Sound" (Pin It Here!) post shows you how to attach bells to your crayons, markers and brushes!

Crayola Color Wonder Sound Studio

Crayola Musical Rub-Art Station

Crayola Color Me A Song

Painting with Sound

2. Add Texture

~ Use a variety of textured brushes for painting. Try using different paints for different colors, or mixing and matching!

~ Place a piece of mesh, sandpaper or glitter scrapbook paper underneath your coloring page to give tactile feedback while coloring.

~ Add sand or glitter to fingerpaints to create a one of a kind tactile picture! Get really creative with the edible, scented glitter fingerpaints listed in the next section.

~ Outline coloring pages with glitter glue, puff paints, or hot glue to make raised line images.

~ Add Braille labels to your crayons and markers, and make an organized board to hold them in place. This is a must-do at home and in the classroom for kids with visual impairments! Get a free board when you order the Print & Braille book, "The Day the Crayons Quit" from National Braille Press!

Textured Brushes

Textured Paper

Fall Finger Paints with Glitter

Glitter Glue for Dimension

Add Braille Labels to Crayons

Organize by color with Braille!

3. Add Taste & Scent

The Learn Play Imagine Blog has a fun article with recipes on how to make edible, scented fingerpaints for Fall using edible glitter! (Pin It Here!)

The Great Expecations Program, a project I'm involved in from National Braille Press, has extensive activity ideas and resources for making coloring a fun activity for kids with visual impairments all based around the book, "The Day the Crayons Quit" which is available in print and braille. Madilyn helped out with an activity for scented paints that she loved so definitely check it out! The entire program is truly amazing!

Make Scented Paints!

Homemade Paint Recipes

Now use one or more of these fabulous ideas with your child or student. Incorporate them into Fall with these fun and simple Halloween pages, or create your own!

Print the picture.

Use tactile paints to trace lines.

Complete the entire picture.

Let dry, then color!

Simple Halloween Coloring Pages:

• Bat

• Black Cat

• Ghost

• Jack O' Lantern

• Pumpkin

• Frankenstein

• Werewolf

• Spider

• Pirate Trick-or-Treater

• Fairy Trick-or-Treater

• Knight Trick-or-Treater

• Princess Trick-or-Treater

• Witch Trick-or-Treater

• Vampire

• Witch

You can find a number of free printable coloring pages online. More Halloween and Fall ideas include Crayola, Free-N-Fun Halloween, and Coloring-Page.Net.

Resources:

The coloring pages listed above are from DLTK's website. You can find a variety of coloring pages for just about any theme or holiday, as well as other crafts and ideas for kids.ase

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