Īs a predominantly non-verbal medium, coloring books have also seen wide applications in education where a target group does not speak and understand the primary language of instruction or communication. Coloring may also increase creativity in painting, according to some research. For example, children are often more interested in coloring books rather than using other learning methods pictures may also be more memorable than simply words.
Educational uses Ĭoloring books are widely used in schooling for young children for various reasons. Even when crayons came into wide use in the 1930s, books were still designed so that they could be painted or colored. Until the 1930s, books were designed with the intent for them to be painted instead of colored. This launched a trend to use coloring books to advertise a wide variety of products, including coffee and pianos. He authored Buster's Paint Book in 1907, featuring the character of Buster Brown, which he had invented in 1902. They continued to publish coloring books until the 1920s, when the McLoughlin Brothers became part of the Milton Bradley Company.Īnother pioneer in the genre was Richard F. The McLoughlin Brothers are credited as the inventors of the coloring book, when, in the 1880s, they produced The Little Folks' Painting Book, in collaboration with Kate Greenaway.
Many educators concluded that all, regardless of background, students stood to benefit from art education as a means of enhancing their conceptual understanding of the tangible, developing their cognitive abilities, and improving skills that would be useful in finding a profession, as well as for the children's spiritual edification.
Paint books and coloring books emerged in the United States as part of the "democratization of art" process, inspired by a series of lectures by British artist Joshua Reynolds, and the works of Swiss educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and his student Friedrich Fröbel.
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