Christmas time is coming around again, reminding me of some
free things you can enjoy created when I worked at
office.microsoft.com -- creating
free holiday content from their extensive
clip-art library to create
free downloadable content as part of the permanent collection of the
template library. (I guess the keyword there is
FREE).
One day I was given a task to fill in some content gaps per public requests for coloring sheets. The goal was to come up with at least five coloring pages of animals. Well, I couldn't help but run with this project, (and betweent managing the website), created
5 coloring books (each with around 8 pages), taking advantage of one particularly great style of art: #
1450. The result was three with animals: (
forest,
farm,
aquatic) and then, of course,
Christmas and
Halloween.
The Christmas book was also a bit more than just a coloring book, but was inspired by the activity books I used to receive as a kid during the Christmas vacation school break... and so in addition to pages just for coloring, there are also connect-the-dots, word jumbles, word finds, and pages for writing in your on text.
Below are thumbnail versions for your perusal - and be sure to visit the office.microsoft website for the full size
Christmas Activity / Coloring Book download:
And if you like these (especially Santa there in the last image) don't forget there is full stationery set with
letterhead,
gift certificates,
envelopes,
gift tags, and more blogged about here:
Summer Santa Stationery Set.
As a side note - part of the beauty of templates and of Word 2007 is the ability to customize to suit your own tastes. If you didn't catch my original blog entry (on the Microsoft Office blog) that explained the above procedure (creating Word art from the Clip Art library) -- I have recreated the content in this blog entry here.
