Free Colouring Pages

Free colouring pages have seen wide application in the health professions as educational tools. One nurse, trying to limit the trauma of surgery, described in an academic publication how the use of free colouring pages "might help the child to understand what was going to happen to him." They are also used in rehabilitation of accident victims to aid recovery of hand–eye coordination, and they are used with autistic children both for entertainment and for their soothing effect. Coloring books have been used to explain complicated medical conditions to children.

Free colouring pages are widely used in schooling for young children for various reasons. For example, children are often more interested in free colouring pages rather than using other learning methods; pictures may also be more memorable than simply words. Coloring may also increase creativity in painting, according to some research.

As a predominantly non-verbal medium, free colouring pages have also seen wide applications in education where a target group does not speak and understand the primary language of instruction or communication. Examples of this include the use of colouring books in Guatemala to teach children about hieroglyphs and Mayan artist patterns, and the production of free colouring pages to educate the children of farm workers about "the pathway by which agricultural pesticides are transferred from work to home." Free colouring pages are also said to help to motivate students' understanding of concepts that they would otherwise be uninterested in.

Since the 1980s, several publishers have produced educational coloring books intended for studying graduate-level topics such as anatomy and physiology, where color-coding of many detailed diagrams are used as a learning aid.