As the summer winds down and a new school year looms on the horizon, we’re excited to present a fantastic, fun-filled activity for your young ones – the Free Printable Back-to-School Color by Number & Letter Activity Set! This delightful activity set is designed to infuse fun into the learning process and ensure your child’s educational journey starts on the right foot.
This collection contains six different pictures waiting to be brought to life with vibrant colors. Four of the images are color by letter, providing a wonderful opportunity for your child to enhance their letter recognition skills.
The remaining two are color by number, offering a fun and engaging way to familiarize your kids with numbers. Each picture is thoughtfully chosen and represents familiar school-related objects, such as a school, school bag or backpack, school bus, calculator, and more.
This free download is perfect for parents who want to help get your kids ready for the new school year, or for teachers to use in the classroom at the beginning of the year.
Table of Contents
- The Benefits of Color by Number & Letter Activity
- The Back to School Color by Letter and Color by Number Pages
- Back to School Color by Letter – School Coloring Page
- Back to School Color by Letter – Apple for the Teacher Coloring Page
- Back to School Color by Letter – Backpack Coloring Page
- Back to School Color by Letter – Chalkboard Coloring Page
- Back to School Color by Number – School Bus Coloring Page
- Back to School Color by Number – Calculator Coloring Page
- Download Back To School Color by Number PDF
- More Back to School Worksheets and Activities
- More Free Printable Color by Number Pages
The Benefits of Color by Number & Letter Activity
The Color by Number & Letter activity has a multitude of benefits that go beyond the visible, immediately captivating children with the enticing prospect of coloring in delightful images. Here are some of the major benefits your child can gain from this activity:
- Fine Motor Skills Development: The act of coloring helps develop fine motor skills in children as they learn to control their hand movements while filling the pictures with colors. This is an essential skill for writing, buttoning clothing, turning pages, and many other day-to-day tasks.
- Color Recognition: The color by number and letter activity is a great way to reinforce the understanding of different colors. As children find the correct color for each number or letter, they learn to recognize and differentiate between various hues.
- Number and Letter Recognition: Each picture is an adventure in learning! While coloring, your child will also enhance their letter and number recognition skills, which forms the foundation of reading and mathematics.
- Enhanced Focus and Concentration: Coloring requires a good amount of focus and concentration. This activity will help improve your child’s ability to concentrate on a task for an extended period, preparing them for classroom learning.
- Following Instructions: With this activity, children learn the importance of following instructions. They understand that to create the intended image, they must color according to the given numbers or letters. This lesson can be vital in developing their ability to follow multi-step instructions at school.
- Improved Hand-Eye Coordination: Matching the correct color to the corresponding number or letter also helps improve hand-eye coordination, a vital skill needed in sports, writing, and many other tasks.
Overall, this Color by Number & Letter activity set is more than just a fun pastime. It’s a comprehensive tool that combines multiple learning objectives in a vibrant and engaging manner, making learning an enjoyable process.
Our hope is that this set will not only keep your little ones engaged but will also build their confidence and prepare them for the upcoming school year. At the end of this post, you’ll find a link to download the Free Printable Back-to-School Color by Number & Letter Activity Set. Let’s make going back to school exciting and colorful!
The Back to School Color by Letter and Color by Number Pages
Here’s a preview of the color by number worksheet pages included inside this free printable pack…
Back to School Color by Letter – School Coloring Page
Get your child excited about the upcoming school year with our fun and educational ‘Back to School Color by Letter – School Coloring Page.’
This delightful activity invites children to improve their letter recognition skills while adding their unique color touch to a playful school building image.
This school house coloring page requires 8 colors and works on recognition of the first 8 letters of the alphabet, A through H.
Back to School Color by Letter – Apple for the Teacher Coloring Page
An apple for the teacher is an age-old tradition symbolizing respect and appreciation.
Our ‘Back to School Color by Letter – Apple for the Teacher Coloring Page’ adds a twist to this tradition by blending learning with creativity.
Kids can enhance their knowledge of letters while coloring a delicious apple for their favorite teacher.
This color by letter page works on the next 9 letters of the alphabet, I through Q
Back to School Color by Letter – Backpack Coloring Page
Gear up for the new academic year with our ‘Back to School Color by Letter – Backpack Coloring Page.’
This school theme coloring page encourages kids to familiarize themselves with various letters as they fill colors in an essential school item – the backpack.
This school back pack coloring page needs just 6 colors and works on the next set of letters, R through W
Back to School Color by Letter – Chalkboard Coloring Page
Step into a classroom setting with our ‘Back to School Color by Letter – Chalkboard Coloring Page.’
This activity takes children on a creative journey where they can paint a chalkboard in their favorite colors while sharpening their letter recognition skills.
The last of the back to school color by letter pages finishes off the alphabet with XYZ, and also includes the letters ABC
Back to School Color by Number – School Bus Coloring Page
All aboard for a fun-filled educational ride with our ‘Back to School Color by Number – School Bus Coloring Page.’
This activity invites children to recognize and color according to numbers, helping them create a bright and cheerful school bus, symbolizing their journey of knowledge and growth.
This fun and educational school bus color by number page works on the numbers 1-7
Back to School Color by Number – Calculator Coloring Page
Make math more fun and colorful with our ‘Back to School Color by Number – Calculator Coloring Page.’
This activity offers kids an opportunity to identify numbers and colors together, resulting in a beautifully colored calculator, a staple tool for budding mathematicians.
The calculator page follows on from the school bus picture with the numbers 8-13
By completing the whole set, your child will run through the whole alphabet and the numbers 1-13.
This is a great introduction for younger kids going into preschool and kindergarten and a refresher for older kids. It never hurts to review these basics, especially while getting in some fine motor work and having fun relaxing with some super coloring pages.
Download Back To School Color by Number PDF
Click below to download all 6 back to school color by number and color by letter worksheets in one PDF file. It also includes a sample of each finished page, to use as an example or answer key.
Terms of use: free for personal use and free for classroom use.
Remember, the journey of learning can always be filled with colors and joy. Here’s to an incredible, enlightening, and colorful school year ahead!
More Back to School Worksheets and Activities
We have a few more back to school themed projects that will compliment these color by letter and color by number pages… take a look
- Free Printable Back to School Back Pack Craft for Kids
- Complete The Picture Free Printable Back To School Worksheets
- The Essential Preschool Supply List For Early Childhood
More Free Printable Color by Number Pages
We have tonnes of color by number and color by letter printable worksheets available here at In The Playroom, for all kinds of seasons and themes.
Here’s a list of just a few of them below if you would like to grab some more.
- Free Printable Cactus Color by Number Pages (Easy)
- Earth Day Color by Number (color by letter)
- 12 Free Printable Disney Princess Color by Number Pages
- Sonic The Hedgehog Color by Number Printables
- 8 Free Printable Color By Number Unicorn Coloring Pages For Kids
- 8 Pokemon Color by Number Coloring Pages for Kids
- Color by Number Spring Coloring Pages
- Winter & Christmas Color By Number Pages for Kids {Free Printables}
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