Color Locally, Help Globally; Poloppo Releases Printable Coloring Pages Adapted From Drawings By Children

Poloppo celebrates World Kids Coloring Day with new free online "Printables" adapted from drawings by young artists from around the world. Poloppo stimulates children's creativity by providing a different kind of coloring page; one that captures the freshness child art and encourages imaginative possibilities. Mother of a 4-year-old child artist, Poloppo's CEO, Cherie Aarts Coley, describes the difference between "coloring in" and drawing on a blank page.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) May 6, 2008 -- Poloppo asks, "Are you the type of kid (or grown-up) who likes to practice your fine motor skills by coloring inside the lines? Or do you love to color outside the lines and scribble your dreams and fantasies down on a piece of paper? Either way, today's a great day to pick up a crayon and express yourself."

Are you the type of kid (or grown-up) who likes to practice your fine motor skills by coloring inside the lines? Or do you love to color outside the lines and scribble your dreams and fantasies down on a piece of paper? Either way, today's a great day to pick up a crayon and express yourself.

My daughter and I often resolve things on paper. Firstly, the very act of drawing, with its repetitive yet free nature, has an immediate calming effect

If it's down-time we need, we'll often just

, as opposed to drawing or painting on a blank page. But the blank page is vital for a different kind of expression; we express our mood and feelings through the colors, shapes, characters and situations we create on the page through our imagination.

Poloppo, the innovative company that turns children's art into fashionable, comfortable clothing, is celebrating World Kids Coloring Day with new Printables. They're coloring pages adapted from drawings by young artists from around the world - which you can print and color for free. Poloppo Printables.

Poloppo sees the possibilities in stimulating children's creativity by providing a different kind of coloring page, one that captures the freshness and immediacy of child art and encourages imaginative possibilities.

"My daughter and I often resolve things on paper. Firstly, the very act of drawing, with its repetitive yet free nature, has an immediate calming effect," says Poloppo's CEO, Cherie Aarts Coley. "If it's down-time we need, we'll often just "color in", as opposed to drawing or painting on a blank page. But the blank page is vital for a different kind of expression; we express our mood and feelings through the colors, shapes, characters and situations we create on the page through our imagination."

World Kids Coloring Day is also a great day to check out the Wearable Art :: By Kids(TM) collection at Poloppo. We're always finding new ways to reach out to children in our own neighborhood and around the world to encourage creativity and artistic expression. Today, they'll donate 25% of all sales of their raglan T's and baby onesies to Save the Children Shop Poloppo.

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