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May 3, 2024
FREE Columbus Day Coloring Pages & Writing Prompt Worksheets

FREE Columbus Day Coloring Pages & Writing Prompt Worksheets

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Celebrate Columbus Day on Monday, October 12th with these super cute, free  Columbus Day Printables. We’ve included both simple Columbus day coloring pages for toddler, preschool, pre k, and kindergarten age children AND Columbus day writing prompt pages for first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade and 6th grade students to practice creative writing exploring themes from this famous explorer who discovered the Americas.
Celebrate Columbus Day on Monday, October 12th with these super cute, free  Columbus Day Printables. We've included both simple Columbus day coloring pages for toddler, preschool, pre k, and kindergarten age children AND Columbus day writing prompt pages for first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade and 6th grade students to practice creative writing exploring themes from this famous explorer who discovered the Americas.

Columbus Day Printables

Columbus Day is a holiday celebrated in many countries in the Americas, celebrating Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World in 1492. Columbus was born in Italy, dreamed of sailing on a ship, and eventually moved to Portugal and worked in a shop selling maps. He even sailed on a ship that was sunk by pirates at one point. Columbus asked the King and Queen of Spain to finance his trip as he  tried to find a shortcut going west to get to the valued silks and spices in the east.  After a 2 month journey on their three ships: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria – they spotted land in what they assumed was the Indies. In actuality, they found the New World and had landed in an island off the cost of Florida they named San Salvador.  These Columbus Day Printables help children recall what they know about Columbus and practice writing too.

Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love these handy resources to use with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, and grade 6 students.

No one wanted to sponsor Columbus' voyage except King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain   In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue

Columbus Day Coloring Pages

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text  link that says >> _____ <<. The pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the pages in the template. Print the black and white pages (to save you on ink costs) you’d like to use on plain printer paper and you are ready for this no prep Columbus day activity for kids!

These simple coloring sheets contain images that remind us of Christopher Columbus’ voyage and the vocabulary word at the bottom for children to trace:
Columbus found the New World   free columbus day coloring pages

Christopher Columbus Pictures to Color

Decorating these Columbus coloring pages is not only a fun way to celebrate this holiday and learn about some American history, but it is a great way for young learners to strengthen their hand muscles so they are ready to move on to writing words.
Children can colour their Columbus day coloring picture with crayons, markers, colored, pencils, or any other craft material they like to use.
There were indigenous people already living in the Americas who greeted Christopher Columbus warmly Columbus sailed on the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria ships. THink about what it was like and what it will mean in history with these free writing prompts

Columbus Day Writing Prompts

The creative writing prompts contain a black & white illustration your child can color as well as a writing prompt to encourage them to thing and express themselves in writing.  It is important for elementary age children to get lots of practice forming sentences, using correct capitalization & spelling, spelling words correctly, and learning to express their thoughts and ideas in paragraphs.  The pages include ruled lines to help young writers who need the guidance.

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Dive into American History with these fun, hands-on and engaging homeschool history include not only clever activities to make history fun and memorable, but FREE printable worksheets and games too!
  • Native Americans for Kids – explore various tribes as you create free printable book, make PVC tent, totem poles, Indian fry bread, husk dolls, recreate an archeological dig with arrow heads, and more!
  • Colonial America for Kids takes kids on a journey back to the first settlers in America – eat Gruel, make a Wattle & Daub house, create a tin lantern, write with a quill, make simple Johnny Cakes, make you own marbles, create traditional silhouette art projects, and more.
  • American Revolution for Kids.  In 4 units your students will learn what events lead up to the American Revolution and famous figures will making dragon pistols, roll their own cartridges, working spy cipher, cold feet activity.
  • What was the Westward Expanion?  History comes alive as they learn about the Oregon trail, pony express, gold rush, transcontinental railroad, and more with printables and activities like making a covered wagon, homemade crackers, how to square dance, pan for gold, and make a railroad project.
  • Civil War for Kids We have recommendations for mapping and visiting famous battle sights nearby, printable civil war board game, make an informative emergent reader, create a flip book or people students should know, and complete some free printable Civil War worksheets.
  • Printable 1950s for Kids printable book to color, read, and learn about life in America during the 50s
  • Learn about US States for Kids – state coloring pages, president coloring pages, state report forms, states and capital printables, and so much more!

Help children learn about those that do essential jobs in our cities, state, and neighborhoods with these super cute and fun to color community helpers coloring pages. Just print the free coloring pages and have fun using crayons to colour firefighters, garbage collectors, doctors, farmer, police officers, and more! These are such a fun kids activity for toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, and first grade students.  free-farm-coloring-pages FREE Jungle Animal Coloring Pages - super cute, free printable, simple coloring pages for toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade students. Color simple sheets filled with zoo animals like parrot, sloth, butterfly, ibis, crocodile, tiger, elephant, monkey, poinson dart frog, chameleon and more.

Simple Coloring Pages

If you are looking for even more free printable, simple coloring pages for kids, you will love these resources:

FREE Columbus Day Writing Prompts & Coloring Sheets

Christopher Columbus Worksheets

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Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables – www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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    April

    Thank you so much for these resources on Columbus. It’s been hard to find something neutral for the age group I teach at home.

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