Coloring Pages and Placemats for the Kids’ Table

Coloring Placemats

Now, who wants to sit at the kids’ table?

Everybody is going to want to be at the kid’s table with printable coloring pages and placemats, plenty of crayons and markers, and the pure joy of coloring.

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Holiday dinners, school activities, birthdays, or maybe just for the fun of it on a random Wednesday afternoon. Print these coloring placemats in 8.5 x 11 or 11 x 17. Find them in my Etsy shop. Available for Easter, Cinco de Mayo, National Pi Day, St. Patrick’s Day, and Earth Day.

I remember sitting at the kids’ table. When I was growing up a large holiday family gathering required more than one table. The extra leaves were put in the dining room table. Extra chairs were commandeered for dining-table duty. The chairs from the kitchen dinette, the chairs from the boys’ room desks.

Then the card table was set up for the kid’s table. There were usually at least 6 kids at this table. The oldest of the siblings and cousins got to sit at the adult table. The younger kids were seated at the kids’ table.

Boredom and bad behavior

We were required to be on our best behavior for the entire affair. I can’t recall a single year when that actually happened. Fiddling, whining, tantrums. And that was coming from the grown-ups table. Asking the kids to corral their boundless energy for a seemingly endless period of time was contrary to the whole ‘Happy Holiday’ spirit of the day.

Printable coloring pages or placemats and lots of crayons are a perfect antidote to boredom no matter the occasion. Holiday dinners, birthday parties, anytime you expect kids to sit still for a long period of time. Give them something fun to do, keep them occupied at the table with a minimum of fuss.

You’ll be recognized as the genius that you are for providing this brilliant solution to keeping the kids happy for the duration of a big family gathering.