Child's Gift to Grandma - Make an Easter Coloring Book as a Gift

Needed Supplies:

1. Ten pieces of white card stock paper for computer printer use.
   
2. Hole punch or three hole notebook paper punch.
   
3. Yarn.
   
4. Pin or large thumbtack
   
5. Phone book (or other surface a pin mark would not hurt)
   
6. Moms Break free printable Easter coloring sheets.
   
   

Step 1: Visit MomsBreak.com free Easter coloring book section and down free coloring book sheets Butterfly and Egg, Easter, Heart Easter Egg, Spring Bird, Easter Bunny, Chicken Bunny, Dot - To - Dot Easter Egg and Plain Easter Egg.
Sample Coloring Pages:

Step 2: Print these coloring book pages using nine of the white card stock paper.

Step 3: Have the child color the plain Easter egg as a front cover of the coloring book. Add a special note to Grandma or whom ever the coloring book will be given to for a gift.

Step 4: Have the child color the rest of the coloring book pages.

{If more than one child is doing this project, have them decorate the cover together and divide up the other eight coloring book pages. They can sign which pages they colored.}

* If you are using a three hole notebook paper punch you can skip to step 7.

{Step 5 and 6 – Pre-marking for hole making}

Step 5: Evenly stack the pages of the coloring book with the cover plain egg which now has your special message on it, on top of the stack, eight coloring page and blank back cover.

Step 6: Set the Easter coloring book down on a phone book keeping all edges even. Looking down at the book, on your left hand side, decide where you want to make the holes which the yarn will be put through to bind the book together. You will probably want to make three holes down the side but you can use any number you feel best using. * The book will probably to thick to punch ten pages at once so take the pin (or large thumbtack) and stick it through the ten pages where you want to make your holes as a way to make all the ten pages in the same spot. You will use those marks to know here to punch you paper in step 7.

Step 7: Punch the holes in each piece of the Easter coloring book.

Step 8: Stack the Easter coloring book.
Decorated Easter Egg Coloring Book Front Cover

Eight Coloring Book Pages

Plain White Card Stock Paper for Coloring Book Back Cover

Step 9: Thread the holes with yard and tie book together.

Step 10: Date the back of the Easter Coloring book for keepsake memory.