Hummingbird Coloring Sheets and Facts

Hummingbird Coloring Sheets and Facts
Hummingbirds are amazing creatures, aren't they? I think so, and I've found a wonderful hummingbird coloring sheet at FreePrintableOnline.com. It's perfect for using in the classroom or at home to teach children about these amazing little creatures. You can find this coloring sheet and many more in the coloring sheets section on the site. So, print out the humming bird coloring sheets to hand out to your students, and use these facts to teach them about the birds while they color.

Facts About Hummingbirds

1. Hummingbirds are the smallest birds in existence today.
2. Baby hummingbirds are unable to fly and must stay in the nest with their mother for three weeks before they can leave it.
3. The brightly colored feathers on the hummingbird's neck is called a Gorget.
4. Hummingbirds can see and hear better than humans can. However, they do not have a sense of smell.
5. The hummingbird has a grooved tongue that makes it look like a 'W' shape. It uses this tongue to lap nectar out of flowers while feeding. 
6. This little bird's heart beats 1,260 times per minute! Its metabolism is about 100 times greater than that of an elephant.
7. Hummingbirds have small, delicate feet that are rather weak. They prefer to fly instead of walk.
8. Female hummingbirds are larger than the male hummingbirds, and babies are usually smaller than pennies.
9.  On average, hummingbirds only live about five years, but many die within the first year. However, some have been known to live up to 10 years in the wild.
10. The wings of a hummingbird beat 70-200 times per second, depending on what they're doing. Unlike other birds, the hummingbird's wings rotate in a full circle.
11. Hummingbirds can fly up to 30 miles per hour, but can travel up to 60 miles per hour when diving.They travel up to 4,000 miles each year!
12. Their eating habits are quite unusual. They feed, on average, seven times per hour for 30-60 seconds each time. Talk about a sweet tooth!
13. Hummingbirds sleep at night in a metabolic state called torpor. This is similar metabolically to the hibernation modes of many mammals.
14. These birds are native to North and South America. These are the only continents on which the birds occur naturally, though they are found on other continents now due to importing. 
15. The smallest hummingbird is the Bee hummingbird, and the largest is the Giant hummingbird. There are more than 350 different species.

Now you're all set to present some fun facts to your students along with their coloring sheets. Parents can complete this activity at home, too, along with showing your children some videos of hummingbirds in flight, feeding and diving. YouTube is a great resource for these types of videos.

Get Ready for Fall with Free Printable Halloween Coloring Pages

Free Printable Halloween Coloring Pages for Classroom Use

Teachers, have you noticed how autumn-like the weather has been in many locations lately? Fall is in the air, and school is back in session. The newness of the school year may have worn off already, but students are already looking forward to all the holidays that will be coming up. With Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas not too far away, students will be giddy with excitement as each holiday approaches. Rather than trying to stifle the excitement, you may as well embrace it! We have a number of free printable coloring pages that can help your students work off some of their creative energies. Coloring is an excellent way to engage different parts of the brain. This creative time gives children a chance to focus, to express and to be excited during the school day. We have coloring pages for major holidays, for favorite children's characters, animal, and general coloring sheets.

Fun and Spooky Free Printable Halloween Coloring Pages

Parents, have your kids began getting ready for Halloween by picking out their costumes yet? The holiday isn't far away, so the time to start thinking about costumes and treats is now! Get your child in the mood to make a costume decision by letting him or her color some of our best free printable Halloween coloring pages. Our sheets feature spooky, fun and silly figures like Jack-o-Lanterns, scarecrows, haunted houses and children dressed up in costumes. None will be scary for your children, though, so you can rest assured that they will enjoy these fun and whimsical coloring sheets. Each sheet is a clear black and white image that's easy for children to color. Coloring is such a useful skill, especially for younger children. It helps them to learn how to stay within the boundaries, it challenges them to observe the world around them, and it also encourages them to think outside the conventional box. Above all, coloring is fun!

Get in the Halloween Spirit with Free Printable Coloring Pages

There are few things that are as exciting as a child as choosing your costume for Halloween. It's so difficult to narrow just one down, especially for creative children who want to try all kinds of different possibilities. Try creating a unique, homemade costume for an experience unlike any other. While you're all thinking up costume ideas, color this fun Halloween kids coloring page! The image features two children; one is dressed up as a witch and the other as a ghost. A bat flies above the pair. It's an adorable picture with clear, clean lines that's perfect for both younger kids and older ones to color. You don't have to use crayons, either. If your child would rather use colored pencils, markers or even paint to complete the picture, that's great! Using a variety of different media can help them get the creative juices flowing.

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With our large site collection of printable coloring pages, it's like you have your own virtual library, right at your fingertips. Combined with printable kids crafts, activities including projects for holidays, educational themes and some of your children's favorite cartoon characters, we have all that you are searching for to keep them occupied. The best part of our site is that our entire collection can be downloaded at no charge, totally free.

We've got coloring pages for kids of all age range including; preschool, kindergarten and grade school level. Choose from our diverse categories like cartoon coloring pages, Disney coloring pages to animal coloring sheets, everything your kids want to color you will find it here! Choose between the best printable coloring pages of your choice and make your own coloring book for kids. Your kids will have hours of coloring fun!

But the fun does not end there, you will note that browsing the site will be more rewarding than anything else. For instance, we have collected the best animal themed pages that are available online. Be sure to look at all our entries, kids can also use these coloring pages in school projects. In our animal section you will find pages from Birds, Bunnies, Bats, Cats, Dinosaurs, Dolphins, Elephants, Penguins, Tigers, Sharks and many more. And they are easy to print in just a few clicks.

Don't forget the many cartoon coloring sheets that exist in our virtual library. Your kids will love drawing and coloring these pages for hours. Choose from characters such as SpongeBob, Pluto, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, Batman, Superman, and Princesses. 

If you want to make the activity a little more engaging then not to worry, we also have a variety of educational coloring pages to help your kids in areas of Math and English. We have pages with the Alphabet, shapes, Environment, Fruits & Veggies, Animal numbers and counting. 

If that is not enough, then you will love these coloring pages that feature your favorite holidays and seasons. Your kids are bound to enjoy the holidays a little bit more whilst you in the kitchen preparing a meal. Holidays themes include Halloween, Christmas, Mother's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and many others. 

FreePrintableOnline.com is your ultimate portal when it comes to printable activities and pages. We offer parents, teachers and children from all over the world thousands of free children activities. Enjoy your stay, browse through our site and happy printing. Feel free to explore hundreds of original, high quality pages by browsing our site. But despite having such a large library, we excel on keeping as your number one printable provider as we constantly keep updating our site making it even large and exceed your expectations. There will always be something new and original for all the age ranges. 

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