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Your Kids (and You!) Will Love These FREE Printable Coloring Pages by 5 of DC’s Coolest Artists

Download these super sweet scenes for hours of Crayola-ing.

Your Kids (and You!) Will Love These FREE Printable Coloring Pages by 5 of DC’s Coolest Artists
Artwork courtesy of Shyama Kuver.

It’s easy to spend a small fortune on coloring books to amuse your kids (or yourself). We wanted to save you some money that could otherwise be spent on on a summertime getaway, so we reached out to five of our favorite DC artists and asked them to create custom coloring pages for us to give away.

Download them all here or one at a time below.

We hope you enjoy being creative with these charming vignettes. And we’d love to see what you come up with! Please tag @washingtonianmag on Instagram so we can all admire your work.

Artwork courtesy of Samyuktha Krishna.

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Artwork courtesy of Nora Simon.

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Artwork courtesy of Julia Chon.

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Artwork courtesy of Shyama Kuver.

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Artwork courtesy of Tracie Ching.

 

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Parenting writer

Nevin Martell is a parenting, food, and travel writer whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, Saveur, Men’s Journal, Fortune, Travel + Leisure, Runner’s World, and many other publications. He is author of eight books, including It’s So Good: 100 Real Food Recipes for Kids, Red Truck Bakery Cookbook: Gold-Standard Recipes from America’s Favorite Rural Bakery, and the small-press smash Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip. When he isn’t working, he loves spending time with his wife and their six-year-old son, who already runs faster than he does.