Lights, Camera, Color – a cool, new Crayola application
Have you bought a box of Crayola crayons for your kids lately? If so, you may have noticed a code printed inside. This is for the fun, new “Lights, Camera, Color” application at Crayola.com.
Recommended for ages 3 and up, this cool site allows kids to turn their digital photos into custom coloring pages – for free! Whether it’s photos from a family vacation, a birthday celebration or a momentous moment on the soccer field, “Lights, Camera, Color” makes kids photos one for the books – personalized, one-of-a-kind coloring books, that is. Created to bring online and offline creativity together to inspire kids to color and create in a whole new way, it’s the only application of its kind for kids.
Specially-marked Crayola crayon boxes (48, 64, 96, 120-ct. as well as the 150-ct. Crayon Tower) will include a code that lets you print custom coloring pages. Kids and moms can try out the application for free online at Crayola.com/colorme at anytime, but a code is required to print out the personalized coloring pages. Each code found in 64-count boxes and larger is good for six months of unlimited prints. The 48-count box has a code that is good for three months of unlimited prints.
I made the coloring page to the right, and can’t wait to show it to my daughter! It’s all very simple to do.
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Register on the site – Crayola.com/colorme – if you haven’t already. It only takes a few seconds. - Upload a digital photo.
- Print out your coloring page or save and send it to Coloring Page Maker to customize with fun graphics.
- Choose a background: you can choose from several including a desert, a beach, a haunted house and more.
- Add props such as a hat, mustache, wings, etc.
- Select words/phrases: “Best Friends,” “Kids Only,” “All Star” to name just a few.
- Save and print.
- Start coloring your one-of-a-kind creation!
To add to the online fun, kids can make their own creatures using their photos with the “Body Builder” tool and their own machines with the “Gizmo Gears” application. Add these crazy creations to the “Lights, Camera, Color” one-of-a-kind coloring pages and you’ve got the ultimate personalized coloring book!
Update: Here’s what I did with two of my daughters’ photos. The first one, I turned from a Halloween photo into a holiday coloring page. The second, I added some wording. Both look great, in my opinion, and my daughters loved them!
Would you like to try it out right now? I have a special one-day pass so you and your kids can experience the magic of “Lights, Camera, Color” for yourselves. Use code: PRT77F3S
Crayola sent me a Crayola 150-count Telescoping Crayon Tower that includes a “Lights, Camera, Color” code for six-months of unlimited prints so that I we could try out the service. They are also offering an additional Crayon Tower to one of my readers so you, too, can try the program! This is valued at $17.99 and is such a convenient way to store crayons. It opens up into 3 tiers, and comes with 118 regular crayons, 16 metallic FX crayons, and 16 glitter crayons, and collapses easily for storage.
To enter, please leave a comment telling me about one of your favorite photos that you’d love to turn into a coloring page for your kids!
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Contest ends: November 30th, 2009 11:59 pm EST. US entries only. Leave a separate comment for each entry & a valid email address/blog URL. Winner, chosen at random, has 3 days to claim their prize.
Crayola provided me with a telescoping crayon tower for myself, as well as one for giveaway, through a program for MyBlogSpark. No other compensation was received for this post.
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For us it would be our family photo from the beach this summer.
Thank you so much for the chance to win.
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we always take a christmas picture of the girls
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Just about any photo from the zoo. They are my daughters favorites.
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I have a beautiful photo of all three kids on horses that I would love to see as something they could color.
Picture of my pet. Thanks!
One of our Disneyland photos!
I would love to have the picture of my daughter holding my son when he was first born turned into a coloring page. Thanks!
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My favorite picture of my kids is of my two older boys on Halloween a few years ago dressed as skunks.
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I make the boys dress in red and make a pile of leaves make they jump and take a picture.
I’d love to turn our wedding photo into a coloring page
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I would turn the kids school Photos into a coloring page for the scrapbook
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A picture of my 2 girls on our swing set out back
A pic of my kids together.
I have a beautiful picture of my 3 nieces sitting on the branch of a huge oak tree by the lakefront that I would love to have made into a coloring page.
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I would make some of my daughter cheering.
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picture of my neice and newphew ty
A picture I took 2 yrs ago of the huge Christmas tree at Hershey Park
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A picture of the entire extended family during a family reunion.
I like the photo of my grandson in his Halloween costume
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I have a photo of our dog by the bird bath that would be an awesome photo for this project.
I would print the pics. of kids at the pumpkin patch.
I’m thinking the family photo we took on Thanksgiving Day would work well! Thanks for the chance to win.
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I would love to turn my wedding photo into a coloring page for my daughter.
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My daughter at Disneyland. Thanks for the chance.
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I have a picture of the whole family smiling and looking nice. It’s rare to get a picture of all of us where not one of us is looking away or not smiling, so that would be the one.
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This is great – have wanted to get it for my 6 year old for christmas!
She would love to color any of the pictures we took at this year’s Disney trip… so fun!
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One of our two pups would be awesome!