Children and Dogs:

Educational Coloring Book and Teacher’s Guide

For your convenience we have created five Acrobat Files for the color book Project. Choose the File that best fits your need and click the highlighted and underlined file name to access the material desired:

The Complete Color Book is a total of 64 pages. The Complete Color Book Acrobat file contains a cover page, letters of recommendation, a legal waiver and disclaimer, an introduction, the actual color book pages, a teacher’s guide, enlarged cutout art, and instructions on how to use the enlarged cutout art. This project will print the materials in the order they should be reviewed and used. The best way to store these pages is in a three ring binder by using clear sheet protectors that have the side tabs with reinforced holes for the binder rings. Each page is packed with information. Do not use sheet protectors without the side tabs because punching holes in the copies will damage the printed information. This large file’s material is also available to purchase already assembled. Click here if you want to purchase The Complete Color Book pre assembled. You may find that purchasing this large amount of text will be less expensive than printing and assembling your own set. The purchased version is copied on heavy card stock paper and bound with a wire spiral binder that will last for years. The book comes in a kit with additional16-pages of the color book art on 24-pound paper, loose sheets for easy copy machine duplication.

The Color Book is a total of 20 pages in length. The Color Book Acrobat file is the best file to access the color book pages for children to color. This file consists of a cover page, legal waiver and disclaimer and the actual 16 pages of color book art. We have also included two more important pages: the “8 Rules of Safety with Stray and Loose Dogs” and the “Dog Smart Student Certificate”. This will be the most popular Acrobat file for the Children and Dogs: Educational Coloring Book and Teacher’s Guide. Parents will want to copy these pages many times for their children as they mature. Remember that coloring a page more than once will help a child remember the lessons of the page. This file’s material is also available to purchase already assembled in a kit format. Click here if you want to purchase the Color Book pages pre-assembled. The “Color Book Kit” comes with a set of four, 21- loose page “books” that contain extra art ideas.

The Teacher’s Guide is a 24-page file. The Teacher’s Guide Acrobat file contains a cover page, legal waiver and disclaimer, training introduction and the actual teacher’s guide section. The training introduction discusses how to best use the color book project and teacher’s guide. The teacher’s guide section helps to prompt the educator about basic dog behavior, dog care and other basic dog information that will educate and entertain children regarding canine companions. It is important that we do not teach children to fear dogs but to respect them. The Teacher’s Guide section is designed to do that. We recommend that any parent or educator who offers the color book art also read and teach the information in the Teacher’s Guide Acrobat file.

The Color Book Posters: Ideas and Enlarged Cutouts is a 21-page file. This Acrobat file consists of a 4-page teaching introduction on how to use the enlarged cutouts to make posters and 17 pages of enlarged color book art to make posters and puppets. This file will be popular with teachers and is highly recommended to be included in the classroom that uses the color book and teacher’s guide in its classroom. The posters are great projects for older students to make as well.

The Letters of Recommendation Acrobat file is provided so teachers can easily access formal reference letters. Such documentation may be required for approval to offer this project as an educational tool and included in their school budget. More letters may be added to this file, or in another location with the color book, as they become available


ACE of Animal Behavior wants to hear from educators. How did you use this Project? Did you witness the children learn positive lessons about how to act around, and interact with, dogs? Did they learn respect and compassion for dogs? Did they enjoy the lessons and have lots of stories of their own to share? How did you use the Project? Let us know. If you send photos please do so by snail mail. Who knows, they might be put on-line to share with the world.

Thank you for your correspondence and for using and sharing our Project.

Write to:

ACE of Animal Behavior
Color Book Comments
HC2 Box 179
Zalma, MO 63787

Or email: ACEofAB@clas.net

Please, no photos by email.

Complete Color Book (PDF)

Teacher Instructional Book (PDF)

Poster Cut Outd (PDF)