I drew a couple of Christmas Miss Zee coloring pages. Enjoy.

Here are the two latest coloring pages. I created the bald cutie today. Click the image that you want to print in order to be lead to the printing page.

I have yet to find a coloring book that has the littlest comparison to my daughter, Zee. It is so discouraging to see nothing but coloring books of characters with straight and or long, flowing hair.

I noticed that when she first started getting these coloring books, she would color the images in the same colors as what was on the cover of it. So if there was a drawing of a woman with tan-colored skin and yellow hair, that was what she would color her pages. (Children tend to reproduce what they see and I feel in the midst of it, if what they see is nothing like them, they will began to eventually wonder why there aren’t any that are similar. Then it could lead to self-esteem issues with their wondering why they’re not good enough to be on something as little as a coloring book.)

I first tried to avoid buying her images like these until I could get her examples similar to her first, but when Christmas or birthdays came around, I realized it was beyond my control. When she opens a gift from a family member that contains a coloring book with images of nothing but white princess characters, what am I supposed to do? Take it away? So rather than working against it, I worked with it; I taught her how to draw afros on her dolls (refer to the image to your left…this afro was drawn over a straight-haired Disney princess). I taught her that she didn’t have to color them the same shade as what was depicted on the covers. That helped because to this very day, she colors her characters various shades and even draws afros on some of them.

However, I don’t think that is enough.  I decided that I wanted to make her a coloring book, so today I started on one. When Zee saw the first couple of pages that I did, she was ecstatic. It’s far from finished, but I plan to surprise her with a full coloring book by Christmas.

Here are a couple of pages that you can download.   I call these “Zee dolls,” named after my daughter, Zee.  They all are made for 8.5in x 11in printing paper. Click to enlarge. Enjoy.