If you’re looking for an offline activity that you can recommend to parents for their students to do at home, take a look at the New York Academy of Medicine’s Color Our Collections website. The site contains contributions from more than one hundred museums and libraries around the world. The participating museums and libraries offered of up PDFs of black and white drawings that visitors can print and then color. In other words, Color Our Collections is a huge collection of historical coloring book pages.

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Color Our Collections offers coloring pages covering a wide range of topics and themes. The Getty contributions feature animals, the contribution from the Library of Virginia covers the topic of Women’s Suffrage, and Brunel University’s collection features trains. Contributions from some museums and libraries cover topics in medicine. Because of the wide range of topics in the collection I’d recommend either curating a collection from the collection to send home or advising parents to pick and print from the website rather than sending students directly to the website.