digital downloads – Dreadlocks and the Three Bears

Easy Activity

Download the Kente Coloring Page
Color with crayons, colored pencils or watercolor pencils.
Frame your textile art or use it to make clothes for your Dreadlocks Collage Paper Doll.

You and your family can read kente cloth just like Dreadlocks and Auntie Samella did!

See the colors. Find the lines.

You will see vertical lines, horizontal lines and zigzags

See the shapes: You will see rectangles, squares and triangles. Don’t forget dots!

Now look for patterns made from colors, lines and shapes.

Now that you know how to read the fabric, you are ready to copy the fabric.
You will need:

Parents can help you fold the patterns, then use a ruler to draw lines on the folds.

Or use a ruler to draw the patterns that you see.

Congratulations! You have made your very own kente cloth coloring page.

You know what to do. Use it to make clothes for your Dreadlocks Collage Paper Doll.

Have a Dreadlocks fashion show.
Have a tea party.
Read together.

You will need scissors, pencil and/or pen, glue such as glue stick, white glue or fabric glue**.

You can use tape, paper clips, staples, velcro dots and/or sticky back squares to attach clothing to your paper doll.

Add your own beads, buttons, shells, sequins, stickers, feathers and lots of imagination, creativity and fun!

* *Hot glue guns should only be used with adult supervision.

CUT out your paper doll.
Cut out the clothing patterns.
Trace patterns on wrapping paper, wallpaper, fabric scraps to design and make lots of clothes for Dreadlocks.
Or make your own watercolor and tie-dye paper for your Dreadlocks paper doll wardrobe.
Add your own beads, buttons, shells, sequins, stickers, feathers and lots of imagination, creativity and fun!

Have a Dreadlocks fashion show.
Have a tea party.
Read together.