Coloring a Photo

A great suggestion from the Rundown on taking a coloring page and making it more personal:

“For my Dad’s birthday, I took a cute picture of my almost 2-year-old son and my dad in a canoe together, and had AI convert it into a coloring page. I started with ChatGPT (free account) to engineer the prompt, then moved over to Gemini to use Nano Banana for image generation to create the coloring page.
After a couple of back-and-forth iterations, I had something perfect. Simple bold lines, but the faces were still recognizable! Printed it out and had my toddler go to town on it with his crayons. My dad loved the simple gift, and my whole family was impressed with the result, saying, ‘Wait, how did you do that?’ A very cute way for little ones to give special gifts to grandparents and family members.”

So I uploaded a photo of myself to Nano Banana and gave it real basic instructions: “can you make this photograph a black and white coloring page (simple)?”

So some quick ideas:

  • Father’s Day or Mother’s Day cards!
  • First day of school quick art project; photo of each kid –> coloring page from their first day of school
  • Thank You cards from, of, and by your class!

Leave a Reply

Discover more from On Catholic Ed and the World of a Principal

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading