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Creating E-Books, Storybooks, and Coloring Pages

How to Use Kids Cliparts to Design and Sell E-Books, Storybooks, and Coloring Pages

Dreaming of creating your own children’s book or launching a line of printable coloring pages? With our commercial-use kids cliparts, you can easily design beautiful, engaging storybooks, e-books, and activity books that kids love—and start earning money by selling them online.

In this guide, we’ll show you step-by-step how to create and publish your own books and coloring pages using cliparts, plus tips to attract your audience and grow your creative business.

Why Kids Books and Coloring Pages Are a Great Product to Sell

Parents, teachers, and caregivers are always looking for educational and entertaining content for children. Self-published e-books, printable storybooks, and coloring pages are in high demand on platforms like Etsy, Teachers Pay Teachers, and Amazon KDP. These products are inexpensive to create, easy to sell digitally, and perfect for clipart-based designs.

Using ready-made illustrations saves you hours of time and allows you to focus on writing and layout instead of drawing.

Types of Books You Can Create with Cliparts

  • Children’s Storybooks – Add text and dialogue to illustrations featuring characters, families, animals, or school scenes.
  • Themed E-Books – Create books around emotions, holidays, learning, friendship, or bedtime routines.
  • Printable Coloring Pages – Use black-and-white outline versions of cliparts to design simple, fun pages.
  • Activity Books – Include matching games, “find the difference,” trace-the-line exercises, or cut-and-paste activities.
  • Visual ESL Story Sets – Short illustrated stories for language learning.

Step-by-Step: How to Create and Sell Books and Coloring Pages with Cliparts

  1. Choose Your Concept and Audience
    Think about who you’re writing for: toddlers, preschoolers, early readers, ESL learners, or parents looking for educational tools. Pick a theme kids can relate to—like starting school, making friends, or celebrating a birthday.
    Use our Happy Kids, Family Life, Animals, Emotions, or School cliparts to match the concept.
  2. Buy the Right Cliparts with Extended License
    Cliparts used in digital products for unlimeted resale require an extended commercial license. This gives you the freedom to include the cliparts in e-books and printable PDFs that you can legally sell any number of times.
  3. Write and Plan Your Pages
    For a storybook, draft your story page-by-page. Keep the language simple and age-appropriate. If you’re making coloring or activity books, plan each activity or illustration per page, and make sure they’re visually clear and engaging.
    Use a storyboard to map out which clipart goes on each page and how the text flows.
  4. Design Your Book or Pages
    Use design tools like Canva, PowerPoint, Adobe InDesign, or Google Slides. Insert cliparts, arrange your layout, and add text boxes. Make sure the images and text don’t crowd each other—leave white space and use large, readable fonts for children.
    For coloring pages, use black-and-white versions of the cliparts. You can simplify them or create your own scenes using multiple elements.
  5. Export and Format Your Product
    • E-books or storybooks: Save as a high-resolution PDF. You can also format for Kindle (ePub or KDP templates).
    • Coloring pages: Save as individual PDFs or bundle them together in a themed collection.
    Be sure to check print settings: use 300 DPI resolution and standard page sizes (A4 or US Letter).
  6. List Your Product for Sale Online
    Sell your books and coloring pages on platforms like:
    • Etsy (printables)
    • Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (paperback or Kindle e-books)
    • Teachers Pay Teachers (educational books)
    • Gumroad or Payhip (digital downloads)
    Write product descriptions with keywords like:
    • "Printable coloring book for preschoolers"
    • "Children’s e-book with cute clipart characters"
    • "Learn emotions through illustrated stories"
    • "Activity book for toddlers and preschool learning"
  7. Promote Your Work
    Use Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook to share your book covers, sample pages, and testimonials. Create mockups of your books being read or printed. Join storytelling, homeschooling, or educational groups to reach a niche audience.
    Hashtags to try:
    • #childrensbooks
    • #coloringpagesforkids
    • #ebookforkids
    • #preschoolprintables
    • #learnwithclipart

Tips for Success

  • Include a printable preview in your listing to show what’s inside.
  • Bundle your books with bonus materials like stickers or printable activities.
  • Keep testing different topics and styles to see what sells best.
  • Build an email list by offering a free coloring page or story sample.

Why Our Cliparts Make Publishing Easy

✔️ Wide variety of characters and themes
✔️ High-resolution and print-ready files
✔️ Includes color and outline versions
✔️ Instant download and commercial-use friendly
✔️ Perfect for Canva, PowerPoint, and other book design tools

Start Your Kids Book or Coloring Page Business Today

You don’t need to draw or print anything yourself—just choose your cliparts, plan your story or activity, and create a product that brings joy to children and parents alike. With our vector cliparts, you can build a brand of adorable, educational books that families and teachers will love.

Let’s turn your imagination into a storybook—and a steady stream of sales!

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