{"id":13715,"date":"2015-01-15T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T18:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapofthemonth.com\/site\/?p=13715"},"modified":"2015-03-05T10:45:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T15:45:36","slug":"color-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapofthemonth.com\/site\/color-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Coloring is a very important and fun aspect of working on your map.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colors should match the geographic details of a map when possible. Here are come suggestions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mountains &#8212; use <strong><span style=\"color: #333300;\">brown<\/span><\/strong> and <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">green<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lakes and Rivers &#8212;\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">blue<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Oceans &#8212;\u00a0shade along coastlines (see below) with <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">blue<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Deserts &#8212;\u00a0light brown, can shade with <strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">yellow<\/span><\/strong> and\/or <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">orange<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Forests, or vegetation areas &#8212; <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">green<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Divider lines between regions &#8212; <strong>a bright color, drawn with a fine line.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Roads, routes or highways &#8212;\u00a0dark colors such as <strong>Black<\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"color: #333300;\">brown<\/span><\/strong> or <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">red<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TIP: Using colored pencils is the best way to add color. Areas can be filled in completely or shaded along boundaries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mapofthemonth.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colordetail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13716\" src=\"http:\/\/mapofthemonth.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colordetail-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Map Colored In\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mapofthemonth.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colordetail-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mapofthemonth.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colordetail-500x349.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mapofthemonth.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colordetail-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.mapofthemonth.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colordetail.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coloring is a very important and fun aspect of working on your map. Colors should match the geographic details of a map when possible. Here are come suggestions: Mountains &#8212; use brown and green Lakes and Rivers &#8212;\u00a0 blue Oceans &#8212;\u00a0shade along coastlines (see below) with blue Deserts &#8212;\u00a0light brown, can shade with yellow and\/or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Color Choices - Maps for the Classroom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mapofthemonth.com\/site\/color-choices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Color Choices - Maps for the Classroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Coloring is a very important and fun aspect of working on your map. 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