The Benefits and uses of a Coloring book for Kids Coloring Books and Education. Coloring books serve an important role in a child's life. As the child tries to figure out where each of the colors belongs in the outline of the depicted object the child begins to distinguish between the different colors, the color's names, and where in nature or imagination they belong. A coloring book with animals can teach a child the names of animals as well as the environment they belong in, this can be said about any of the coloring books out on the market today. A child learns best when they are having fun, giving them a coloring book and a set of crayons all but insures peace and success and the constant use of the child's imagination.