The websites for the free printables are not designed nicely, the illustrations are done by people whose skills aren't particularly honed, and the lesson content is pretty shallow -- even if it is for a pre-schooler. Unfortunately, even our church Sunday School coloring pages that my son brings home are pretty strange...
And then there's the whole other topic of historical accuracy of the Bible lessons we're teaching our kids. If we start off teaching our kids wrong information how should we expect them to have an intelligent faith? Why do we think its okay or do we not think its important? For example, what Christmas story coloring page would be complete without Joseph leading a very pregnant Mary on a DONKEY? Did you know that only the elite and regal owned a donkey? And an "inn" was a guest chamber in most peoples' homes... I could go on for. ev. er... this is a major problem with the way we're teaching our youngin's...
Might I need to do a better job myself? Or is there anything already out there?
Here's the top hit I got from google:
biblestoryprintables.com/
And this is a google books excerpt of a Bible story book for children that has taken too much poetical license regarding the historical accuracy of the story.

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