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title: 765 – Christmas Coloring
description: ‘Tis the WELSTech Christmas season! Join us for a giveaway announcement that involves the good news of Christmas, coloring books, and AI. You could win a fun WELS item while you exercise your AI skills. Christmas concerts, anniversary offerings, travel apps, managing your smart home, and free EDU GPT round out this episode. Let’s goooo! […]
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# [765 – Christmas Coloring](https://welstech.wels.org/2025/12/11/765-christmas-coloring)

 Written by [Sallie Draper](https://welstech.wels.org/author/sallie-draper) | Dec 11, 2025 9:34:34 AM

‘Tis the WELSTech Christmas season! Join us for a giveaway announcement that involves the good news of Christmas, coloring books, and AI. You could win a fun WELS item while you exercise your AI skills. Christmas concerts, anniversary offerings, travel apps, managing your smart home, and free EDU GPT round out this episode. Let’s goooo!

[https://welstech.blob.core.windows.net/audio/WELSTech_Episode_765.mp3](https://welstech.blob.core.windows.net/audio/WELSTech_Episode_765.mp3)

Podcast: [Download](https://welstech.blob.core.windows.net/audio/WELSTech_Episode_765.mp3) (Duration: 25:13 — 23.1MB)

### The discussion

Celebrating in color – Martin and Sallie are collocated, Christmas-color coordinated, and collaborating on a coloring project. Everyone is invited to participate in an AI experiment, creating Christmas-related coloring pages which we’ll compile into a sharable book. Send your entries to [welstech@wels.net](mailto:welstech@wels.net), and we’ll choose a random contributor to receive some sweet WELS swag!

Try this prompt:

> A black and white coloring page for kids of *[YOUR TOPIC]*, thick lines, white background, no shading, no grey scale, simple vector style.

- [Microsoft Designer](https://designer.microsoft.com/)
- [Adobe Express Coloring Page Generator](https://www.adobe.com/express/create/ai/worksheet/kid)
- [ColorBliss.art](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://colorbliss.art/)
- [Crayola Color Camera](https://www.crayola.com/create/custom-coloring-page)

### Ministry resource

- WELS Christmas Concert details – [wels.net/events](https://wels.net/events)
- [WELS 175th Anniversary](https://welshistoricalinstitute.org/175th/) – [Special Offering](https://welshistoricalinstitute.org/175th-offering/)

### Picks of the week

- [iExit](https://www.iexitapp.com/)
- [Hubitat](https://hubitat.com/)

### Community feedback

[Chat GPT is free for teachers until June 2027](https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-teachers/)

- [Learn more from Tom’s Guide](https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt-is-now-free-for-teachers-7-powerful-ways-to-use-it-in-your-classroom)

### Next time

Melanie Giddings, Curriculum Coordinator from the Lutheran Schools office, shares details on this important work.

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