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Free Adult Coloring Book Giveaway

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Are you obsessed with the new adult craze of coloring in? For me coloring in has always been something I never grew out of.

Adults are falling in love with coloring all over again! Put down your iPhone, break out your Colored Pencils, and de-stress your mind with TROPICAL WORLD (Lark Crafts, September 2015), Millie Marotta’s beautiful follow up to Animal Kingdom.

Add bright and brilliant colors to exotic blooms or parrot’s feathers. Complete a rainforest scene, add fine lines to palm trees, create new patterns, or use your creativity to personalize illustrations. TROPICAL WORLD offers a fun and creative way to relieve tension!

Adult coloring books are hot, and have been taking the world by storm. Animal Kingdom has been translated into 30 languages, and there are currently over 3 million copies of TROPICAL WORLD and Animal Kingdom in print worldwide!

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We are giving 1 lucky Craftgossip.com reader the chance to win a coloring in book set from Sterling Publishing.

The set contains a copy of A Tropical World and Animal Kingdom.

For your chance to win comment below and tell us where you like to color and why.

US Address’s only please Competition Closes on the 8th of October

The Winner has been selected and notified.

 

Comments

  2. I like to color at my kitchen table right alongside my kids. It’s a fun time for us, and we all share our progress as we go!

  5. Love to color on the floor or in my bed, helps relieve my anxiety. I get severe panic attacka, but normally I just color on some of my daughter’s coloring books, really been wanting to try an adult one.

  7. I like to color because it keeps me from going insane. I feel like now that I am back doing art, I have found myself. Coloring pages are a quick easy way to relax and feel whole again.

  10. I love coloring on the placemats when we go out to eat! I always say yes to the crayons even when my kids aren’t into it!

  11. A few years ago Mom and I were at a $ store. Browsing around we spotted their coloring books; she choose the Knights of the Round Table, I chose Superman! We had a great afternoon. Perfect relaxation for a guy in his 50s and woman in her 80s, right?

  12. I like to color when I am sitting in my garden because it relaxes me. Just give me pencils or paint and I like to spend time drawing and using color to enhance my work.

  13. I enjoy coloring at my table facing the woods in the backyard. I love to try different colors together. I leave my book open and enjoy looking at it as I walk by doing my daily work.

  14. I love to color with my kids. It really is a nice stress reliever and helps me to feel young again. We bring our coloring stuff everywhere we go, but my favorite spot is at home.

  15. I color when I am in a business trip. I like to use the writing desk often found in a hotel room and the de-stress from the day being in client site.

  19. Love coloring with my Grangirlie’s…but also all by myself…on porch swing, or in by Woodburner in Winter! lol….and on the couch!

  20. I haven’t tried an adult coloring book yet, but I would color in my bedroom because it’s quiet.

  21. I like coloring during long meetings at work. It helps me focus on the information being delivered or discussed. And the results are so much prettier than doodling!

  23. I love to color at home so I have all my pencils and markers available. I have quite the collection! But I do take coloring with me on all my travels with a set of watercolor pencils and Flairs. Most recently I colored in a Manor House hotel lobby in Scotland, while attending the Open Championship.

  25. I’ve been coloring long before started being a fad, it must be 10 years now. But I’m glad so many people are finding it fun again. Would love to have this beautiful book, thank you for a consideration.

  26. I like coloring with my son…but I would love to have adult coloring books that I could do on my own. I know someone who colors at work for stress relief.

  29. I have a table in my sewing room that I love to sit at and color with my granddaughter. thank you for a chance to win a lovely coloring book. Oh, and I just bought one for my 93 year old mother.

  32. I’m an artist and work in Polymer Clay. I like to color first, to get my contrast and colors right, before I paint or make it in clay! I’m disabled, so my place to color is limited. But out side is my choice! I love to create!

  33. I have to color on the living room floor because my dog will not leave me alone until I throw his toy. He evens moves my pencil! 🙂

  34. I color in my living room, dining room, porch, car, I literally can find a place to color anywhere, (with the exception of the shower!) even in my sleep! Lol I live 800 miles away from everyone I know & love, & coloring keeps my mind & heart from wandering home…

Have you read?

Fine Motor Task Cards for Kids

I don’t know why Pinterest just suddenly decided I needed to see all the content about task cards and task boxes for kids, but these ideas are great for the classroom to keep in centers or have on hand for early finishers. You can also use them at home as quiet bags or boxes for kids to use when younger siblings might be sleeping, or in the car for a non-screen activity. 

Let’s take a look at some fine motor skill task cards and how you can use them to teach kids skills while they play. 

Pre-K Pages has a nice set of playdough task cards you can use in boxes or bags with a little tray (or they can just work on the table if they are sitting at a table). Working with clay or play dough is a great fine motor skill exercise, or you can add these to your playdough center if you have one to give them a little bit of direction while they work. 

Teaching Mama has a bunch of great ideas for fine motor task boxes, from practicing working a glue bottle to threading beads, using clothespins or scissors, dropping water, finger painting and more. There’s a free printable that shows all the task options she talks through in the post if you want to make your own little boxes, or just keep these ideas on hand when you’re ready to add some fine motor fun to your days. 

One of the ideas she mentions in that post is working with a hole punch, and Early Learning Ideas has a whole bunch (the urge to write “hole bunch” is strong) of ideas for printables that help kids practice hole punching, whether it’s a strip with circles on it for them to punch or pictures that include circles for punching, these ideas make it a little more fun to practice this important skill.

My Happy Place Teaching has a whole post about using fine motor task boxes in kindergarten, and her paid resource includes more than 100 task ideas with printables. But if you don’t need 100 boxes you can still get some good ideas from this post about different tasks to include and why and when you can use them. She also mentions using them in the morning while you’re busy with kids coming in at different times, which is a great idea. 

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