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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.

 

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  1. I color in my kitchen/living room. I like to color, and have for years, because it is a form of meditation and I am already diagnosed with chronic clinical depression. Anything that relaxes me is welcome. I have a combined set of pencils that just about fills a 4″x5″ container. I have tested each pencil to make sure the colors are different even when the name of the color on the pencil is the same.

  4. I have Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis and started coloring as a way to be creative when my joints hurt and limit my abilities to function. I am recovering from a broken ankle and coloring helps me feel calm as I heal.

  5. My husband & I are retired and have recently started enjoying this adult coloring trend. At first it was just myself but was amazed to find he enjoys it also. As we are snow birds traveling in an RV we color when the weather keeps us inside, while we are watching TV in the evenings, and while we are relaxing the mornings.

  7. I like to color w/ pencils or markers whenever I’m waiting somewhere to pass the time productively and calmly: @ the salon, doctors’ offices, meeting, an athletic event or concert.

  9. I love to color after a day of work, to relax. I let my mind wander and that de-stresses me. It’s almost like meditating!

  10. I’d love one of these because it would help me unwind from a stressful day of work and family activities.

  12. I love to color while passing the time waiting for appointments or while watching TV. It’s very relaxing!

  13. I like to color while watching tv. I use the commercial time to be creative. Thank you for the opportunity to enter your drawing.

  17. I just recently got into the adult coloring and love it. I loved coloring when I was younger and unfortunately no grandchildren yet to color with. I found it to be relaxing and you are creating a beautiful picture at the same time. You can do it anywhere. Highly recommend it to everybody.

  18. I color anywhere and everywhere. I use it to relieve stress. I even have a stash of coloring books in my office for students to use if they need to relieve stress. They have the option of taking the pages or leaving them with me. I use the ones they leave for office decorations. A little unorthodox for a college campus, but that’s my style. 🙂

  19. I like to color to relax and/or relieve stress. My favorite place to color is in my seldom-used living room…it’s a quiet place (away from the television) and has the best natural light.

  21. I like to color especially at times when I am feeling stressed or anxious as it really helps to relax me.

  22. At the kitchen table of course. The lighting is good, the family is there and it’s in the center of all things good. The grandkids love to color along with me and even my husbands joins in.

  23. I like to color in my living room because it’s the brightest roomin my house. I color because it relaxing.

  26. I love to color in my backyard. We moved this summer and it is the first time in 15 years I have had my own private outdoor space. Coloring is so relaxing and keeps my brain busy in a creative way. I love to create.

  27. Love to color on the weekends, listening to the radio, while its raining. Ha, really any time I have free I love to color.

  29. I love to color in our playroom with my two “monsters” – ages 4 & 6. It’s relaxing, it’s something we all enjoy, and my son and daughter think that it’s awesome Mommy Iikes an activity that’s “just for little kids”! 😀

  31. My daughter and i color together every night before she goes to bed. After her twin brother and sister go to sleep very much bonding time for us.

  34. I have always loved colofing. That was one of my most prized christmas present when I was a kid. I always got a big fat coloring book and crayons that wouldlast for a year. Still find myself coloring to this day.

  36. I like to color in my rocking chair next to the window, with my dog at my feet, and a nice hot mug of tea on the table. It is my relaxing time, especially after a difficult day. (I’m a Crisis Counselor.)

  37. I have been coloring for years! I have always loved coloring, and will color till my time’s up. I color at home, in the car, anywhere I can. Great stress relief.

  39. Crayons, colored pencils, markers! Oh my! I love to color with our neighbor kids here in ALBANIA. I love it because it gives us all a chance to be creative. Nothing beats time spent with children and a box of crayons!

  40. We have a sun room at work where my groups color. They can chit chat as they color and it eases their minds. I color everywhere. Doesn’t matter to me where you color but the effects of coloring are very comforting.

  41. I haven’t colored since I was a young mother, too long ago to mention. But I would like to color by myself in my craft room to relax and enjoy the process.

  42. I love to color with my great grand daughter who is 3 and make beautiful pictures together. Wanting to get her mother back into it so she can relax too and color her troubles away. Doing any craft helps me to relax and takes away all troubles.

  44. I love to color with my 5 year old grandson. We color at the doctors office, restaurants, home and anywhere else we find ourselves with time to indulge.

  45. Coloring is good inner therapy. When you are coloring you are concentrating on coloring and your mind is distracted momentarily from life’s worries. I usually color when I’m with my girls, we color together.

  48. I am a Senior Caregiver and coloring is very relaxing for me. I often color at the clients home while they are sleeping. A wonderful, quiet way to pass the time!

  50. I haven’t started coloring again, yet, but I always loved it and can’t wait to get a book and give it a shot. Who can’t use some stress relief, right?

Have you read?

Book Review: Hanukkah

If you want to teach kids the basics of Hanukkah in the classroom or at home, the picture book Hanukkah by Lesléa Newman and illustrated by Rotem Teplow is a nice place to start.

The book explores the Jewish holiday through the eyes of Lior, a boy whose name means “my light” in Hebrew, which is appropriate for talking about the Festival of Lights.

The book goes through all the preparations the family does, including cleaning, setting the table and cleaning the menorah. It talks about what the menorah symbolizes and the Hanukkah story of the oil in the Holy Temple of Jerusalem lasting for eight days when it should have only been a one-day supply.

The meaning of the letters on the dreidel are also explored, in that when you are in Israel they have a different fourth word (the letters symbolize the Hebrew letters for “a great miracle happened there” or, in Israel, “a great miracle happened here”).

Because the story of Hanukkah involves oil, a lot of the foods that are eaten during the celebration are fried in oil, such as latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (fried jelly doughnuts). Other foods mentioned include challah, noodle kugel and sour cream and applesauce, which are served with the latkes. Family and friends drop by to share their food, light their menorahs together and play dreidel (the game is explained in the story). It also talks about how the candles are lit through the eight days and what happens at the end of Hanukkah.

The book includes Hanukkah blessings in English and Hebrew and talks about the lunar cycle of the Hebrew calendar, which is why Hanukkah is sometimes celebrated in November and sometimes in December. It also talks about why Jewish holidays are celebrated beginning at sunset rather than in the morning.

Other topics covered include Hanukkah greetings; how to spell Hanukkah; how to make an edible menorah and an tzedakah box (to collect money for charity); recipes for latkes and applesauce; and a more detailed story of Hanukkah than is included within the story of the book. There’s also a quiz to see how well you were paying attention.

This sweet little book is a quick read and a cute overview of the basics of Hanukkah and what the symbols, foods and games mean. It’s a great book for classrooms or at home for sharing basic knowledge.

About the book: 48 pages, hardcover. Published 2024 by words & pictures, suggested retail price $14.99.

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