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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?

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Tips for Teaching the Alphabet to Kids

If you have a little one learning their letters at home or at school, it can be helpful to know a bit about the science that goes into learning your letters and how the experts teach letter recognition.

Knowing the alphabet is the basis for learning how to read, so it’s important to get it down. Kids need to know the differences between letters, to be able to recognize their shapes and to know what sounds the letters make individually before they can start combining them in words. 

Proud to Be Primary suggests starting with letters that are meaningful to the child such as the letters in their name. Tracing letters and doing letter matching and other games with letters are great ways to start kids on the road to recognizing letters. Then things like alphabet songs, books and picture cards can be added in to help with phonics and the basics of reading. 

This Crafty Mom talks about using the Carnine method for teaching letter recognition, which starts with all lowercase letters and separates letters that look similar to each other (like b and d, or c and e). This makes a lot of sense because it’s not as confusing, and you can learn alphabetical order later. 

How Wee Learn uses a slightly different order but the idea is the same, though she also would start with the letters in a child’s name, then go on with the rest of them. This post includes more fun games for letter recognition including digging up letters and taping letters on the floor for kids to throw paper airplanes on. 

Looking for more fun ways to learn the alphabet and letter recognition? This Kaboom game from The Many Little Joys is easy to make, fun for little kids, and once you’ve used it to learn letters you can make a new version for sight words, numbers, basic math problems and more.

Early Learning Ideas has tons of letter activities including collages, crafts, tactile letter cards, letter recognition activities and much more. Do one letter a day or a week and your kiddos will know their letters in no time. And be sure to grab these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs, which give kids easy activities for recognizing letters and words that begin with them. 

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