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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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  4. I love colouring with my mother who has dementia. Its our time together where the roles have reversed. I now help her choosing a color and praising her on a job well done. Then I get a big smile and a kiss

  5. I love sitting down around the kitchen table with my kids colouring in. I find it relaxing and I’ve been sleeping better. One great way to take my mind of my thoughts.

  6. I color with my grandchildren, who were very happy to find out that adults can color also. And if I have a bad day at work, I come home and color to unwind.

  7. My beautiful great-niece enjoys these ‘grown-up’ coloring books so much. I would love to win this one for Bella!

  8. I love coloring with the adult coloring books, and I share them with the ladies at the nursing home. They are amazed at some of the pages.. I would love to win the books so I could share them with my golden girls. Also if the are extra copies u could send them to Heritage manor Houma 1701 Polk St. Houma, La. 70360

  10. I love to color because it brings back childhood memories of peace and happiness. It’s the best way to relax and free your mind. I can color anywhere!

  11. I love to do colouring when I am travelling t the hills. I travel lights and taking a few printouts of is easy. It is healing, stress busting and a great conversation starter. I generally carry some colours or make my own colours from natural prducts wherever I am. Sometimes when the local village kids want to learn something new I take out my colouring book for them.

  13. I love to color at the kitchen table with my granddaughter. It’s a fun time together that is both creative and soothing.

  15. I have loved to color since I was old enough to hold a crayon. I colored as a child,colored with my friends,colored with my children,colored with my grandchildren and now I’m looking forward to coloring with my great granddaughter.

  16. I love coloring on a day off, especially during fall with a warm cup of tea a a great movie. It’s so relaxing!!

  17. I like to color while my kids and I are homeschooling, it keeps me interested when I’m bored with phonics and 2+2!!

  19. I like to Color on my Upper Deck, it’s peaceful. It helps when my depresssion or sense of being overwhelmed sets in. The process takes hold of my mind with the beautiful colors and lifts me out of the deep and begins to calm my mind to a rythm and a sense of control, which relaxs me and helps me get back on track. I’ve been doing this for several years and would Love some New Material to Color.

  20. I COLOR ON MY BED AT NIGHT WHILE I THINK IM WATCHING TV ITS A STRESS RELIEVER FOR ME AFTER A LONG DAY AT WORK AND IT HELPS TAKE MY MIND OFF OF STRESSFUL THOUGHTS

  22. My granddaughter (5 yrs) loves to color! When she is here we color where she wants, what she wants & the color she wants!

  24. My 91 year old Mom and I love to color. She has found it a creative outlet as she can’t do what she used to do with her hands, but coloring is great! We both relax and just enjoy…

  25. I love coloring all by myself at my desk. Its a great stress and anxiety reliever. Its one of many things I keep in my “toolbox” of coping skills. It really does help me!

  26. I have always loved to color. I was very disappointed when my one son gave it up at 3. I thought, really? I love to color when I need to calm down from something. I usually do it lying down on my couch or anti-gravity chair in the sun.

  27. Just came back from a vacation where I colored on the beach. Perfect way to sit in the sun, listen to a book or the waves and enjoy the day.

  28. I loved coloring as a child, but had forgotten about it until I read an article about Johanna Basford’s coloring book, “Enchanted Forrest.” I immediately ordered it and a pack of markers from Amazon. My mom, who has dementia and can’t see very well, saw me coloring and wanted to do it, too. I ordered her supplies, too, and now we color together in the afternoons. It’s something we can do together.

  29. I just purchased a coloring book and been enjoy coloring in my craft space while I listen to music. It is so relaxing and I like to experiment with different color combinations and colored pencil blending techniques.

  32. I love to color. I started out with photocopied mandalas & found out just how pleasurable and relaxing it was. Now my 9 yr old & myself color together all the time. It’s s good way to spend some quality te with her

  35. I sit at the dining table with my grand children. They do homework first then the reward is everyone coloring and sharing the waiver process. Relaxing and keeping the parts of my mind sharp and creating new pathways in the young minds. My most important legacy to pass on to the next generation BE CREATIVE!

  39. Oh, how I love coloring, & I’m 53. I recall from childhood, sitting w/ my grandma, cozily crowded together in her chair, sharing a coloring book. I love coloring just anywhere, especially when I have a moment of quiet/downtime on my home health care job. It’s a most relaxing & pleasant diversion and pastime. 🙂 Thanks much for the giveaway!

  40. I love to color cozied up in my bed, with its white, fluffy feather comforter! I find such peace in my place of repose! I enjoy watching color fill the emptiness of shapes and my heart is content. Color is my passion in my crisp white sanctuary. Thank you for the opportunity to win this fabulous set. Oh the joy I’d feel!!!

  41. I like heading out to my garden and sitting at my table–just me and nature! Ahh, nice and peaceful.

  42. I like to sit on my deck in the afternoon, with a large cool glass of Ice Tea. Why? These books help me to be creative. I watch the sun go down over the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Colorado. It is all so calming. When the sun goes down, my deck has great lighting.

  43. I love to color so relaxing my favorite place to color is on the porch with the sunshine for natural light

  44. I like to color as a way of meditation. I can get lost in the process and the beauty. And you can do it anywhere.

  45. Attending work phone/online meetings. It really helps focus and keep my attention on the meeting. It also keeps me from just answering one email, then another, and another….

  46. Love to color anywhere, but enjoy it most when I just need a moment to slow down. It gives me a grounded feeling!

  49. I want these really badly. Not to color with pencils, but to use the drawings for transfer to cloth and embroider! I know lots of people relax by coloring, but stitching is my serenity.

  50. I like to color in my favorite chair in front of a good movie! I color to destress from a long day that and I love to color!

Have you read?

Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

  • Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
  • NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
  • Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
  • The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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