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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?

10 Quiet Thanksgiving Table Activities for Kids Using Simple Supplies

There’s a particular stretch of time at a family celebration when dinner is nearly ready, everyone smells something delicious, and the children have asked when they can eat approximately seventeen times. That’s when a little pile of paper and crayons starts looking like excellent planning.

I love a beautifully set holiday table, but I also think there’s room for a turkey with purple feathers and a slightly wonky handmade place card. Giving children something to create makes them part of the occasion, rather than leaving them waiting for the grown-ups to finish all the interesting bits.

These quiet Thanksgiving table activities for kids use simple supplies such as printer paper, crayons, pencils, coloured paper and glue sticks. There are Thanksgiving printables for children who enjoy puzzles, easy turkey crafts for little makers, and gentle gratitude activities that don’t require anyone to give a speech in front of the whole family.

Quiet doesn’t have to mean completely silent, of course. A little conversation between cousins is part of the fun. The idea is to offer screen-free Thanksgiving activities that children can enjoy while seated, without noisy toys, running games or a craft project that takes over the dining room.

Choose two or three activities that suit your guests rather than setting out everything at once. Younger children may prefer colouring and ready-cut paper pieces, while older children often enjoy drawing challenges and word puzzles. And if a grandparent ends up colouring a turkey too, I’d call that a successful afternoon.

Set Up a Simple Thanksgiving Activity Kit

Put each child’s supplies in a shallow tray or large envelope: a few activity sheets, some crayons or pencils, and any prepared craft pieces. Print downloads and check any sign-up requirements before the busy day arrives.

Do cutting, stapling and adult assembly beforehand wherever possible. Save glue-based crafts for before dinner or a separate craft table, then clear supplies and wash hands before food is served. For activities during a pause between courses, paper and crayons are the easiest options.

Colour a Thanksgiving Activity Placemat

The Thanksgiving activity page from Artsy-Fartsy Mama combines colouring with activities including a word search, gratitude space and tic-tac-toe grids. I like a sheet with several little sections because children can choose what appeals to them instead of everyone having to do the same thing. Set one at each place with a handful of crayons, and you’ve got a simple invitation to settle in while dinner finishes cooking.

Find and Count Thanksgiving Pictures

This Thanksgiving I Spy printable from Paper Trail Design gives children a page of seasonal pictures to search through and count. It’s a useful option for children who enjoy puzzles but aren’t ready for a word search. My suggestion is to let younger children colour or mark matching pictures as they find them, with someone nearby to help record the totals.

Learn How to Draw a Turkey

The printable turkey drawing lesson from Kids Activities Blog turns a blank sheet of paper into a manageable drawing activity. Print the instructions beforehand so children can follow along without needing a screen at the table. Once they’ve drawn their turkey, invite them to invent its feather colours, name and personality—there’s no reason every bird has to look alike.

Decorate Turkey Place Cards

Hallmark’s printable turkey place card becomes a little standing paper turkey after colouring, cutting and folding. I’d let children colour the flat sheet first, then have an adult help with the cuts and assembly before the meal. Writing a guest’s name on their finished turkey gives the activity a purpose and lets children contribute something personal to the table.

Make Name-Letter Turkeys

The name-letter turkey activity featured on CraftGossip uses turkey feathers to explore the letters in a child’s name. Prepare the pieces ahead of time, then let children arrange their letters and decorate their birds before dinner. These can also become personalised place markers, which is a lovely way to make younger guests feel that their seat at the table is special.

Enjoy a Thanksgiving Word Search

The Thanksgiving word search from PJs and Paint is a straightforward paper-and-pencil activity for children who can read the word list. For a quiet table version, I’d leave out the suggested timed competitions and let everyone work at their own pace. It makes a handy extra sheet for older children who finish colouring quickly; follow the page’s download instructions before your gathering.

Write a Thankful Alphabet

The Thankful ABC activity from PJs and Paint challenges children to think of something they appreciate for each letter of the alphabet. I’d keep it relaxed and let them skip tricky letters rather than turning gratitude into homework. Older children can write their own ideas, while younger children might draw a few favourites or quietly dictate them to a helpful adult.

Colour a Little Gratitude Book

Ayelet Keshet’s Thanksgiving gratitude colouring book combines illustrated colouring pages with prompts about gratitude, kindness and family. The printable is available through the creator’s newsletter sign-up, so download and assemble the booklets in advance. I like this as a small take-home keepsake: children can colour a little before dinner and finish the remaining pages another day.

Fold Paper Feathers for a Turkey Centrepiece

Our paper turkey centrepiece on CraftBits uses scrap paper and cardboard, with folded paper fans forming the feathers. For a table-friendly version, choose crayons instead of paint and prepare the cardboard pieces ahead of time. Children can colour and fold their paper feathers, while an adult handles the tutorial’s hot-glue assembly away from the dining table.

Build a Paper-Loop Turkey

The paper-strip turkey from Simple Everyday Mom uses loops of coloured paper to make a cheerful, dimensional tail. Cut the strips and template pieces beforehand, then offer glue sticks or small pieces of tape for joining the loops before dinner. The creator offers a free template through a sign-up option as well as a paid instant download, so choose and prepare your version ahead of time.

Make Room for Different Ages and Interests

If your Thanksgiving table includes preschoolers, school-age children and a tween who insists they’re too old for turkey crafts, a little choice goes a long way. Put colouring sheets beside drawing instructions and word puzzles, and let children pick their own starting point.

You don’t need a prize for finishing, a perfect craft sample or a full afternoon schedule. A child who spends ten minutes choosing feather colours has enjoyed the activity just as much as one who completes every puzzle. Keep spare paper nearby for anyone who would rather draw their own ideas.

I’d also keep a large envelope ready for finished pictures and small crafts. Write each child’s name on theirs, tuck everything inside when dinner arrives, and there’s no last-minute hunt for a missing masterpiece.

A few quiet Thanksgiving activities for the kids’ table won’t remove every “Is it ready yet?” from the day, but they give children something enjoyable to do while they wait. Better still, you may end up with a little collection of drawings, thankful thoughts and handmade turkeys that feels far more personal than anything bought for the occasion.

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