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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.

 

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  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…

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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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