If your child whizzes through colouring books at the speed of light, a colouring subscription may be the answer. This bumper offering from Kids’ Colouring Adventure is such a clever idea and is executed exceptionally well.
Interested in learning more about tarot cards and how to read them? Start by coloring your way through every card in a tarot deck. This book contains card-by-card insights into the symbolism and hidden wisdom of all 78 major and minor arcana.
Begin with the Bunnies Coloring Page, a darling image of bunnies hiding in floral bushes. This is a great page to color for Easter, but it's neutral enough to appease any bunny lover!
Throughout the book there are suggestions on what to draw and colour, alongside iconic artworks for inspiration (for example, create a drawing of a group of friends in tiny dots, in the style of Georges Seurat). Aimed at older children – they will want to be able to read independently unless you are happy to sit with them and explain every page – our nine-year-old tester was thoroughly absorbed in this from the start.
. Coloring pages for adults are a fantastic way to get in a festive mood for the holidays. That is why we absolutely love this collection of spooky, scary, and Halloween happy coloring pages.
This isn’t a sad book meant to mourn their disappearance but an inspiring book that’ll help you keep their magnificence top of mind. Fragile World features elaborate illustrations of 56 endangered, vulnerable, and threatened animals and landscapes.
In many cases, throwing out the rules of coloring is even more fun and you may just end up with a very unique design that is beautiful to the masses.
This beautiful coloring books strikes the perfect balance—the designs are intricate enough to yield an impressive finished product, but not so intricate they feel insurmountable.
If you’re after a cheap and cheerful colouring book to occupy the kids on a long car journey or flight, we really rate this mermaid-themed book from Hobbycraft. Featuring 32 underwater designs of, you guessed it, mermaids – as well as all manner of sea life – each design has lots to colour in and provided enough of a challenge to keep our nine-year-old tester hooked.
Essentially, the ones that made the cut are the colouring books our little testers returned to again and again.
Established in 2001, Bendon Publishing steadily builds its reputation as one of the premier publishers of children’s storybooks, activity books, and coloring books. This publisher based in Ohio, USA, continues to have a strong presence in the educational and entertainment markets, producing a lot of engaging and interactive products for young readers and learners.
String twine or yarn through the holes; you can tie them up to create a closed loop, leaving an approximate amount of space for the children’s heads.
You’ll need at least two sheets of the same page – one for coloring in the background and one for covering in the foreground objects.
You can print off the illustrations you wish to use, get the children to johanna basford coloring books color in the main figure and then have them cut the main figure out.