Relax by colouring!

[Gemini]

I expect many of you enjoy colouring with your grandchildren, I know I do!

It seems it is good for us, even without the children around!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/13/coloring-for-stress_n_5975832.html

[Oma]

Well this is my guilty secret I love colouring in , I often have used the children`s colouring books when they have gone home . My nephew who is 47 likes to too he isn't afraid to tell anyone either

[Mimi]

I have been known to find myself on my own still colouring in long after the GC have got bored with it and have gone outside to play ! 😄

[Plantaholic]

I don't have the opportunity to indulge myself with colouring in any more now GC are all grown up. I use to work with a teacher who always took colouring books on holiday, she would sit on the beach and relax.

[Daisy]

Guilty here, too! When GD1 gets home from school her preferred activity most days is cutting out and colouring, and I'm always ready to join in. Even GD2 at 14 months loves those scribble on thingies that you can wipe clean by moving the lever/knob up and down.

[Gemini]

Maybe we should have a bulk order of colouring books for our next group meet up

[Gemini]

Browsing amazon for adult colouring books, there are lots in pretty and varied designs and topics. Then I found the Fetish Colouring Book (only 4 left in stock!)

[Elisi]

Good Lord Gem, whatever next! Guilty as charged with the colouring and painting outside when the weather is fine.Have 100'sphotos of GD 1 doing all this and loving it with me cutting things out and her pasting. GD 2 not so keen at the moment but in summertime when we get the paints on the table outside she will love it!

[Libra Gran]

Oh no it's a trend,anyone else get irritated when the youngest goes out the lines

[Gemini]

I don't mind that Libra, but am not so keen when she takes over the fairy or whatever that I am colouring

[Nanto2girls]

I used to love colouring in when my own kids then grandchildren were small.Never think about doing it now.

[Grauntie Mag]

I love colouring in too. I'm a sucker for new crayons and paints and scissors and card and brushes etc. etc......

[Pearl5]

I love colouring in too, G was here yesterday, colouring in with his cousins got quite upset when I took the "felt pens" off him, he was OK once I got on the floor with him and his pencils, mind must admit wasn't too bad going off the lines, funny though OH came looking for me and I was the only one left colouring in, they had all got bored and went into their aunties bedroom....

[Elisi]

If they go over lines, I stop all adult thinking and go over them myself and pretend I am a child again and just forget my secret OCD obsession with neatness

[Nana]

[QUOTE=Libra Gran;n4312]Oh no it's a trend,anyone else get irritated when the youngest goes out the lines [/QUOTE

Sorry Libra Gran but it's all part of child development... hand, eye, brain co-ordination. Would you believe my DDs still ask for a Christmas stocking. Eldest DD asked 'nicely' last Christmas for a colouring bk as she finds it relaxing.

When I taught an art group at a local MIND organisation their favourite activity was colouring. The walls were covered with them.The once dull room was made beautifully bright & energised.