But after a while you get into the children's activities, like colouring. Since I'm a arts and crafts teacher I love to make things, drawing, painting and so on. But I've always thought colouring is a bit dull. Now, I think that was because I hadn't been introduced to the right colouring books.
I started to wander in the children's department in some bookstores and found colouring books where you could make parts of the motif yourself. This means that it's more like a creativity exercise, since you have a beginning of a scene and a sentences that gives you a little clue, and then it's for you to fill in the rest.
I went a bit overboard and bought three books at once. The first a standard colouring book where you just fill in the colour, relaxing I thought. And it is, great when your head is a bit tired and you need something not to complicated. The book is called Mandalas - The Fantastic Colouring Book. I've got the advanced one which has a bit more complicated patterns, but still, it's made for children.
The second book is one in pocket size, nice to have in the bag when I'm waiting for a buss or train. This one contains a lot of different patterns that you fill in and complete. A fun way to play with shapes and colours, I think. This book is called Pocket Patterns to Colour & Doodle (Art Ideas) by Kirsteen Rogers.
The third one is a bigger doodling book, you have a scene and fill in the rest. It's a manga themed book, but there are lots of different kinds of these, for instance fashion, designer, art, girl's, boy's, Christmas and so on. But I'm a manga fan and thought that it would be fun, and it is. The book is called Manga Doodles by Yuriko Yano (Illustrator). These kinds of books may be a bit advanced for smaller children, but I think children in the age ten and up will enjoy them a lot.
Enjoy colouring and doodling, I do!
Sincerely
Mrs von Kvenna
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