When I saw a colouring book for grown ups in my local supermarket I must admit that I wasn’t convinced that colouring in was going to relax me but I decided to give it a go anyway and downloaded some free Christmas colouring pages from t’internet,
I got out a selection of colouring pencils and sat down at the table ready to be relaxed and soothed as I coloured in the weird leafy pattern and flowers from the picture I’d printed out.
Did it relax me?
No, because I like things to look pretty so I was too busy thinking about what colour matched what colour to actually relax.
Something else happened though….
My totally non-crafty teenager came and sat next to me, picked up a pencil and joined me in the non-relaxing colouring. We chatted, caught up on our day and made plans and it was lovely! So I wasn’t magically relaxed by the pictures but I still had a great hour or so with Miss Frugal which means that I’m now a fan of colouring for grown ups for a whole different reason.
Lots of people that I know are huge fans of this and I know that it is definitely a relaxing activity for some people so give it a go – you never know what might happen!
And so you don’t have to spend any money, here’s five Christmas colouring pages for you!
Just click on the images to see them full size and you can then print them out and colour away to your hearts content….
We’ve sat together a few times now and coloured in and I love the time we spend together doing it – I just wish she would use colours that I like!
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These are great! Thank you!
Ooh these are amazing Cass!!! Funnily enough I bought an adult colouring book last year just before we went on holiday. I haven't had time to touch it since but while we were away it was brilliant. Rather relaxing too. We've been getting POD to do colouring after bath as it calms her down so I do do a bit of hers now. Should did out my book again
I'm sure i could spend some lovely time with my girls colouring too, what a lovely idea.
I got my first colouring book for Christmas last year, I made it a gift to me and the girls from Santa to give us something to do together and it worked! Only now they both sit down to colour and there is no room for me!
I love these prints, thank you so much, they'll come in so handy over the holidays.
Oh thank you so much for those, they are gorgeous and we will really enjoy colouring them x
Ha, I am exactly like you, Cass, I can never relax with colouring as I want it to look perfect but Emma loves having a go at my pages so it never goes to waste, that sort of activity :-).xx
Do you know, I was convinced colouring wasn't for me. Like you, I still don't think it would relax me – but I can see that it would be a lovley thing to do with my children, who are both very much into it. I'm going to print these off for some family downtime over the hols…what a great idea.
These look so great – I have bought my daughters gorgeous 'grown up' colouring books for Christmas. Kaz x
I have to admit I am not a fan of adult colouring but only because I don't have the time
Thank you so much for the lovely colouring pages it will keep us busy now
Maybe that is the key, I need to colur ata the same time as the kids and we can chat as we do it. Mich x
My daughter is loving these colouring sheets at the moment.
Off to add these to my big long list! Love them
Just LOVE these
I love colouring pages but nor done a Christmas one yet
I can totally see how that happened – I find there's something quite therapeutic about colouring in – especially with felt tips! How nice.
I don't mind doing a little now and again, but I don't think I'd sit down and do it regularly.