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Do you remember the last time you held a colouring book in your hands?…
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It might have looked a lot like these:
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It always had to be Sailor Moon.
How good were you at colouring?
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Well, even if you were colouring out of the lines a looooong time ago, you should totally consider rekindling things TODAY as an adult. Here's why:
1. There's a colouring book out there for everyone:
You could be a graffiti enthusiast…
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a nature lover…
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or a person struck with wanderlust…
…or just having a strong Ben-addiction
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2. NO ONE will stop you from using fancy pens, markers or even crayons to colour. Yeah, you can forget the pencils.
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3. You get to relive snippets of your childhood…
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…like when you were the only one who brought colour pencils to class and you had to share it with your classmates…
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You: Do you have colour pencils?
Your classmate: Yes.
*Dramatic pause*
Your classmate: At home…
…or the time you proudly walked out to receive your prize for winning a colouring contest
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4. No one will judge you now when your rabbit is blue
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5. Sometimes when on diet, colouring serves as a great distraction too
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6. You can finally create frame-able works of art, with 50% of the work already cut out for you
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Think of all the things you can do with the colouring pages that you've coloured – the possibilities are endless! You can frame it up as a decoration, send it as a gift to your friends or even compile all of them and have your own art exhibition at home.
7. It's insanely therapeutic
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8. You get to train your fine motor skills and vision
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9. When you're really good at it, your artwork may be featured by your favourite illustrator…
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10. …and that means new friends from miles and miles away
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Just make a quick search on Instagram and you will find out that many people around the world are seriously into colouring books now.
11. You can finally schedule a new activity together with your friends. Reality check: when was the last time you did something artsy together?
More amazing colouring pages just waiting to be filled by an enthusiastic adult like you…
Excited to get a colouring book already? You can get one from local arts and supply stores or major bookstores. Suggestions on some of the most popular adult colouring books that you might want to get:
• Secret Garden: An Inky Teasure Hunt; Coloring Book by Johanna Basford
• The Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People by Emma Farrarons
• Outside the Lines by Souris Hong-Porretta
• Colour Me Good by Mel Elliott
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Yup! Gone are the days when colouring books were only for children!
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