It’s a sad day here in the San Fernando Valley — our local Sanrio store is going out of business. Gone are the days of Kerokerokeroppi and 20 color pens within walking distance, and so when Delilah and I discovered the news on a recent trip to the mall, I decided we could each choose one thing to remember Hello Kitty’s motley crew of friends by.
Delilah choose a stuffed animal I didn’t recognize. I went with one last 20-color pen.
Then I got home and found this coloring book I’ve been using for a coffee table book for a while, and well…let’s just say I found my daily zen with that pen. Wait, let’s not say that because it sounds gross. Let’s just say I sat down and started coloring this page by Tanya Newton John (title: Petit Roi) with that pen and got totally zenned out in doing so. And Delilah, who usually balks at coloring and has the fine motor skill to prove it grabbed her jumbo Sophia The First coloring book and joined me. And so I realized coloring can be an awesome family activity. Here are some coloring books that might inspire you to create some daily family coloring time. Or at least to do it once.
Outside The Lines
Curated by Souris Hong-Porretta, this collection includes the black and white outlined works of Shepard Fairy, Exene Cervenka, Keita Takahashi, Jen Corace and over 100 more amazing illustrators for you to fill with your imagination. It’s where the above Petit Roi image came from, and I could easily fill my walls with its blank pages. …continue reading…