It’s pricier than many others in our round-up, but for keeping everyone happy, inspiring some fantastic imaginative play and for its versatility, we think the Playpa paper roll is absolutely worth it.

Instruct them to pull the paper upward, pleating as they go around the pot until all the paper is collected, then affix it with a rubber band or glue.

Using crayons, felt tip pens, glue, glitter (eek!) and stickers, our testers really enjoyed getting stuck in – we were initially unsure as to whether the lack of direction might put them off, but simply the shape of the paper was enough to fuel their imaginations. Our youngest tester thought the teddy bear was “so cute” and happily doodled over the pages, while the older two took their teddy bear design quite seriously and enjoyed challenging each other to colour different types of bears – more pirate bear and sleepy bear than polar bear and brown bear.

The plain winged butterflies need your help to colour their wings to fly happily in the garden. A simple and easy butterflies colouring book for kids who loves to play with colours.

Coming in at a handy A5 size, this colouring book is perfect for keeping in your bag, along with a pack of crayons, to keep little kids happy when eating out, travelling, or when visiting friends. It’s already saved us on more than one occasion and for that we’re very grateful.

While Dorn noted that coloring books are not art therapy, she pointed out the therapeutic qualities of the books and their ability to help relieve stress.

From animal and nature-themed coloring pages to mixed styles that can be used for art therapy coloring. We offer an array of different styles and designs when it comes to printable coloring pages.

Then you’ll have the children glue the background into the shoebox. After that, they’ll cut out the foreground objects, leaving about a half-inch of paper underneath each object.

People with a sense of humor will appreciate the curse words and sarcastic sayings in this wacky coloring book. Each thick page has one-sided printing to allow coloring without worrying about bleed-through.

A pretty craft that is sure to delight is, instead of having the children color in the illustrations, have them fill in the illustrations with little bits of construction paper.

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Each page brings to life the magical world of fairies, woodlands, castles, and flowers. While the pages are thick, they are double-sided so using colored pencils will avoid bleeding. If using markers or other thicker inks it’s imperative that they don’t bleed.

 doesn't have the sheer number of coloring pages that many of these sites have. And downloading the pages can be a bit of a project – to gain access to some of them, you will have to jump through a few hoops to help support the artist, Jennifer Stay. So what makes Coloring Bliss