12 Fun Products for Kids Who Love to Color
Photo Credit | Pirasta
Coloring can improve motor skills, stimulate creativity and provide stress relief among other benefits for kids and adults. Here are some products for coloring from large posters to custom placemats.
Large Coloring Posters
These giant coloring rolls from Pirasta allow kids to get creative. The black and white graphic designs in themes such as Funny Farm, Let’s Color America, What a Wonderful World and more will keep kids occupied for hours. Attach poster to the wall using painter’s tape or lay on the floor. $29.95.
Color-your-own Picnic Blanket
These canvas picnic blankets by EggNogg make a day at the park or beach more entertaining. Kids can color in the black and white shapes with washable fabric pens while sitting on the blanket. The best part? The blanket can be thrown into the wash and colored again and again. Prices vary plus international delivery fees.
Color a Cape
Use the markers provided to color in the shapes of the Great Pretenders Colour-A-Cape Princess – a castle, hearts, unicorn and more. The lining is pink silk, and is machine washable so you can color again. $22.
Draw on the Table
Let your child have artistic freedom right in the middle of your wall or dining room table. Jaq Jaq Bird’s Chalk Board Table Runner can be used for doodling or it can be hung as a banner for birthday parties. $29.99.
Color-In Backpack
Have an aspiring artist on your hands? Your child will love the opportunity to design his own backpack with the EggNogg backpack. Choose from a variety of drawstring backpacks. $25.
Recycled Crayons
Think about all of the crayon bits and pieces laying around your house – art2theextreme took crayon fragments and recycled them into cool creations. Kids Name Crayons are our favorite, and make for fun a custom gift with any name spelled out. The artist also makes crayon puzzles, numbers, mini doughnuts and more. Prices vary.
Make Your Family Huggable
This company takes any picture or drawing and turns it into a plush figure. Perfect for family members who are in the military, or may often leave for work trips. Or if your child has a big imagination, they can draw whatever they wish to be made into a stuffed figure. $99.
Draw-On Placemat
Juts like drawing on kids’ menus at restaurants, Modern-Twist’s Mark-Mat silicone coloring placemats bring the fun into your home. Available starting at $18. Markers sold separately for $7.
Make a Chalk Trail
Kids can attach the Chalktrail to their bikes and make shapes while riding around the neighborhood. Attach a piece of chalk to the holder and go in circles, waves or lines to trace your path along the driveway. $19.95.
Color a Mask
Kids can get creative with the Great Pretenders Colour-A-Mask in butterfly or superhero patterns. Use the water-based markers to decorate. $5.
Mat for Coloring
The reusable Crayola Color & Erase Mat can be used for doodling and drawing again and again with included markers. Kids can use an eraser to wipe the color away. $19.99.
Fill-In Puzzle
Kids will love choosing colors to fill in OMY’s Design & Play Paris or New York puzzles. Fill in the whimsical black and white puzzle pieces with whatever colors you like and then have a puzzle to solve time and time again. $9.50.
