Colouring your day

Colouring in can be quite a therapeutic activity and one that children enjoy too.

One summer we tested the girls by spending three nights away with no internet access.

They survived!

They agreed not to take their tablets and spent most of the time at the Bach colouring in their new (adult) colouring books, playing hide and seek and running around the property. It can be hard to pull your child away from technology, but when you do they survive just fine.

On the way back from the South Island one year, my youngest was just young enough to go in for the inter-Islander on-board colouring comp. On the way over she did not want to know, the trip itself was sufficiently interesting; however on the way back she decided, why not.

She ended up winning for her age group and was able to buy a nice necklace.

Colouring in is a great intergenerational activity.

When’s the last time you did some colouring in?