Colouring

We're looking at colouring today

Colouring is an activity most children do from an early age when you take a drawing with the outline image in printed usually in black and colour in between the lines.

Colouring can be helpful in improving your hand to eye co-ordination as you learn to colour in tiny areas neatly.

It's also quite useful in encouraging you to exercise your own imagination, by choosing what areas to colour in whatever colour you prefer although for some subjects  you may prefer to follow the examples such as drawings of Disney Princesses and other more feminine themes.

It came to me a few days back in part through an ongoing conversation and also while listening to a podcast, that I did very little colouring when I was younger and by the time I'd reached nine it was deemed to be 'childish' although I did draw in colour trees and houses cause that was called 'drawing' which was said to be 'okay' for me to do.

Colouring is in my opinion one of the easiest ways of getting into a younger headspace especially if you live away from any local  littles community because you can do it pretty much anywhere making very little demands on apartment space.

You'll need a supply of coloured pencils (mine are Hello Kitty ones for extra cute appeal), an eraser to remove mistakes, and colouring books that you'll find most news stores stock so you can get out of your chair and go buy it in person as after all it is for you!.

I tend to keep mine by the computer as a stress relief tool when the interwebs go wonky but generally after changing to my littles clothes, I either lay on my front on the floor or across my Hello Kitty festooned bed with the book and pencil case out in front of me. You could if you wished, sat at a desk to do this too as if you were in a play group or school setting.

I find it very relaxing just lying there colouring completely free  from any groan up stuff that may be about affecting my head.