Coloring as a Family: Tips and Tricks

Crayons aren’t only for kids, and everyone can express themselves artistically, as seen by the recent rise in popularity of adult coloring books. A significant creative activity that the whole family may enjoy together is coloring.

Try scheduling a weekly time slot for your family to appreciate art. While your youngster experiments with coloring and crayon sketching on their own, you may use an adult coloring book or just free-draw. Another option is to make a sketch and color it together. Talk about the artistic decisions that each of you makes.

Choose a location in your house to serve as your family’s “art gallery,” such as the refrigerator, a barren wall, a door, etc. When you’re done, show the artwork that each member of the family has created using crayons.

Crayon Tips and Tricks

In order to produce original pieces of art, there is no right or wrong approach. However, try these pointers and techniques with your kids:

Strive for quality: When coloring or sketching, try to use materials that are name brand wherever feasible. Crayons of superior grade flow like butter whereas crayons of inferior quality leave wax accumulation.
Practice shading: Your coloring experience may take on a new depth thanks to shading. The color will become darker the more forcefully you press. Slowly reduce your palm pressure to a softer touch to move to a lighter tint. With young children, this fine motor ability may be taught, reinforced, and exercised.
Experiment with color blending: Imagine a stunning sunset with orange, pink, and blue hues. Start painting your sky by using mild, consistent pressure. Blend the pink and orange together where they intersect, allowing one hue to merge into the next. As your kid looks at the colors, ask them questions about them and draw their attention to the blending. This may also be a realistic way to start a conversation about math, as in the example of red and blue crayons producing purple markings.
Combine/substitute colors: To get a pinkish-orange tint, try blending orange over pink. If necessary, you may also make substitutions; for instance, if you run out of green, you can build layers of yellow and blue on top of one another to get the desired shade of green.