Stressed out? Re-discover the art of coloring.
After multiple requests for coloring books, we were intrigued. Wow! CNN, Huffington Post, everyone's buzzing about the effects this activity can have on our health and well-being; Psychologists say it's a relaxation technique as powerful as meditation.
( Your Mom knew all this years ago. Giving the kids a new coloring book was sure to bring her an hour of peace and quiet! )
These are beautifully illustrated books, with varying degrees of complexity to engage both beginners and experts of ALL ages. We've found some we think you'll love (And have more on the way!) along with crayons and colored pencil sets.
The Backyard Naturalist has devoted 26 years to helping folks find ways to relax and connect with nature in their own backyards. Along with the joys of backyard birding from a hammock, wind chimes, scented luxury soaps and aromatherapy candles—just to name a few of our all time faves—we are thrilled to add these wonderful coloring books and crayons to our Chill List.
Enjoy!
Debi
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Secret Garden
An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book
The book that started the craze! New York Times #1 best seller. Find tiny garden creatures on each page as you create your masterpiece.
- The Backyard Naturalist has vivid gel pens, set of 48, perfect for new coloring books like ‘Secret Garden’ or ‘Fantastic Cities’.
- The Backyard Naturalist has EEBOO pencil sets of 24 colors, packaged in its own brightly-colored, illustrated tin box.
- The Backyard Naturalist has EEBOO pencil sets of 24 colors, packaged in brightly-colored, illustrated tin boxes.
- The Backyard Naturalist has Tutti Frutti pencil sets in stock now! Retro cool and very practical dual colored pencils.
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Secret Garden
An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book
This beautiful and interactive coloring book features delicate and highly detailed pen-and-ink illustrations—all waiting to be brought to life with color.
As added entertainment, tiny garden creatures are hidden on the pages, waiting to be found, and a key and index are included in the back. The book’s cover and jacket are also color-able.
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Secret Garden Artist’s Edition
This beautiful and interactive coloring book features delicate and highly detailed pen-and-ink illustrations—all waiting to be brought to life with color.
As added entertainment, tiny garden creatures are hidden on the pages, waiting to be found, and a key and index are included in the back. The book’s cover and jacket are also colorable.
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The Time Chamber
A Magical Journey and Coloring Book
This second book in best-selling Korean artist Daria Song’s coloring series features the voyage of a fairy who, when the cuckoo clock chimes midnight, enters the human world. To the tiny fairy, everything seems enormous and magical, from the curtains to the chandelier to a mystical rowboat that takes her further into an inky adventure.
Filled with the imaginative, intricately detailed illustrations Song’s readers have come to love, The Time Chamber presents a view of our world made new—and ready for coloring.
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The Time Garden
A Magical Journey and Coloring Book
Journey through the doors of a mysterious cuckoo clock into its inky innerworkings to discover a magical land of clock gears, rooftops, starry skies, and giant flying owls—all ready for you to customize with whatever colors you can dream up.
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Enchanted Forest
An Inky Quest & Coloring Book
This magical coloring book by Johanna Basford takes colorists through an enchanted forest to discover what lies in the castle.
Similarly interactive like Secret Garden, Enchanted Forest also features hidden objects and fun mazes. Beginning at the entrance to a fairy-tale forest, the journey progresses through highly embellished woods and through intricate flora.
Castles, treasure chests, and other magical elements add a fairy tale narrative to the designs.
Special features include a gate-folded two-page spread, and a color-able jacket.
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Avian Friends Activity Journal
An Interactive Artist’s Book: Color, Sketch and Write
A Galison Avian Friends activity journal is a great gift for creative friends. The journal measures 7 x 8-3/4″ with a lay-flat opening that makes it inviting to use. Best of all, the book is fully designed throughout with charming birds, flowers, and still lifes by internationally acclaimed illustrator Geninne D. Zlatkis.
A bonus interview sheds light on the artist’s creative process and inspiration.
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Coloring Mandalas 3
CIrcles of the Sacred Feminine
Mandalas for coloring include designs based on ancient European artifacts, traditional Hindu yantras, and contemporary art. Full-color illustrations provide inspiration, and instructions for drawing your own geometric mandalas add to the creative possibilities.
Coloring Mandalas 3 will appeal particularly to individuals and groups who wish to explore spirituality as a pathway to deeper meaning and personal growth.
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Coloring Mandalas 4
For Confidence, Energy and Purpose
In her latest collection of mandalas for coloring, Susanne Fincher focuses on using mandalas as a way to claim our own truths and to find our way in the world.
The original designs she presents are associated with being and doing. The “being” mandalas represent a sense of balance, integration, and self-realization. They can be reminiscent of the designs of heraldic shields carried as the emblem of personal power. The “doing” mandalas represent action, energy, and functioning in the world.
These mandalas are associated with creativity, ingenuity, teamwork, and productivity. Coloring the mandalas in this book allows you to interact with forms that evoke both steady, centered being, and active, skillful doing.
Coloring Mandalas 4 provides a creative and insightful path toward self-knowledge.
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The Doodlers Anonymous Epic Coloring Book
This coloring book is like no other. It’s a beautiful, breathing, beating, eccentric mashup of pure hand-drawn goodness.
The Doodlers Anonymous Epic Coloring Book is a compilation of offbeat illustration styles by 90 global contemporary artists bound together for your coloring pleasure.
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The Mindfulness Coloring Book
Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People
Perfectly sized to fit into a pocket or handbag, and printed on high-quality paper that will ensure hours of bliss, The Mindfulness Coloring Book is ready to help you de-stress wherever you go.
Take a few minutes out of your hectic schedule to reset and refresh with mindful coloring—and relive the days when your biggest concern was staying within the lines!
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Flower Designs
Elegant, finely detailed floral illustrations reproduce extremely well, lending themselves to a host of arts and crafts applications.
Contains a rich bouquet of single blooms, clusters, sprays, wreaths, and borders, as well as mortised cuts and other configurations.
This assortment includes 81 depictions of wild and garden flowers: sunflowers, columbine, peonies, delphinium, lilies, orchids, roses, and other natural beauties. A number are shown in circular, square, rectangular, and hexagonal frames while others are seen attracting butterflies, enhancing vases, and embellishing borders and corners.
Delicate and graceful, these delightful images are ready to serve as a handy source of design inspiration or to be used in textile and wallpaper design, needlecraft, and other design projects.
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Fantastic Cities
A Coloring Book of Places Real and Imagined
This unique coloring book features immersive aerial views of real cities from around the world alongside gorgeously illustrated, Inception-like architectural mandalas.
Artist Steve McDonald’s beautifully rendered and detailed line work offers bird’s-eye perspectives of visually arresting global locales from New York, London, and Paris to Istanbul, Tokyo, and Melbourne, Rio, Amsterdam, and many more.
The adult coloring book’s distinctive large square format offers absorbingly complex vistas to color, the crisp white pages are conducive to a range of artistic applications, and a middle margin keeps all the artwork fully color-able.
Complementing the cityscapes are a selection of mind-bending labyrinthine architectural illustrations for still deeper meditative coloring adventures and imaginative flights of fancy.
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Animals of the Forest, Wetlands and Desert
More than 120 accurately rendered, ready-to-color illustrations offer an entertaining introduction to the plants and animals of the United States and Canada.
Fact-filled captions identify the creatures and their habitats, including Forest animals: Birds, mammals, and insects of the woodlands, and their environment of hemlocks, spruces, oaks, and other trees; Wetlands plants and animals: Swamp vegetation, plus egrets, raccoons, and other denizens of salt-marsh ecosystems; North American desert life: Towering cactus plants and Gila monsters, kit foxes, prairie dogs, and other wild natives of the Southwest.
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Backyard Nature Coloring Book
Wild animals in our midst come to life in this unique, carefully rendered coloring book. Forty-two detailed black-and-white illustrations depict a garter snake, Virginia deer, garden spider, Japanese beetles, chickadees, raccoons, honeybees, cardinals, squirrels, and many more. Five color illustrations on covers. Detailed captions.
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Birds of Prey Coloring Book
Noted wildlife illustrator John Green presents detailed accurate renderings of 42 species — bald eagle, common black hawk, great horned owl, Andean condor, osprey, crested caracara, turkey vulture, peregrine falcon (on a dramatic double-page spread), many more. Informative captions.
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The Birdwatcher’s Coloring Book
Thirty detailed illustrations to color depict a wide variety of U.S. and Canadian species and habitats, from an oriole perched in an apple tree to a bald eagle diving for fish in the Alaskan wilderness.
Captions identify where species nest. Evoking the joys of nature, this book is a helpful companion to fledgling and experienced birdwatchers alike.
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Butterflies Coloring Book
This treasury of detailed and accurately rendered pictures invites coloring book enthusiasts to bring over forty species of butterflies to life in vivid color.
Fact-filled captions and full-color illustrations are provided for each butterfly making this an excellent book not only for artists but nature lovers as well. This package contains one coloring book with forty-three pictures.
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George R.R. Martin’s Official
A Game of Thrones Coloring Book
ALL MEN MUST DRAW
In a world where weddings are red, fire is green, and debts are paid in gold, countless images leap off the page thanks to the eye-popping intricacy of the vivid settings and details. Now, for the first time, fans of this blockbuster saga can fill in the blanks and marvel as this meticulously imagined universe comes to life, one sword, sigil, and castle at a time.
With dozens of stunning original black-and-white illustrations from world-renowned illustrators Yvonne Gilbert, John Howe, Tomislav Tomić, Adam Stower, and Levi Pinfold, this unique collector’s item expands the reach of an international phenomenon with flying colors.
And, Winter is coming.
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Colored pencil set by Galison
24 colored pencils, perfect for any adult coloring fan and kids as well. 24 colors in a 2 tier box, the lid flips to allow the box to stand while you draw.