As a mom, I’ve never minded sitting down with my daughter and spending time with crayons. It’s relaxing. I knew that, yet I wasn’t the brilliant one who decided adult coloring books would be a “thing”. It’s brilliant.
Think about it for a second.
There are many people who could use the adult coloring books as therapy – physical therapy (fine motor skills). Younger and older people.
There are many people who could use the adult coloring books when they are lonely.
There are some, like me, who have been sidelined due to an illness or injury and have a little extra time in bed on their hands. Adult coloring books are perfect.
There are so many who would love them just for fun. Mom can have her coloring book while kiddo has hers. Family time right there.
I’ve chosen a few of my favorite adult coloring books and organized them in different categories.
As luck would have it, I had bought myself my very own, and very first, adult coloring book just weeks before I broke my foot. What timing. So, I’ve spent many times coloring over the past few weeks – a welcome distraction that’s a distraction from pain, relaxing and fun.
I’m in the market for yet another book and I’ve found so many great options that I wanted to share them with you.
Top Adult Coloring Books:
Movie/Brand Theme –
- Harry Potter Coloring Book
NOTE – this is available now and 3 more coming soon (see at the very bottom of blog post)
Travel Themed –
- Splendid Cities Adult Coloring Book
– this is the one I have and is a mixture of real-life inspired cityscapes and fictional. I LOVE it!
This same one I have above is part of a series which has coloring books for particular cities like:
- Secret Paris: Color Your Way to Calm
- Secret New York: Color Your Way to Calm
- Secret Tokyo: Color You Way to Calm
Others:
Miscellaneous –
Seasonal –
Holiday Themed –
COMING SOON:
Doctor Who Coloring Book
Harry Potter Creatures Coloring Book
Harry Potter Magical Places & Characters Coloring Book
Harry Potter Artifacts Coloring Book
Disney Animals: 100 Images to Inspire Creativity and Relaxation 
Pre-Ordering these can help meet minimum free shipping requirements and you’ll notice the prices are reduced AND come with a pre-order price guarantee. So if the price goes down before release, you get money back!
Which one is your favorite? Have you used adult coloring books before?
This is quite a nice list. I see several I’d like to give as gifts.
I agree…I love colouring so much and as a Life Coach, I created the MINDSSAGE Colouring Book Series. Which again..I love colouring my books. The benefits of colouring in repetitive words and affirmations are truly life changing. Keep on colouring eceryone!!
Random question, do those markers bleed through the pages of those colouring book? I’ve been trying super hard to find markers that don’t bleed through the pages but with no luck!
Great question Jessie. Actually these particular markers that I use do bleed through the pages a little, but I just am not happy with the colored pencils I’ve used. I like the brightness of these markers. One thing I try to do is put a piece of cardboard underneath so it doesn’t bleed onto the next page.
I want to buy some adult coloring books. I like to color with my kids and I do find it relaxing.
my tween grandson would love these as well
Thanks for the list. My daughter (she is 22) has a lot of anxiety and she found these coloring books and loves them. They really seem to help her relax.
Adult coloring is the new thing. Thanks for the information about the cool books. There are so many. Also you can Google “free adult coloring pages” and print them out for free. There are bazillions. We are starting an adult coloring club at my library. Yay! kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.