Coloring Book Apps

Coloring books aren't just for kids anymore! Recent studies have found that coloring can be therapeutic for the mind, allowing students and adults to relieve some stress and anxiety by letting their minds focus while also refining motor skills and vision. If you were to walk into a Barnes & Nobles or a Michaels today, you would find plenty of coloring books labeled as "For Adults" with intricate, beautiful designs. Thanks to technology, you can now simply download a coloring book app! If you were to open the App Store and search "adult coloring books", you would get quite a few options: 

After downloading a few and seeing what they had to offer, the app I liked the most was Colorfy:

Colorfy has a lot of great categories for different kinds of drawings that you can choose from, including:

Weekly Uploads

Animals 

Florals

Exotic Patterns

... and even famous paintings! 

Once you choose a category, you have a lot of options. When you pick a picture, you have a beautiful selection of basic colors: 

And seasonal colors:

Unfortunately, you have to pay for the additional colors, but the ones that they provide are sufficient. While coloring, you pick a palette of three main colors that you have to replace when you want to swap colors:

You can even zoom in on your photos for precision! 

You also have options to undo a color, to share your photo in Social Media and iMessage, and to save your coloring to the library. 

Try out one of the apps for yourself and see how it helps you! Let your creativity flow! 

Visit this website to see how coloring can help you on a daily basis: 

http://www.bustle.com/articles/101264-7-reasons-adult-coloring-books-will-make-your-life-a-whole-lot-brighter