I’ve always loved adult colouring books and my children do too. We were recently introduced to a lovely book we’ve all been fighting over. Amazing Creatures byShobhna Patel is a gorgeous colouring book but goes one step further as you can turn your coloured pictures into 3D sculpture artworks.
The whole family loves colouring in and Amazing Creatures contains 24 different pages, full of amazing animals, to colour in. Once you have created your finished coloured sheet you can push up the ready cut flaps from behind the page to create simple lift-the-flaps.
To add more interest you can also curl the flaps. Some pages have been designed so you can turn them into 3D pop ups, and others require a little construction. There are plenty of detailed instructions for each animal at the back of the book, as well coloured sheets of paper you can lay beneath the pages to accentuate your 3D pictures.
It’s a really lovely book and it’s been out on the table for the last few weeks. It’s perfect for picking up before school or whilst the kids are waiting for dinner. They each chose a few of their favourite animals and it was lovely watching their creations come to life. My top tip would be to start pushing out the flaps from the centre of the page, otherwise there is not much left to hold on to!
The only way it could be improved would be to perforate the pages. Some of the coloured pages ripped as we took them out, but other than that, it’s a lovely book.
Make it by hand Kids’ Craft: One-sheet sculpture: Amazing Creatures byShobhna Patel, published by Carlton Kids. Colour and lift the flaps to create wonderful 3D art.
Win a copy of One-sheet sculpture: Amazing Creatures
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Animals and Seasonal themes!
animals are great but i look forward to christmas books
I love colouring books – a 3D version sounds really fun 🙂
mythical creatures are fun x
I like the weird and wonderful..complete random mix match pictures
Flowers and animals
animals, always animals!
Animals and nature.
Summery theme and animals
I love patterned ones.
i love fantasy
Patterns are my fav
animals and winter snow scenes
Animals are my favourite to colour
Animals that are patterned
My daughter loves princesses
Animals
Animals 🙂
I love colouring animals and nature.
animals and tv series(eg my game of thrones colouring)
Animals and nature for me!
I love both fashion colouring books and abstract patterns; you can really get absorbed in the process.
I like animals or nature colouring books
Abstract patterns for me.
I like nature and patterns
I love abstract patterns!
I have a Harry potter one and I love it
I love colouring in patterns – there’s something very satisfying about finishing one!
Anything to do with nature – flora and fauna
Animals and plants
It depends on my mood, but either patterns or animals
Love intricate shapes of various themes
Helps focus the mind
Animals and nature
Animals and nature
I like both detailed geometric designs and bold nature designs to colour.
Like flowers and butterflies x
Animal obsessed in our house!
I used to love doodling in a book and then colouring in the gaps when I was a kid…. So I like abstract designs. but i’m quite girly too, so pretty butterflys, flowers, etc are a plus too!
Patterned animals… they are such fun to colour
I like colouring flowers
Nature
I don,t mind any thing
Nature and cats
Flowers and plants
Patterns would be my favourite
Love colouring animals and wildlife
Animals or cakes
I love patterns 🙂
as long as it has lots of patterns then I am happy with the design x
animals
Nature and animals
I like nature
animals is my fave xx
Construction vehicles, we also enjoy trains especially from Thomas Tank
I like colouring symmetrical and abstract patterns.
I like patterns
I love pattern colouring books
I love nature colouring books
I like patterns
character ones 🙂
i love character ones like spongebob etc kids dont get look in lol
I love patterns so relaxing
childrens
Nature
christmas colouring
Animals
I love themed books, at the moment I am doing a Harry Potter one
I love patterns to colour in x
I liked the colouring books that are just patterns!
patterns
Animals xx
Florals
I love to colour flowers 🌻
Got to be patterns!
I think jungle animals as it help children to recognise different animals.
Rain forests and exotic animals 😀
I think it’s got to be animals
think my favourite has to be nature
animals teddies or chocolate bars
Animal teddies
magic eye coloring books
Anything that involves intricate patterns and glowing colours.
Patterns
Fairies and mystical creatures
Animals especially big cats
Fantastical and mythical creatures are great because you can really let your imagination run wild x