The Benefits of Coloring-in for the Elderly

Nancy

Thanks for the information

Hi Susan, sorry, I did not locate your reply until today. Our small city is Schertz, Texas, zip code 78154. We are located about ten miles northeast of San Antonio, Texas. Mother, now 93, has completed 170 sketches, 17" X 14", since I last communicated with your site. By the way, because of your site, we discovered she could draw in the Fall of 2020. She lived her entire life not realizing she could draw! I would very much appreciate any help you can offer so that I can enter her works in some sort of competition. I have searched the internet for drawing/ sketching contests for elderly adults over 70, 75, 80, 90, and even older, however, have been unable to locate one. Thank you, Susan. Nancy Reil Riojas, January 26, 2022.

Hello. My mother is 92 years old. She loves to color Disney characters. She then began drawing them. Can you please suggest where I could enter her drawings in a contest? Thank you.

Here's and article I wrote on my experience with using coloring pages and pre-drawn images in the facility I work in.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/case-adult-coloring-pages-pre-made-images-long-term-care-anne-cutri?trk=prof-post

we have created a creative coloring activity, we have so many residents who now use those adult coloring books that we decided to get them together as a group.

we will be having theme days such blue day or red and orange day, animal day etc.

we cannot Wait to get started our residents have really shown an interest in this.

We do colouring in every month. We have lots of pencils, wax crayons, glitter sticks and paints. If they like their picture they put their signature and date the picture and it goes up on the wall. They are very proud of their work.

I really found this page help me to get fresh idea for my nursing home clients. Please let me if have more new idea of arts and crafts

I think that colouring in can be used in many ways. For example I laminate the colouring and use it to provide the decorations for our special days. It is great to see the reaction from the resident's when they notice their colouring on the table.

I think that colouring in can be used in many ways. For example I laminate the colouring and use it to provide the decorations for our special days. It is great to see the reaction from the resident's when they notice their colouring on the table.

At my facility colouring is a great hit, I use ppicutres from Golden Carers library and have some very good topics and they love it and get such good pictures at the end of the activity. Thanks for sharing.

The only problem I see is that the colouring sheets need to be adult pictures and not childlike images. It requires much more effort to find but they are available.

Once you have a great range of images from masters to mandela's you will find the engagement increases as does the artistic creativity

Thanks for the article. I introduced a weekly art therapy group about 8 months ago featuring colouring some of your fabulous I set up an aroma therapy diffuser and some relaxing music on the CD player and watch the creative juices flow..definitely a favourite amongst our residents ..

my residents at Coniston love to colour, some adult resident pictures might be nice if anyone has any to share, please email [email protected], thanks

Thanks for your article on the benefits of colouring in. One of my newest activities will be colouring in with children. I am sure that our local school will be delighted to come and have a colouring in session with our elderly clients. We will even frame the pictures & put them on display at the school & at our day care centre, so that the children & clients can be proud of their achievements & remember the session with happy memories. I am looking forward to including this in my next monthly program.

I am so pleased to read about Colouring in and its benefits. I have for so long kept it out of my program on the basis that I felt it was childish. However, I now have a totally different outlook thanks to your article and I will incorporate this activity and place considerably more importance in its place in the monthly program.