We’re celebrating back to homeschool time with a fun Art and Drawing Gift Basket Giveaway! Last year, we shared in the annual Back to Homeschool Gift Basket Giveaway hosted by iHomeschool Network and we had such a great time that we decided to participate again!
Read on to see what we’re giving away, how you can enter to win, and what our fellow bloggers are giving away this year!
This year, we decided to go with an art and drawing theme. Coloring books for adults are all the rage right now, so we’re offering quite a few coloring books with designs intricate enough to keep Mom and Dad entertained!
There are also a couple of drawing books by Ed Emberley and some advanced coloring books for kids!
This gift basket includes the following:
- The Big Purple Drawing Book by Ed Emberley
- GeoDesigns
- Aboriginal Mosaics Coloring Book
- Ed Emberley’s Complete FunPrint Drawing Book
- Linear Modern Patterns Coloring Book
- PrismDesigns
- DesignScapes
- Animals Color Counts Color by Number
Note: All of the books will be shipped in a USPS box (minus the basket) to the winning entrant.
To enter to win all these awesome art and drawing books, use the Giveaway Tools widget below!
Cait @ My Little Poppies says
I’m one of those adults that loves a good drawing book. This is a super-fun basket, Selena!
becky says
I like to color with my kids.
Christi says
Thanks for the fun giveaway!
Wendy says
This basket would be a great addition to out home
Cristy S says
I love to color! My girl, not so much. I’m hoping that one of the Ed Emberley books will help 🙂
Amelia says
I like to color, but my kids don’t. Hoping to find something to inspire them!
Esther says
This basket makes me drool!!! Hope to win!!
Mary R says
What a lovely basket!
Melissa says
We love art! This would be great!
Shelly L says
I have just entered the world of adult coloring books, which I find very fun! Your giveaway looks very nice — thanks for offering it!
Shelly L says
I’m posting again, but only because I may not have understood the original process — sorry! Please feel free to delete if necessary. I DO love to color in my spare time, when I find spare time! I have just begun using an adult coloring book of country scenes. It’s very therapeutic! Thanks for your generous basket offer!
Debi Schuhow says
I find coloring very relaxing and have colored paper dolls from different time frames and given them to my grand daughter. 220 pieces in all!
Jennifer Odom says
I love to color with our little ones!
BunnyMomRocks says
Coloring is SO relaxing. You have to lead by example, right?
Karolyn K says
I do like to color in my spare time, especially with my kids. It is so relaxing and fun.
Kathleen P. says
We love to color together.
Julie says
I am so excited about this giveaway. I have been wanting to incorporate more art into our homeschool!
Jenny McDaniel says
I like to color with my kids. It brings back childhood memories.
megan says
i haven’t colored in years, but i should, it is so relaxing!
Jenn Khurshid says
This looks so fun! Thanks for the chance to win!
Edwina says
We have decided to add art to our homeschool schedule this year, so this basket would be a perfect help with those plans. Thank you so much for offering this wonderful gift, even if we don’t win I’m sure someone will appreciate winning it!
Edwina says
Yes, I enjoy coloring from time to time along with doing many other crafts too. I have had some kind of coloring activity for our son to do each year in his studies since we started homeschooling when he was four and he’s twelve now.
Chris says
I love to color.
Diane Wheless says
Since one of my grandsons has learning disabilities, we color almost daily. It is soothing for him (and me)!
Jennifer V says
I actually do enjoy coloring. It’s a nice way to relax and, as a mommy now, to enjoy time with the kiddos!
Heather Hahn says
Love your basket idea. Great resources!
Kara says
we love to color at our house. It’s a great way to relax and spend quiet time together.
Christine says
I enjoy coloring with sidewalk chalk outside with my daughter.
Shelby says
I would love to win this basket! My kids are all little artists in the making and this would be so much fun for all five of them!
Aadel says
I never have time to color! My kids prefer drawing on blank paper to coloring but when we take road trips they love coloring books. Go figure.
Jess McCarthy says
I used to and I loved it. I’ve been thinking about getting myself a coloring book. 🙂
melissa newell says
My girls and I LOVE to color in very detailed pages. The harder the better! Great giveaway!
Jenn Bernal says
I loooove to color! I think I love it more than my kids do! Such a great stress reliever.
Molly cash says
I would love to color in my spare time, if I had any!
Joan Concilio says
We actually color ALL the time in our house. Probably the adults more than 15-year-old Sarah, though she likes to as well!
Heather H. says
Every now in then I like to color to relieve stress 🙂
Heidi M says
I DO like to color in my spare time…whenever that is!!
Tammy Stewart says
What a wonderful basket full of creative things to do!
Trish says
Sounds great
jennifer mathesz says
i do!
Erica says
We love to color! I usually get into it more than my younger kids!
Kita says
Fun giveaway my kids can never have enough books and now that I am making my son read to my daughter at night before bed we need even more.
Marisaa says
These coloring books would be great fun for us during read alouds!
Lisa T says
Hmmm, I hear that coloring is relaxing for adults, so maybe I would try! Thanks for the giveaway!
Dia says
I’m not much of a colorer, but my girls enjoy it–almost as much as drawing! They particularly like mandala and geometric designs. Thanks for sharing!
M tipton says
I enjoy coloring still very much!
Rebecca O. says
I do like to color and so do my boys! Thanks so much!
Sandi says
Looks like new resources I haven’t heard about. My daughter likes to do art, and I’m running out of resources.
dw says
Would love to win this basket of books.
Margarete says
I actually love to draw and color. 😉
Sarah says
My daughter and I love to color, depends on the day if it’s crayons markers, pencils, sharpies, or paint.
Heather says
We all love to color around here. My older boys enjoy the more detailed coloring books and will sit and work on them for long periods of time. Great giveaway–Thanks!
Erin says
Awesome give-away! Thanks!
shalea says
love to color
Rachel says
My daughter would LOVE this basket of goodies! She searches Pinterest every day to find new characters to draw! She has grown out of coloring (at age 9), but I still color with my 7-and 2-year olds! It’s relaxing!!
Mary says
I love to color and work on creative projects in my spare time! The best way to get my kids interested in art is by having them see me doing something artistic.
Kristi Ryder says
What is spare time? LOL! But yes, I do like to color!
Julia Cosgrove says
I personally LOVE to color. I love everything about art but give me a coloring book and nice crayons and I could get lost.
Katie Putnam says
I love to color!! It’s so relaxing!!
Holly says
Thank you for this great giveaway! I love to color and draw with my kids!
Kristine says
Yes. I do. I would love more books for me and the kids. It’s calming and relaxing.
annmarie says
I love to color have a few books and print off freebies off Pintrest.
Teri Knight says
Of course I love to color!! With my kids, without my kids…it’s all fun
Clarissa says
I do enjoy coloring, but rarely have the time to now with 7 young kids.
Lynda Carter says
My son loves drawing this would be great to spark some more creativity!
Misty says
My daughters and I really enjoy coloring. We like to use colored pencils or crayons, even chalks!
Shauna says
Having these “grown-up” coloring books saved our sanity on a 24 hour car-ride from Montana to Michigan. We all color!
Ambre says
I love to color to relax!
LizT says
My kids color all the time to calm themselves down and re-focus. We love Ed Emberley (don’t have the Big Purple yet), and they just started getting into abstract mosaic pages. Thanks!
Nicole says
I love coloring with my kids!
Jessica Andrews says
Coloring is relaxing. My whole family would love this basket.
Tanya says
I love to color more than my kids.
Ashley Perry says
I love to color!! My boys color during art class, but they don’t enjoy it quite as much as I do?
Beth says
I don’t color, but I have older kids that do. And they would love the drawing book.
rebecca says
love art
Denise says
I rarely have time, but I do LOVE to color.
Rebecca Barry says
I do love to color with my kids 🙂 and prefer crayons and colored pencils to markers 🙂
Susannah B says
I LOVE to color with my kids! It is very relaxing for all of us and I love the fun discussions that happen when we sit around and doodle, draw, craft, or color! What a great gift basket! Hope we win!!!!!
Cindy B. says
Are you kidding? I love to color!!
Kathy Davis says
I am 62 and I still love to color. I just got new colored pencils and one of those fancy coloring books. Very relaxing.
Maria Nelson says
Such a fun giveaway. Thanks.
Deborah F. says
I love to color, this is a great basket!!
amy bauman says
i hate coloring with crayons but love markers!
Ashley says
I find coloring so relaxing! I love working on pages with my little ones.
Stacey Demers-McFarland says
Thank you for the great opportunity to win such fun prizes!
Dawne says
I love to sit and color with my kids.
Shannon Alexander says
Its funny because I don’t know if I like to color or not. I never do it. At this point, I usually get annoyed with coloring utensils because my kids leave them out or my 2 year old draws all over the walls. Even so I am adding art to our homeschool this year!
Tara H says
I do enjoy to color, but I don’t usually find time to unless I color with my boys.
Rawny says
I love being creative, love to color. Just attended my first adult coloring party but don’t own any of my own adult coloring books yet
wendy says
Looks great!
Ellen Dash says
I certainly do enjoy coloring! I love that adult coloring books have become a trend. 🙂
veronica cummings says
I love to color.
Grace says
My daughter occasionally let’s me color with her. I find it fun.
Heart of a Philanthropist Blogger Kim says
I LOVE to color. I recently purchased a lot of craft activities for my son and I to do together. Most of them were coloring.
Laura B says
My babes and I enjoy coloring in the geo design books together. Coloring is a wonderful way to unwind and relax 🙂
Sandra says
I love to color and draw, and try to pass that love to my children!
Kalee says
This is an awesome basket! I have been longing for an adult coloring book! My son is also really getting into art and drawing lately, so the drawing books would be awesome!
Christa G says
We love to color and zentangle! Love the art theme!! Thank you!
Anna A. says
I like to color. Always have.
Joanna says
My daughter and I both love coloring.
Kara says
if I only had more time! but my daughter loves it!
Sarah M says
I admit I love to color and I’ve actually placed first in a coloring competition. 🙂 The best part was the looks on my coloring-crazy daughters’ faces when I won.
Crystal says
I like to color but don’t get to very often.
Leah says
I never really gave it up, I just got a little more sophisticated 😉
Deirdre says
I don’t like to color a whole lot, but I love to draw!
Tashina says
This looks fun…this could certainly inspire my daughters creativity…thanks for the chance… ; )
Tara says
I don’t but my kids sure do!
Anna L. says
I prefer doing puzzles to coloring
Michelle F. says
Coloring is a stress reliever for me
Shari Neal says
Awesome giveaway! Yeah, we color every day, even Mom. It calms me down and we have a lot of fun! Thanks 🙂
JW says
We love to color in this family!
Jennifer G. says
I love to color! I have anxiety and this really helps me to unwind!
Karyn says
I love to color with my kids!
Janet says
I enjoy coloring when I have time and doodling. lol All my kids love drawing and art. Thanks.
smccoy says
This looks wonderful! Thank you for giving us the chance to win.
Julie says
All the kids love art – excited about this giveaway.
Sara says
I just ordered an adult coloring book and colored pencils for myself for therapy. I love to color with my kids too but lately they are requesting I not. 🙂
Courtney R says
I find coloring to be very relaxing and a fun way to enjoy quiet time with my kids.
Alicia says
I LOVE to color in my spare time! I find it incredibly relaxing!
Christine says
To be honest I do not take the time to color much anymore. I always loved to color in my younger years. We use coloring books in our studies. My girls love to color while I read. I have been intrigued with the adult coloring books coming out and I would love to try out the Aboriginal Mosaics Coloring Book with my girls. Thanks for the giveaway.
Dianna A says
I absolutely love coloring. I wish I could do it more. 🙂
Renee says
This all looks very interesting and fun!
Amy C says
Yes, I love to color and so do my kiddos. Thanks for the fun giveaway!!
kim says
Would love this basket!!
Rebecca Bohan says
Awesome giveaway we all love to color over here.
Tammy says
I enjoy coloring with my kids, but it is usually at their request. I rarely take time to enjoy it on my own.
Diana M says
I love Ed Emberley!
MJ Moore says
I’ve never been very confident in my artistic abilities, honestly. I’m hoping my kids will have a passion for art! So I’m trying to give them the tools and support they need.
Anna Pry says
I dont color but my kids sure do
Rhonda says
I have to admit that I love to color.
nicole says
I love to color.
Sharon Schoepe says
I love to color!
Debi Schuhow says
I love to color mandelas, it is very relaxing.
Lisa McClain says
I love to color! Thanks.
Becky M says
I love to color and paint in my spare time and when the kids are doing art. I have found it to be very calming since having kids!
Jessica says
I love to color with my children.
Deborah F. says
I love to color the “blues” away, great prize!
Emily says
I would rather doodle than color, but my kids love to do both!
Rebekah says
Sometimes I just really need a break so I go color. 🙂
Angela W says
I have always loved to color and my daughter now loves to color.
Deanna Barkley says
I love to colour.
Sarabeth says
I used to love coloring and I still find myself bookmarking sites with coloring pages, but with 6 kids I can’t remember when I last sat down and did any coloring myself. My kids do lots of coloring of course.
tracy criswell says
I like to color with my children.
Tara says
We love to color. We have been giving special adults in our lives coloring books for gifts.
Colleen Johnston says
I always love coloring with my children and granddaughter! 3 of my 4 kids loved to color, so it works out great! 🙂
Molly Impola says
I color with my kids sometimes, but I think as we begin school, it will be part of our regular ‘to do’ activities
Kristina Best says
I try to lay on the floor and color with my boys as much as possible.
Leah says
I do like to color, but only when my daughter is joining in.
Julia B says
I like to color but can’t relax while doing it…there is always something I feel like I should be doing instead.
Jennifer Evans says
I love to color and so does my son.We love anything art.
Wendi Billington says
My children color frequently. I don’t color enough :).
Crystal D says
I enjoy coloring with my kids – I do a little doodling in my journal and my boys often join me, drawing beside me as I write/draw.
Amy Lopez says
My daughter and I love to color!!
Sarah says
My daughter and I love to color together, and this collection of books would inspire both of us!
Kristy says
I would…if I had any free time!
susan says
Love coloring!!!
Tara Ziegmont says
I do like to color.
Sharon Weil says
I don’t think you can ever get too old to enjoy coloring.
monique says
I love coloring with my kids. We have a coloring contest at least once a month. We turn on music and vet lost in our coloring.
Kris Tuttle says
I actually like to color with my kids and my mother. She loves to color so I introduced her to rubberstamping so she didn’t feel self conscious. 🙂
Amberley says
I like to color with my kids! 🙂
Dorothy Boucher says
YES!!! although I am not good at it, still drawing stick people loll I am always wanting to learn more 🙂 thanks
Michelle R says
I don’t like to color but then I don’t have a lot of spare time
Debby says
I love coloring and love all the new grown up coloring books that are out now too.
Jessica says
I would love to spend some free time coloring……I just don’t really get much free time 🙂
Carol L says
Live coloring. When my 7 were little we’d allsit around and color and I’ve been doing ever since. 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
Carol L
Leslie Terbeek says
Thank you for including all ages! We have adults, middle school and elementary 🙂
Sharon Schoepe says
We love coloring. I even color after the kids are in bed as a way to unwind
Jen says
cute basket
Chiska says
I have a very short attention span when it comes to coloring. My kids love to color.
Shannon says
Yes I love to color
Kristi says
I am going to be quite honest, I am not an artsy person at all. My son is so he would enjoy this basket greatly.
Amy says
We love Art !
Sharon N says
I love to color. The coloring books printed on good paper are the best, because I like to use water color or gouache with colored pencils and my son likes to use markers.
Sheila says
Yes, it’s very relaxing!
lifewithmycowboys says
Sometimes I think I like to more than the kiddos!
Maureen says
Coloring is a great way to relax with the kids at the end of a busy day.
B. Hansen says
There are 6 of us who LOVE to color and draw at our house. Thank you for the giveaway, those books look fun!
Sundi says
I do like coloring, especially the more grown up coloring books!
Alyson M says
Awesome giveaway!
Rebekah M says
I love to color, in fact I have my own coloring books that I do not allow my children to use at all. Yes, I am selfish about that.
Michelle says
I love to draw and color!
Crystal says
love coloring!!
R G says
Coloring is one of those relaxing, soothing activities I love!
Tracy B. says
I don’t often color in my spare time, but it’s something fun to do every so often. Thank you for the chance to win this gift basket!
Virginia Reyes says
We love to color. It is very relaxing for us. It makes a great quiet activity for my son in church too.
Marilyn says
I love to color,it doesn’t matter if it is a child’s or adult’s coloring book. I particularly enjoy the holiday ones. Thanks for the giveaway.
Marilyn
Lori says
Yes, I like to color.
Valerie Brock says
Coloring is relaxing.
Helen says
Both my DDs love to color and draw so when I have time, I will draw and color and paint with them. But they are they artists in the house!
Amy S says
I love to color!
Elizabeth F says
I love coloring! Wold be awesome to sit and color with my little one.
Katrina says
I like to color – it helps me de-stress (until my dear sweet ones ask if they can “help” on something I’ve been working on, than I have to try and steer them to their own page, lol)
Kari says
I love coloring
Melanie says
My children have really come to enjoy drawing over the past month. They are creating so many drawings per day it’s crazy, lol. They would love to win this basket 🙂
Mindy Marcus says
My children love art activities!
Mindy says
Coloring is fun! Yes, I do enjoy coloring and drawing.
Leah says
I love to color! But taking care of my 6 wonderful kiddos leaves me little time to do just that. I get to enjoy watching them color now and getting all their art on my fridge. 🙂
Amanda says
Such a fun basket! I enjoy drawing and coloring with my kids.
Tiffany DeOs says
I love to color. I have two really great adult coloring books right now I’m working on. I’m not that great at it but I do enjoy it.
Amanda Likens says
I do love to color!
Leanne says
I do like to color,especially with my kids, but I don’t make time for it too often.
Robin says
I was just making a list of things to do to relax and coloring was at the top of the list. These books look great! I’ll need to order a few, and I might even share with my kids 🙂
Judith Martinez says
I don’t love to color like my mom does but I do occasionally enjoy coloring intricate designs.
Katrina says
I normally just sketch random things. But I don’t really have coloring books around.
Sharon Schoepe says
I love to color. It’s a great way to unwind and relax
Maureen says
Last night was an especially stressful day. My children and I decided to color together and it was lots of fun while relaxing at the same time.
Illean Ray says
I do.
Judith Martinez says
I only like to color if it is a really elaborate design and I have really high quality materials to work with.
Triciarm says
I do color on occasion with my children, but all 3 of my kids love all things art and would LOVE this gift basket!!!
Terra says
I LOVE to color! It’s so relaxing!
Wendy says
I enjoy coloring detailed designs.
Kathy says
I actually just purchased my first adult coloring book a few weeks ago!
Steph says
I find coloring very relaxing, but I hardly ever sit down and do it – with or without the kids around.
Rachel says
As an adult, I love to color it soothes me. I laugh out loud when other adults look at me oddly.
Melissa says
Coloring is a great stress reliever for me! 🙂
icefairy says
I don’t, but my kids do.
Mindy B says
I like to color-by-number while my children are coloring. I find a little added direction makes it more relaxing. =)
Irina Goldberg says
I love to color and can’t wait till my kids are old enough to join me!
Lorie S says
I do love to color in my spare time! My sister even gave me a huge Crayon assortment to celebrate ‘back to homeschool!’ My teenage daughter finds it to be a great stress reliever too!
Alycia A says
I love to colour! My girls and i have been enjoying colouring a lot lately.
Rebecca Hughes says
I do really enjoy coloring. I find it to be very relaxing.
Lori H says
I love to color. I enjoy creating art projects with my girls that require coloring of some sort. We try to do a lot of art projects since we all enjoy it.
Jennifer H says
Coloring is fun and relaxing. All 5 of my kids even enjoy it!
Nathalie says
This giveaway looks amazing!!
Darcy Hoskins says
I LOVE coloring! I love the new trend of adult coloring books & printable pages on Pinterest…I’m a horrible artist, so I love being able to color things other than in children’s books. Lol
Jennifer says
Sometimes…not very often
Erin says
I like to color with my girls.
Sharon Schoepe says
I love coloring
Shay says
I love to color in my spare time!! Just wish I had spare time to color!! lol
Sunni E says
I love to color, with or without my kiddos. I have my adult coloring books as well. I love multimedia coloring too 🙂
Deana says
Yes! I like to color with my kids.
Leah Rollins says
I don’t color often, but when I do (usually when my daughter is creating her own art), I am always reminded of how relaxing coloring can be! Thanks for the giveaway!
Judith Martinez says
I actually enjoy coloring on coloring pages more then my children do. They prefer blank paper.
Cassie says
I love to color with my kids! And they would love this basket.
Beth S says
I do enjoy coloring, though I haven’t done it in too long, unless you count adding color to house renovation plans 😉
Kim CLark says
I like coloring with my kids and now I have been doing some adult coloring with random shapes and colors to see what I can create.
Tamara R says
Yes, I actually do like to color on my spare time. With my HP printer you can sign up for different printables and I have them send the “adult” style coloring pages to my printer every Thursday.
Michele Amos says
I have recently begun coloring again. I actually found an app that I can do “adult coloring” with.
Cindy B says
I’m not sure I really know the meaning of this thing you call “spare time” but I do enjoy sitting down to color with my children.
Sharon Schoepe says
I absolutely love it! Takes me back to being little and laying on the floor coloring
Jess McCarthy says
I’ve always loved to color; I just need to remember to do it! 😉
Leah says
I love to color! With 6 kids though, it is hard to make time to do it. Right now I get my enjoyment by guiding them though their coloring and asking questions and then enjoying that artwork on my fridge. 🙂
Sarah says
I think I’d like to color, but I haven’t actually made time to do it yet.
April says
Yes! I like to doodle in my planner when I get a minute. 🙂
Candi Best says
Yes, I love to color with my kiddos!
Judith Martinez says
I love all the great printable adult coloring pages that I’ve found online lately.
Holly Petrinec says
We don’t like to color in our house; we LOVE to color!!!!
Lindsey says
I honestly don’t but my girls love coloring!
Nina H says
I used to draw and color more, but haven’t had as much time recently.
Melanie says
I like to color with my kids and also my husband 🙂
Kelly says
Love to color, but finding spare time is hard!
Sharon Schoepe says
I love to color. It’s a great way to relax
Christina G says
I love to color! It has only been with the advent of ‘adult coloring books’ that I’ve felt validated instead of childish!
Joe says
I love to color. mandalas are my favorite.
amy says
When I color I really enjoy it, but I don’t think to do it very often =)
Catherine says
Yes, and I recently read an article about a study that said coloring is second only to meditation for relaxing adults.
kelly tillotson says
We have bought a lot of the Dover historical coloring books–both my sons and I like to color them! Thanks for the giveaway!
*kelly
kelly-tillotson@hotmail.com
Lori Clark says
I do color on occasion, it is actually very relaxing!
Diana Cote says
Yes, I love to draw and color… My husband likes to draw sometimes too and our daughter has picked up on it too because she is an art junkie and will go through days of just drawing for hours at a time. 😀
Judith Martinez says
I’ve had to create a folder on my computer just for all of the neat adult coloring pages bloggers have been creating lately! Love them!
Erica says
I love to color with my daughter!
Michelle says
I actually do love to draw and color, I just never seem to have time for it anymore. Unless, doodling on scrap paper when I have to make phone calls counts! 😉
Lori Vissers says
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Lori Vissers says
Thanks for the wonderful giveaway!
Ericka Coello says
Actually, my sister-in-law and my son love coloring
k says
Yes, love to color when I have time…
Ashley Perry says
I love to color!! I have always enjoyed coloring since I was a kid, and now I color at least 5 times a week with my youngest son since he enjoys it too!
kaye herbert says
i like to do zentangles
Kelly says
I love the idea of it, but I don’t make it happen often enough. I have 3 coloring books just for mom and new colored pencils.