Press Out and Colour: Easter Eggs Board book – 2 Mar. 2017

This is our second book in this range. I have decided to purchase an Easter one following the success of the press out and colour Christmas decorations, which was enjoyed by my 5 and 7 years old children, as well as their 9, 10 and 12 year old cousins.The pages are made of thick card and each page contains press out ornaments with beautiful intricate designs in gold outline. You can’t help to notice how lovely is the quality as soon as you open this nook. Because the designs are so fine we found it best to colour in with gel pens as you need a really fine tip, plus gel pens are bright and glittery so the finished results looks great.This does require quite a bit of patience as not only there are 2 sides of each ornament - some of them can also be slotted in to make a 3D shape, so need to colour 4 sides with tiny details. My 5 year old adores this activity, but she has never finished anything in one sitting and usually picks the smallest ones. I would say this colouring is best suited for 7 years up and can be equally enjoyed by the adults, as I did myself.I can not recommend this book enough - just make sure you have fine tip pens for colouring!

My 5 year old loved colouring these with glitter gel pens. This has provided hours and hours of entertainment and is actually the second time we bought this book.

Pretty gold edges make coloring within the lines easy

Excellent quality.

***Please note that the title varies a little as Easter Decorations has now become Easter Eggs but both are the same book.***Press Out and Colour: Easter Decorations is not your usual colouring book. The book is a board book which is protected by a very hard-backed yellow cover with an illustration of some of the lovely Easter Egg decorations you can make hanging from blossom laden branches (you could place a few blossom branches in a vase to hang them from, create an easter tree, make an easter mobile with them or just hang them on long thread in your window). It is further embellished with gold foiling which hints at the lovely printing and designs inside.The pages are thick board and are spiral-bound and each page has two or four Egg pieces. The Egg decorations come in three sizes; the largest measures 10 x 7 cm, the Medium 9 x 6.5 cm and the small 5.5 x 4 cm (approximately) to make up each egg. All the pieces are pre-cut ready for you to easily push out. the Large and medium eggs have two pieces each which slot easily together to make a 3-Dimentional egg decoration. There are pre-made holes too to enable you to thread and hang them.The book is extremely well-made so as long as you push the pieces out carefully there should be no tearing or damage done to any of the pieces. There are a total of 20 Eggs to colour, with designs including birds, leaves, ducks, hearts, a mouse, rabbits, a butterfly and abstract stylised florals. Each piece of the Eggs have a white background to colour with decorative lines embossed in beautiful gold foil, meaning these will look beautiful coloured or uncoloured, so if you don’t get to finish them before easter you can still use them this year. the Pieces easily slot together and slide apart again and slot back into the book (complete with thread as I found) to store them for future use as they will be well-protected and should then last you for years.I decided to colour two eggs to show you – one of the small and one of the 3-Dimentional large Eggs. i used cheap felt tip pens to colour with. One thing I was worried that might happen was that the pens would colour the gold foil. This however wasn’t the case as it resisted the colour very well. The pens went on smoothly and covered well so i have no hesitation in recommending the use of water-based markers, gel pens, watercolour paints and coloured pencils as mediums to colour the eggs in. There was just enough detail to colour to keep me interested, and they took just the right length of time to color in to be both a simple little project yet not coloured in seconds. There are no instructions, but they are so easy and obvious to put together they’re not needed; the pieces just push out and slot together easily. I threaded some gold thread that I found at the Haberdashery stall on the market through the little holes to hang them and knotted the end.You could even embellish them further by adding glitter or gems to them, however these are decorative enough that they really don’t need adding to, but if you decide to make more by tracing the shapes onto card you could easily do so.This is a great activity to do together with the children as they are simple enough that older children would be able to make themselves (you could easily trace round the shape onto card to make them even more simple so youngeer children can join in the fun), but they are also well-made enough that they will appeal to adults to colour just for themselves. I highly recommend this book, its a lot of fun.I was kindly sent this book but the comments and opinions are my own

This review is taken from my blog where I review adult colouring books from a mental health perspective, more images can be found on my blog. I received a copy of this book from the publisher, I was not required nor obliged to provide a review, I have written one in order to inform prospective buyers about the paper quality, image content and mental health implications of the book.This book is aimed at children but actually, it’s ideal for anyone who’s young at heart and I really enjoyed colouring my Easter Eggs ready for the review. This book is hardback, a little larger than A5 and spiral-bound. The covers are bright yellow and the spine is pale blue with gold foiling on the spine and the front cover. On the inside covers are white line drawings on a bright blue background of Easter egg decorations hung on branches. The book contains 20 different sizes of Easter eggs, some of which are flat and some of which slot together to make a 3D shape all of which you can press out (before or after colouring), colour and assemble and then hang around the house. The pages are made of very thick card/hardboard and are covered in gold foil throughout. The Easter eggs are white with gold line-drawn patterns all over them which you colour within and these catch the light beautifully when you hang up your assembled egg and it moves against the light. The eggs are printed double-sided with the same design on both sides so that you can colour it identically and have a 3D egg at the end. The cuts around the little sections that need to be removed in order to slot the egg shapes together and hang it up are really well cut so that you can push the unneeded bits out with your fingers or something a bit pointier if needed. The pieces slot together really well and are very sturdy and will remain so if you don’t disassemble and reassemble them a lot so they won’t fall apart by accident and they shouldn’t need gluing. Each egg has small holes that you can tie some thread through (the holes are a little small for string) and you could either hang the eggs separately or together, or even create an Easter tree out of foraged branches. You may not want to keep these egg decorations up all year round and if that’s the case then they can be disassembled and the pieces can be popped back into the guides in the book for safekeeping. The guides can also be used as stencils to draw within (or you could draw around the pieces but be careful to only use pencil so you don’t accidentally damage your finished piece) so that you can create lots more eggs than the original 20 you’re getting. Simply draw within the slots and holes on the pieces to make sure it’ll slot together just like the original or, if you’re using thinner card, make them thinner and adjust with scissors as you go if it’s a bit too tight a fit! The eggs are in 4 different sizes: 6 of the largest which are all 3D; 2 of the second largest which are also both 3D; 8 of the second smallest which are flat in design and 4 of the smallest which are also flat in design. Once they’re all coloured, assembled, and displayed together they’ll look fabulous and you’ll be all set for the Easter Bunny’s arrival in April.As mentioned before, the card is very thick hardboard and therefore you can use whatever mediums you fancy. I used alcohol markers on mine as they’re much more fade-resistant than water-based pens and they didn’t shadow at all. The patterns are quite detailed so you may struggle with pencils and little people almost certainly would so I’d stick to pens for this (do put down some protective stuff on the table if letting your child loose with Sharpies or it may not just be the egg that gets permanently subjected to their creative flair). These egg decorations would make a perfect family project, you could do one each or even do a piece each and see what you come out with, I’m sure you could create some really wonderful decorations! It would be a lovely activity to do for or with your children and once you’ve completed all 20, or just a few, you could hang them around the house or on an Easter tree in pride of place so that you and they are constantly reminded of the fun you had creating them together. The hardboard is really durable and will hold up to a fair bit of bashing, scrubbing, and over-colouring (children can get a little over-enthusiastic with pens sometimes) so these eggs would be ideal for children of almost any age, if they can hold a pen and colour, they can colour these decorations! The parts are all fairly big so it’s advised on the book that you don’t give it to a child under the age of 36 months but above that you’ll be good to go!In terms of mental health, what could be better than an activity that you can share with your children? The process of colouring them together will be sure to lift your mood and if you’re ever having a bad day or feeling anxious, go and check out your handiwork and marvel at the gorgeous colours and look forward to the chocolate treats you’ll be sharing with each other soon! The intricacy and detail level is surprisingly high for a book that’s aimed at children but the gold lines can either be coloured within by adults, or over by children, it really won’t matter either way and you’ll get some very unique egg decorations regardless of the way you colour them. Each egg either has a pattern or Spring-themed scene on it so none of it needs to be coloured realistically and you could either theme them all with a Spring palette or just let loose with ALL the colours! Each egg is either made of one or two pieces so some need no assembly and those that do just require slotting one piece into the other so they’re really easy to assemble and they don’t take hours and hours to colour, even if you do colour each section separately (like I did) so they’re a great quick project to create something beautiful and displayable for your home!I would highly recommend this book to those with children, or the young at heart. These egg decorations are super cute and great fun to colour and they look even better once assembled, a fully coloured set will look “eggcellent” (not even sorry!) hung up in a room or adorning an Easter tree and they’ll be sure to delight your child and brighten up the darkest of days be those due to weather or mental health. Get colouring yourself some “eggstra”-special egg decorations!

I should have read the product details properly! I just saw 'children' and 'board book'. This product would challenge the colouring in skills of adults and certainly your average 5 year old would not manage it. So I think it is a bit misleading to have it listed under 'Children's Activities' in Amazon.