Coloring is not for only kids anymore. Therefore, if you haven’t yet, go out there, get a color set, and get coloring on National Coloring Day! Wanna know more about the day? Read below!
When is National Coloring Day?
National Coloring Day is celebrated on September 14 every year.
FAQs
The frequently asked questions below are sure to encourage you to spend the day with enthusiasm and answer your queries!
What do I do on National Coloring Day?
The best way to celebrate the day would be to use supplies like colored pencils, pens, or markers, to color. Even better would be if you planned a coloring party with your friends, helping spread the great activity too.
Or, you can help the school out by donating coloring supplies for various arts programs. These can include coloring books, pencils, pens, crayons, or markers.
What are some benefits of coloring?
Coloring helps develop hand strength, especially in young children, and offers practice for pencil grip. It, additionally, helps stimulate creativity and also encourages self-expression. Finally, it helps develop focus and improve fine motor coordination.
When was National Coloring Day founded?
Jace Shoemaker-Galloway is said to have created National Coloring Day in 2015.
When was the first coloring book formed?
The first coloring book, The Little Folk’s Painting Book, was invented by the McLoughlin Brothers company in the 1880s.
Fun Facts About Colors
- Coloring books not only help with stress but are also great for coping with anxiety.
- Pink helps soothe the nerves and, therefore, is great for anger management.
- Chromophobia is an irrational and ongoing fear of color and arises from a traumatic event associated with color.
- Studies found that blue is the most common favorite color worldwide, followed by purple.
- Yellow and red together make people hungry, which is why food chains often use them in advertising.
- The color wheel was invented by Isaac Newton around the year 1665.
- Around 62 to 90% of the first impression is based on the colors you are wearing. Therefore, for a strong impression, you should avoid neutrals.
- Black and white pictures are more easily forgotten than colored ones.
- Wearing black clothing makes a person appear more powerful.
- The first coloring book was used to mock corporate culture, like the strict dress code.
- The Executive Coloring Book of the 1960s made adult coloring books trendy.
- Colors can effectively trigger childhood memories.
- Infants as young as two weeks old can view the red color. The color vision continues to develop to include other colors till they can see the full spectrum by five months.
Great Jokes
What color is the wind?
Blew.
What do the colors green, pink, and yellow have in common?
The phone rings green, green, green! So you pink it up and say yellow
What did the color say to the other color?
I love hue.
I don’t know why the color purple gets such bad reviews.
It made me blue when I red the comments.
What is Aquaman’s favorite color?
Aquamarine.
How do colors laugh?
Hue Hue Hue.
What’s black and white, black and white, and black and white?
A panda bear rolling down a hill!
What is gray and blue and very big?
An elephant holding its breath!
Did you hear about the guy who passed away because he consumed too much food coloring?
He dyed.
What’s a cat’s favorite color?
Purrrrple.
What does a momma color wheel say to a baby color wheel?
Don’t use that tone with me.
Funny One-Liners
Today I thought of a color that doesn’t exist but then realized it was just a pigment of my imagination.
I have a magic pen that can write any color. Red, green, blue, yellow, and even words that aren’t colors.
Purple is my least favorite color. I hate it more than red and blue combined.
If a purple-colored fruit gets stuck in your drain, you should call a plumber to fix it.
The color turquoise was judged as the best color because it was cyantifically proven to be.
In the quiz competition about colors, I wanted to help my partner by giving him a tint, but he couldn’t catch it!
I was shocked when I learned that singer Pink’s favorite color was actually green. No one could have i-magenta-it.
The sun’s favorite color is ultraviolet. Apparently, it glows with everything.
Blue and green stopped fighting because they had agreed on peace teal.
Powerful Color Quotes
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that is, the artist’s brain.
Henri Matisse
Without black, no color has any depth.
Amy Grant
Color is a power that directly influences the soul.
Wassily Kandinsky
Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
Paul Gauguin
I am a believer that color affects people’s moods.
Lilly Pulitzer
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
Paul Klee
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way.
Georgia O’Keeffe
I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Color creates, enhances, changes, reveals, and establishes the mood of the painting.
Kiff Holland
Colors answer feelings in man; shapes answer thought; motion answers will.
John Sterling
Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotions.
Pablo Picasso
All colors arouse specific associative ideas.
Yves Klein
Color Sayings
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Leigh Hunt
Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment.
Claude Monet
You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to the wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide.
Dorothy Draper
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
Wassily Kandinsky
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
Henry S. Haskins
Colors speak all languages.
Joseph Addison
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
Paul Cezanne
Captions for Instagram
Coloring is 100% mood.
Expressing my thoughts through colors.
Coloring is therapeutic for me.
Coloring on my mind!
The colors speak for themselves!
The best color is to paint with love.
Life is serious, but coloring is fun!
Coloring is the journey of a free soul!
Every color is a journey on its own.
Coloring is a vision on paper.
Life is all about colors!
Coloring is my happy mood!
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