Colouring for 93 year old chap

look on amazon to see whats suitable for him,they have a large selection .My mum in law likes colouring the flowery ones and I get them from there

Can you recommend a particular one Paddyann? I`ve just received 2 from Amazon which are so useless that I`m returning them! I wish they would show more examples of the pages in the details

Would Star Wars be considered too childish?

This site has a lot of downloadable pictures for colouring
www.supercoloring.com/sections/coloring-pages

Also do a search for Mandalas which are intricate patterns for colouring that older children an adults enjoy
www.supercoloring.com/coloring-pages/arts-culture/mandala
www.thebalance.com/free-mandala-coloring-pages-4027232

Have you looked in the Works? You can look online to see what they have.

I always forget about The Works - we`ve got a big branch locally so I`ll go and look in there. WH Smith is pretty useless. The problem with downloadable pictures is that he is very untidy and disorganised now - it is better if everything is together in a book
Star Wars would definitely be considered too childish!

If anyone ever buys me one of these I will rip the pages out and eat them....after first ripping that person limb from limb. I guess I'm just NOT a colouring inside the lines sort of person ???

OK I get it, some people enjoy this incredibly boring activity

As you were.

Anya! [shocked] I never had you down as a violent type...

I used to find inside my Christmas sticking every year, year after b****y year after b****y as a child. Hated them with a vengeance Ana

You might feel differently when you are a 93 year old in the early stages of dementia

I'd have to be demented for sure!

deff have a look in the WORKS if you have one nearby lots of choice

Nothing wrong with them for other people. Chacum a son gout.

Myfather used to do complicated technical drawings - I don`t expect he anticipated that a day would come when he would get some comfort from simple colouring in

There seem to be several books of structures and buildings by Steve McDonald, would these be suitable?
www.amazon.co.uk/Fantastic-Structures-Colouring-Books-McDonald/dp/145215323X?tag=gransnetforum-21

Was he a keen gardener? The RHS has colouring books with a horticultural theme at www.rhsshop.co.uk/category.aspx?id=10000545 I counted 19.

I have The Kew Gardens Flowering Plants Colouring Book which has 40 really nice pictures taken from lithographs of the work of a 19C artist. The outlines are fairly simple, and on the opposite page is the artist's coloured version.

They are not my cup of tea, but I can see that they can be an ideal activity for someone in a care home, who may well have sight and dementia problems.

I have many years of care home visiting behind me and I think many of those I have seen just sitting and vaguely staring would be far happier getting involved in activities like this.

thanks
I think the buildings one would be too elaborate for him - he can`t manage small detail. The RHS ones look possible - but again I wish they would show more of the pages so I can judge if they are suitable. There was one which sounded ideal but then I realised it is "compact" - which means it is too small

eddiecat I shall try to scan one of the pages in my RHS book and post it (no promises!)

Success with the outline, eddiecat will now try with the coloured version.

Not so successful. The printer/scanner won't send scans direct to the PC so I have to save them onto an SD card, then move the card to the PC. It worked fine with the black/white scan but now it not only doesn't seem to have the coloured scan saved properly but it also has lost the black/white one.

I shall turn off the PC and restart it and try again after I have eaten (can hear oven timer calling me)

The Range has colouring books too, I bought some for the DGD at Christmas.
I hope they didn't rip them up and eat them!
Someone bought me a couple when I was immobile - they are still pristine as the day I received them.

They may come in useful one day though.

Thanks for this thread eddiecat78. Best wishes to you and your father.
I have just used your link Eligran and bought a colouring book from RHS for my Mum and me to do together in the care home. It will make a change from the Woman's Weekly. Thank you.