Wainuiomata joins craze for colouring-in

‘‘I need different things at different times, I need stimulation, I need more then one thing as I get bored easily.’’

Abstract patterns and animals are waiting to be coloured-in, but not just by children.

Adult colouring-in groups are so popular in the Hutt Valley that a third group has started up.

Elle Abel started up the group, which meets at the Wainuiomata Library, after being asked to by the organiser of the Lower Hutt Adults Colouring-In Group, Julie Parsons.

Many Wainuiomata residents could not get to that group because of the cost of transport, Abel said.

She had been colouring-in for two years and said the Lower Hutt group was attended by 12 to 15 members each time.

The mother of two preschoolers said she became involved because it was a way of having time out, de-stressing and she could give away her creations as cards.

As a non-painter it was a nontechnical thing and she ‘‘didn’t have to think’’.

It opened up a whole new world of different types of pens, like gels, and books.

She also found time to dabble in acting, working backstage, singing in a choir, knitting, making tapestry, sewing, felting and decorating cakes.

‘‘I need different things at different times, I need stimulation, I need more then one thing as I get bored easily.’’

The knitter recently decorated trees as part of the seven day makeover of Wainuiomata.

She encouraged anyone to come along to the classes at the Wainuiomata Library on the second and fourth Saturday of each month from 1pm to 3pm.

If an attendee did not have colouring-in books and pens, she could photocopy some pages for them.

Another group, Rainbow Colours, meets in the Upper Hutt Library fortnightly on Tuesdays from 10am-noon. The Lower Hutt Adults Colouring-In Group meets every Sunday at 2pm at the War Memorial Library. All groups are free.