Brain Games - Color by Number: Butterflies Spiral-bound – November 15, 2020

It made a wonderful gift

Live that the book is spiral bound! Makes it so much easier to color. And that the color guide is at the bottom of each page

These coloring books are perfect for me during my recovery from surgery. They have nice pictures and very relaxing

What I love:- Every picture in this book looks fun to color. I've done four pictures now and they are so pretty.- Spiral bound and designs on only one side of the paper. My marker goes through the paper but not to the next page. Even so, I still put a piece of paper between.- Spiral bound and perforated. So I can copy the picture easily onto another kind of paper, if I want to. So far I haven't.- The back side of the picture, when I use markers, shows through the colors faintly and is as pretty as the front side that shows all the lines. I love this.- Many pictures to color, and you can choose one with large areas to color or one with smaller areas to color, or both. You can color by number and then do them fancy with shading and artwork or leave them "flat" and have a fun picture.- I'm new to color by number and absolutely love it.- The paper is nice for markers. I haven't tried pencils, crayons, paints or watercolor pencils yet, but I don't expect any problems. I'm having so much fun with the markers that I haven't wanted to try anything else.I gave 4 stars instead of 5 because:- It's difficult to match the colors. I can look at the solutions to see what the picture should look like, and then choose the colors accordingly. I think the colors on the bottom of the page are not very good for matching, kind of faded or something.- And I wish it was one code throughout, in other words that each number corresponded with the same color throughout. In one picture 1 might be red and in another picture, red might be 3.- My Sharpie fine markers seem to react with the paper somehow and produce some sort of fumes, not overly strong but I am sensitive to smells. (The markers always have an odor but this is different and only on this paper.It hasn't happened with any other papers except this one.) My husband cannot smell it. I have a pet bird and I am little concerned about the fumes. The Bic ultrafine markers don't react to the paper. If this continues to bother me, I will copy the page onto some smooth cardstock and color it there. Even though there is the smell, the paper is very nice to use markers on.Bottom line, I love this coloring book and am considering either buying another copy of it or see what other books this company has and trying some of those.

If you have anxiety, this is your book. It really keep you busy. I really recomend it. The spiral makes it easy to use. 100% recommended even for adults.

I love all Brain Games color by number books.

Very easy to follow numbers

Very good picture