article_snippet.sent: A busy mum sits at a table surrounded by crayons, colouring in a child's book, taking care to stay within the printed lines and fully concentrating on the task.
article_snippet.sent: There's nothing unusual about that, you might think, except there's not a child in sight...and A busy mum is simply colouring in because A busy mum wants to.
article_snippet.sent: Grown ups reaching for the crayons is a new global trend it seems, as adults say adults're attracted to the creativity that colouring in affords.
article_snippet.sent: The New York Times has even reported on 'colouring-in groups', where grown-ups meet, as if 'colouring-in groups', where grown-ups meet were in a knitting circle or book club, just to neatly daub colour on the right side of lines together.
article_snippet.sent: Basford, 31, told The Times: 'Colouring in appeals to people because it’s a chance to do an analogue activity that’s not on a screen.
article_snippet.sent: The artist says: 'Colouring in appeals to people because it’s a chance to do an analogue activity that’s not on a screen' In Australia, colouring-in circles have emerged, such is the pursuit's current popularity.
article_snippet.sent: One crayon fantatic Jenny Keane told the Sydney Morning Herald that The artist even enjoys colouring in with The artist husband: 'During the week some people like to go to the bar to decompress, whereas my husband and I like to sit down together and just colour.'
article_snippet.sent: Some people might use yoga or running but colouring for me is my sense of peace.'
article_snippet.sent: A study in the US in 2012 found that colouring in reduced anxiety among university students.
highlights_snippet.sent: The trend for grown-ups colouring in is said to have started in France .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Craze has spread across the globe with fans starting colouring-in groups .
  