Art Therapy – Free Coronovirus Coloring Sheet Printable

This free coloring printable has two purposes and we cover them both below.

One: you can color it in for a little bit of crafty creative fun to help find the creativity in a very stressful situation.

Second: this coloring sheet can be used to help distract adults and children whilst being topical. Focusing on the present helps you achieve mindfulness. Covid-19 news is all around us in the media, in the streets and we can’t avoid it, but what we can do is take away the fear by creating a non-stressful visual approach to the virus.

Coloring has the ability to relax the fear centre of your brain and is considered a good ‘mind exercise’ because it utilizes both sides of the brain whilst occupying it at the same time.

Coloring has been used to alleviate pain from headaches as well as comfort a sick child. This sheet is a great way to get older kids to use the printable to help alleviate any anxiety they may have about the current world situation. This sheet also opens up communication between children and teens about Coronavirus and gives you a blank canvas to discuss any concerns they may be having.

This printable has been custom designed for CraftGossip.com so please do not re-distribute it without our consent. The download can be printed on A3 or A4, so make sure to adjust your print size accordingly.

Download this sheet here.

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I guess I’m on a bit of a double knitting tear these days. Just the other day I shared some double knitting potholder patterns, and if you’re ready for a more complex double knitting pattern, I would love to recommend this one to you.

The Puppet Master Scarf from Katharina Kuntz is a long double knit scarf with a variety of Muppet characters on it. I see Kermit and Ms. Piggy, of course, as well as Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Beaker, Rowlf the Dog, Rizzo the Rat and Sam Eagle to name a few. The scarf is densely packed with characters who are different colors on each side.

They’re also potentially different colors from each other, which is shown in the sample here. There are charts in the pattern that show you how to work the whole scarf in two colors or use multiple colors for the different characters.

As shown the scarf uses 20 colors of fingering weight yarn. You’ll need about 656 yards/600 meters of each if you use two colors, and a range for the different characters if you do them all in different colors, but only a couple of them take more than 50 yards. You could definitely use leftovers from other projects on this one.

The finished scarf is about 6.4 inches/16.3 cm wide and 72.4 inches or 184 cm long.

It would definitely be a labor of love but this looks like such a fun project and I’m sure you would get a lot of attention from knitters and non-knitters alike when you wear it!

While this project looks a lot more complicated than those pot holders I just shared, the skills are the same. You just really need to pay attention to the charts to make sure you’re making your characters look how they are supposed to. There are also photos and links to video tutorials to help you along the way.

You can grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Katharina Kuntz]

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