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Bauhaus Patchwork
Treat each row of the pattern like a strip of fabric: give every row its own pair of colors from the Bauhaus palette, using exactly 6 colors across the page.
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Navy and Gold Clash
Use exactly 4 colors: a light and a dark version of both navy and gold, so the page has depth as well as contrast. Let the pair alternate across neighboring shapes.
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Coral Reef Ombre
Use 3 to 5 colors from the Coral Reef palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from the top of the page to the bottom.
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Coral Reef Giants and Dots
Give the biggest shapes calm, deeper colors and the smallest shapes the brightest ones. Use exactly 3 colors from the Coral Reef palette.
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Pastel Rainbow Lullaby
Keep everything soft: use exactly 4 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette with light, even pressure, and skip heavy shading. The page should end up looking like a soft quilt.
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Arctic Days
Bring winter to your pattern page: use 4 or 5 colors from the Arctic palette and color it as if you were seeing it on a frosty winter day.
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Kimono Glow
Color for a romantic feeling: use exactly 3 colors from the Kimono palette, and for each area of the pattern page choose whichever color feels most romantic to you.
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Forest Floor Dash
Set a timer for 5 minutes and color as much of the pattern page as you can with exactly 5 colors from the Forest Floor palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Window View Patterns
Look out of the nearest window, pick 6 colors you can see outside and bring them into your pattern page.
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Citrus Turbo
Go bright: use exactly 3 colors from the Citrus palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Flat, even color in every shape will make the geometry pop.
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Patterns Color Marathon
Use exactly 7 different colors, and don't use the same color twice within one row. Choose the 7 pencils or markers from your set that you use the least.
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Kimono Flipside
Make the largest shapes light and the small background shapes dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 2 colors from the Kimono palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Galaxy Island
Color a small cluster of shapes in the middle of the page with exactly 3 colors from the Galaxy palette, then fill everything else with just the palest one.
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Sea Glass Easy Start
An easy start: use 2 or 3 colors from the Sea Glass palette. Color the biggest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest shapes last.
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Red Carpet Boudoir
Color your pattern page with makeup-bag shades: use exactly 3 colors from the Red Carpet palette, with the metallic or shimmer shade saved for small highlights.
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Copper and Teal Split
Use exactly 5 colors from the Copper and Teal palette: the warm ones for the largest shapes and the cool ones for the small background shapes. Notice how the warm areas seem to step forward.
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Jewel Box Initial
Hide the first letter of your name in the pattern by coloring the shapes that form it in one color from the Jewel Box palette, and the rest of the page in the others. Use exactly 4 colors.
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Fiesta Grand Tour
Use all 7 colors in the Fiesta palette on your pattern page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Rainy Day Light Source
Use exactly 3 colors from the Rainy Day palette. Pick one corner of the page as your light source. Shapes near it get the lightest color, and shapes get darker the further away they are.
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Rainbow Patterns
Use exactly 7 colors from the Rainbow palette in rainbow order, coloring row by row so the stripes of color run across the page.
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Soft Rainbow Patterns
Use exactly 7 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette in rainbow order, moving along each row of shapes, and keep the pressure light so everything stays dreamy.
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Rose Gold Glam Three Faces
Make the shapes look three-dimensional: with colored pencils, color each one with light, medium and heavy pressure on different sides (with markers, add a second layer for the darker sides). Use exactly 4 colors from the Rose Gold Glam palette.
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Emerald Whisper
Stick to one color family: use 3 to 5 colors, all shades of emerald, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep neighboring shapes in different shades so the pattern stays crisp.
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Orchard Mirror
Make the colors on your pattern page symmetrical: use exactly 4 colors from the Orchard palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin across an imaginary fold down the middle.
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Vintage Postcard Budget
Less is more: finish the whole pattern page with exactly 2 colors from the Vintage Postcard palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Forest Floor Breather
Slow down: color your pattern page one shape at a time and finish it before moving to the next. Use exactly 4 colors from the Forest Floor palette and take a slow breath between areas.
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Jewel Box Zigzag
Use exactly 4 colors from the Jewel Box palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring shapes ever share a color, so the geometry reads like a puzzle.
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Earth and Stone Woven
Imagine 2 ribbons weaving through the pattern. Follow each ribbon's path across the page in its own color from the Earth and Stone palette, using exactly 2 colors in total.
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Harbor Stripes Inside
Instead of solid fills, fill each shape with stripes of two or three colors, changing the stripe direction from shape to shape. Use exactly 3 colors from the Harbor palette in total.
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Morning Tea Shape Sort
Color shapes by how many sides they have: one color for three-sided shapes, another for four-sided ones and so on, with curved shapes getting their own color. Use exactly 4 colors from the Morning Tea palette.
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Galaxy Starmap
Turn your pattern page into outer space: use exactly 6 colors from the Galaxy palette, with the darkest color for empty space and the brightest ones as planets and stars.
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Mediterranean Loop
Choose exactly 3 colors from the Mediterranean palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order along each row of shapes, like a beat that never breaks.
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Lime Highlight
Color almost everything in grays, then add lime in just a few chosen places, such as a handful of scattered shapes. Use exactly 4 colors: 3 grays and lime.
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Meadow Patchwork
Treat each row of the pattern like a strip of fabric: give every row its own pair of colors from the Meadow palette, using exactly 5 colors across the page.
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Pink and Mint Face-Off
Use exactly 3 colors: complementary pink and mint, plus white as a calm neutral to give the eye somewhere to rest. Let the pair alternate across neighboring shapes.
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Spice Market Drift
Use exactly 5 colors from the Spice Market palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from the top of the page to the bottom.
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Ocean Deep Giants and Dots
Give the biggest shapes calm, deeper colors and the smallest shapes the brightest ones. Use exactly 4 colors from the Ocean Deep palette.
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Candy Shop Daydream
Keep everything soft: use exactly 5 colors from the Candy Shop palette with light, even pressure, and skip heavy shading. The page should end up looking like a soft quilt.
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Autumn Walk Calendar
Bring autumn to your pattern page: use exactly 3 colors from the Autumn Walk palette and color it as if you were seeing it on a crisp autumn afternoon.
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Rainy Day Feeling
Color for a calm feeling: use exactly 5 colors from the Rainy Day palette, and for each area of the pattern page choose whichever color feels most calm to you.
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Retro Diner Quick Draw
Set a timer for 10 minutes and color as much of the pattern page as you can with exactly 3 colors from the Retro Diner palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Pencil Shuffle Patterns
Put all your colors in a cup, shake it and take out 2 without looking. Those are your palette for your pattern page.
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Jewel Box Volume Up
Go bright: use exactly 4 colors from the Jewel Box palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Flat, even color in every shape will make the geometry pop.
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Ocean Deep Eclipse
Make the largest shapes light and the small background shapes dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 3 colors from the Ocean Deep palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Meadow Island
Color a small cluster of shapes in the middle of the page with exactly 4 colors from the Meadow palette, then fill everything else with just the palest one.
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Orchard First Steps
An easy start: use exactly 3 colors from the Orchard palette. Color the biggest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest shapes last.
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Makeup Bag Powder Room
Color your pattern page with makeup-bag shades: use exactly 5 colors from the Makeup Bag palette, with the metallic or shimmer shade saved for small highlights.
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Fire and Ice Divide
Use 4 to 6 colors from the Fire and Ice palette: the warm ones for the largest shapes and the cool ones for the small background shapes. Notice how the warm areas seem to step forward.
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Sorbet Hidden Letter
Hide the first letter of your name in the pattern by coloring the shapes that form it in one color from the Sorbet palette, and the rest of the page in the others. Use exactly 3 colors.
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Tropical Full House
Use all 7 colors in the Tropical palette on your pattern page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Peacock Lamp Light
Use exactly 5 colors from the Peacock palette. Pick one corner of the page as your light source. Shapes near it get the lightest color, and shapes get darker the further away they are.
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Picnic Dimension
Make the shapes look three-dimensional: with colored pencils, color each one with light, medium and heavy pressure on different sides (with markers, add a second layer for the darker sides). Use exactly 2 colors from the Picnic palette.
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Chocolate Depths
Stick to one color family: use exactly 7 colors, all shades of chocolate, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep neighboring shapes in different shades so the pattern stays crisp.
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Tropical Fold
Make the colors on your pattern page symmetrical: use 3 or 4 colors from the Tropical palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin across an imaginary fold down the middle.
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Red Carpet Budget
Less is more: finish the whole pattern page with exactly 3 colors from the Red Carpet palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Cottage Garden Still Point
Slow down: color your pattern page one shape at a time and finish it before moving to the next. Use exactly 3 colors from the Cottage Garden palette and take a slow breath between areas.
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Picnic Checkers
Use exactly 2 colors from the Picnic palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring shapes ever share a color, so the geometry reads like a puzzle.
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Berry Market Ribbons
Imagine 3 ribbons weaving through the pattern. Follow each ribbon's path across the page in its own color from the Berry Market palette, using exactly 3 colors in total.
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Velvet Night Candy Stripe
Instead of solid fills, fill each shape with stripes of two or three colors, changing the stripe direction from shape to shape. Use exactly 4 colors from the Velvet Night palette in total.
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Winter Frost Shape Sort
Color shapes by how many sides they have: one color for three-sided shapes, another for four-sided ones and so on, with curved shapes getting their own color. Use exactly 3 colors from the Winter Frost palette.
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Alien Planet Starmap
Turn your pattern page into outer space: use exactly 4 colors from the Alien Planet palette, with the darkest color for empty space and the brightest ones as planets and stars.
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Northern Lights Refrain
Choose exactly 6 colors from the Northern Lights palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order along each row of shapes, like a beat that never breaks.
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Turquoise Flash
Color almost everything in grays, then add turquoise in just a few chosen places, such as a handful of scattered shapes. Use exactly 3 colors: 2 grays and turquoise.
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Morning Tea Quilt
Treat each row of the pattern like a strip of fabric: give every row its own pair of colors from the Morning Tea palette, using exactly 4 colors across the page.
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Purple and Yellow Spark
Use exactly 2 colors: purple and yellow, two complementary colors that sit opposite each other on the color wheel. Give one of them the larger areas and let the other one pop. Let the pair alternate across neighboring shapes.
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Ocean Deep Slope
Use exactly 6 colors from the Ocean Deep palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from the top of the page to the bottom.
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Retro Diner Scale
Give the biggest shapes calm, deeper colors and the smallest shapes the brightest ones. Use exactly 5 colors from the Retro Diner palette.
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Sea Glass Soft Focus
Keep everything soft: use exactly 3 colors from the Sea Glass palette with light, even pressure, and skip heavy shading. The page should end up looking like a soft quilt.
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Lagoon Days
Bring summer to your pattern page: use exactly 5 colors from the Lagoon palette and color it as if you were seeing it in bright summer sunshine.
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Tropical Moment
Color for an energetic feeling: use exactly 4 colors from the Tropical palette, and for each area of the pattern page choose whichever color feels most energetic to you.
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Lagoon Countdown
Set a timer for 15 minutes and color as much of the pattern page as you can with exactly 4 colors from the Lagoon palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Dice Roll Patterns
Number your colors, roll a die 2 times (or ask someone to call out 2 numbers) and color your pattern page with only the colors that come up.
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Fiesta Blast
Go bright: use exactly 7 colors from the Fiesta palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Flat, even color in every shape will make the geometry pop.
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Sunset Spotlight
Make the largest shapes light and the small background shapes dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 3 colors from the Sunset palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Autumn Walk Oasis
Color a small cluster of shapes in the middle of the page with exactly 5 colors from the Autumn Walk palette, then fill everything else with just the palest one.
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Mediterranean Warm-Up
An easy start: use exactly 2 colors from the Mediterranean palette. Color the biggest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest shapes last.
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Rose Gold Glam Powder Room
Color your pattern page with makeup-bag shades: use exactly 4 colors from the Rose Gold Glam palette, with the metallic or shimmer shade saved for small highlights.
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Lava and Lagoon Tug of War
Use exactly 6 colors from the Lava and Lagoon palette: the warm ones for the largest shapes and the cool ones for the small background shapes. Notice how the warm areas seem to step forward.
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Rainy Day Hidden Letter
Hide the first letter of your name in the pattern by coloring the shapes that form it in one color from the Rainy Day palette, and the rest of the page in the others. Use exactly 2 colors.
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Ocean Deep Full House
Use all 7 colors in the Ocean Deep palette on your pattern page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Retro Diner Lamp Light
Use exactly 6 colors from the Retro Diner palette. Pick one corner of the page as your light source. Shapes near it get the lightest color, and shapes get darker the further away they are.
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Meadow Pop-Out
Make the shapes look three-dimensional: with colored pencils, color each one with light, medium and heavy pressure on different sides (with markers, add a second layer for the darker sides). Use exactly 3 colors from the Meadow palette.
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Leaf Green Ladder
Stick to one color family: use exactly 4 colors, all shades of leaf green, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep neighboring shapes in different shades so the pattern stays crisp.
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Mediterranean Reflection
Make the colors on your pattern page symmetrical: use exactly 5 colors from the Mediterranean palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin across an imaginary fold down the middle.
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Ember Less Is More
Less is more: finish the whole pattern page with exactly 2 colors from the Ember palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Earth and Stone Breather
Slow down: color your pattern page one shape at a time and finish it before moving to the next. Use 3 to 5 colors from the Earth and Stone palette and take a slow breath between areas.
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Ocean Deep Ping-Pong
Use exactly 3 colors from the Ocean Deep palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring shapes ever share a color, so the geometry reads like a puzzle.
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Velvet Night Threads
Imagine 2 ribbons weaving through the pattern. Follow each ribbon's path across the page in its own color from the Velvet Night palette, using exactly 2 colors in total.
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Desert Dusk Candy Stripe
Instead of solid fills, fill each shape with stripes of two or three colors, changing the stripe direction from shape to shape. Use exactly 5 colors from the Desert Dusk palette in total.
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Mediterranean Side Count
Color shapes by how many sides they have: one color for three-sided shapes, another for four-sided ones and so on, with curved shapes getting their own color. Use exactly 4 colors from the Mediterranean palette.
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Sunset Rhythm
Choose exactly 5 colors from the Sunset palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order along each row of shapes, like a beat that never breaks.
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Tangerine Spark
Color almost everything in grays, then add tangerine in just a few chosen places, such as a handful of scattered shapes. Use exactly 4 colors: 3 grays and tangerine.
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Jewel Box Fabric Rows
Treat each row of the pattern like a strip of fabric: give every row its own pair of colors from the Jewel Box palette, using exactly 6 colors across the page.
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Teal and Coral Standoff
Use exactly 4 colors: a light and a dark version of both teal and coral, so the page has depth as well as contrast. Let the pair alternate across neighboring shapes.
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Desert Dusk Drift
Use exactly 3 colors from the Desert Dusk palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from the top of the page to the bottom.
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Lagoon Big and Small
Give the biggest shapes calm, deeper colors and the smallest shapes the brightest ones. Use exactly 3 colors from the Lagoon palette.
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Lavender Field Haze
Keep everything soft: use exactly 6 colors from the Lavender Field palette with light, even pressure, and skip heavy shading. The page should end up looking like a soft quilt.
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Spring Blossom Weather
Bring spring to your pattern page: use exactly 4 colors from the Spring Blossom palette and color it as if you were seeing it on a fresh spring morning.
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Sunset Mood
Color for a romantic feeling: use 3 to 5 colors from the Sunset palette, and for each area of the pattern page choose whichever color feels most romantic to you.
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Alien Planet Stopwatch
Set a timer for 20 minutes and color as much of the pattern page as you can with exactly 2 colors from the Alien Planet palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Forgotten Colors Patterns
Use only 7 colors you almost never pick. Your pattern page is their chance to shine.
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Red Carpet Volume Up
Go bright: use exactly 6 colors from the Red Carpet palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Flat, even color in every shape will make the geometry pop.
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Retro Diner Silhouette
Make the largest shapes light and the small background shapes dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 4 colors from the Retro Diner palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Cottage Garden Bullseye
Color a small cluster of shapes in the middle of the page with exactly 3 colors from the Cottage Garden palette, then fill everything else with just the palest one.
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Morning Tea Easy Start
An easy start: use 2 or 3 colors from the Morning Tea palette. Color the biggest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest shapes last.
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Peach and Lilac Tug of War
Use exactly 4 colors from the Peach and Lilac palette: the warm ones for the largest shapes and the cool ones for the small background shapes. Notice how the warm areas seem to step forward.
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Fiesta Initial
Hide the first letter of your name in the pattern by coloring the shapes that form it in one color from the Fiesta palette, and the rest of the page in the others. Use exactly 4 colors.
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Spice Market Grand Tour
Use all 7 colors in the Spice Market palette on your pattern page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Northern Lights Light Source
Use exactly 4 colors from the Northern Lights palette. Pick one corner of the page as your light source. Shapes near it get the lightest color, and shapes get darker the further away they are.
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Ocean Deep Three Faces
Make the shapes look three-dimensional: with colored pencils, color each one with light, medium and heavy pressure on different sides (with markers, add a second layer for the darker sides). Use exactly 4 colors from the Ocean Deep palette.
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Sky Blue Shades
Stick to one color family: use exactly 5 colors, all shades of sky blue, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep neighboring shapes in different shades so the pattern stays crisp.
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Sorbet Reflection
Make the colors on your pattern page symmetrical: use exactly 3 colors from the Sorbet palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin across an imaginary fold down the middle.
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Mediterranean Minimalist
Less is more: finish the whole pattern page with exactly 2 colors from the Mediterranean palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Rose Gold Glam Breather
Slow down: color your pattern page one shape at a time and finish it before moving to the next. Use exactly 5 colors from the Rose Gold Glam palette and take a slow breath between areas.
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Arctic Checkers
Use exactly 2 colors from the Arctic palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring shapes ever share a color, so the geometry reads like a puzzle.
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Harbor Woven
Imagine 3 ribbons weaving through the pattern. Follow each ribbon's path across the page in its own color from the Harbor palette, using exactly 3 colors in total.
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Arctic Candy Stripe
Instead of solid fills, fill each shape with stripes of two or three colors, changing the stripe direction from shape to shape. Use exactly 3 colors from the Arctic palette in total.
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Cocoa Side Count
Color shapes by how many sides they have: one color for three-sided shapes, another for four-sided ones and so on, with curved shapes getting their own color. Use exactly 3 colors from the Cocoa palette.
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Lagoon Refrain
Choose exactly 4 colors from the Lagoon palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order along each row of shapes, like a beat that never breaks.
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Hot Pink Glint
Color almost everything in grays, then add hot pink in just a few chosen places, such as a handful of scattered shapes. Use exactly 3 colors: 2 grays and hot pink.
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Rose Gold Glam Quilt
Treat each row of the pattern like a strip of fabric: give every row its own pair of colors from the Rose Gold Glam palette, using exactly 5 colors across the page.
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Turquoise and Rust Standoff
Use exactly 3 colors: complementary turquoise and rust, plus linen as a calm neutral to give the eye somewhere to rest. Let the pair alternate across neighboring shapes.
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Autumn Walk Drift
Use exactly 4 colors from the Autumn Walk palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from the top of the page to the bottom.
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Cocoa Big and Small
Give the biggest shapes calm, deeper colors and the smallest shapes the brightest ones. Use exactly 4 colors from the Cocoa palette.
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Sorbet Haze
Keep everything soft: use 3 to 5 colors from the Sorbet palette with light, even pressure, and skip heavy shading. The page should end up looking like a soft quilt.
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Winter Frost Postcard
Bring winter to your pattern page: use exactly 6 colors from the Winter Frost palette and color it as if you were seeing it on a frosty winter day.
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Picnic Feeling
Color for a playful feeling: use exactly 3 colors from the Picnic palette, and for each area of the pattern page choose whichever color feels most playful to you.
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Neon Lap
Set a timer for 30 minutes and color as much of the pattern page as you can with exactly 3 colors from the Neon palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Friend's Choice Patterns
Ask someone else to choose 4 colors for you without seeing your pattern page, then make them work.
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Tropical Shout
Go bright: use exactly 5 colors from the Tropical palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Flat, even color in every shape will make the geometry pop.
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Neon Eclipse
Make the largest shapes light and the small background shapes dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 2 colors from the Neon palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Alien Planet Island
Color a small cluster of shapes in the middle of the page with exactly 4 colors from the Alien Planet palette, then fill everything else with just the palest one.
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Spice Market Easy Start
An easy start: use exactly 3 colors from the Spice Market palette. Color the biggest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest shapes last.
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Coral and Mint Duet
Use exactly 5 colors from the Coral and Mint palette: the warm ones for the largest shapes and the cool ones for the small background shapes. Notice how the warm areas seem to step forward.
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Farmhouse Hidden Letter
Hide the first letter of your name in the pattern by coloring the shapes that form it in one color from the Farmhouse palette, and the rest of the page in the others. Use exactly 3 colors.
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Citrus Grand Tour
Use all 7 colors in the Citrus palette on your pattern page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Rose Gold Glam Sunbeam
Use exactly 3 colors from the Rose Gold Glam palette. Pick one corner of the page as your light source. Shapes near it get the lightest color, and shapes get darker the further away they are.
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Alien Planet Pop-Out
Make the shapes look three-dimensional: with colored pencils, color each one with light, medium and heavy pressure on different sides (with markers, add a second layer for the darker sides). Use exactly 2 colors from the Alien Planet palette.
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Violet Ladder
Stick to one color family: use exactly 6 colors, all shades of violet, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep neighboring shapes in different shades so the pattern stays crisp.
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Coral Reef Fold
Make the colors on your pattern page symmetrical: use exactly 2 colors from the Coral Reef palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin across an imaginary fold down the middle.
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Retro Diner Essentials
Less is more: finish the whole pattern page with exactly 3 colors from the Retro Diner palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Meadow Quiet Time
Slow down: color your pattern page one shape at a time and finish it before moving to the next. Use exactly 4 colors from the Meadow palette and take a slow breath between areas.
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Galaxy Swap
Use exactly 3 colors from the Galaxy palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring shapes ever share a color, so the geometry reads like a puzzle.
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Sea Glass Woven
Imagine 2 ribbons weaving through the pattern. Follow each ribbon's path across the page in its own color from the Sea Glass palette, using exactly 2 colors in total.
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Red Carpet Candy Stripe
Instead of solid fills, fill each shape with stripes of two or three colors, changing the stripe direction from shape to shape. Use exactly 4 colors from the Red Carpet palette in total.
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Northern Lights Side Count
Color shapes by how many sides they have: one color for three-sided shapes, another for four-sided ones and so on, with curved shapes getting their own color. Use exactly 4 colors from the Northern Lights palette.
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Pastel Rainbow Chain
Choose exactly 4 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order along each row of shapes, like a beat that never breaks.
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Scarlet Glint
Color almost everything in grays, then add scarlet in just a few chosen places, such as a handful of scattered shapes. Use exactly 4 colors: 3 grays and scarlet.
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Gingerbread Fabric Rows
Treat each row of the pattern like a strip of fabric: give every row its own pair of colors from the Gingerbread palette, using exactly 4 colors across the page.
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Blue and Orange Opposites
Use exactly 2 colors: blue and orange, two complementary colors that sit opposite each other on the color wheel. Give one of them the larger areas and let the other one pop. Let the pair alternate across neighboring shapes.
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Forest Floor Ombre
Use 3 to 5 colors from the Forest Floor palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from the top of the page to the bottom.
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Ember Big and Small
Give the biggest shapes calm, deeper colors and the smallest shapes the brightest ones. Use exactly 5 colors from the Ember palette.
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Spring Blossom Soft Focus
Keep everything soft: use exactly 4 colors from the Spring Blossom palette with light, even pressure, and skip heavy shading. The page should end up looking like a soft quilt.
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Cocoa Calendar
Bring autumn to your pattern page: use 4 or 5 colors from the Cocoa palette and color it as if you were seeing it on a crisp autumn afternoon.
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Coral Reef Moment
Color for a playful feeling: use exactly 5 colors from the Coral Reef palette, and for each area of the pattern page choose whichever color feels most playful to you.
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Peacock Lap
Set a timer for 5 minutes and color as much of the pattern page as you can with exactly 5 colors from the Peacock palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Room Raid Patterns
Look around the room and find 3 colors you can see right now. Match them as closely as you can and use only those on your pattern page.
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Alien Planet Shout
Go bright: use exactly 3 colors from the Alien Planet palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Flat, even color in every shape will make the geometry pop.
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Ember Flipside
Make the largest shapes light and the small background shapes dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 3 colors from the Ember palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Citrus Bullseye
Color a small cluster of shapes in the middle of the page with exactly 5 colors from the Citrus palette, then fill everything else with just the palest one.
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Red Carpet First Steps
An easy start: use exactly 2 colors from the Red Carpet palette. Color the biggest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest shapes last.
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Toast and Frost Balance
Use 4 to 6 colors from the Toast and Frost palette: the warm ones for the largest shapes and the cool ones for the small background shapes. Notice how the warm areas seem to step forward.
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Berry Market Hidden Letter
Hide the first letter of your name in the pattern by coloring the shapes that form it in one color from the Berry Market palette, and the rest of the page in the others. Use exactly 2 colors.
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Cocoa Full House
Use all 7 colors in the Cocoa palette on your pattern page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Galaxy Light Source
Use exactly 5 colors from the Galaxy palette. Pick one corner of the page as your light source. Shapes near it get the lightest color, and shapes get darker the further away they are.
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Autumn Walk Three Faces
Make the shapes look three-dimensional: with colored pencils, color each one with light, medium and heavy pressure on different sides (with markers, add a second layer for the darker sides). Use exactly 3 colors from the Autumn Walk palette.
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Indigo Whisper
Stick to one color family: use exactly 3 colors, all shades of indigo, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep neighboring shapes in different shades so the pattern stays crisp.
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Kimono Double Take
Make the colors on your pattern page symmetrical: use exactly 4 colors from the Kimono palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin across an imaginary fold down the middle.
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Earth and Stone Minimalist
Less is more: finish the whole pattern page with exactly 2 colors from the Earth and Stone palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Sea Glass Calm Corner
Slow down: color your pattern page one shape at a time and finish it before moving to the next. Use exactly 3 colors from the Sea Glass palette and take a slow breath between areas.
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Rose Gold Glam Tag Team
Use exactly 4 colors from the Rose Gold Glam palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring shapes ever share a color, so the geometry reads like a puzzle.
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Forest Floor Woven
Imagine 3 ribbons weaving through the pattern. Follow each ribbon's path across the page in its own color from the Forest Floor palette, using exactly 3 colors in total.
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Bauhaus Pinstripe
Instead of solid fills, fill each shape with stripes of two or three colors, changing the stripe direction from shape to shape. Use exactly 5 colors from the Bauhaus palette in total.
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Alien Planet Side Count
Color shapes by how many sides they have: one color for three-sided shapes, another for four-sided ones and so on, with curved shapes getting their own color. Use exactly 3 colors from the Alien Planet palette.
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Rose Garden Loop
Choose exactly 3 colors from the Rose Garden palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order along each row of shapes, like a beat that never breaks.
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Cobalt Flash
Color almost everything in grays, then add cobalt in just a few chosen places, such as a handful of scattered shapes. Use exactly 3 colors: 2 grays and cobalt.
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Rose Garden Patchwork
Treat each row of the pattern like a strip of fabric: give every row its own pair of colors from the Rose Garden palette, using exactly 6 colors across the page.
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Violet and Mustard Spark
Use exactly 4 colors: a light and a dark version of both violet and mustard, so the page has depth as well as contrast. Let the pair alternate across neighboring shapes.
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Bauhaus Fade
Use exactly 5 colors from the Bauhaus palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from the top of the page to the bottom.
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Cottage Garden Scale
Give the biggest shapes calm, deeper colors and the smallest shapes the brightest ones. Use exactly 3 colors from the Cottage Garden palette.
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Tropical Calendar
Bring summer to your pattern page: use exactly 3 colors from the Tropical palette and color it as if you were seeing it in bright summer sunshine.
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Sorbet Feeling
Color for a dreamy feeling: use exactly 4 colors from the Sorbet palette, and for each area of the pattern page choose whichever color feels most dreamy to you.
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Rainy Day Countdown
Set a timer for 10 minutes and color as much of the pattern page as you can with exactly 3 colors from the Rainy Day palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Outfit Match Patterns
Color your pattern page with the 5 colors closest to what you're wearing today, even if that's mostly gray.
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Coral Reef Volume Up
Go bright: use exactly 4 colors from the Coral Reef palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Flat, even color in every shape will make the geometry pop.
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Velvet Night Light and Shadow
Make the largest shapes light and the small background shapes dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 3 colors from the Velvet Night palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Desert Dusk Bullseye
Color a small cluster of shapes in the middle of the page with exactly 3 colors from the Desert Dusk palette, then fill everything else with just the palest one.
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Ember Gentle Start
An easy start: use 2 or 3 colors from the Ember palette. Color the biggest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest shapes last.
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Rust and Denim Divide
Use exactly 6 colors from the Rust and Denim palette: the warm ones for the largest shapes and the cool ones for the small background shapes. Notice how the warm areas seem to step forward.
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Neon Initial
Hide the first letter of your name in the pattern by coloring the shapes that form it in one color from the Neon palette, and the rest of the page in the others. Use exactly 4 colors.
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Zen Garden Full Palette
Use all 7 colors in the Zen Garden palette on your pattern page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Alien Planet Light Source
Use exactly 6 colors from the Alien Planet palette. Pick one corner of the page as your light source. Shapes near it get the lightest color, and shapes get darker the further away they are.
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Forest Floor Three Faces
Make the shapes look three-dimensional: with colored pencils, color each one with light, medium and heavy pressure on different sides (with markers, add a second layer for the darker sides). Use exactly 4 colors from the Forest Floor palette.
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Rose Study
Stick to one color family: use 3 to 5 colors, all shades of rose, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep neighboring shapes in different shades so the pattern stays crisp.
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Desert Dusk Twins
Make the colors on your pattern page symmetrical: use 3 or 4 colors from the Desert Dusk palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin across an imaginary fold down the middle.
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Rose Garden Essentials
Less is more: finish the whole pattern page with exactly 2 colors from the Rose Garden palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Rainy Day Breather
Slow down: color your pattern page one shape at a time and finish it before moving to the next. Use 3 to 5 colors from the Rainy Day palette and take a slow breath between areas.
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Kimono Swap
Use exactly 2 colors from the Kimono palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring shapes ever share a color, so the geometry reads like a puzzle.
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Kimono Woven
Imagine 2 ribbons weaving through the pattern. Follow each ribbon's path across the page in its own color from the Kimono palette, using exactly 2 colors in total.
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Meadow Pinstripe
Instead of solid fills, fill each shape with stripes of two or three colors, changing the stripe direction from shape to shape. Use exactly 3 colors from the Meadow palette in total.
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Sea Glass Shape Sort
Color shapes by how many sides they have: one color for three-sided shapes, another for four-sided ones and so on, with curved shapes getting their own color. Use exactly 4 colors from the Sea Glass palette.
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Kimono Encore
Choose exactly 6 colors from the Kimono palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order along each row of shapes, like a beat that never breaks.
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Lemon Flash
Color almost everything in grays, then add lemon in just a few chosen places, such as a handful of scattered shapes. Use exactly 4 colors: 3 grays and lemon.
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Velvet Night Fabric Rows
Treat each row of the pattern like a strip of fabric: give every row its own pair of colors from the Velvet Night palette, using exactly 5 colors across the page.
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Lavender and Butter Standoff
Use exactly 3 colors: complementary lavender and butter, plus cloud white as a calm neutral to give the eye somewhere to rest. Let the pair alternate across neighboring shapes.
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Citrus Melt
Use exactly 6 colors from the Citrus palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from the top of the page to the bottom.
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Tropical Big and Small
Give the biggest shapes calm, deeper colors and the smallest shapes the brightest ones. Use exactly 4 colors from the Tropical palette.
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Gingerbread Weather
Bring winter to your pattern page: use exactly 5 colors from the Gingerbread palette and color it as if you were seeing it on a frosty winter day.
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Zen Garden Glow
Color for a calm feeling: use 3 to 5 colors from the Zen Garden palette, and for each area of the pattern page choose whichever color feels most calm to you.
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Citrus Lap
Set a timer for 15 minutes and color as much of the pattern page as you can with exactly 4 colors from the Citrus palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Blind Pick Patterns
Close your eyes and pick 4 colors from your set. Those are your whole palette for your pattern page, no swaps allowed.
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Ember Blast
Go bright: use exactly 7 colors from the Ember palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Flat, even color in every shape will make the geometry pop.
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Peacock Silhouette
Make the largest shapes light and the small background shapes dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 4 colors from the Peacock palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Sunset Oasis
Color a small cluster of shapes in the middle of the page with exactly 4 colors from the Sunset palette, then fill everything else with just the palest one.
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Retro Diner Easy Start
An easy start: use exactly 3 colors from the Retro Diner palette. Color the biggest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest shapes last.
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Pattern coloring books to try them in
Bold, easy geometric pattern coloring books by Toby Greenhouse, from large print to pocket size. Find out more about each one at patterncoloring.com.
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Power of Patterns - Coloring Book with Inspiring Color Challenges: 50 Geometric Designs to Spark Your Imagination and Relax
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XXL Patterns Coloring Book for Adults and Seniors | Large Print: Big and Simple Geometric Designs with Super Bold Outlines for Relaxation and Visual Comfort
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Geometric Harmony: Artful Patterns to Color and Relax: Coloring Book with 50 Simple Shapes and Designs - Gift Idea for Beginners, Adults and Seniors
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Pattern Escape - Coloring Book with Fun Color Challenges: 50 Bold and Easy Geometric Designs to Relax and Get Creative
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Mini Patterns Pocket Size Coloring Book for Teens and Adults: Geometric and Abstract Shapes for Fun and Relaxation
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Mini Patterns Pocket Size Coloring Book for Adults Volume 2: Fun and Relaxing Designs for Quick Coloring Sessions
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Pocket Patterns Mini Coloring Book for Adults: 50 Geometric Designs for Stress Relief and Relaxation
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Pattern Harmony Pocket Size Coloring Book for Adults: 50 Geometric Designs for Stress Relief and Relaxation
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Patterns on the Go Pocket Size Coloring Book for Teens and Adults: Simple and Relaxing Geometric Designs – Mindful Fun Anywhere
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About pattern coloring challenges
Geometric patterns are some of the most relaxing pages to color: repeating shapes, clear outlines and lots of room to play with color. These challenges give you a fresh idea for any pattern coloring page, whether it's in a bold and easy large print book, a pocket-size travel coloring book or a printable coloring page. Each one comes with a color palette or a simple rule, like alternating colors, building a gradient or using shades of just one color.
They work with colored pencils, markers, gel pens or anything else you like to color with. Easy challenges are great for beginners and quick, calming sessions. Harder ones push you to try color combinations you'd never pick on your own. Coloring for stress relief? Start with an Easy challenge and a bold, simple pattern.