From Coloring to Cooking, Getting Creative with Warner Press

As a creative, I find joy in writing—fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, blog posts. I also create art with my camera. Photography and writing provide not only a creative outlet, but my life’s work.

Whether you’re a professional creative like me, a hobby artist, or simply an appreciator of the arts, I think we can agree that art holds value. Art causes us to reflect. Art inspires, encourages, uplifts, entertains, engages, and so much more. And now more than ever in these challenging times of living in a global pandemic, the arts seem especially important in bringing joy to our days. People are rediscovering the joys and rewards of creating—whether stitching face masks, painting uplifting signs, penning encouraging notes, filming funny videos, or baking bread.

COLORING FOR KIDS

At Warner Press, we fully embrace creativity with hands-on faith-centered creative products for kids and adults. For the littles, those come in coloring books. I always appreciate colored pages or original drawings from my preschool granddaughter to post on my refrigerator. Never mind that the art sometimes appears more scribbling than anything. But, to me, it’s dear and reminds me of sweet Isabelle, especially the last piece of art we created together at a church event right before COVID-19 spread into Minnesota and kept us separated.

Four general Bible-based kids’ coloring books available through Warner Press can bring parents and their children together during these stay-at-home days. Books like Bible Stories Kids Love, Bible Kids Coloring Book, and This Little Light of Mine, all for ages 2-4, and My Favorite Bible Stories, for ages 2-7, pair Bible stories with art to color. Parents can read. Kids can color. This Little Light, especially, inspires young children to be a shining light for Jesus in their everyday lives. And they can be that shining light by sending colored pages to grandparents and others for refrigerator posting.

COLORING FOR ADULTS

For adults who also enjoy coloring, Warner Press offers three options to get creative. All weave in Scriptures. Colors of God’s Love and Along Life’s Path are devotional-focused. But Beloved Scriptures: Creative Coloring Pages for Reflecting on God features not only 30 pages to color, but 30 pages to journal.

We invite you to consider these coloring books as a way to grow your faith and knowledge of Scripture while getting hands-on creative. I’ve found coloring, too, with its soothing back-and-forth motion, to be calming and therapeutic. Consider also tearing out a colored page and mailing it to someone in need of encouragement.

PLUS MORE CREATIVE CHOICES

Faithful Paper Crafting from Warner Press notches up creativity via faithful imagery and affirmative sentiments packed into a papercrafting kit in a book. Use scrapbooking paper, cardstock templates, and frameable art in this 112-page book to craft greeting and mini cards, gift tags, and bookmarks. And then gift those to others.

If you focus your creative skills in the kitchen, you may find Tasting Grace—A Mentoring-in-the-Kitchen Bible Study an excellent resource to feed your body and your soul. The Bible study portion of Tasting Grace draws the reader into daily study of life and faith lessons from biblical examples. The hands-on aspect of this 88-page book shares cooking ideas, tips, and recipes.

Whatever your interests and talents, we encourage you to embrace your artistic side, to find an artistic outlet that grows your faith and allows you to serve and connect to others, especially during this global pandemic. 

Audrey Kletscher Helbling creates art in southern Minnesota. Her writing has published in anthologies, magazines, newspapers, devotionals, and more. Her photos hang in several museums and on hospital walls, and have been published in books, magazines, newspapers, and elsewhere. You can find more of her writing and photography on her personal blog, Minnesota Prairie Roots.