A tiny family studio

Coloring books made at a kitchen table.

One dad, three daughters, and a very large box of crayons. We make the coloring books we wanted and couldn't find: one scene per sheet, never two drawings back to back.

A coloring page from Book 1, half colored in with wax crayons: a blue and yellow road roller, a worker in an orange vest, two traffic cones
ROAD ROLLER

How this started

1. With a complaint

Three girls who draw and color every single day go through a lot of coloring books. And ours had notes.

The same picture showing up twice. Lines so thick there was nothing to do, or so tiny nobody could stay inside them. A marker bleeding through and ruining the picture on the back.

2. Then a plan

One afternoon the complaining turned into a question: why don't we just make our own?

So we wrote the rules on a sheet of paper and stuck it on the fridge. One scene per sheet. Never another drawing on the back. Every scene different.

3. Now it's a studio

A small one. It has a kitchen table, four chairs, and a review committee that does not go easy on anybody.

— Dad, on behalf of the committee

Meet the review committee

And Dad? Dad does the grown-up parts: checking that every crane could really lift its load, that the lines print clean, and that the files get to the printer.

Pages that made the cut

Coming soon

Real Big Machines

Book 1 · 50 Detailed Coloring Pages of Excavators, Cranes, Trucks and More for Kids Ages 5–9

  • 50 different scenes
  • One drawing per sheet, with machine facts on the facing page
  • A fact page and a seek-and-find for every machine
  • Clean black lines with plenty of detail to color
  • Every page test-colored by the committee

Already have the book?

There are extra pages to print at home, on Letter or A4 paper.

Bonus coloring pages →