Stressed out? Try colouring books. (Seriously.)

CBC Radio | Posted: June 16, 2015 1:33 PM | Last Updated: June 19, 2015

Image | Colouring contest winner

Caption: Shad, Scaachi and CBC illustrator Ben Shannon chose this entry, by @glongest on instagram, as the strongest submission to our adult colouring contest. (@glongest/instagram)

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Audio | Q : Scaachi Koul gets her hands on adult colouring books

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Adult colouring books are gaining in popularity — but is this repackaged childhood activity really as satisfying to grown-ups? We asked q social experiment columnist Scaachi Koul to sharpen her pencil crayons* and find out.

*Whoops. Scaachi has informed us that she's more of a scented marker kind of kid.

WEB EXTRA | Here's a quick peek at the other wonderful submissions we received after running a colouring contest related to this item.

Stressed out? Try colouring books. (Seriously.)

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