Coloring is a relaxing hobby and it is no longer exclusively for children. Adults can benefit from the therapeutic pastime of a box of freshly sharpened pencils and detailed coloring book, and in my case, always a cup of coffee. In our family, we look forward to the end of the day when school books are put away and free time has commenced. A large box of coloring books is arranged on the kitchen table as well as every last crafting utensil ranging from crayons to watercolors.

An incredible connection ensures when grown-ups and kids alike are elbow to elbow with crayon in hand. Conversation flows freely while eyes are concentrated on the artwork imminent. These conversations are prime teaching and discipling moments for parents to acquaint their children with the family’s core beliefs and values. I believe this is why Liberty Rings! has brilliantly designed an adult and primary coloring book to enable you to do just that.

Liberty Rings! has taken on the mission to equip Americans to learn, share, and perpetuate the important truths of the principles of liberty laid out by the Founding Fathers into everyday common items. The concept of “apperception” which is defined as the mental process through which a person makes sense of an idea by assimilating it into his or her body of ideas is what Liberty Rings! applies to their product line. They seek to meet their mission by creating unique symbols and pictures each representing one of the twenty-eight principles Dr. W. Cleon Skousen, a top authority on the U.S. Constitution, provides in his book The 5000 Year Leap, and familiarize their customers with these symbols and values by incorporating them into their products.

Each coloring book ascends through the twenty-eight principles of liberty with the correlating icon front and center and title for that principle on the bottom of the page. The Coloring for Liberty Primary book incorporates simpler outlines for a younger child to doodle on while the Coloring for Liberty Adult book embraces intricate outlines with much more pictorially descriptive detail for the artist to mull over while shading in the objects.

While each book includes the basic icon of the corresponding principle, there are comparably enough differences between the versions to invoke increased conversation amongst artists that are seated side by side. “Why do you think this icon was included on the page marked, ‘Free Market’? How does it represent a Free Market?”.

My family took one principle a night and discussed it while coloring in our Coloring for Liberty books. The older children discussed why certain details were included in that principle and how they related to the main point the principle was trying to convey. A useful tool for full appreciation of these coloring books would be Liberty Rings! small booklet called The Glorious Standard of Liberty Summaries. I recommend purchasing this alongside these coloring books so that one can read a brief description of each principle and gain a whole comprehension of the icon and its meaning.

Whether it's after school or after work, on the sofa or on the kitchen table, attempt to crack open an edifying coloring book for a change and see how it enriches your life and the lives around you by instilling glorious standards of liberty and virtue one stroke of a pencil at a time.

- Product review by Cassie Deputie, The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, LLC, August, 2018