We are all responsible (Picture:Malsveta/Malsveta)

All parents will know that colouring pencils are an essential diversion for young children that can prove pretty handy when it comes to getting a few moments’ peace.

But it’s now feared that we could be facing a colouring pencil shortage, and it’s adults that are to blame.

Faber-Castell, one of the world’s leading colouring pencils manufacturers, say that an increase in adults buying colouring books has led to a short supply in pencils.

They’ve now had to run extra shifts to cope with the unexpected increase in demand.


Carlotta Lein, a spokesman for Faber-Castell, said: ‘We have noticed the effects of the colouring trend very strongly.

It’s probably got something to do with the influence of this bloke when we were children (Picture: ITV)

‘Colouring doesn’t require artistic training to get started, yet offers a great sense of accomplishment when finishing a piece.’



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Adult colouring books have sold over 20 million copies over recent years, and it’s this that is thought to have caused the shortage.

In short, use colouring pencils responsibly people, which is a sentence that we never envisaged having to write.