Cherry Creek Lane

Cherry Creek Lane is a Washington City, Utah company that designs and prints giant paper activity sheets. Its products include coloring sheets, coloring maps and calendars at 30 by 50 inches, plus giant word searches and crosswords at 30 by 44.5 inches. The idea is simple: spread one sheet across a table and a whole family, classroom or senior group works on it together. The company states that its products are made in the USA and printed in its own shop in Washington City.

According to the company, Cherry Creek Lane began when its founders got tired of printing small coloring pages off the internet for their own kids and wondered whether one huge sheet that could be colored for days would hold their attention better. All of its coloring and activity sheets are designed in house, and the company states that its materials are sourced in the USA. The sheets are printed on 20 lb ultra-white engineering bond paper meant for crayons, colored pencils, gel pens and washable markers; the company recommends avoiding watercolors and paint markers, which can wrinkle the paper.

What Cherry Creek Lane makes

The catalog is organized around holidays, kids' interests, puzzles, calendars and learning:

• Giant coloring sheets for kids and adults, with themes such as animals, cars and trucks, dinosaurs, faith and Bible scenes, birthdays and seasonal holidays from Halloween and Thanksgiving through Christmas and New Year's Eve


• Coloring maps of the USA, individual states and the world


• Giant word searches on holidays, TV shows, the Bible, U.S. presidents and U.S. states, plus "impossible" word searches and mazes


• Giant crosswords, including Christmas, Christmas movie and Thanksgiving themes


• Wall calendars, including yearly, classic and school-year calendars, and seasonal activity calendars


• Classroom and homeschool sheets, including trace-and-color pages and reading and goal charts


• Custom word searches with a personalized word list (custom coloring designs are not offered)

Groups, classrooms and senior centers

Large-format activity sheets suit settings where several people share one table. Cherry Creek Lane states that it works with senior living centers, schools, churches and other organizations on bulk and wholesale orders, and it sells a Senior Center Bundle of word searches. For activity directors at the many assisted living and retirement communities in St. George, Washington and Hurricane, a sheet that a group can work on together over several sessions is a low-cost, screen-free option. Teachers and homeschool families can use the map and learning sheets the same way.

Screen-free activities in Southern Utah

Southern Utah's long, hot summers push a lot of family time indoors in the middle of the day, and the same is true of the occasional winter storm or windy spring afternoon. Washington County also has one of the largest concentrations of young families and of retirees in the state, so grandparents hosting grandkids is a common scene. A tabletop project that several ages can share fits both groups. Cherry Creek Lane's own description makes the point: coloring is good for fine motor skills, can relieve stress and improve focus, and is not just for kids.

Ordering

Cherry Creek Lane sells online at cherrycreeklane.com and ships with UPS Ground to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. The company states that orders are processed in 2 to 3 business days and that it does not offer local pickup or delivery, so local customers order online like everyone else. Shipping is free on orders over $99 to the lower 48 states, and the site lists discounts on multi-sheet purchases. Bulk and wholesale questions go to info@cherrycreeklane.com, and the company can also be reached at (801) 712-1607.