For Institutions & Care Organizations
Serve the people
who shaped you.
Culturally specific coloring resources for memory care, dialysis centers, churches, and senior programs. Built on reminiscence therapy research. Cleared for facility-wide use from $197.
Who This Is Built For
Your residents have specific histories.
Generic programming does not honor them.
Most activity materials were not designed with Black American elders in mind. Coloring Kinfolk closes that gap, with scene-based imagery that reflects the lives your residents actually lived.
Memory Care Facilities & Senior Living
Under F679, your activity program must reflect each resident’s cultural background and stated preferences. Generic coloring books do not meet that standard for a Black American elder whose formative memories live in the Sunday Dinner table and the front porch, not a mandala.
Coloring Kinfolk provides a compliant, culturally grounded activity resource with the documentation language your care plan requires.
Dialysis Clinics & Renal Care Programs
Your patients spend four hours in the chair, three times a week. CMS requires psychosocial assessment and referral planning. Research documents boredom, anxiety, and depression as consistent quality-of-life concerns. The activity options at most clinics are a TV and a word search.
Scene-based coloring is in-chair, calm, and dignified. No clinical burden on staff. Culturally meaningful for Black American patients.
Church Senior Ministries & Faith Organizations
Your senior ministry operates on a volunteer budget and a part-time coordinator’s energy. You need ready-made engagement tools that feel relevant, not manufactured. A generic activity packet from a national vendor does not reflect the community your elders built their lives inside of.
Low-prep, high-resonance, theologically neutral. Ready to use the Sunday you receive it.
Adult Day Health & Caregiver Support Organizations
You serve Black American families already carrying more than the system was designed to support. Black dementia caregivers are more likely to provide 40 or more hours of care per week. Your programming should relieve that weight, not add to it.
Coloring Kinfolk is the culturally specific resource your participants recognize without introduction.
Most coloring books in memory care settings are generic. Mandalas. Flowers. Abstract designs that hold no particular meaning for a Black American elder who grew up eating Sunday Dinner after church and sitting on the front porch until the fireflies showed up. Coloring Kinfolk was built for that resident specifically.Coloring Kinfolk — Cultural Memory Preservation Company
Scene-Based vs. Generic
This is not a coloring book.
It is a memory tool.
The mechanism of reminiscence therapy depends on the quality of the cue. A scene that reflects a life actually lived activates something a generic mandala cannot.
What generic activity catalogs offer
What Coloring Kinfolk provides
What Is Included
Every license includes
four named components.
Nothing left for staff to figure out. Every resource is named, formatted, and ready to use the day it arrives.
The Memory Table Collection
Scene-based coloring pages rooted in Black American cultural life. Sunday Dinner. Grandma’s Kitchen. The front porch. The church. The barbershop. The cookout. Bold, accessible lines designed for adults, including residents with limited fine motor control.
The Cultural Memory Companion
Scene-specific memory prompts for each page. Staff facilitation questions that surface autobiographical memory, family history, and personal storytelling. Designed to create conversation, not silence.
The Staff Implementation Guide
A step-by-step guide for running a culturally grounded coloring session. Session structure. Opening prompts. Documentation language that maps to F679 person-centered care requirements. No clinical license required to facilitate.
Facility Print License
Unlimited facility-wide print rights for the term of your license. No per-copy fees. No reorder delays. Print what your activity calendar requires, when it requires it.
The Research Foundation
The cultural relevance angle
is not decorative. It is strategic.
Three evidence points your administrators, grant writers, and quality teams should have on hand.
Older Black Americans are approximately twice as likely as older White Americans to have Alzheimer’s or another dementia. Culturally specific memory care programming is not a preference; it is a population need.
Alzheimer’s Association, 2023Only 48% of Black Americans say they are confident they can access culturally competent care. Your facility’s activity programming is part of that access equation. Generic is not neutral; it is a barrier.
Alzheimer’s AssociationCMS requires that activity programs reflect each resident’s cultural background and stated preferences. Scene-based culturally grounded resources support compliant documentation for Black American residents specifically.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesInstitutional Licensing Tiers
Start where your budget is.
Scale as your program grows.
All tiers include facility-wide print rights. No per-copy fees. Your staff prints what they need, when they need it.
Tier 01
Single Facility License
One-time license, one facility
What is included
Tier 02
Activity Pack
Full quarter of programming
What is included
Tier 03
Multi-Facility Network
Unlimited facilities in network
What is included
Free Resource for Activity Professionals
Download the Activity Director’s Guide
Twelve pages of research, session frameworks, F679-aligned documentation language, and ready-to-use facilitation prompts. Enter your email and it goes straight to your inbox. No cost.
Questions We Hear Often
Before you reach out,
a few things worth knowing.
Do we need a licensed art therapist to facilitate these sessions?
No. Coloring Kinfolk resources are cultural activity tools, not clinical art therapy. Any trained activity professional, recreation therapist, or program coordinator can facilitate a session using the included Staff Implementation Guide. No clinical license is required.
How do we document usage in care plans?
Your license includes ready-to-use documentation language aligned with F679 person-centered care requirements. The Staff Implementation Guide includes sample care plan note language and documentation guidance for activity professionals.
Can we document Coloring Kinfolk sessions in our activity care plans?
Yes. Licensed facilities may reference Coloring Kinfolk sessions as culturally specific recreational activity in resident care plan documentation. The research citations and F679-aligned language in your Implementation Guide support that framing.
Is this resource grant-eligible as cultural arts programming?
Yes. Many community foundations, state arts councils, and aging-services nonprofits fund culturally specific programming for elder populations. Coloring Kinfolk materials are grant-eligible as cultural arts programming resources. We can provide a letter of use upon request.
Are the pages accessible for residents with limited fine motor control?
Yes. All pages are designed with bold, high-contrast lines and generous coloring areas. They are appropriate for residents using colored pencils, washable markers, or erasable highlighters. The scenes are detailed enough to be engaging and simple enough to be accessible.
What does the print license actually allow?
Unlimited printing of licensed pages within your facility or network for the term of your license. You may print for group sessions, individual resident use, or family engagement activities within your licensed location. You may not share digital files outside your licensed facility or resell the pages in any form.
Your residents deserve
to be recognized.
Start with the licensing tier that fits your current budget. Your residents’ memories do not require a large grant to honor.