Children’s painting games suddenly become a trend in Hanoi, adults want to relieve stress

As a popular entertainment activity from the 90s to 2000s, and for mainly children, statue painting suddenly attracted a large number of young people, even middle-aged people to participate in the past 1 month. this. All thanks to the spread of MXH.

Posts and clips about painting statues attract a large amount of interaction on social networks

The initial popularity of the current statue painting trend is from Hanoi, then young people in many other localities also go to places with statue painting services to experience, then record clips and post photos to contribute to the trend on social networks. . For about a month now, hot places in the capital such as Dinh Le bookstore row, Thu Le park, Thong Nhat park… are often crowded in the afternoons. Present at Dinh Le Street in the afternoon of May 3, this is the scene recorded by the reporter.

Compared to the first day of the holiday, Hoan Kiem Lake pedestrian street has relaxed, but Dinh Le area is still so busy.

In addition to buying books, families and young people have also paid more attention to the painting activity in the past 1 month

Thach Trang (23 years old, Ba Dinh) said: “I’ve been painting statues since the end of last year, at that time I used to sit at Dinh Le, it was very quiet, just me and a few families with small children. Suddenly, it’s hot on TikTok this year, so people come and play a lot.” Gia Huy (20 years old, Ha Dong) is one of the people who paint statues because of seeing trends online: “I took advantage of the holiday to go to the walking street, seeing people painting a lot of statues, so I wanted to try it, it was really fun, but it was too crowded, so it was a bit inconvenient.”

The statue stalls are mainly young customers

The row of bookstores along Dinh Le attracts visitors to paint statues on weekends

Painting is a new type of relaxation activity

As noted, at the painting area of ​​Dinh Le street, the shops prepare brushes, trays, and cups of water to change color for customers, but sometimes because of the crowd, the tools are not cleaned in time, lack of items for customers to use. . The price of the statue is from 30k – 70k depending on the shape and size – an acceptable price.

The statue counter in Dinh Le is quite diverse, with new additions regularly

However, according to many netizens, in some other locations, the statue painting service after suddenly heating up was overloaded. At the unified park, some shops do not even have color trays for customers, the statues often run out. This situation has been reflected by many TikTok users. In addition, due to the great demand of young people, the stalls are often full, many people have to leave with pity.

To avoid losing fun when you intend to go to the statue, you should pay attention to the following points:

– Not only new parks have statues, but also many other addresses such as bookstores, almost every bookstore with 2 floors or more has a statue painting service (in Hanoi), for example: Tien Bookstore Tho – many establishments, Tan Viet bookstore – Times City, Fahasa Bookstore – Xa Dan, Lotte Department Store – Kim Ma…

– The price of a statue is from 15k – 70k, each place may be different depending on the quality and size, but the higher it is, the more expensive it is.

– Should avoid going in the afternoon, especially on weekends because it is very crowded.