Useful Friendly Sketchbook

The **Useful Friendly Sketchbook**, or **Sketchbook** for short, is a sketchbook that is used by Kris and Lyra (in the US) or Bianca (in the UK). It appears in every episode of Mint's Hints.

## Appearance

### Kris's Sketchbook

Kris's Useful Friendly Sketchbook is rectangular, has a white cover and has a teal Inkling Squid on it.

### Variants

#### Kris' Birthday Sketchbook

Kris' Birthday Sketchbook is just her regular sketchbook, but with a teal birthday ribbon on the covers

#### Kris' Treasure Hunt Sketchbook

Kris' Treasure hunt Sketchbook is rectangular, has a white cover, a golden border, & has a teal Treasure Chest on it.

#### Kris' Nighttime Sketchbook

Kris' Nighttime Sketchbook is rectangular, but has a black cover, a yellow border, & has star and a moon above the teal inkling squid.

#### Kris' Nature Sketchbook

Kris' Nature Sketchbook is rectangular, has a green cover, some sticks for the borders, & has a green inkling squid on it.

#### Kris' Holiday Sketchbook

Kris' Holiday Sketchbook has red and green snowflakes, and a red and green present in front of the inkling squid.

### Lyra's Sketchbook

Lyra's Useful Friendly Sketchbook is shaped like a teal Inkling Squid.

In the UK version of "I'm So Happy!", Bianca is given this sketchbook by Captain Toad

### Variants

#### Lyra's Pillow Sketchbook

Lyra's Pillow Sketchbook has Pillow felt covers on it

#### Lyra's Birthday Sketchbook

Lyra's Birthday Sketchbook has teal Birthday Ribbon on the covers.

#### Lyra's Maraca Sketchbook

Lyra's Maraca Sketchbook is green with music notes on it, and Mint playing the maracas

#### Lyra's Mint U. Sketchbook

Lyra's Mint U. Sketchbook is dark blue with the word Mint on the Top and a Big U on it with Mint.

#### Lyra's Sketchbook Friend

Lyra's Sketchbook friend has a green strand with edges for the mouth and yellow yarn hair on it.

#### Lyra's Love Day Sketchbook

This is one of the only variants of Lyra's sketchbook that does not use the Teal Inkling Squid shape. Instead the sketchbook is shaped like a heart, and the front and back covers are pink with red lining.

#### Lyra's Car Sketchbook

Another of the only variants of Lyra's sketchbook that does not use the Teal Inkling Squid shape. Instead, it's shaped like a Teal Car.

## Trivia

* Kris's sketchbook first appeared in Snack Time and last appeared in Kris Goes to College.
* Lyra's sketchbook first appeared in Lyra Gets a Hint.
* When Kris takes her notebook out, a triangle can be heard. When Lyra takes her notebook out, a chime can be heard.
	+ Sometimes, the host accidentally takes out another object rather than her Useful Friendly Sketchbook: one is What Experiment Does Mint Want to Try?, where Kris takes out a magnifying glass and the other is Mint's ABCs, where Kris takes out her chapter book, "A Really Great Book". A hit-hat cymbal's ding can be heard when that happens.
		- A chime's fainter ding can be heard when Kris takes out the kaleidoscope instead of the Useful Friendly Sketchbook in "What Did Mint See?"
		- A triangle's fainter ding can be heard when Kris does her pulling out her Useful Friendly Sketchbook movement with her right hand before relizing she has it in Draw Along with Mint.
		- A triangle's fainter ding can be heard when Kris took out the sock holding the sketchbook (both of which she got from Captain Toad) in Something To Do Mint. A more clearer ding was heard after Kris got the sketchbook from the sock.
* Kris and Lyra have different instruments when drawing the hints. When Kris draws the hints, bass music plays. When Lyra draws the hints, tuba music plays.
* There is a difference between Mid-Season 5 and Season 6 of Mint's Hints and Mid-Season 5 and Season 6 of Blue's Clues: In Mint's Hints, the host still draws the clues, but now sings what they are while in Blue's Clues, the clues draw themselves, come alive, and sing what they are.
* Gloria does not have a Useful Friendly Sketchbook. Instead, she uses a similar app called "The Useful Friendly Sketchbook App" to draw the hints on her Rotom Phone.
* The sketchbook made a sound when shaken in Mint's Big Holiday (where it made a sound that a jingle bell makes) and Making Changes (where it made a sound that a rattle makes).
* The holes of the sketchbook grew larger as the series progressed, and reached their largest size in the middle of Season 3.
* The sketchbook made a sound when opened: Mint's Big Costume Party (where it made a Boo laugh when opened) and Prehistoric Mint (where it made a T-Rex roar when opened).
* In Mint's Hints and You, Gloria was planned to have a Useful Friendly sketchbook that had a phone in the back, but the idea was cut. However, she has a similar app on her Rotom Phone, which has a boxing bell (the same boxing bell from Mario Strikers Charged during Daisy's Away Entrance) playing when she takes it out.