Coloring Pages Teaching Resources
Teachers, your coloring pages are here! Find printable coloring sheets for marking holidays in the classroom, coloring projects for your fast finishers, fun art activities and a whole lot more. Best of all, every coloring page on this site has been created by a teacher for teachers!
Find yourself wondering how to make a coloring page for kids to use for mindfulness activities, morning bell-ringers or for those holiday classroom parties? Save your important planning time with printable coloring options for every elementary school teacher!
Included in this collection:
- Mindful coloring sheets to add to your chill-out corner
- Holiday coloring pages for kids, including Christmas coloring pages and Santa sheets, plus winter-themed pages
- Coloring art projects
- And more!
How to Use Coloring Pages in the Classroom
Coloring sheets have plenty of uses in the classroom, and you may already have a list. But we thought a few more ideas from our teacher team couldn't hurt!
- Use coloring pages during transitions to help students calm down and get ready for their next lesson after specials or lunch.
- Print out any of Teach Starter's giant coloring activities for students to work on together to build their collaboration skills.
- Print out packs of coloring sheets and add small boxes of crayons to hand out as fun gifts before winter break or summer vacation.
- Add a coloring element when making holiday cards with your class.
- Add mindful coloring pages to your classroom chill-out corner for students who need a little stress relief.
- Set up a coloring station for rainy days when students cannot go outside for recess.
- Use coloring as a brain break.
- Teach students about dressing for the weather with Teach Starter's fun summer and winter Santa coloring activity.
- Pull them out for your classroom party before winter break or on holidays like Valentine's Day.
- Print out sheets, and allow students to pick their favorites to make mini coloring books with their favorite holiday characters!
What Is Mindfulness Coloring?
Wait just a moment. We mentioned mindfulness coloring, but what is it? Also referred to simply as mindful coloring, this is quite simply a practice of combining the act of coloring with the principles of mindfulness meditation!
Mindfulness coloring involves focusing your attention on the present moment and being fully aware of the sensory experience of coloring.
It's a great way to work with students on engaging in an activity without judgment or attachment to the outcome, and it can help them with focus and concentration.
There's even educational research backing the benefits of coloring in for kids! Kids who are considered "at-risk," for example, have been found to benefit from coloring as a means for expressing themselves, while a study of people who colored mandalas experienced decreased heart rate and blood pressure and some improved symptoms of stress and anxiety.
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International Dot Day Coloring Mural - Circle Art Activity
Create a spectacular “Make Your Mark” bulletin board with our collaborative Dot Day coloring pages.
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Halloween Coloring Sheets — Mindful Coloring
Bring a bit of calm to the chaotic classroom this October with a set of printable (not-so) scary halloween coloring pages.
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Mindful Coloring Sheet - Tree
A tree mindful coloring sheet.
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Free Planet Coloring Pages
Use these black and white planet templates as coloring pages for your students.
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Paralympic Sport Coloring Sheets
Introduce your class to the Summer Paralympic Games with our Paralympic Sports coloring Sheets.
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Bowerbird Coloring Sheets
Celebrate the wonderful world of birds with this set of Bowerbird mindful coloring pages.
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Exploring Rotational Symmetry Worksheets - Drawing Prompts
Encourage creativity and practice knowledge of rotational symmetry with a set of exciting symmetry drawing worksheets.
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Dot Day Circle Art Project - Delaunay-Inspired
Inspire your students to create bright, beautiful art with easy dot art templates.
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Color the Periodic Table - Worksheet and Poster
Color the periodic table with a printable color-coding worksheet.
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Coloring 2-D Shapes Worksheet
Practice identifying rectangles, squares, circles, and triangles with this 1-page worksheet.
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Color Me Carefully – Geometric Animals
Hone in on your students' speaking and listening skills with this barrier activity.
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Pattern Coloring - Flower
Use colors to create a pattern using this sheet.
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Species Survival! Science Coloring Pages
Explore the importance of environmental conservation with a set of three inspirational quotes colouring pages.
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Back to School Retro Theme Coloring Sheets
Kick off a groovy new school year with fun retro coloring pages!
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Collaborative Art Project - Large Coloring Poster
Have some end of school year fun with giant coloring posters from Teach Starter!
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Designer Dots - Dot Day Mandala Coloring Sheets
Create designer dot art on International Dot Day with a set of printable mandala coloring sheets.
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Community Giant Coloring Page and Map Skills Worksheet
An activity to practice map skills using a giant map of a community.
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Reading Center Poster – Dive Into Another World... Read a Book!
Spark adventure in your reading center with this poster.
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Giant Coloring Sheet – Community Map
A large, printable coloring sheet featuring a map of a community for your whole class to use in a variety of ways.
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Mindfulness Coloring Sheets - Portrait
A set of 3 mindfulness coloring sheets.
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Paralympic Games Collaborative Coloring Sheet
Use this collaborative Paralympic Games coloring sheet with your class to celebrate this event.
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Paralympic Values Coloring Sheets
Introduce your students to the core values of the Paralympics with these Paralympic values coloring sheets.
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Firefighter Coloring Sheets
Highlight the brave heroes that protect the community with printable Firefighter Coloring Pages.
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Mindfulness Planet Coloring Pages
Get mindful with this set of planet-themed mindful coloring sheets.
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Dragon Coloring Pages
Create colorful Chinese dragon art to celebrate the Lunar New Year in the classroom with a pack of printable dragon coloring sheets.
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National Dot Day Coloring Sheets - Kandinsky Circles
Introduce your students to the circle art style of Wassily Kandinsky with a set of fun National Dot Day Coloring Sheets.
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Memorial Day Collaborative Coloring Mural
Create a beautiful whole class wreath with this Memorial Day collaborative coloring sheet.
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Tessellation Christmas Tree - Printable Project
Engage your students in the weeks before Christmas with a collaborative Christmas Tree Tessellation project.
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Sloth Mindfulness Coloring Pages
Use these sloth-themed coloring pages to bring a bit of creative calm into the classroom.
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Space Coloring Pages
Use this space coloring pages to celebrate World Space Week or as a brain break activity during class.
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World Kindness Day Coloring Sheets
Use these World Kindness Day coloring pages as a fun art activity with your students.
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Octopus Mindful Coloring Sheet
An octopus mindful coloring sheet.