Coloring Pages for Teachers
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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Free Groundhog Coloring Page Pack
Add a little art to your Groundhog Day activity list with free Groundhog Day Coloring Pages!
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Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympics – Mindful Coloring
Bring the excitement of Milano Cortina 2026 into your classroom with three mindful coloring pages designed to help your students celebrate the Winter Paralympic Games.
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Fossil Coloring Pages
Use our free fossil coloring sheets to explore the different types of fossils.
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Valentine’s Day Coloring Sheets
Use a Valentine’s Day coloring sheet to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the classroom.
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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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Paralympic Sport Coloring Sheets – Winter
Use these winter sports coloring pages featuring exciting Paralympic events to explore diversity in sport with your students during the Winter Paralympic Games.
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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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Olympic Sports – Coloring Sheets
Have fun creating Olympics-inspired art with printable Olympic Sport Coloring Sheets!
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Planets Collaborative Coloring Display
Combine coloring with awareness of the planets and the solar system with this collaborative coloring sheet.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Coloring Pages
Celebrate MLK Day in the classroom and engage your students in thoughtful discussion with a Martin Luther King, Jr. Coloring Page!
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Pattern Coloring - Flower
Use colors to create a pattern using this sheet.
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Tessellation Coloring Sheets
A set of 5 black and white tessellation shape coloring sheets.
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Printable Bracelets – Celebrate Diversity!
Celebrate diversity with your students by creating and coloring printable bracelets that feature meaningful diversity words and promote inclusivity and friendship.
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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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Species Survival! Science Coloring Pages
Explore the importance of environmental conservation with a set of three inspirational quotes colouring pages.
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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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Groundhog Day Coloring Pages
Use a Groundhog Day coloring sheet to celebrate the holiday in the classroom.
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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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World Kindness Day Coloring Sheets
Use these World Kindness Day coloring pages as a fun art activity with your students.
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Back to School Coloring Pages
Use these back-to-school coloring pages as a first day of school activity with your students.
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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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Chinese New Year – Mindful Coloring Sheet
A mindful coloring page to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
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Happy Thanksgiving Coloring Pages
Download a Happy Thanksgiving Coloring Page Pack to bring a bit of thankfulness into the classroom during the month of November.
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Life is a Puzzle, Solve it Drug Free Coloring Sheets
Blend art and drug awareness education with our ‘Life is a Puzzle, Solve It Drug Free! coloring pages for Red Ribbon Week.
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Dinosaur Coloring Pages
Use our Dinosaur Coloring pages as a ‘roaring-good’ brain break activity in your classroom.
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Music Coloring Sheets - Instruments
Encourage mindfulness with a set of printable music 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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Mindfulness Planet Coloring Pages
Get mindful with this set of planet-themed mindful coloring sheets.
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Be Kind To Your Mind-Live Drug Free Coloring Page
Inspire your students to live drug-free with free Red Ribbon week 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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Think Like Scientists! Science Quote Coloring Pages
Inspire creativity and encourage your students to think like scientists with a set of inspirational science quote coloring pages.
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MLK Art - Coloring Activity
Celebrate MLK Day in the classroom and engage your students creating colorful patterns with a Martin Luther King, Jr. art activity sheet.