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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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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Student Notebook Covers - Mindful Coloring Sheets
Practice mindfulness and create fun notebook covers with a pack of printable mindful coloring worksheets.
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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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My Little Veterans Day Coloring Book
Engage your little learners and build vocabulary skills with a printable Veterans Day Coloring Book.
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Last Day of School Coloring Page
Calm the end-of-year chaos with a printable end-of-the-school-year coloring page.
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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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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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Friendship Coloring Pages
Bring your students together for Friendship Day with a fun pair of friendship coloring pages.
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Lunar New Year Coloring Pages
Celebrate Lunar New Year with these mindfulness Lunar New Year coloring pages.
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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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100th Day of School Coloring Page Pack
Use a 100th Day of School Coloring sheet to celebrate completing the first 100 days of school!
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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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Happy Grandparents Day Coloring Pages
Celebrate Grandparents Day with a pair of Grandparents Day coloring pages.
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Fox Mindful Coloring Sheet
A fox mindful coloring sheet.
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Independence Day Coloring Sheets
Five coloring sheets to use on Independence Day.
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Pattern Coloring - Coral Scene
Use colors to create a pattern using this sheet.
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Mindfulness Coloring Sheets - Portrait
A set of 3 mindfulness coloring sheets.
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Winter Animals Coloring Page Booklet
Engage your little learners and build vocabulary skills with a printable winter animals coloring book.
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Summer Santa Claus Coloring Pages
Heat up your classroom Christmas celebrations with a fun set of Santa on Vacation coloring pages.
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Alphabet Coloring Pages - A to Z
Print a set of alphabet coloring pages to boost letter recognition skills.
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My Thanksgiving Coloring Book
Engage your little learners and build vocabulary skills with a printable Thanksgiving Coloring Book.
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Christmas Math Worksheets - Roll, Add and Color Addition
Roll, add, and color your way to Christmas with a pack of fun Kindergarten math worksheets.
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Thanksgiving Puzzle Book - 3rd and 4th Grade
Have a blast completing the fun activities in this printable Thanksgiving puzzle book for 3rd grade and 4th graders.
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Christmas Collaborative Art Project - Coloring Mural
Create a beautiful whole class holiday bulletin board with this collaborative Christmas-themed classroom mural.
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Christmas Calendar - Advent Coloring Pages
Count down the days until Christmas in your classroom with printable advent coloring pages.
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Red Ribbon Week Posters - Printable & Colorable
Print or color Red Ribbon Week posters to spread the message of living a drug-free life.
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Don't Do Drugs! Coloring Pages
Say No to Drugs with a set of printable Red Ribbon Week coloring sheets for kindergarten and first grade.
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Red Ribbon Week Slogans Coloring Pages
Create beautiful posters with our coloring sheets featuring different Red Ribbon Week Slogans.
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We the People - Constitution Day Coloring Page
Introduce your students to the Constitution and the Preamble with a fun Constitution Day coloring page.
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Constitution Day Coloring Sheet
Color in these Constitution Day coloring pages when learning about the reason we celebrate the holiday.
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Red Ribbon Week Quotes - Printable Coloring Pages
Use these Halloween-themed Red Ribbon Week coloring pages as a fun art activity with your students.