These coloring sheets of goodwill are ideal for lessons on social-emotional learning (SEL) and reinforcing a supportive classroom culture.
Acts of Empathy Drawings to Download
We’ve made sure to include simple pages to color for younger children as well as more detailed designs for older kids and adults. Gift these compassion coloring sheets to your best friends to show how much you love them, or hang some on your bathroom mirror to set a good intention for the day.
Printable Kindness Matters Coloring Sheets
Pick up your markers, colored pencils, or crayons, and spread some positive vibes today!
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How to Use These Free Kindness Coloring Pages
Kindness is a crucial value that we can practice every day of the year. If you want to incorporate social skills into your lesson plans for specific occasions, consider printing some of our kindness coloring pages to celebrate the following holidays:
Random Acts of Kindness Day - February 17 Pay It Forward Day - April 28 World Kindness Day - November 13
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We’ve got loads of free printable PDF coloring pages to help your family relax, work on fine motor skills, practice color recognition, or enjoy time together. Download a few (or a hundred!) today.
Craft Ideas to Make With Thoughtful Coloring Pages
Spread joy and positivity with these fun craft ideas that encourage simple acts of kindness. Ideal for teachers, parents, or anyone eager to promote positive vibes, these art activities turn coloring pages into messages of love and humaneness.
1. Generosity Jar
Share the spirit of generosity with a colorful kindness jar. Color a free picture, trim, and glue it around a glass jar. Print more illustrations featuring acts of goodwill and color them. (Print at 25% scale.) Fold these examples of kindness and place them inside the decorated jar. Gift to your best friend on Random Acts of Kindness Day to bring joy into the world.
2. Fingerprint Feelings
Spread love and creativity with unique thumbprint art. Choose a free printable and color it in vibrant colors. Add thumbprint hearts to the design using paint. Include extra details like inspirational quotes and motivational messages written with glitter pens. This fun activity is the perfect way to let your mom know how much you appreciate her on Mother’s Day.
3. Handprint Happiness
Celebrate goodwill towards others year-round with a DIY compassion wreath. Print designs from our kindness bundle and trace handprints onto them. Color and trim the handprints. Glue these cutouts onto a cardboard ring, layering them to create a collage. Display the wreath in our classroom or home to encourage all age groups to be empathetic to others.
4. Joyful Journaling
Turn the simple art of coloring into a handmade notebook. Print free kindness coloring pages at 25-50% scale and fill with bright shades. Staple the colored pages together to create a booklet. On the back of each illustration, write down feelings of gratitude and simple acts of graciousness that have brought you joy.
5. Collaborative Collage of Compassion:
Create a collaborative mural with your students at the beginning of the year to foster a positive classroom community. Print free coloring pages and divide them into sections for different kids to color. Arrange the sections into a collage on a bulletin board for a powerful tool in promoting kindness and positive thinking.
6. Cheerful Chest
Decorate a heartwarming memory box with beautiful design sheets. Complete printable coloring pages showing kind-heartedness. Glue the designs to all sides of a shoebox. Write happy memories on the back of more colored sheets and save them in the chest, along with special items from kindness activities.
7. Positivity Posters
Craft affirmation artwork to decorate your home or classroom. Fill in sweet kindness coloring pages that feature positive affirmations. Arrange the illustrations on a bulletin board to create a collage of positivity promoting good behavior and care towards one another.
8. Best Behavior Booklet
Make a social skills storybook for a fun way to explore behaviors, emotions, and coping strategies. Print some of our kind people coloring pages and fill them with your favorite colors. Write descriptions of the situations and how a person is displaying generosity on the back of the designs. Staple the pages together to form a booklet and use it as a classroom management tool.
9. Greetings of Gratitude
Spread kindness with personalized gratitude notes. Print coloring pages at 50% scale and use your favorite colors to fill them in. Write uplifting affirmations and kindness quotes around the edges of the design and on the back. Use the notes to share a kind word or two with friends, family, or strangers to brighten their day.
10. Embroidered Empathy
Turning a coloring sheet into a cross-stitch masterpiece is a great way for big kids to try a new craft! Use transfer paper to iron your chosen design onto a piece of fabric. Cross-stitch over the outline using colorful threads. Display your crafty creation as a reminder to practice generosity daily.
