Coloring Sheets for Kids Showcasing Act of Kindness

Inside: Use these acts of kindness coloring sheets for kids as boredom busters or as kindness posters.

When my kids were little, I made sure to have a coloring book and a bag of crayons with me wherever we went.

We colored in the doctor’s office, in restaurants and while we waited for practically anything because coloring was always a favorite way to entertain them.

To be fair, we didn’t really go anywhere without coloring books and crayons.

When they got older, we traded in the Mickey and Minnie coloring books for coloring pages that still had entertainment value but also taught them something by sneaking in some learning.

We colored our ABCs and colored our numbers and colored sight words.

And we can color in acts of kindness to get ideas on how we can speak and act with kindness more often.

Other Kindness Coloring Pages and Coloring Activities:

Coloring can easily be dismissed as a non-learning activity. But on top of helping kids self regulate, manage emotions, and manage anxiety, coloring also helps kids with color recognition, creativity (pink skys and blue suns), fine motor skills, and pencil grip which will be essential later when they start writing.

So offering high-interest coloring is an easy way to encourage kids to get creative and offer them a quiet activity that can help them calm their minds.

Here are a few coloring activities that do all of that and include social-emotional learning concepts and kindness:

Kindness Zoo Coloring Book- The Kindness Zoo is a great way to showcase 26 different animals, practice all 26 upper and lowercase letters and 26 different ways to be kind, from A to Z. This is perfect for anyone learning their letters and sounds.

Kindness Coloring Bookmarks– These kindness bookmarks are just waiting to be colored in and are perfect additions to classroom libraries, school libraries and public libraries as simple activities for kids. Or kids can color them and then hide them in library books before they return them as a simple random act of kindness.

Kindness Coloring Sheets– Use these coloring sheets with inspirational kindness messages and kindness quotes on them!

Kindness Affirmations Tracing Sheets– practice handwriting skills and sight words while kids read/say positive affirmations of kindness. Kids can bubble write or rainbow write these affirmations.

Thank Essential Workers Coloring Sheets– these are perfect for thanking essential workers: nurses, doctors, grocers, farmers, postal carriers, delivery drivers and garbage collectors.

Rainbow Colors of Me– this is perfect for celebrating our differences and our diversity.

We also can use these Acts of Kindness Coloring Pages.

How to Use the Acts of Kindness Coloring Sheets for Kids:

1.Print out the 16 pages of the Acts of Kindness Coloring Sheets for kids (download them all below).

2. Have the sheets ready to color or turn them into coloring booklets. These are perfect to use as boredom busters, for early finishers, for Rainy Day Recess, and for waiting.

These are perfect for libraries, school offices, school nurse’s office, doctor’s/dentist’s offices, camps, classrooms and homes.

3. Offer kids skin color crayons so the kids in the pictures are as diverse as their classmates.

4. Explain how each of these coloring pages shows a way to be kind. Some kindness is “loud” like standing up for others and some kindness is “quiet” like waiting your turn patiently.

To connect this even further to kindness and social emotional learning, you can talk about each kind act and why it’s kind. You can ask them if they’ve ever done that type of kindness for anyone or if anyone’s done it for them.

Keep the kindness conversation going with these 60 Kindness Questions.