Compassion Coloring Pages — Affirmations and Quotes

About this resource

Compassion is choosing to respond with care when someone is struggling. These compassion coloring pages help students notice that impulse in themselves and act on it. The 20 messages describe compassion as action (noticing, comforting and making someone feel seen), growing the caring side of the Social Awareness competency for Grades 2–8.

What students practice

• Comforting others when they are hurting
• Trying to make life better for others
• Making someone feel seen
• Seeing caring as courage

What’s inside these compassion coloring pages

• 20 messages to color, each in portrait and landscape
• “Caring with Compassion Check-In,” an 8-question SEL reflection page with tips
• A 12-task choice board in four categories, with tasks like looking for someone who needs kindness today and doing one small compassionate action
• Guides for classroom and counseling use, plus a printing guide
• The full list of all 20 messages; 56 pages in all

A look inside

• Affirmations: “I comfort others when they’re hurting.” “I try to make life better for others.”
• Quotes: “Be the reason someone feels seen.” “Caring is courage.”

Grade fit

Think of the set as compassion affirmation coloring pages with SEL reflection built in; the slow, detailed coloring makes them mindfulness coloring pages too. The pages are especially helpful after the class has been through something hard together, or within a kindness unit. The reflection page asks “When is it hardest for you to show compassion?” The set fits Grades 2–8.

Pairs well with

For a bookmark version of the same topic, add Compassion Bookmarks to Color, or begin with Empathy Coloring Pages — Affirmations and Quotes.