Emotional Intelligence Coloring Pages — Affirmations and Quotes

About this resource

Being smart about feelings, your own and other people’s, is a skill students use every day. These emotional intelligence coloring pages turn that idea into 20 short messages to color and talk about. They connect understanding feelings to making good choices, in the Self-Awareness competency for Grades 2–8.

What students practice

• Noticing how others feel
• Managing their emotions wisely
• Seeing emotions as information
• Letting feelings guide, not control

What’s inside these emotional intelligence coloring pages

• 40 coloring pages: 10 affirmations and 10 quotes
• “Emotional Awareness Check-In,” an 8-question reflection page
• A 12-task choice board in four categories, with tasks like drawing an “emotion compass” that shows how feelings can guide you, or naming the emotion you feel right now and taking two slow breaths before deciding what to do next
• Classroom and counseling guides and a printing guide
• A list of all 20 messages; 56 pages in all

A look inside

• Among the 20 messages: “I notice how others feel.” “I manage my emotions wisely.”
• And more: “Emotions are information.” “Feelings guide, not control.”

Grade fit

Think of the set as emotional intelligence affirmation coloring pages with SEL reflection built in; the slow, detailed coloring makes them mindfulness coloring pages too. Use the set in advisory, SEL lessons or small groups. The set fits Grades 2–8.

Pairs well with

Students can keep one in a book with Emotional Intelligence Bookmarks to Color, or turn toward other people’s feelings with Empathy Coloring Pages — Affirmations and Quotes.