Empathy Bookmarks to Color

About this resource

Ask a class how a character feels at the end of a chapter and you are already teaching empathy. These empathy bookmarks to color keep that question close for Grades 2–8, with lace and geometric borders around big outlined lettering and blank bookmarks for students’ own kind messages.

What students practice

• Imagining how others feel
• Understanding other people
• Listening to those who need them
• Treating others the way they want to be treated

What’s inside these empathy bookmarks to color

• 20 empathy bookmarks to color: 10 affirmations and 10 quotes
• A mixed set: 5 pages with 4 different empathy bookmarks per page, plus 1 page of 4 blank bookmarks
• A class set: 20 pages with 4 copies of the same empathy bookmark per page, plus 4 pages of blank bookmarks
• 34 pages

A look inside

• Affirmations: “I treat people how I want to be treated.” “I take time to understand others.” “I imagine how others feel.”
• Quotes: “Feelings matter—yours and theirs.” “Empathy builds bridges.” “Understanding begins with listening.”
• Borders: lace and geometric borders around big outlined lettering, plus blank bookmarks for a kind message of their own.

Grade fit

Coloring the detailed borders suits Grade 2 through middle school. Color them during a read-aloud or novel-study discussion about characters, or keep a stack in the calm corner. The messages build Social Awareness as quiet SEL practice, and the printable bookmarks for students make an easy task for any day.

Pairs well with

Want full color instead? Try Empathy Bookmarks — Bright Illustrated Set, which shares the same 20 messages.