Ethical Decision-Making Coloring Pages — Affirmations and Quotes

About this resource

Every day brings small choices with an ethical side that students may not notice. These ethical decision-making coloring pages build the habit of pausing to ask what is right, not just what is easy. The 20 messages cover thinking before choosing, weighing how actions affect others and following your values over the crowd, in the Responsible Decision-Making competency for Grades 2–8.

What students practice

• Following their values, not the crowd
• Pausing to do the right thing
• Choosing what is right over what is popular
• Letting their conscience lead

What’s inside these ethical decision-making coloring pages

• 10 affirmation and 10 quote pages in portrait and landscape
• “Making Right Choices Check-In,” an 8-question SEL reflection page with tips
• A 12-task choice board in four categories, with tasks like drawing a “decision tree” that shows how one choice can lead to different outcomes
• Classroom and counseling guides and a printing guide
• A list of all 20 messages; 56 pages in all

A look inside

• Affirmations: “I follow my values, not the crowd.” “I pause to do the right thing.”
• Quotes: “Right is not always popular.” “Let your conscience lead.”

Grade fit

Think of the set as ethical decision-making affirmation coloring pages with SEL reflection built in; the slow, detailed coloring makes them mindfulness coloring pages too. Use the pages within a decision-making unit or before a class discussion about a real dilemma. The reflection page asks “When is it hardest for you to choose what’s right over what’s easy?” The set fits Grades 2–8.

Pairs well with

For a bookmark on the same topic, add Ethical Decision-Making Bookmarks to Color, or explore Integrity Coloring Pages — Affirmations and Quotes.