Growth Mindset Coloring Pages — Affirmations and Quotes

About this resource

Students who believe their abilities can grow approach hard work differently. These growth mindset coloring pages return to that belief one affirmation and one quote at a time, until it starts to sound like their own voice. The 20 messages target effort, mistakes and the power of “not yet,” in the Self-Awareness competency for Grades 2–8, with a link to Self-Management.

What students practice

• Growing a little every day
• Failing forward and learning from mistakes
• Using the power of “not yet”
• Getting better with practice

What’s inside these growth mindset coloring pages

• 40 pages to color: 20 messages in portrait and landscape
• “Growth Mindset Check-In,” an 8-question reflection page
• A 12-task choice board in four categories, with tasks like drawing a “growth ladder” of three steps you took to get better at something
• Guides for classroom and counseling use, plus a printing guide
• The full list of all 20 messages; 56 pages in all

A look inside

• Among the 20 messages: “I grow a little every day.” “Fail forward.”
• And more: “Not yet is powerful.” “I get better with practice.”

Grade fit

Think of the set as growth mindset affirmation coloring pages with SEL reflection built in; the slow, detailed coloring makes them mindfulness coloring pages too. Where many coloring sets stop at the page, this one keeps going: the check-in asks “What mistake have you learned from recently?” Use it at the start of a growth mindset unit, in morning meeting or in the calm corner during test season. The set fits Grades 2–8.

Pairs well with

Want the messages in their reading books too? Add Growth Mindset Bookmarks to Color. For a related topic, see Perseverance Bookmarks to Color.