Understanding Emotions Coloring Pages — Affirmations and Quotes

About this resource

You cannot manage a feeling you cannot name. These understanding emotions coloring pages help students identify what they feel, where they feel it and why, through calm coloring and 20 short messages. The set builds emotional vocabulary and body awareness in the Self-Awareness competency for Grades 2–8.

What students practice

• Naming their feelings
• Noticing emotions in the body
• Seeing that every feeling tells a story
• Treating feelings as teachers

What’s inside these understanding emotions coloring pages

• 40 pages to color: 20 messages in portrait and landscape
• “Understanding Feelings Check-In,” an 8-question reflection page
• A 12-task choice board in four categories, with tasks like drawing an “emotion map” of your body that shows where you feel different emotions, or pausing to name the emotion you feel right now
• 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 can name my feelings.” “I notice emotions in my body.”
• And more: “Every feeling tells a story.” “Feelings are teachers.”

Grade fit

Think of the set as understanding emotions affirmation coloring pages with SEL reflection built in; the slow, detailed coloring makes them mindfulness coloring pages too. Use the set early in the year to build a shared feelings language, or as a counseling check-in. The set fits Grades 2–8.

Pairs well with

Understanding Emotions Bookmarks to Color gives students a daily reminder, and Managing Emotions Coloring Pages — Affirmations and Quotes is the next step after naming a feeling.