Emotions Coloring Pages - Help Kids With Feelings

Use these emotions coloring pages as a tool to help kids think and talk about their feelings.

This printable includes two pages, each featuring nine faces. One coloring page has blank faces so kids can draw in the expressions. The other features nine different emotional expressions aimed at helping kids open up about their feelings.

Emotional Intelligence, or "EQ" is a big deal for kids and finding tools to help kids understand their own emotional life as well as "read" the feelings of others is just as important for success as academic and intellectual learning. Print out these pages and use them as a talking tool using one of the suggestions below.

Download and Print: (By clicking the following link, you agree to our terms of service. *See below) EMOTIONS COLORING PAGES (2 pages)

Ideas for using the emotions coloring page:

• Cut them out and use them as story starters.
• Cut them out, put in a jar and draw one out as talking point.  For example, "What surprised you today?"
• Have the child fill in the blank faces and then ask him to describe what happened to each person to make them feel that way.
• Children can draw their own versions of each face on the blank faces, cut them out and use as a memory matching game.
• Use them in conjunction with Melanie's multicultural children coloring page to discuss diversity and tolerance.
• Color, cut and attach each head to a wooden craft stick to create puppets.

How will you use the emotions coloring pages??

Meet the illustrator:

Melanie Hope Greenberg encourages kids to talk about their feelings and knows that books are a great way to start a conversation! She is also an award winning author and illustrator of more than 15 children’s books. 

Her cheerful, vibrant illustrations can be found in books such as Good Morning, Digger, Down in the Subway and A City Is, a book of poems by Norman Rosten, the poet laureate of Brooklyn. Her very popular Mermaids on Parade was selected as a Bank Street Best Book, and for the Texas Reading Club and PBS Kids Summer Reading Lists.

Melanie also visits schools to talk about the process of creating a book.

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