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    You are here: Home / Art and Crafts / Coloring Pages / Reduce Back to School Anxiety with Coloring Pages

     

    Reduce Back to School Anxiety with Coloring Pages

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    If your child is feeling a little anxious about going back to school after a carefree summer one strategy you can implement is giving them a few school coloring pages. Coloring pages can reduce anxiety, and improve mindfulness in the moment for children, as well as providing a much-needed break. And perhaps a few school-themed coloring pages and templates to color with do the trick? This collection of school coloring pages by Melanie Hope Greenberg even includes her newest design, a math homework coloring page with a friendly teacher (or parent? or tutor? or big sister?) helping out a pair of students.

    Free school coloring pages to reduce anxiety
    Print out the entire collection (for free!) as a fun way to help calm your kids while they wait for school to start, or after a long day at a desk, or whenever you think they need a little time to focus. Some of the choices, like the school bus and school house will even inspire pretend play.

    Download and print (by clicking on the following link you agree to our terms of service* see below): Homework Coloring Page

    And get the other school coloring pages:

    School bus coloring page and template! Click here for the school bus template and instructions.

    School bus coloring page and village templates

    Click here to get the school house coloring page template! Plus: bonus pizza parlor! Everyone needs a little snack after a long day reading and writing.

    school and pizza parlor coloring page free printable

    How about a tree full of apples for the teacher? Get this darling apple coloring page.  I wrote a 5 little apples rhyme to go with it, and singing relieves anxiety too, right?

    Apple picking coloring page

    Click here to get the school photo frames!

    Coloring pages that double as frames for school pictures. Fun gift or card idea.

    Click here to get the back to school bookmarks!

    school bookmarks coloring page

    And of course, write an end of summer story about flying a kite! Free, printable template here.

    See all of Melanie’s coloring pages:

    Free coloring pages for kids

    Meet the illustrator:

    Melanie Hope Greenberg is 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. 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 does wonderful school visits where she teaches kids about the process of writing and illustrating children's visits. Learn more at her website.

    Melanie's newest book is Americanly, an ode to all the diverse locations in the United States.  You can order it directly from Melanie here.

    order Americanly book

    I’m sure you know a kid who likes diggers. Or mermaids? Or subways? Melanie signs all copies of her books purchased through her Amazon vendor link.

      

     *Terms of Service: this coloring page is used with permission from Melanie Hope Greenberg and is for non-commercial use ONLY. You many print out as many copies as you like for personal, library or classroom use. If you would like to share this coloring page, you MUST link to this blog page. It is expressly forbidden to link directly to the coloring page pdf file.

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    1. Ms Conton says

      August 17, 2017 at 7:41 am

      Thank you. Great coloring pages ideas. Will look for your books in livrary.

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