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Get the kids excited and ready for the start of school with these Back to School Coloring Sheets! They’re fun, easy to print, and loaded with school images for a variety of ages and learners.
You’ll find a variety of printables that’ll spark your creative fun! You can print them all, or print one at a time – options are always fun! Kick off the school year with these coloring sheets!
Grab the crayons, coloring pages, or markers and get started on these printable pages. You’ll love the outcome and creativity that each kid can do!
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How can I encourage early learners to color inside the lines?
Focus on progress, not perfection—praise effort, offer tools that support control, and make coloring feel like play, not a chore.
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Start with Larger, Bold Outlines
- Use coloring pages with thick, high-contrast lines.
- Bigger spaces are easier for little hands to control.
Build Fine Motor Skills Through Play
- Activities like playdough, beading, cutting with scissors, or tweezers games build finger strength and control—key for staying in the lines later.
- Short, thick crayons or triangular pencils are easier to grip.
- Try color-changing markers or gel crayons to make it more exciting.
Demonstrate and Encourage Slowly
- Sit next to them and color together.
- Gently say things like, “Let’s see if we can keep the blue in the sky area.”
Use Stickers or Wikki Stix as Borders
- Add tactile boundaries to help guide their movements.
- This makes coloring a multi-sensory experience.
Celebrate Effort
- Focus on how long they stuck with it or color choices rather than perfection.
- Say: “You worked so hard on this!” or “You stayed in the lines so much more than last time!”
Try Tracing Before Coloring
- Let them trace shapes or outlines with a crayon first to “warm up” their motor control.
More Printable Coloring Pages
Beginning sounds coloring pages
These Beginning Sounds Coloring Pages are fun for young kids who are learning phonics!
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Sight Word Coloring Pages
Use these printable Sight Word Coloring Pages to help kids practice sight word reading!
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Back to School Coloring Pages
Grab these Back to School Coloring Pages and let the kids have some coloring fun!
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Free ABC Coloring Page Printables
Preschoolers will love working with these fun ABC Coloring Pages!
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Back to School Bookmarks to Color
These Back to School Coloring Bookmarks are great for little bookworms!
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5 Free Printable Back to School Coloring Pages for Kids
Need more printables? How about these Back to School Coloring Pages for your children?
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Free Printable Tracing Pages for Kids with School Theme
Work on coloring and handwriting with these Back to School Color and Tracing Pages!
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Kid Color Pages: Back to School
These Back to School Kid Color Pages feature school tracing words to help build your child’s vocabulary!
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Teacher Coloring Pages
Has your child met his or her new teacher yet? These Teacher-Themed Coloring Pages are a nice way to ease new teacher anxiety!
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School Bus with Kids
Do your kids ride the school bus? They’ll love this School Bus Coloring Page!
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Back to School Coloring Pages Featuring Silly School Supplies!
Color these School Supply-Themed Coloring Pages with your kids and then have them help you look for school supplies!
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Frame Those Cute School Photos in Style!
These printable School Frame Coloring Pages would be so adorable for first day of school pictures!
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Download & Print These Cute Owl Coloring Pages
I love owls! These Back to School Owl-Themed Coloring Pages are seriously adorable.
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School Lunchtime Coloring Page
This School Lunchroom Coloring Page is advanced enough for older kids to try!
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Back to School Notebook Cover Printable Coloring Page
The kids will have a blast coloring and decorating the front of their notebooks!
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3d Back to School Coloring Pages
Let the creative fun get started with these printable coloring pages.
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100 Days of School Coloring Page
Celebrate the 100th day of school with this fun printable!
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School Bus Coloring Activity
This combines creative play and fine motor skills!
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Exciting First Day of School Coloring Pages
The kids will have a blast with this first day of school printables!
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Back to School Color by Number Printables (Free)
They'll love these fun and adorable printable coloring pages!
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Which of these free coloring printables do you think the kids will work on first?
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