Coping Skills SEL Colouring Pages – 4 Strategy Sheets

Four shape-outline colouring pages pair a coping strategy with a colour, and a fifth page lists all sixteen strategies as a reference chart.

Year groups: Reception, Nursery, Nursery, Primary, Years 2–4
Pages: 5
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Nov 16, 2024

Subject: Special Education Needs (SEN), Social Skills, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Special Resources
Topic: Coping Skills, Feelings
Resource types: Colouring Pages, Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
Preparation: Print ready

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Four shape-outline colouring pages — a teddy bear, a butterfly, an umbrella, and a beach ball — each spell out four coping strategies in words that trace the outline of the shape, and students colour each section using the colour assigned to that strategy (for example, the teddy bear's stress-ball section is coloured dark brown, its breathing section pink). A fifth page, titled ‘16 Coping Skills Strategies,’ lists all sixteen strategies used across the four shapes as a single grid, functioning as a stand-alone reference chart independent of the colouring pages. Strategies range from physical actions like taking a walk or squeezing a stress ball to social ones like talking to an adult or asking for a hug, giving students a visual menu of self-regulation options rather than a single fixed routine. Each page opens with a blank name line, suggesting the set is meant to be completed and kept by an individual student.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students identify and name a personal coping strategy for managing stress or big feelings.
Students associate each of sixteen coping strategies with a specific shape and colour through the colouring activity.
Students use the reference page to recall the full menu of strategies independent of any single shape.

Teaching tips

Introduce the reference page first so students see all sixteen strategies before choosing which ones to colour into each shape.
Use the four shapes as a rotation across a week (one per day) rather than assigning all four in a single sitting, since each covers a distinct set of strategies.
Pair the activity with a calm-down corner or self-regulation routine already in place in your classroom, since the pages name concrete actions (walk, breathe, talk to an adult) rather than abstract feelings vocabulary.

Skills covered

Coping-strategy identification — students name and colour specific self-regulation actions such as taking a walk, breathing, or asking for a hug.
Colour-code following — students match each written strategy to its assigned colour within a shape outline.
Self-regulation vocabulary — students encounter and reuse terms like ‘peaceful place’ and ‘deep breath’ across multiple pages.

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Coping strategies
Self-regulation
Social emotional learning

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Coping Skills Feelings Stress Management School Counseling SEL Special Education Self-Regulation Sel Colouring Pages Social Emotional Learning

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