Catholic Schools Week Coloring Page with a Brick School and a Cross

Three lines of big hollow letters spell "CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK" across the top of this Catholic Schools Week coloring page. Below the words is a small brick school with a cross on its roof and a double door standing open. A boy and a girl with backpacks walk toward the door, one on each side of the path, and the two children are smiling.

The large letters and the bold outlines suit preschool and early elementary students, so teachers at Catholic schools and parish catechists can hand out the sheet during Catholic Schools Week.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "the words Catholic Schools Week in big hollow letters at the top of the page, above a small brick school building with a cross on its roof and an open front door, with two smiling children with backpacks walking toward the door, drawn with simple bold outlines for kids, the whole building kept small enough to leave a wide white margin below it, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page".

The phrase "big hollow letters" left the inside of every letter white, so students fill the words with color. The words "a cross on its roof" placed the cross at the very top of the building, right under the word "WEEK", and that detail marks the building as a Catholic school.

What's on This Catholic Schools Week Coloring Page

The words take up about the top third of the sheet, so a finished page works as a small poster for the week.

Younger students can stay with the letters and the door, and older students can move on to the window panes and the bow in the girl's hair.

The words use 19 capital letters on three lines, with eight in "CATHOLIC", seven in "SCHOOLS" and four in "WEEK". The A and the three Os have a closed space in the middle. The cross on the roof is a hollow outline on a short post. Under the peak of the roof, a round window is divided into four panes by a cross-shaped frame, and two bricks are drawn on each side of that window.

The front door has two panels, with a small rectangular window and a round knob on every panel. A wide arch curves over the doorway, and two steps lead up to it. A side wing stands on each side of the main building, with a window of four panes that sits partly behind a child's head. The boy's backpack has a plain front pocket, and the girl's backpack has a pocket with a zipper.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Students can color the three lines of letters in their school colors, with one color for every word. A warm red suits the brick walls, and the rounded bushes at the two ends of the school can take two shades of green. The doorway is a large blank shape with room for the name of the school, a class number or a short word such as "Welcome".

The children's clothes can match the class uniform. Markers fill the wide letters quickly, and a sharpened colored pencil reaches the window panes and the zipper. When the sheets are finished, a class can tape them in a row along a hallway for the week.

To put your own school's name above the door, create a page for your school and print a copy for every student.

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