Anger Coloring Page with a Calm, Rumbling and Erupting Volcano

A volcano split into three labeled bands turns this anger coloring page into a scale for a big feeling. The base is labeled Calm, the middle band Rumbling and the top band Erupting. Each band has a face that matches its word. Lava bursts out of the crater in tall splashes, while clouds and bushes fill the sky and the ground around the mountain.

It is a free printable for ages 4 to 9. It suits a classroom lesson on anger, a school counselor's office and a talk at home after a hard moment.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "an anger volcano chart for kids: a big volcano divided into three bands from bottom to top, labeled Calm at the base, Rumbling in the middle and Erupting at the top, with a small calm face in the bottom band, a frowning face in the middle band and an angry face in the top band, and lava bursting out of the crater, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page". The volcano on this page is the drawing that idea produced.

The words "three bands from bottom to top" gave the volcano two curved lines across its slope. In the drawing, "lava bursting out of the crater" turned into a fountain of curling splashes with six loose drops around it. The labels are spelled as the idea wrote them: Calm, Rumbling and Erupting.

Inside This Anger Coloring Page

The scale reads from the bottom up, so the calm face sits on the wide base and the angry face sits right under the lava. A child who cannot read the labels yet can still follow the faces from smile to shout.

Rumbling names the step between calm and angry. At that step, a child can still stop and take a breath or ask for help. A teacher can ask a child to point to the band they are in right now.

The volcano is a tall cone that widens toward the bottom of the page, and two curved lines cut it into three bands. The middle band, Rumbling, is the narrowest. Each band holds its word in bold black letters above a round face. The Calm face has curved eyebrows and a small smile. The Rumbling face has flat eyebrows and a frown, and the Erupting face has eyebrows slanting down to the middle and a wide open mouth.

Under the crater rim, a wavy line of lava drips runs across the top band. Inside the fountain, two smaller tongues of lava rise between the big splashes. Three clouds float beside the cone, two on the left and one on the right. Rounded bushes rise behind both sides of the base, and leafy plants grow along the bottom edge of the page.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Color the bands like a traffic light from the bottom up: green for Calm, yellow for Rumbling and red for Erupting. The same colors can go on the faces, so each face matches its band.

Save the lava for last and mix red, orange and yellow, with the darkest red near the crater. Soft blues and greens on the clouds and bushes keep the volcano the brightest shape on the page.

If your class has other words for these steps, give the volcano your class's own labels, such as Cool, Warm and Hot.

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