Feelings Wheel Coloring Page with Eight Faces and Their Words

Going clockwise from the top left, the wheel on this feelings wheel coloring page reads happy, sad, angry, scared, calm, silly, surprised and worried. Each of the eight words sits under a simple face that shows the feeling, and a small circle marks the hub where the lines meet.

A smiling sun, two clouds, three hearts and a row of flowers frame the wheel. It is a free printable for ages 4 to 8, for a preschool or kindergarten lesson on feelings, a morning check-in or a counseling session.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "a feelings wheel for kids: a big circle divided into eight equal slices like a pie, each slice with one simple face and its word: happy, sad, angry, scared, calm, silly, surprised and worried, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page". The wheel on this page is the drawing that idea produced.

The words "like a pie" gave the wheel straight lines that run from the hub to the rim, and "one simple face" kept each face to a few lines inside a circle. Every face has eyes and a mouth, and some have eyebrows. The eight words appear in the order the idea listed them, clockwise from the top left.

How This Feelings Wheel Coloring Page Is Laid Out

The wheel puts calm and silly in the same circle as angry and scared, so a child sees pleasant and hard feelings side by side.

A teacher can use it for a morning check-in, with each child pointing to a slice. In a counselor's office, a child can color only the slices that match the week and leave the others white.

The wheel is round and a little taller than it is wide, and four straight lines cross at the hub to cut it into eight slices. Every slice holds a face in a circle, with its word in lowercase letters below it. The happy face has closed, arched eyes and a wide open smile. The sad face has tilted eyebrows and a frown, and the angry face has eyebrows slanting down to the middle.

The scared face has raised eyebrows and an open, downturned mouth. The calm face has closed eyes and a small smile, and the silly face winks one eye and sticks out its tongue. The surprised face has ring-shaped eyes and a small round mouth, and the worried face has a zigzag mouth. Outside the wheel, a sun with ten oval rays smiles at the top left. A tulip, two flowers, a heart, a bush and a leafy shrub stand on two low hills at the bottom.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Pick one color per feeling and use it on both the slice and the face, like yellow for happy, blue for sad and red for angry. A child who colors the wheel this way ends up with a color key to reuse on other feelings pages.

A lighter shade on the faces than on their slices keeps the eyes and mouths easy to see. The sun, the clouds and the flowers outside the wheel give early finishers more to color.

To add a feeling your class talks about often, like proud or frustrated, build a feelings wheel around the words your class uses.

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