Squeezed-shut eyes under heavy slanted brows, gritted teeth and two clenched fists show the feeling on this frustrated coloring page. The boy sits on the floor behind a big tangled ball of yarn, with his legs out to each side and his fists raised to his shoulders. Loose strands of yarn trail across the floor on both sides of the ball. The boy is quick to color, while the knotted yarn takes patience, so the page fits ages 5 to 9.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "a frustrated little boy with a scrunched-up face and clenched fists sitting in front of a big tangled ball of yarn, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page". The scrunched-up face, the clenched fists and the knotted yarn in front of him match that idea closely.

How to use it

A school counselor can use it to talk about frustration, the feeling that comes when something will not work no matter how hard you try. Coloring the yarn one strand at a time can lead into a talk about solving a problem in small steps. A teacher can keep a copy in the calm-down corner for a student who is stuck on a hard task. For a challenge your student knows, create a frustrated page about a puzzle or a shoelace.