Be Kind to Yourself Coloring Page with a Girl Hugging Herself

Eyes closed and smiling, a girl wraps both arms around herself on this be kind to yourself coloring page. She stands in a field of flowers under the words Be Kind to Yourself.

It is a free printable for ages 5 to 10, with large shapes in the girl and smaller ones in the flowers. It fits a counselor's office, a classroom and a quiet moment at home.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "a smiling girl with her eyes closed giving herself a warm hug with both arms, standing in a meadow of small flowers, with the words Be Kind to Yourself in big hand lettering at the top of the page, drawn with clean outlines, the girl and the flowers kept small enough to leave a wide white margin below them, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page".

The words "giving herself a warm hug with both arms" crossed the girl's arms over her chest, with each hand resting on the opposite shoulder. With "her eyes closed", she has two curved lines for eyes above a calm smile. The words "big hand lettering" set the title in rounded outline letters on two lines, with Be Kind on top and to Yourself below.

Inside This Be Kind to Yourself Coloring Page

The girl on this page gives the hug and receives it at the same time. That makes the sheet a starting point for a talk about speaking to yourself the way you would speak to a good friend.

A school counselor or a teacher can ask children what they say to a friend who makes a mistake, and then ask whether they say the same words to themselves. Each child can write one kind sentence about themselves on the back before coloring. The hug is an easy pose for a child to copy, which makes the page a good fit for the calm corner.

Four hearts and four sparkles float around the title and above the girl's shoulders. The girl wears a short-sleeved top, a flared skirt with fold lines and flat shoes with a strap, and her hair falls in waves past her shoulders.

Flowers grow on both sides of her on tall, curving stems with pointed leaves. Eighteen of them have a round center ringed by petals, and two smaller ones have pointed petals and no ring. Tufts of grass grow along the ground line, and three more tufts sit on the white ground below it.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Choose two or three colors for the flowers and repeat them across the field, so the girl's top and skirt can stand out in a color of their own. A warm yellow or orange in every flower center ties the field together.

Color the hearts pink or red and the sparkles yellow. A light pink on the girl's cheeks and a pale green under the flowers finish the page.

If a child has a favorite kind sentence about themselves, create a page with that sentence as the title and let them color it next.

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