Helping Others Coloring Page with a Girl and Her Grandpa Carrying Groceries

A girl and her grandpa carry a paper grocery bag together down a sidewalk on this helping others coloring page. A long loaf of bread, a leafy green and a small pumpkin peek out of the top of the bag, and each of them holds one side of it. Both are smiling as they walk, with bushes and a tree behind them.

It is a free printable for ages 5 to 9, with medium-sized shapes and a simple park in the background. Teachers can use it for a talk about helping at home, and families can print it before a visit to the grandparents.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "a smiling girl helping her grandpa carry a paper grocery bag with bread and vegetables peeking out of it, the two of them walking together along a sidewalk, drawn with clean outlines, the girl and her grandpa 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".

"Helping her grandpa carry" put the bag between the two of them, so each one takes part of the weight. "Bread and vegetables peeking out" filled the top of the bag with a loaf of bread, a leafy green and a small pumpkin with a curled stem. "Walking together along a sidewalk" set them side by side in mid-step.

Details of This Helping Others Coloring Page

The grocery bag sits at the center of the page, held at the same height by a small hand and a big one. The girl looks up at her grandpa with an open smile, and he smiles back at her through his glasses.

A child can see that helping someone can be as simple as taking one side of a heavy bag. The page fits a lesson about helping older family members and neighbors, or a talk about the small jobs a child can do at home.

The grandpa has a bald head with tufts of hair above his ears, rectangular glasses, a mustache and a line across his forehead. He wears a V-neck sweater over a collared shirt, and the cuff and the bottom band of the sweater are ribbed with short lines. The girl has a ponytail, a long-sleeved top with a round neckline, pants and sneakers. The paper bag has a zigzag top edge and a fold line down its front. Behind them, two long lines mark the edge of the sidewalk, and a tree with a forked trunk stands at the right.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Color the paper bag in light brown and give the bread a golden crust. Pick a deep green for the leaves in the bag and orange for the pumpkin so the groceries stand out against the bag, and give the ribbed bands of the sweater a darker shade of the sweater color.

Ask the class what the girl might say to her grandpa and how he feels when she helps. Each child can write on the back one way they help an older person, and the colored page can go home as a gift for a grandparent. Catechists and Sunday school teachers can use it for a lesson on serving others.

For a lesson on helping at home, make a page that shows the helping job your class picked.

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