Mental Health Awareness Month Coloring Page with a May Calendar

A spiral-bound calendar page announces "MAY IS MENTAL HEALTH MONTH" in tall bubble capitals on this mental health awareness month coloring page. An awareness ribbon hangs in the middle of the sheet, and spring tulips and daisies grow up both sides and across the bottom of the calendar.

It is one of our free mental health awareness month coloring pages, an intermediate design for ages 7 and up, teens and adults. May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States, so school counselors can hand it out to every class that month, and teachers can add the finished pages to a hallway display.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "a big calendar page with the words 'May Is Mental Health Month' at the top, an awareness ribbon in the center and spring tulips and daisies around the edges of the calendar, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page".

The words "big calendar page" set the shape of the drawing. The sheet is tall, with rounded corners and a row of spiral rings across the top, like the current month on a wall calendar. Placing the flowers "around the edges" kept the middle of the sheet open, so the ribbon has a space of its own under the title. On the sheet, the title is set in capital letters over four lines, and each word is large enough to color inside.

What This Mental Health Awareness Month Coloring Page Shows

The title sits where the name of a month usually goes, and the ribbon takes the place of the dates, so the whole sheet reads like the May page of a calendar.

This layout is easy to display through the month. A counselor can pin a row of finished calendars outside the office, and a family can hang one on the fridge next to their own calendar for May.

Six spiral rings run across the top edge of the calendar, and the edge of a second sheet shows behind the right side. The title reads MAY IS, MENTAL, HEALTH and MONTH on four lines, and every capital is a hollow letter with rounded corners. The ribbon is a single loop whose two tails cross below it and end in angled cuts.

Four tulips stand on tall stems, two on each side, and three daisies sit lower down, one on each side and one at the bottom center under the ribbon. Long pointed leaves overlap the lower part of the calendar and hide its bottom corners.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Green is the color of the mental health awareness ribbon, so a lime or mint green ribbon matches the month. A white or pale yellow calendar sheet keeps the ribbon and the title easy to see. The capitals can alternate two colors, one for MAY IS and MONTH and another for MENTAL HEALTH.

Tulips in pink, red or purple stand out next to white and yellow daisies. The spiral rings look like metal in gray or silver, and a darker green on the bottom leaves than on the stems keeps the two layers of plants apart. Older students can shade one side of each tulip petal to give the flowers depth.

For a school event in May, design a calendar page with your school's name under the ribbon and print one for every class.

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