Free Back-to-School Coloring Pages

Pack a school bag, meet classmates and explore classroom life with free printable coloring pages. Choose big simple shapes, friendly pairs or fuller library and garden scenes.

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A child slips a spiral notebook into an open backpack beside a pencil case and water bottle.

Packing a Backpack

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A child sits at a desk with an open pencil case holding three pencils and an eraser beside a closed notebook.

Getting a Pencil Case Ready

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Two children with backpacks smile and wave to each other at an open classroom door.

Friends Waving on the First Day

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A child kneels beside a low bookshelf and places a picture book on the shelf, with a round floor cushion nearby.

Arranging the Reading Corner

easy

Two classmates share a pencil across a desk with separate trays of pencils and spiral notebooks.

Classmates Sharing Pencils

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A teacher holds books and gestures toward the classroom as two children arrive with backpacks.

A Teacher Welcoming Two Children

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Two children care for a school garden: one waters rows of seedlings while the other watches from a bench beside a potted plant.

Caring for the School Garden

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Three children choose books in a library; two share an open picture book while another holds a closed book.

Classmates Choosing Picture Books

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Two children organize a three-tier classroom cart with paper, pencil cups, glue bottles and scissors.

Organizing the Classroom Art Cart

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Two friends sit on a bench with open lunch boxes, a sandwich, an apple and water bottles beneath a tree.

Friends Enjoying Their Lunch Boxes

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Three children fit a landscape puzzle together on a round table while a cat sleeps on the rug below.

New Friends Making a Puzzle

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Two children put away a coat and a backpack in open hallway cubbies, with shoes on the lower shelves.

Putting Away Coats and Backpacks

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Choose a page

Start with the pencil case, first-day greeting or reading corner. For more detail, choose a cardboard town, a welcome circle or children working in the school garden.

Try it together

Talk about what helps a new school term feel welcoming. Color each child’s supplies differently and invent a story about the friends in the picture. School start dates vary by place.

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