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Community Helpers Coloring Pages: 20 Helper Scenes plus 5 Matching and 5 Draw-and-Write Pages
A three-part workbook about the people who keep a town running. Twenty coloring scenes each show one job at work, five pages ask kids to draw lines from helpers to their tools, and five open boxes invite them to draw the job they want, the tools they would use and someone they could help.
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Meet a Community Helper heads the first twenty pages, with the job name printed underneath the picture. Each scene puts the helper next to the people they serve, which gives a child something to talk about while coloring: the nurse puts a bandage on a boy’s arm, the vet listens to a puppy’s heart while a girl pets it, the librarian hands a book to a little girl next to a book cart.
The 20 jobs
| Pages | Helpers |
|---|---|
| 01–07 | Firefighter watering flowers with a hose reel, police officer stopping cars at a crosswalk, doctor with a stethoscope, nurse, teacher reading to two kids on a rug, mail carrier at a mailbox, sanitation worker wheeling a bin to the truck |
| 08–14 | Farmer pulling carrots, chef kneading dough by the oven, veterinarian, dentist showing a toothbrush and model teeth, librarian, construction worker at a sawhorse with a wooden beam, bus driver at the wheel |
| 15–20 | Cashier bagging groceries, hair stylist with comb and scissors, mechanic under the hood, pilot welcoming a family up the airplane stairs, custodian mopping a hallway, scientist at a microscope |
Women and men share the jobs fairly evenly, and the helpers vary in age, skin tone and hair, from the older custodian in glasses to the young bus driver with a long braid.
Matching and drawing pages
Pages 21 to 25 turn the same twenty helpers into a game. Fifteen helpers appear as head-and-shoulders portraits, three per page, with a dot beside each one and beside each tool, so kids draw a line from dot to dot: the mail carrier to the envelope, the cashier to the register, the hair stylist to the comb and scissors. The tools are drawn large enough to color afterward, which the page prompt asks for.
Pages 26 to 30 change pace completely. Each has one big rounded box, a short prompt such as Draw the tools you would use, and a fill-in sentence at the bottom. The corner pictures (a child surrounded by job props, a toolbox with a hammer and watering can, three town buildings, a boy handing a basket to an older woman, a girl watering a flower) give a nudge without filling the space.
Detail and the color guides
The helper scenes have medium-weight lines and plenty of background detail, such as shelves of books, kitchen tools and the airplane door. The firefighter among her flower beds and the pilot’s airport scene are the busiest pages; the tools on the matching pages are single objects on white, and the drawing pages are mostly empty space. In the color guide the firefighter wears yellow gear with a red hose reel, the farmer has blue overalls and an orange carrot crop, and the scientist’s flasks are pale blue. The guide notes this is one possible palette, not a rule.
Print the US Letter or A4 PDF to match your paper, single-sided at Actual Size. Teachers can print just the matching set or the drawing set for a class, or use the single PNG pages to pick out jobs one at a time.
Questions
- Where are the answers to the matching pages?
- In Buyer-Guide.txt. Each matching page has three helpers on the left and three tools on the right, and the guide lists which tool goes with which helper. On page 21, for example, the firefighter goes with the hose, the doctor with the stethoscope and the teacher with the open book.
- What do the draw-and-write pages ask?
- Page 26 says I want to be a, page 27 I will use, page 28 I will work at, page 29 I can help and page 30 I can, each with a writing line under a large empty box and a small picture in the corner for a hint. The guide suggests a grown-up can write down the child's words while the child does the drawing.
