Kindness Coloring Pages: 30 Hero Pages of Helping Neighbors, Caring for Pets and Designing Your Own Hero

The heroes in this book do not fight anyone. Their missions are the kind a child could carry out on an ordinary afternoon: a curly-haired girl in a cape cradles a kitten under a tree, another walks an older neighbor home and carries her shopping bag, and a boy calms a surprised robot that has spilled its load of blocks. Every hero wears the same team outfit, with an eye mask, a flowing cape, tall boots and a sprout badge on the chest, so the book reads like one crew of everyday heroes working through a list of good deeds.

The good deeds, page by page

• Helping people: the kitten rescue (01), stacking blocks together (05), a boy helping a startled robot gather its blocks (08), two heroes carrying a plank to bridge a stream (13), the walk home with an older neighbor and her groceries (14) and a wrapped gift left at a front door (23).
• Caring for animals: kneeling to greet a happy dog in a park (07), a dog walk with the puppy in its own little cape (15), holding an umbrella over two ducklings in the rain (16) and a caped cat on a garden wall (25).
• Caring for places: watering a raised vegetable bed (10), carrying a bin of bottles to recycle in the city park (20) and planting a sunflower with a friendly robot (21).
• Practice and big ideas: drawing a map in a cozy wooden hideout (06), fixing a toy robot at a workbench (17), an obstacle course with cones and hoops (18), looking through a telescope from a rooftop at night (22) and sketching a robot design at a desk (26).
• Hero moments: flying over the neighborhood (02 and 11), a rooftop watch over the city (03), a wave hello with a backpack (04), a POW! pose (09), a soft landing in a meadow (12), a cape blowing in the breeze (19), the whole team together (24) and a high-five at a park party with balloons (27).

Most scenes are kids, with a grown-up hero on pages 03 and 19 and a taller teammate in the group shot on page 24.

Design pages and detail level

The last three pages turn kids into the designers (see the FAQ). They work well after reading a story about kindness: a child invents a hero, gives them a badge that stands for a good deed, and picks an animal sidekick. The scenes themselves have bold outlines but fairly full backgrounds of trees, houses, flowers and grass, so the garden bed (10), the hideout (06) and the workshop (17) take the longest. The POW! page (09) and the design pages are the simplest.

Color edition

In the color PDF the heroes wear teal suits with gold trim, orange-red capes, cream leggings and teal boots, and the sprout on the badge is green. Skies are bright blue, the night page is deep navy with yellow stars, and the cat and puppy are golden orange. It shows one finished look for every page, and kids can choose their own hero colors instead.

Printing

Choose the US Letter or A4 PDF, print at 100% or Actual Size with one page per sheet, and switch off two-sided printing. Print a single page before the whole book to check the result. The color PDF uses more ink, so it can stay on a screen as a guide while the black-and-white pages go to the printer. If markers are used, slide a spare sheet underneath.

Questions

Are these characters from comics or movies?

No. The heroes were made for this book. They wear a simple matching outfit, a cape, an eye mask, boots and a round chest badge with a two-leaf sprout, and there is no logo or costume from any existing comic or film. Page 09 does use the comic-book sound word POW! in a starburst.

What are the three design pages?

Page 28, Design Your Hero, is a smiling hero with a bald head and an empty chest circle, so kids can add hair, a mask and an emblem. Page 29, Create a Hero Badge, has seven empty shapes and a cape to fill with symbols. Page 30, Invent a Hero Pet, is a caped puppy with a blank badge and two empty circles for drawing more ideas.

Are PNG files included?

No. This set has four PDF books only, black and white and color, in US Letter and A4.