School Coloring Pages

• School buildings: an old one-room schoolhouse, a modern elementary school and a flagpole out front.
• School buses: side views, front views and a bus stop with a line of kids.
• Classrooms: desks, a board, a globe, a wall clock and a reading rug.
• Supplies: pencils, scissors, glue, rulers, notebooks and a pencil case.
• Backpacks and lunch: a packed bag, a lunchbox, an apple and a water bottle.
• Playground: swings, a slide and a hopscotch grid.
• People: a teacher at the board, a crossing guard with a stop sign and students with their hands up.

School buses in the United States are all the same shade, a deep yellow that leans toward orange. It was chosen at a national meeting of educators and bus builders in 1939, because black lettering on that yellow is easy to read in the dim light of early morning. Use a yellow-orange, not a lemon yellow, and add black stripes along the side.

Other details to color true to life:

• Stop arm: the sign that swings out from the bus is red with white letters, the same eight-sided shape as a road stop sign.
• Chalkboards: usually dark green. Whiteboards stay white with a gray frame.
• Pencils: the classic one is yellow with a pink eraser and a silver metal band.
• Brick schoolhouse: red-brown bricks with pale gray lines between them, and a white bell tower.
• Globe: blue oceans and green land on a brown or black stand.

Classroom pages have a lot of small objects. Start with the big areas, the floor and the walls, in soft colors. Then do the desks and the board. Leave the bright colors for the small things.