New Year Goals Coloring Page

A big cork board takes up most of this new year goals coloring page, with six pinned notes under the title MY 2027 GOALS. Each note has a small picture, a word and an empty box to tick. The words are READ, BE KIND, PLAY, GROW, SAVE and TRY. At the desk below, a girl with curly hair holds up her pencil as if she just had a great idea.

Her desk has an open notebook, a cup of pencils, a globe and four tidy drawers. The picture on each note is simple. You get a book, a heart, a soccer ball, a potted plant, a piggy bank and a star.

Good for quiet kids and planners

The page is easy, and it works for ages 5 to 11. Most shapes are plain and wide. A child can finish it in 20 minutes, though the real fun comes from talking through the goals while they color. It also fits well on the first day back at school after winter break, when kids are full of plans.

New year goals coloring page color ideas

Cork looks best in a warm tan with a darker brown frame. Dab small brown dots across it with the tip of a marker to copy the speckles of real cork. Then make every note a different soft color, so the board feels full and happy.

• READ: blue book on cream paper
• BE KIND: red heart on pink paper
• GROW: orange pot with green leaves
• SAVE: pink piggy on a pale yellow note

Pins are a tiny detail that kids love. Give each one a color that pops against its note. The title strip can be bright yellow, and the letters can stay white or take any shade your child picks.

A few helpful tips

Use a colored pencil for the words on the notes. They are small, and a crayon will fill the gaps inside the letters. If that happens, just go over the outline with a black pen.

Leave the tick boxes empty for now, and keep a pen handy. The whole point of the page is that your child can come back and mark them. Hang the sheet somewhere they see it each day, and the boxes turn into a small reward for the year ahead.

The girl's curls have small swirl marks. Color over them in a dark shade and press a bit harder on the swirls, so the hair shows some texture.

The oldest goals on record

New year promises are very old. Around 2000 BC, the Babylonians marked the new year with a 12 day festival called Akitu. It began in spring, at the start of the farming season. People made promises to return borrowed farm tools and to pay what they owed. The Romans later took up the habit too. You can read about it on the New Year's resolution page. So when your child promises to return a library book, they are keeping up a 4,000 year old idea.

Make the goals real

Sit down together and make each word personal. What book will your child READ this month? Who could they help for BE KIND? Write a short answer on the back of the page, one line for each note. Keep it small. A goal such as "feed the dog on Saturdays" is easier to tick than "be better."

Teachers can collect the sheets, keep them in a folder, and hand them back in June. Students are often surprised by what they wrote, and by how many boxes they can now tick.

Next pages to print

If the READ note gets the most love, follow it with the girl reading a book coloring page. Kids who picked GROW may like the planting seeds coloring page when the weather warms up.

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