Best 20 Sunday School Coloring Activities Printable for Kids
I’m Rebecca, and I have crayons in every room of this house — tucked in the couch cushions, rolling around in the diaper bag, melting in the cup holder of my minivan. Three kids (eight, six, and three), a husband who runs our church’s youth group, and every few weeks I’m the one covering little-kids Sunday school when the regular teacher needs a break. Which means I have a very specific relationship with printable coloring sheets. I need a stack ready, I need the lines thick, and I need something that holds a three-year-old’s attention for at least eight minutes so I can explain the lesson to the older kids without someone eating a crayon. Heads up: some links below are affiliate links, so if you grab something through one it helps keep PsalmKids going at no extra cost to you.
The coloring activities I keep coming back to are the ones that work at both home and the church table. My eight-year-old, Callie, will sit and really work a page — she picks her own color scheme for the flowers around a cross, she reads the verse out loud before she starts. My six-year-old, Micah, needs big letter outlines or he gets bored in three minutes flat and starts poking his sister. And Mae, my three-year-old, just needs something where staying inside a wobbly thick border feels like a win. That’s the whole evaluation rubric. I’m not looking for art. I’m looking for something that keeps three kids engaged long enough for the Word to actually land.
All sixteen files below are things I’ve either printed for our Sunday school class, used at home on Saturday mornings, or tucked into our quiet-time basket for Sunday afternoons. Some are nativity and Easter themed. Some are Fruits of the Spirit. Some are just fish and flowers with a verse tucked in, which is honestly sometimes exactly what you need when the Sunday lesson is Jonah and nobody can agree on what color a whale should be.
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Nativity Line Art Clipart Set for Classic Christmas Sunday School
This is the one I pull out every November and it stays in rotation straight through Christmas Eve. The set has Mary, Joseph, the manger scene, individual animals — all separate files, thick black outlines, no fussy cross-hatching that confuses little hands. In Sunday school I printed just the baby Jesus panel for the three- and four-year-olds and the full scene for the older kids. At home, Callie arranges them like a tableau on the fridge after she colors them, which is genuinely sweet.
One warning: the files come as clipart, not pre-formatted coloring sheets, so you’ll size them yourself before printing. I just drop each image into a Word doc, stretch it to fill the page, done. Micah chose a yellow crayon for the star and then went back with orange and that was apparently a whole artistic decision he needed five minutes to explain.
God’s Plans Whale PNG for a Jonah Sunday School Lesson
The whale is enormous on the page, which is exactly right. Jonah is tiny inside — and that contrast is actually the lesson. My three-year-old Mae colored the whole whale blue with the same blue crayon for about eleven minutes straight, which is a personal record. Micah read the phrase ‘God’s plans’ at the top and asked if God had a plan for him to get more screen time, so we had a brief theological discussion.
Print at full page, 8.5×11. The PNG is high-res so it scales up without getting blurry or pixelated around the tail. This one works well as a standalone craft for a Jonah lesson — pair it with the story reading first, then hand out the page. The kids have something to look at while you wrap up discussion, and the whale gives them plenty of space to experiment with color.
Bible Verse Christian Coloring Book With Multiple Pages to Print
This is my go-to Saturday morning stack. It’s a multi-page coloring book file — I print four or five pages at a time and put them in a little pile with a rubber band. The verses are set in large, clear lettering inside decorative borders: flowers, vines, simple geometric shapes. Callie works through the letters carefully, tries to make each one a different color. Micah mostly colors the flowers and ignores the words, which I have accepted.
The book format means I’m not hunting for individual files every week. I just open it, pick a page that fits whatever we’re talking about in Sunday school or at devotions, print, done. Psalm 23. John 3:16. Philippians 4:13. They’re all in there. Honest flaw: a couple of the borders are a little busy for Mae, so I hand her the simpler pages and save the detailed ones for the older two.
Fruit of the Spirit Coloring Sheet With Nine Biblical Traits Listed
Galatians 5:22-23 is a lot of words for a Sunday school class. This page breaks it up visually — each fruit gets its own little section with the corresponding trait written underneath it: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Nine fruits, nine coloring sections. Callie went through and looked up what color each fruit actually is before she started, which turned into a small botany conversation.
For Sunday school, I use this during the Fruits of the Spirit unit and let the kids each pick one fruit to be ‘in charge of’ for the discussion. They color their section first and then share. Works better than I expected — even the shy kids will talk about their fruit. The outlines are clean and the text under each piece is big enough that a six-year-old can read it independently, which matters a lot at the table.
Patience Bible Verse Coloring Page From the Fruit of the Spirit
We did a whole Sunday dedicated just to patience, partly because Micah does not have any and we needed to address that directly. This page has ‘Be patient in affliction’ — Romans 12:12 — set in a hand-lettered style with decorative elements around the border. Big enough to color section by section. Mae colored the whole thing in purple because that is the only color she will use for approximately two months now.
What I like here versus the full Fruits of the Spirit page is that this one goes deeper — it’s one verse, more space, less rushing through nine concepts in a row. Print it for a Sunday where you’re focusing on one idea and letting it breathe. The hand-lettered style means the letters have a little weight to them, which is actually easier for kids to color than thin printed font. Micah asked why patience was hard. We talked about that for a while.
Joy Bible Verse Wall Art Coloring Sheet to Display After Finishing
This one is sized like wall art — tall, portrait-orientation, the word JOY very large in the center with the verse from Nehemiah 8:10 beneath it: ‘The joy of the Lord is your strength.’ The oversized lettering is the whole point. Callie colored each letter of JOY a different color and the result actually looks pretty good on her bedroom door, which is where it lives now.
At Sunday school I use this as an end-of-session craft — quick to color since the design isn’t overcrowded, and the kids leave with something they made that’s displayable. Parents seem to appreciate getting a finished piece instead of a crumpled worksheet. Mae manages this one well because the three letters in JOY are fat and forgiving. Print on cardstock if the kids are going to keep it. Regular paper wilts when they try to hang it up.
Preppy Christian Jesus Bible Verses PNG Set With a Modern Look
These are not your traditional Sunday school coloring sheets and that is the entire point. Preppy aesthetic — bright, cheerful, a little groovy — with verses like ‘I can do all things through Christ’ in bold modern lettering surrounded by fun shapes. Callie spotted these and asked if she could use them as journaling covers. Micah just wanted to know what ‘preppy’ meant.
For older kids — say, eight and up — these land differently than the traditional floral-border sheets. The style feels current, which makes a difference when you have a kid who thinks Sunday school crafts are babyish. I printed a few for Callie’s personal Bible study kit. In Sunday school context, I’d use them with the seven-to-ten age group rather than the littles. The design is a little detailed for Mae, but Callie ran through two of them in one sitting with a set of fine-tip markers.
Jesus Christian Junk Journal Kit With Faith Clip Art Elements
This is not technically a coloring page — it’s a junk journal kit, so you get ephemera: tags, banners, border strips, little illustrated elements with faith themes. But I use it as a coloring activity for Callie specifically because she’s in that phase where she wants to DO something with what she colors, not just hand it back. She cuts the pieces out after coloring them and glues them into her prayer journal.
At Sunday school it works as a craft extension — color the elements, cut them out, paste them onto an index card to make a personal keepsake. Takes a little more setup on my end but the kids who like detailed work stay engaged for a full twenty minutes. Not Mae-appropriate. She eats the small pieces. For ages seven and up with good scissors skills, though, this one is genuinely interesting and the faith imagery is clear without being heavy-handed.
Christian Floral Quilted Cross Bow PNG for Easter and Spring Crafts
The cross here has a quilted pattern texture to it — so when Callie colors it, she’s working in little diamond sections, almost like a puzzle. The bow at the top gives it a softer look that Callie called ‘fancy.’ Flowers tucked around the edges. It’s more decorative than scripture-heavy, which works well for an Easter craft that goes home and gets displayed rather than discussed.
For Sunday school Easter week, I print this one and pair it with the He Is Risen page — one more decorative, one more text-based — so the kids who want to write and read have an option, and the ones who just want to color the flowers also have an option. The quilted sections inside the cross are a little small for Mae, so I let her do the flowers only and call it done. Prints cleanly in black and white at full page size.
Religious Cross Floral Art Coloring Page With a Garden Feel
Flowers wrapping up around a cross — roses and simple blooms, nothing too fussy — with enough blank space between elements that even Mae can work around them without feeling trapped in a corner. This one reads peaceful rather than busy, which is something I didn’t know I was looking for until I found it. Some sheets are just too dense and the kids get discouraged halfway through.
I keep this one in the Sunday school file for the weeks where we’re talking about resurrection, new life, springtime themes. The visual language does some of the theological work without me having to explain it — cross plus flowers, death plus life, the kids can see that relationship even at age six. Micah picked all pink for the roses, which is not what I expected, and then told me pink is a strong color. That’s a direct quote. I wrote it down.
Christian Bookmarks Bible Verse Matthew Coloring Sheet to Keep
These print as narrow bookmark strips — you color them, cut them out, and now you have something functional. The verse on them is from Matthew (Matthew 11:28: ‘Come to me, all you who are weary’), set in readable text with a simple decorative border. Callie laminated hers with contact paper after coloring. Micah lost his within twenty-four hours, which was expected.
For Sunday school, these are genuinely good take-homes because the kids end up with something they’ll actually use if they have a Bible or a book. Parents notice the verse every time they borrow the book off the nightstand. I print them two-up on a sheet, cut them apart with a paper trimmer. Total Sunday school prep time: maybe four minutes. Honest downside: if your printer margins are off, the text gets clipped on the sides. Do a test print before you run the full class set.
He Is Risen Easter Cross Bow PNG for Resurrection Sunday School
The anchor Easter page in my rotation. Big cross, bow at the top, ‘He Is Risen’ in clear lettering — and the composition is open enough that there’s real space to color around the text without accidentally obliterating the words. That’s the thing I check first on any verse-based coloring sheet: can a kid actually color this without the letters disappearing under a crayon?
Easter Sunday school, obviously. I also use this in the week before Easter as we build up to the lesson — gives the kids something to take home each day. Callie used gold and yellow for the cross and then outlined everything in a brown marker to make it ‘pop,’ which is an advanced technique for an eight-year-old. Mae did the bow in pink and declared herself finished. Both approaches are correct. Print at full page, cardstock preferred if you’re framing or displaying.
Jesus Saves Romans Christian Bible Verse PNG for Memory Work
Romans 10:9 is the verse here — ‘If you declare with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.’ Long verse. Important verse. The layout handles it well: the text is broken into chunks with visual emphasis on the key phrases so it doesn’t read as one dense block. Callie actually memorized part of this verse while coloring it, which I didn’t plan but will absolutely take.
For Sunday school, this works well as a memory verse visual aid — color it during class, take it home, stick it somewhere visible. The coloring process slows kids down enough that they read the words three or four times without realizing they’re doing memory work. Micah colored the background purple and called the whole thing ‘very royal.’ The design has a bold, clean feel — slightly modern, not fussy.
Preppy Christian Jesus Lemon Lemonade Coloring Page Kids Love
Lemons and faith. The phrase is something like ‘Jesus turns lemons into lemonade’ — playful, bright, the lemons are chunky enough for Mae to color without frustration. Callie used actual yellow for the lemons and then bright turquoise for the background sections, which looks genuinely fun. It’s the kind of sheet where the finished product looks cheerful on the fridge rather than crumpled and forgotten.
I pull this out for the weeks where we’re talking about hard things being turned to good — Joseph’s story, for instance, or just a Sunday where the lesson theme is hope and perseverance and I need something the kids can connect to visually at age three through eight. The preppy style again: modern, a little retro, nothing stiff or formal. Mae needed about six minutes. Callie needed twenty. Both felt satisfied. That age range spread is the real mark of a useful page.
Preppy Christian Pickles and Jesus PNG That Gets Kids Talking
I’m going to be honest: I bought this because Micah thinks pickles are funny. The image pairs pickles with a faith phrase — it’s quirky, it’s unexpected, and Micah said ‘I can’t believe pickles are in Sunday school’ with the kind of delight that makes you realize you’ve won the morning. He then colored every single pickle a slightly different shade of green, which took eleven minutes.
For Sunday school, the humor opens a door. Kids who are bored or reluctant will lean in for something that seems silly, and then the verse is right there on the page while they color. I would not make this the whole lesson, but as a craft activity while you close out with review questions, it works. The text is clear, the design is clean, and the overall vibe is ‘faith can be joyful and a little weird,’ which I think is actually theologically defensible.
Christian Fish Ichthys Symbol Coloring Page for Early Bible History
The Ichthys — the classic fish symbol — is one of those things kids see on the backs of cars and don’t always know the story behind. This page gives them the image to color while you tell them: early Christians used it as a secret symbol during persecution, the Greek letters spelling ICHTHYS are an acronym for Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior. Callie knew some of this. Micah did not and had many follow-up questions.
The file is clean and simple: fish shape, thick outline, not much interior detail, which means it works for all three of my kids. Mae finished it in four minutes and moved on. Micah drew scales on his fish, freehand, which was not part of the design but was creative. For Sunday school, this pairs well with any lesson on the early church or on the meaning of symbols in faith. Print as-is, full page, let the kids go.
A Few Last Thoughts
Sunday school coloring sheets sound simple — and mostly they are. But I’ve learned the hard way that not all printable line art is the same. The ones with hair-thin outlines frustrate Mae to tears. The ones with a verse set in a tiny serif font get colored over completely by Micah, which kind of defeats the purpose. The ones that work are the ones built with actual children in mind: fat borders, readable letters, not so much detail that a wiggly six-year-old gives up by the second panel. Every file in this list has earned its place in my rotation for one of those reasons.
If you’re subbing Sunday school and need something fast, my honest shortcut is the Bible Verse Christian Coloring Book — print a few pages before you leave Saturday night, done. If you’re doing a nativity unit or Easter week at home, the Nativity Line Art set and the He Is Risen cross page give you a visual anchor for the lesson that kids can hold in their hands and keep. And if your kid is in a phase where everything has to be funny or weird (Micah, age six, constantly), the Pickles and Jesus page will get a laugh and still get the verse into the room.
Print on plain cardstock if you can swing it — regular printer paper crinkles the second a wet marker touches it, and then Callie has opinions about the crinkle. I print two-per-page sometimes for Mae just to save paper, though the outlines shrink enough that it stops working for her. Full page, thick lines, bright crayons. That’s the whole system. Hope one of these finds its way onto your table this Sunday.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What do these Sunday school coloring activities include?
They combine coloring with simple activities like matching, mazes, or verse tracing tied to a Bible lesson, so kids get more than just a plain page. The extra activity keeps early finishers busy and reinforces the day's story. Pairing them with the lesson makes the coloring purposeful.
How many copies can I print for my Sunday school class?
The PDF lets you print as many as you need for your own class week after week. Personal and single-classroom use is the standard license here. Print a stack ahead of time so every child, including unexpected visitors, has a sheet ready.
What ages are these coloring activities best for?
They generally suit preschool through elementary, with simpler coloring for the littles and the puzzle-style activities stretching older kids. In a mixed class you can hand out the same theme at different levels. Peek at the preview to match the difficulty to your group.