Grab this free hand-lettered and illustrated coloring page that’s great for kids and adults alike!
If You Can Be Anything Be Kind Coloring Page
Being kind is the coolest!
I originally published this post over 5 years ago and my artwork has come a long way in five years, so I just re-did the coloring page and updated this post with fresh content. 🙂
Coloring Supplies
A lot of people ask about my favorite coloring supplies, so here’s what I usually use:
- Colored Pencils: Tombow 1500 Colored Pencils are my go-to colored pencils.
- Waterbased Markers: Tombow Dual Tips are the Bomb for both coloring and lettering.
- Alcohol-Based Markers: The new Tombow ABT Pro Alcohol-Based Markers are dreamy for blending and layering without paper piling, and they dry super fast!
- Gel Pens: Sakura Gelly Roll Pens are a staple for adding details over marker or colored pencils!
Recommended Paper
- Cardstock Paper: Ultra Smooth White Cardstock. This one is perfect for use with markers!
- Copy Paper: HP Premium32 is a fabulous copy paper. I use it for all my printing, and it’s gentle on brush pens too.
- Get creative! Try printing on Kraft Paper and using colored pencils for an extra fun look (as shown below).
Printing Tips
- The download is in PDF format.
- If you find parts of the page get cut off when you print, be sure to set your printer scaling to “Fit to Page” when printing.
- The printer I currently use is the HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M281cdw. I snagged it at Costco for a great price. I’ve had it over a year, and it’s my favorite printer I’ve ever had.
Download it!
Terms of use: Freebies, artwork, and lettering in this post are ©Dawn Nicole Designs® and are for personal use only. Thank you for respecting my copyright. Teachers are more than welcome to use this coloring page in their classrooms so long as my copyright info, logo, or signature remains on the printouts.
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Want to learn Brush Calligraphy?
Here’s the best way to get started.
Supplies
- Purchase a small-tipped brush pen. It’s easiest for beginners to learn with and I strongly recommend the Tombow Fudenosuke pen. It comes in a hard and soft tip. Both are flexible for brush calligraphy to varying degrees and I recommend the combo pack to see what you prefer. I get mine on Amazon.
- For iPad, the DND Basic Brush from this set is the one that works fabulously for all my worksheets.
- The recommended paper is HP Premium32 copy paper is affordable yet super smooth making it ideal for brush calligraphy practice.
Practice Sheets
You’ll want to get basic drills/strokes down to learn to use pressure to control your stroke width before moving into letters/words.
Free Practice Sheets
- First, do this sheet: Basic Strokes for Small Brush Pens. Do it over and over until you get it down.
- Then, move onto some Alphabet Practice.
- Next, head to the free practice sheets archives for tons more!
30 Days Workbook from my Shop
My workbooks are instant download and you print at home and practice. They’re designed for beginners, five-star rated and include videos you can watch as well. This is the recommended order:
- 30 Days of Drills. You’ll do 15 days with the small brush pen and 15 days with the large. I suggest the Tombow Dual Tip for the large brush pen.
- 30 Days of ABCs for Small Brush Pens
When you’re ready to move onto words there are three fun options for small brush pens:
- 30 Days of Celestial Calligraphy is my latest workbook in the 30 Days series.
- Learn the Phonetic Alphabet as you do 30 Days of the Phonetic Alphabet
- 30 Days of Wintery Words is Winter themed but it’s great practice for any time of year!
Happy coloring!
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Thank you so much for sharing your printables. I’ve got one hanging in my classroom now! This one I’m going to copy and have the kids color in May after testing.
Hi Paula! Thank you so much! It makes my day to hear that. I hope the kids love it! 🙂 Have a great week! -Dawn
Thank you for sharing your printables. I plan to use them with my high schoolers as they prepare a prayer journal for their pilgrimage. Your lettering is beautiful!
What a great way to use them! Thanks so much, Cindy! 🙂
thank you so much it’s a awesome page.
Eveline
You’re so welcome Eveline! Thanks for stopping by to leave a kind comment! 🙂 -Dawn
Thanks so much for this! I am doing a lesson on kindness and will make this the cover of their kindness journals. 🙂
I love that Cathy! Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂 All the best, Dawn
I am sorry if this is an easy thing to do, but I don’t know how to print this? Any help please would be appreciated.
Hi Jill! I have the perfect resource I came across recently from a fellow blogger on printing printables. This should help you out: http://www.eleganceandenchantment.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-printing-printables/. All the best, Dawn
Gorgeous! I was wondering what kind of markers you like using for the coloring?
Hi Brooke! Thanks so much! I like Sharpies and Pentel. You can find links to all my favorite art supplies in this post: http://bydawnnicole.com/hand-type-tips. Happy coloring! All the best, Dawn
Thank you! I’m off to Hobby Lobby tomorrow so I will check out that post this evening. 🙂
Love this.. thanks for sharing! You do beautiful work.
Thank you so much, Chrissy! Have a great week! 🙂
Hi! I was just curious what kind of markers/colored pencils you use? I’m looking for a great brand, and am wondering what others are using! Thanks for your great coloring sheets and printables! Very talented!!!
Hi Nicole! Thank you so much! You can find all my favorite art supplies here: http://bydawnnicole.com/2015/06/my-favorite-art-supplies.html. 🙂 Happy creating! -Dawn
Hi!
You have inspired me to do some colouring and drawing on my own and every day I am spending more and more time reading a book or colouring, instead of sitting in front of a screen! What kinds of markers and pencils and pens do you use?
Hi Victoria! Yay! I love my TV too actually. 🙂 Almost as much as I love art. Here is a list of my favorites: http://bydawnnicole.com/2015/06/my-favorite-art-supplies.html. Happy creating!
Is it just me or does this print crooked? Amy I doing something wrong or is it slanted intentionally?
Hi Mary, The print is straight, the lettering is slightly tilted intentionally. 🙂
OK. Thank you. My print has the graphic skewed noticeably down on the left side. I can play around with it but just didn’t want to bother doing that if it was intended to be that way. Its a neat printable–thank you for sharing and for responding to my question.
Thank you so much! Love it!
I just wanted to say thank you for sharing some of your pages. I do a monthly workshop for girls – Kindergarten thru 5th grade. We do crafts and talk about self esteem, kindness and doing your best. Your coloring sheets are perfect and I know the girls will love them. I know you would smile if you could see how excited they will be to color on your positive messages!! Thank you!!
Hi Donna! Thank you so much for the sweet note! I love that you use my pages to work with the girls on such awesome things. It’s exactly the kind of things I hope people use them for. Have a great week and a wonderful Thanksgiving! All the very best, Dawn
Hey, I can’t thank you enough for your printables. I’ve been looking everywhere for meaningful coloring pages and I absolutely love what you do. All of it is beautiful. Thank you again!
Thanks so much for the note and kind words, Ruth! Happy New Year! 🙂
I am so happy to come across your art on Pinterest! The students I work with will love using them in different ways! Me, too!