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Colouring Pages

While our Lifelong Learning Programmes were closed, our fabulous Programme Leader Lorna illustrated some beautiful colouring pages to go along with our weekly theme. They’re all archived here and are free to download and print as many times as you want!

You can see more of Lorna’s artwork on her Instagram page.

 

Learning Disability Week 2021

Colour in this page which shows the Makaton symbols for ‘celebrate’,  ‘sing’, ‘paint’, ‘dance’, ‘draw’, ‘learn’ and ‘cupcake’.

Adventures to the Seaside

Colour in these incredible ice lollies and imagine how great they taste!

Adventures in Sitcoms

Colour in this ‘Only Fools & Horses’ page!

Adventures in Rock Music

Colour in this page, inspired by The Grateful Dead’s ‘wall of sound’!

Adventures in Mindfulness

Colour in this page, and experience mindfulness by connecting to the 5 senses shown.

Adventures in Happy News

Kind villagers in Mathura, India knit jumpers for rescued elephants for when night time temperatures approach freezing. Colour in this wonderful jumper!

A coulouring page featuring an elephant in a knitted jumper

Adventures Through Time: The 1960s

Colour in this page featuring psychedelic patterns from the swinging sixties!

Adventures in Black Culture

Colour in this page showing the artist Alma Woodsey Thomas with a background inspired by her abstract paintings

Adventures Through the Post

Colour in all these envelopes, stamps and postcards on a journey through the post

Adventures through the Rowntree’s Factory, York

Colour in this page showing The Shambles in York, paved with Jelly Tots!

A Sense of Adventure – World Records

Colour in this page showing World-Record winning long fingernails!

Adventurous People – Paralympians

Colour in this page showing the Paralympic Torch opening ceremony, and Medal ceremony!

A Spring Adventure

Hanami is the Japanese tradition of celebrating blossom as the first sign of spring. Colour in this Hanami picnic!

Adventures in Poetry and Rhyme

Colour in ‘The Tyger’ from William Blake’s poem of the same name

Adventures at Purple Patch (3)

Fill in the speech bubble with things that you’re proud to say ‘I can’ or ‘I am’ about

Adventures at Purple Patch (2)

Write or draw in the bubble how your friends make you feel

Adventures at Purple Patch (1)

Write or draw inside the potion bottle the magic ingredients that make you happy

Adventures through time – The 1920s

Adventures to Volcanoes

Adventures in Storytelling

A sense of Adventure – Quiz & Game Shows

A colouring in page featuring activities written on a wheel of fortune

Adventures in Black History (Martin Luther King Day)

A colouring in page featuring a portrait of Martin Luther King

Adventurous News – This week in History (w/c 11th January)

Adventures in Science Fiction – Doctor Who

A colouring in page featuring some of Doctor Who's enemies

A colouring in page featuring the Tardis from Doctor Who

Adventures on a train – ‘Murder’ on The Orient Express

Colouring in page featuring Poirot stood in front of a carriage of the Orient Express

Adventures on a train – The Orient Express

Colouring in page showing the journey that the orient Express train took from Paris to Istanbul

Adventurous News – This Week In History (w/c 2/11/2020)

A colouring in page featuring Guy Fawkes in from of the Houses of Parliament

Adventurous People – Jane Goodall

A black and white colouring in page of Jane Goodall surrounded by jungle foliage and two chimps

Adventurous People – David Attenborough

A colouring page showing David Attenborough, a chameleon, lemur, fish, peacock and sloth

Adventures Through An Underwater Museum

A colouring in page featuring 12 British sea shells

Adventures Through a Museum

A colouring in page showing British moths and butterflies

Adventurous News – This Week In History

A colouring in page showing a plane and the words 'first flight around the world'.

Adventures to the Outdoors: UK Mountains

colouring in page showing a mountain scene

Adventures to the Outdoors: Camping

4 tents surrounded by trees and stars

New theme: Adventure!

Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the doors of a Palace

colouring in page showing Balmoral castle, and 5 corgis

The Mysteries of Africa

Mysterious People – Famous Artists

Colouring in page that reads 'Adventure'

Mysterious News – This Week in History

Mysterious People – Famous Scientists

Hyde Park Source Takeover – Nature Nearest Me

The Mysteries of Summer

Inspirational Women Part 2

A black and white drawing of The Black Mambas

Ancient Greece

A black and white drawing of Athena, the Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War

Mysterious News: This Week in History (29th June – 5th July)

A black and white drawing of Marty and DOc from Back to the Future in front of a DeLorean

The Mysteries of: Exercise

A black and white drawing of people dancing and exercising

Learning Disability Week (15th – 21st June)

Mysterious Places: The Ocean

Unsolved Mysteries: Climate Change

Mysterious People: Inspirational Women

Mental Health Awareness Week (18th – 24th May)

Mysterious News: This Week in History (11th – 17th May)

Mysterious Places: Ancient Egypt

Unsolved Mysteries: The Life of a Pirate

Mysterious People: Roald Dahl

The Mysteries of: UK Animal Habitats

The Mysteries Of: Easter & Spring

Mysterious Places: Stars and Planets

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