Description
Celebrate New Year 2026 with this creative, warm, and cool colors art lesson.
These coloring pages are a fun way to encourage students to set goals and work imaginatively this January. Coloring can help students to reconnect and refocus after winter break.
This resource is updated for free each year.
The challenge is to see if ‘2026’ stands out from the background when the coloring page is finished.
Your students’ artwork will make an eye-catching January bulletin board display to kick off the new year!
What’s included in this New Year 2026 resource?
- Digitally colored posters to display and use as color palette examples
- Activities to help students learn how to use contrasting colors
- Outline templates – choose from a variety of options. Confident students can expand the activity by drawing their own diagonal lines and numbers
- A 2026 goal-setting page
- A questionnaire inviting students to respond to questions exploring their screen time, friendships, well-being, and more
- Blank templates for writing activities
- Classroom bulletin board banners and bookmarks
What materials will I need?
- Cardstock for printing
- You can use marker pens, watercolor paints, colored pencils or oil pastels
- Scissors for the bulletin board banners
How can I use this resource with my students?
- Talk about what the New Year means to them
- Encourage group discussion around goal-setting and resolutions
- An experimental art lesson
- A handy sub-plan
- A fun Friday afternoon activity
- A brain break from tech
- A lesson about color, shape, and line
- Add to a New Year unit
- Build creative confidence
- Create a fantastic classroom display for 2026!
Happy teacher feedback
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Catherine W says, “My students loved starting the year revising warm and cool colours, and showing off their brilliant colouring skills. On a hot afternoon, this is the kind of task that is easy for them to engage with, and we now have super colourful display boards!”
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Nicole V says, “This was helpful and fun for my students to practise colour relationships on the colour wheel. It tied in nicely with our New Year unit.”
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Jody V says, “My students really enjoyed this. A fun, relaxing way to engage them on the first day back after winter break.”
You may like to view this creative seasonal resource:
New Year 2026 Cool Cell Phone Art Activity
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Please contact me if you have any questions regarding this resource, I am always keen to help,
Thanks!
Diane
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