An elf who has clearly been at the biscuits. A snowman with a crooked scarf. A stocking with room for far too much. December is the longest colouring month of the year, and the only one where children will happily do the same page twice.
Below are 24 pages from our Christmas collections, with links to all 178 further down. Every page is a free PDF — click a thumbnail to open and print.
Browse the Full Christmas Sets
- Dot-to-Dot Christmas Coloring Pages — 30 printables
- Cute Science Kids Christmas Coloring Pages — 24 printables
- Color by Number Christmas — 24 printables
- Christmas Construction Coloring Pages — 24 printables
- Bold and Easy Christmas Coloring Pages — 22 printables
- Nativity Coloring Pages — 20 printables
- Cute Kawaii Christmas Elf Coloring Pages — 20 printables
- Christmas Maze Activity Pages — 10 printables
- Reverse Snowman Coloring Pages — 4 printables
What to Print, and When
December has a rhythm, and the pages that work change as it goes on.
Early December. Snowmen, trees, general winter scenes. Nothing tied to a specific day, so nothing feels early.
Advent. One page a day is a cheaper and calmer advent calendar than chocolate, and it lasts twenty minutes instead of four seconds.
The last week. Santa, elves, reindeer. Anticipation is at its peak and the detailed pages hold attention best.
Christmas Day itself. The gap between presents and lunch is real, and a stack of pages next to the new crayons handles it.
Christmas Pages Worth Knowing About
- Nativity — for families who want the story alongside the stockings. Drawn simply enough for young children.
- Reverse snowman colouring — the background is filled and the child draws the snowman. A genuinely different task, and it surprises children who think they know what a colouring page is.
- Christmas maze and dot-to-dot — for the ones who want a puzzle, not a picture.
- Kawaii elves and characters — the set that works for tweens who have decided they are too old for this.
- Christmas science — festive experiments and cheerful scientists, if you want December to carry a little learning.
Making It Last the Whole Month
The mistake is printing everything on the first of December. Children work through a stack in two days and then it is over.
Print a week at a time and keep the rest out of sight. Put out three pages rather than thirty — choice is good, unlimited choice is paralysing. And keep one genuinely detailed page back for Christmas Eve, when everybody needs something slow to do.
How to Print These Christmas Coloring Pages
Every page is a free PDF formatted for US Letter and A4 at 300 dpi. Click any thumbnail to open and print.
Heavier paper is worth it in December — finished pages get taped to walls, posted to grandparents, and folded into cards, and copier paper does not survive any of that well.
Questions Parents and Teachers Ask
What age are Christmas colouring pages for? All of them. The bold snowmen work from two, the colour by number sets suit five to nine, and the kawaii and detailed pages hold tweens and teens.
Do you have nativity pages? Yes, drawn simply and without much text, so they work for young children in church groups as well as at home.
Can I use these for a school party or church group? Yes — free for personal, classroom and homeschool use. See the licensing policy.
What about the rest of winter? The snowman and winter scenes carry on well past December, and the Thanksgiving collection covers November before it.
