Easy Christmas Coloring Pages

Easy Christmas coloring pages for toddlers and preschool

Most of the sheets on this page are rated easy: thick outlines, wide shapes and almost nothing to fill in tight corners. They suit children from about two or three who still hold a chunky crayon in their fist. Good first picks are the potted tree with a smiling star, the kawaii candy cane and the bunny sitting behind its present. In a nursery or kindergarten class, lay out a handful of easy pictures and let each child choose one: round faces and big baubles take any shade without ever looking wrong.

Detailed Christmas pictures for older kids and adults

Children who already stay inside the lines can move on to the medium sheets, such as the wreath hung with baubles, the llama in a starry blanket or the angel holding a star. For patient colorists, the feathery fir tree, the stag with baubles on its antlers and the long-haired cat in a Santa hat are full of needles, fur and fine strokes, which is why teens and grown-ups pick them up too. The filter above the grid narrows the page to one level when you are printing for a single age group.

Santa, reindeer, snowmen and cute Christmas animals

Santa comes first for most children, and here he waves, hugs a parcel or holds a small gift by his belt buckle, with elves, gnomes and an angel for company. The reindeer go from a baby in a striped scarf to a tall stag, and every snowman coloring page wears a Santa hat and a scarf. Then come the cute Christmas animals children ask for again: kittens, a puppy, penguins, polar bears, a hedgehog with a candy cane, a shark in a Santa hat and even a T-rex. Fans of cartoons will also spot Stitch, Hello Kitty and Pikachu dressed for the holidays.

Ideas for home, parties and the classroom

Finished sheets make simple decorations: tape the trees and stars to a window, punch a hole in the bells to hang them from a branch, or fold a picture in half to make a card for grandparents. At a holiday party, a pile of printed pages and a box of crayons keeps a table of children happy while the adults talk. Teachers can hand each pupil a different animal and line them up on a December board, or use the present with its blank tag as a gift label the child signs. Suggest red and green for Santa and the tree, or let them invent a purple reindeer: nothing here has to match a shop window.

More seasonal coloring

Snow does not stop when the presents are open. For snowmen in bobble hats, skaters, steaming mugs and animals in scarves with no Santa in sight, open the winter coloring pages, which stay on the fridge well into February.