Fill December with Santa Claus, Christmas cookies, snowy adventures, reindeer, presents, the Nativity, magical unicorns, and plenty of holiday color with our collection of free printable Christmas holiday coloring pages.
This gallery brings together nine very different Christmas scenes, making it a fun choice when you want more than one kind of holiday picture. You can color Santa relaxing beside a fireplace and decorated tree, create an entire plate of festive cookies, help two children celebrate beside their Christmas tree, bring the Nativity scene to life, send a cute penguin gliding across the ice, decorate a reindeer’s antlers with Christmas lights, create a kawaii unicorn Christmas fantasy, shake up an imaginary snowman snow globe, or follow Santa onto a snowy rooftop.
Traditional Christmas colors such as red, green, gold, and white are always beautiful, but there are no rules on a coloring page. Create a pink-and-mint candy Christmas, an icy blue winter wonderland, a rainbow reindeer, a purple Santa suit, or a snow globe filled with pastel snowflakes.
Choose one favorite—or print all nine and create your own Christmas coloring book.
🎄 Explore Our Christmas Holiday Coloring Pages
The gallery includes:
- Santa Claus with a gift beside a fireplace and Christmas tree
- Holiday cookies
- A boy and girl holding a present beside a Christmas tree
- A Christmas Nativity scene
- A cute penguin ice skating
- A reindeer with Christmas lights hanging from its antlers
- A kawaii unicorn with a gift and Christmas tree
- A Christmas snow globe with a snowman
- Santa Claus carrying a gift on a chimney
The collection mixes traditional Christmas symbols with winter fun and whimsical characters.
That makes it especially useful for families and classrooms where different children may want completely different pictures.
Someone can choose Santa.
Another child might prefer the penguin.
A fantasy fan can color the unicorn.
Families looking for a Christian Christmas activity can choose the Nativity.
There is something here for several different holiday moods.
🎨 Choose a Christmas Color Palette
Before you start, decide what kind of Christmas world you want to create.
For a classic Christmas palette, try:
- Red
- Forest green
- Gold
- White
- Brown
For a winter wonderland, use:
- Pale blue
- Navy
- Silver
- White
- Lavender
For a candy Christmas, try:
- Pink
- Mint
- Red
- Turquoise
- White
For a cozy vintage look, combine:
- Burgundy
- Olive green
- Cream
- Mustard gold
- Dusty blue
Or create a rainbow Christmas using every color you can find.
You can use one palette across all nine pages and make the entire collection look coordinated.
🎅 Color Santa by the Fireplace
One of the most detailed designs features Santa Claus holding a gift beside a fireplace and Christmas tree.
This cozy indoor scene is perfect for traditional colors.
Try:
Santa’s suit: Red
Trim: White
Boots: Black
Fireplace: Brick red or brown
Tree: Several greens
Gift: Bright contrasting colors
Add warm yellow and orange around the fire.
Use darker brown or burgundy in the room to create a cozy Christmas Eve feeling.
🔥 Make the Fireplace Glow
Color the flames:
- Yellow
- Orange
- Red
Keep the center brightest.
Add a pale yellow glow on nearby objects.
Maybe the edge of Santa’s coat or the floor near the fireplace catches some warm light.
A small amount of golden color around the fire can make the whole room feel warmer.
🧦 Add Christmas Stockings
If there is room around the fireplace, draw several stockings.
Decorate them with:
- Stripes
- Snowflakes
- Candy canes
- Stars
- Names
Maybe every member of the family has a different stocking.
Perhaps Santa has accidentally brought one of his own.
🎄 Decorate Santa’s Christmas Tree
Give the tree several green shades rather than one flat color.
Add:
- Red ornaments
- Gold stars
- Silver garland
- Multicolored lights
- Candy canes
Then draw extra presents beneath it.
For entire pages devoted to tree decorating, continue with our Christmas Tree Coloring Pages.
🎅 Give Santa a Different Suit
The familiar red suit is fun, but coloring pages allow a little experimentation.
Try:
- Blue Santa
- Green Santa
- Purple Santa
- Gold Santa
- Rainbow Santa
The Smithsonian’s collections preserve historical Santa decorations wearing more than one color, including a Santa ornament dressed in yellow-gold.
So even historical Christmas imagery has included more variety than a single red palette.
🎁 Design Santa’s Present
What is inside the gift Santa is holding?
First decorate the wrapping paper.
Try:
- Snowflakes
- Stars
- Reindeer
- Candy canes
- Christmas trees
Then invent the contents.
Perhaps it contains:
- Books
- Art supplies
- A teddy bear
- Toy train
- Something magical
Write the answer beside the picture.
🍪 Color the Holiday Cookies
Another design is devoted to holiday cookies, giving food lovers a completely different kind of Christmas coloring activity.
Use warm cookie colors such as:
- Golden brown
- Tan
- Gingerbread brown
Then add frosting in:
- Red
- Green
- White
- Pink
- Blue
Finish everything with colorful sprinkles.
Your cookies don’t have to resemble anything that could actually come out of an oven.
Rainbow frosting is encouraged.
🍬 Create a Christmas Cookie Palette
Try giving every cookie a theme.
Candy Cane Cookie: Red and white
Snowflake Cookie: Blue and white
Christmas Tree Cookie: Green and gold
Santa Cookie: Red, white, and pink
Rainbow Cookie: Every color
Arrange the colors so no two treats look alike.
✨ Add Icing Patterns
Instead of simply filling the cookie shapes, draw detailed frosting designs.
Try:
- Zigzags
- Dots
- Stars
- Swirls
- Tiny snowflakes
- Stripes
Use white pencil or gel pen over darker colors if your supplies allow.
Decorating paper cookies can be almost as creative as decorating real ones—and there’s no cleanup afterward.
🧑🍳 Design Your Own Christmas Cookie
Draw a new cookie shape on blank paper.
Try:
- Snowman
- Reindeer
- Bell
- Mittens
- Present
- Star
Then decorate it.
Give your imaginary bakery a name.
Maybe:
North Pole Cookies
Santa’s Sweet Shop
Snowflake Bakery
🍪 Add Gingerbread Friends
If you enjoy the holiday cookie page, continue with our Gingerbread Man Cookies Coloring Page.
That printable features two cheerful gingerbread friends surrounded by falling snow.
Use the same frosting colors across both pages and imagine all the treats came from one Christmas bakery.
🎁 Color the Children With Their Christmas Present
Another page shows a boy and girl holding a present beside a Christmas tree.
This design is perfect for bright holiday clothing and patterned gift wrap.
Choose outfits such as:
- Red and green
- Blue and silver
- Pink and purple
- Rainbow
Then make the present the brightest object on the page.
Perhaps the gift is wrapped in blue paper with golden stars.
Or use red paper with green ribbon.
🎀 Design the Perfect Gift Box
Add patterns to the wrapping paper.
Try:
- Polka dots
- Stars
- Snowmen
- Trees
- Reindeer
- Stripes
Then give the ribbon a contrasting color.
A green box could have a red bow.
A purple box might have a silver ribbon.
Make the present so beautiful that nobody wants to unwrap it.
🤔 What’s Inside the Present?
Use the scene as a story prompt.
Maybe the children think the box contains:
- A game
- Books
- Art supplies
- Toys
- A puppy
But perhaps they are completely wrong.
Write:
Inside the Christmas present was…
and finish the story.
👕 Design Christmas Sweaters
Give the children holiday sweaters.
Add patterns such as:
- Snowflakes
- Trees
- Penguins
- Reindeer
- Stars
Make one very traditional.
Make the other as silly as possible.
Perhaps it features a dancing snowman wearing sunglasses.
🎄 Add More Presents
The Christmas tree needs a bigger pile of gifts.
Draw boxes of several shapes and sizes.
Use:
- Squares
- Rectangles
- Tiny packages
- Giant boxes
Give each package different wrapping paper.
Maybe one mysterious present is taller than the children.
✨ Color the Christmas Nativity Scene
The gallery also includes a Nativity scene depicting the birth of Jesus, offering a faith-centered Christmas coloring option.
For Christians, Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus, and Nativity artwork has long been one of the season’s most recognizable religious themes.
Use warm earth tones around the manger and stable.
Try:
- Tan
- Brown
- Cream
- Gold
Color clothing in richer reds, blues, greens, and purples.
Then make the night sky deep blue.
⭐ Create a Bright Star of Bethlehem
Add a large star above the Nativity scene.
Use:
- Yellow
- Gold
- Pale cream
Keep the center almost white.
Then let the color gradually deepen along the rays.
Draw smaller stars across the night sky.
The bright star can become the central point of the entire picture.
🌌 Color the Nativity Night Sky
Try:
- Navy
- Indigo
- Deep purple
Blend those colors across the background.
Then add tiny pale stars.
The dark sky can provide dramatic contrast with warmer clothing, animals, and the glowing star.
📖 Christmas and the Nativity
Christmas is celebrated on December 25 by Christians around the world as the birth of Christ.
The Library of Congress notes that the Christian church in Rome was observing the Feast of the Nativity on December 25 by the year 336.
Over many centuries, Christmas celebrations developed into a mixture of religious and cultural traditions that vary widely around the world.
The Nativity page can be used on its own or alongside more secular holiday scenes from the same collection.
🐧 Color the Ice-Skating Penguin
One of the cutest designs features a penguin gliding across the ice.
For a familiar penguin-inspired look, use:
- Black
- White
- Gray
- Orange
Then brighten the winter accessories.
Try a:
- Red scarf
- Green hat
- Purple mittens
- Rainbow sweater
The snowy setting offers plenty of room for icy blues and colorful winter details.
⛸️ Design Penguin Ice Skates
Why should ice skates be boring?
Try:
- Red skates
- Blue skates
- Silver blades
- Rainbow laces
Add stars or snowflakes.
Maybe these are magical skates that allow the penguin to perform impossible tricks.
❄️ Create an Ice-Skating Scene
Expand the background.
Add:
- Frozen pond
- Snowy trees
- Mountains
- Snowflakes
- Other penguins
Draw loops on the ice showing where the penguin has skated.
Perhaps it is practicing for the North Pole Winter Games.
🧣 Give the Penguin a Christmas Outfit
Add:
- Santa hat
- Candy-cane scarf
- Christmas sweater
- Tiny bells
Use bright colors against the penguin’s black-and-white body.
Maybe the penguin is heading to a Christmas party immediately after skating.
🌈 Create a Kawaii Rainbow Penguin
Natural coloring is optional.
Try:
Body: Purple
Belly: Pale pink
Beak: Yellow
Scarf: Rainbow
Add rosy cheeks.
Maybe this magical penguin lives inside the snow globe later in the gallery.
🦌 Color the Reindeer With Christmas Lights
Another playful design features a reindeer with Christmas lights hanging from its antlers.
For realistic-inspired fur, try:
- Tan
- Brown
- Cream
- Gray-brown
Then make the lights as bright as possible.
Use:
- Red
- Green
- Yellow
- Blue
- Purple
- Pink
The contrast between natural fur and bright holiday bulbs can make this one of the most colorful pages in the collection.
🌟 Make Every Reindeer Light Different
Color each bulb separately.
Try the sequence:
Red
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple
Then repeat.
Add pale halos around the bulbs to make them appear illuminated.
A dark blue night background will help the lights stand out.
🦌 Reindeer Are Real Animals
Santa’s flying team belongs to Christmas folklore, but reindeer themselves are real animals.
Reindeer and caribou belong to the same species, Rangifer tarandus.
The National Park Service explains that “caribou” is the term commonly used for the species in North America, while “reindeer” is used in Eurasia. Reindeer can be wild, semi-domesticated, or domesticated.
Their coats can vary from tawny and beige to white, brown, and dark brown.
That gives you several realistic coloring options before you add the Christmas lights.
🫎 Color the Antlers
Try warm:
- Tan
- Brown
- Gray-brown
Add slightly darker areas near the base.
Reindeer and caribou are unusual members of the deer family because both males and females can grow antlers.
That makes the antlers more than a Christmas decoration—they are a real part of this fascinating Arctic and subarctic animal.
🔴 Add a Famous Red Nose
The gallery reindeer doesn’t need to be Rudolph, but you can certainly create a Rudolph-inspired version.
Color the nose bright red.
Add a tiny yellow or pink glow around it.
The character Rudolph was introduced to the American public in 1939, when Robert L. May wrote the famous story for Montgomery Ward.
Or keep the nose natural and invent an entirely new Christmas reindeer.
🏷️ Name Your Christmas Reindeer
Try:
- Holly
- Jingle
- Snowball
- Cocoa
- Comet
- Sparkle
- Evergreen
- Peppermint
Write the name beneath the page.
Then decide why the reindeer has Christmas lights tangled around its antlers.
Maybe it volunteered.
Perhaps an elf made a decorating mistake.
🦄 Color the Kawaii Christmas Unicorn
This collection even includes something completely magical: a cute kawaii unicorn with a gift box and Christmas tree.
Forget realism.
Use:
- Pink
- Lavender
- Turquoise
- Mint
- Gold
Create a rainbow mane.
Make the horn striped with pastel colors.
Add stars and sparkles around the character.
This page gives fantasy fans a way to join the Christmas coloring collection.
🌈 Create a Rainbow Unicorn Mane
Divide the mane into:
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple
Or use soft pastel versions.
Add metallic-looking gold or silver around the horn.
Perhaps the unicorn’s mane glows whenever Christmas lights turn on.
🎁 Decorate the Unicorn’s Present
Give the gift box a magical theme.
Try:
- Stars
- Rainbows
- Moons
- Snowflakes
Use gold ribbon.
What does a Christmas unicorn receive as a present?
Maybe:
- Magic wand
- Crystal
- Flying shoes
- Bag of stardust
Write your answer beside the picture.
🎄 Create an Enchanted Christmas Tree
Turn the unicorn’s tree into something completely different from an ordinary evergreen.
Make it:
- Lavender
- Blue
- Pink
- Silver
Add decorations shaped like:
- Moons
- Stars
- Unicorns
- Crystals
The topper could be a rainbow instead of a star.
For even more magical coloring, explore our Fantasy Coloring Pages.
✨ Write a Christmas Unicorn Story
Try:
Every Christmas Eve, the unicorn delivered one magical gift to…
The Christmas tree started sparkling when…
Inside the wrapped box was…
Nobody knew the unicorn could fly until…
Use the finished page as your story illustration.
⛄ Color the Christmas Snow Globe
Another whimsical design features a snow globe with a snowman inside.
This page offers two worlds to color: the little winter scene inside the globe and the decorative base beneath it.
For the snow globe itself, try:
- Pale blue
- White
- Silver
- Lavender
Then give the snowman bright accessories.
🌨️ Fill the Snow Globe With Snow
Add as many snowflakes as you like.
Use:
- White
- Pale blue
- Silver
Draw some large and some tiny.
Maybe the snow is swirling so heavily that part of the snowman disappears.
You can also add glitter-like dots throughout the globe.
🔵 Make the Glass Look Shiny
Leave a curved strip of the globe nearly white.
Add pale blue around the opposite side.
That can suggest reflected light on the glass.
You don’t have to color the entire globe heavily.
Leaving plenty of white space can make it appear more transparent.
🎨 Decorate the Snow Globe Base
Use the base as another pattern area.
Try:
- Red and gold
- Blue and silver
- Pink and mint
- Rainbow
Add:
- Stars
- Snowflakes
- Trees
- Candy canes
Write:
MERRY CHRISTMAS
along the front if there is room.
🏘️ Create Your Own Snow Globe World
Draw another globe on blank paper.
What goes inside?
Maybe:
- Christmas tree
- Santa
- Reindeer
- Gingerbread house
- Penguin
- Unicorn
Create several.
You could invent an entire snow-globe collection.
🔮 A Little Snow Globe History
Snow globes have become familiar souvenirs and Christmas decorations, but they developed over time from earlier novelty objects and paperweights.
A Smithsonian Libraries and Archives research collection documents the snow globe’s evolution from a memory object and souvenir into a widely produced decorative object.
Your coloring page can become an imaginary collectible.
Add a date or city name to the base and pretend it came from somewhere special.
🎅 Color Santa on the Chimney
The final gallery design features Santa Claus carrying a gift while standing on or near a chimney.
This is classic Christmas Eve territory.
Color Santa:
- Red
- White
- Black
Then make the chimney:
- Brick red
- Brown
- Gray
Add snow along the rooftop.
Use a dark nighttime sky to create dramatic contrast.
🧱 Color the Chimney Bricks
Don’t use one shade across every brick.
Alternate:
- Brick red
- Rust
- Brown
- Dark red
Add gray mortar between them.
Place pale blue snow along the top.
The textured chimney can become surprisingly detailed.
🌙 Create a Christmas Eve Rooftop
Add:
- Moon
- Stars
- Snow
- Chimneys
- Distant houses
Make some windows glow yellow below.
Perhaps Santa’s sleigh is waiting in the sky.
Draw a few reindeer silhouettes nearby.
🎁 What’s in Santa’s Rooftop Gift?
Decorate the box first.
Then decide who receives it.
Maybe the tag says:
To: Someone Special
Invent the person and the present.
Perhaps the package contains something enormous despite being in a tiny box.
Christmas coloring is allowed to ignore physics.
🎅 Santa Through the Years
Santa Claus imagery has changed considerably over time.
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century artwork, decorations, advertising, literature, and popular culture helped shape the familiar bearded character seen today.
Smithsonian collections contain historical Santa Claus ornaments and objects in a variety of costumes, materials, and styles.
That gives colorists plenty of freedom.
A coloring-page Santa doesn’t need to look identical to every other Santa.
🎄 Create a Classic Christmas Collection
Want all nine pages to match?
Use:
- Red
- Green
- Gold
- White
- Brown
Repeat the same shades throughout.
Santa stays red.
Trees stay green.
Presents use red and gold.
The reindeer stays brown.
Even the unicorn can wear Christmas red and green.
Display the completed pages together.
🩵 Create an Icy Blue Christmas Collection
Use mostly:
- Ice blue
- Navy
- White
- Silver
- Lavender
Turn Santa’s suit blue.
Make the Christmas trees blue-green.
Use pale snowflakes throughout.
Decorate presents with silver ribbon.
This palette works particularly well on the penguin, snow globe, rooftop Santa, and reindeer scenes.
🍭 Create a Candy Christmas Collection
Use:
- Pink
- Red
- Mint
- White
- Turquoise
This palette is perfect for:
- Cookies
- Unicorn
- Gifts
- Christmas trees
- Snow globe
Add candy-cane stripes throughout the collection.
Even the reindeer’s lights can match.
🌈 Create a Rainbow Christmas Collection
Challenge yourself to use every major color on every page.
Maybe Santa has a rainbow scarf.
Every cookie uses different frosting.
The reindeer lights contain every color.
The unicorn becomes completely rainbow-colored.
The snow globe fills with pastel snow.
Christmas coloring doesn’t have to follow a traditional decorating catalog.
🎲 Play Christmas Roll-and-Color
Grab one six-sided die.
Assign each number:
1 — Red
2 — Green
3 — Yellow or gold
4 — Blue
5 — Purple
6 — Your choice
Roll the die.
Color one section using the matching shade.
Continue until the picture is complete.
Try the game with two copies of the same page.
They may turn out completely different.
🔢 Count the Christmas Objects
Turn the gallery into simple counting practice.
Ask younger children to find or draw:
- 2 presents
- 3 ornaments
- 4 snowflakes
- 5 Christmas lights
Count the reindeer’s antlers.
Count cookies.
Count decorations on the trees.
Older children can invent their own counting instructions.
🔤 C Is for Christmas
Write a large C.
Practice:
C is for Christmas.
Think of other Christmas C words:
- Cookie
- Chimney
- Candy
- Card
Decorate the C with little Christmas lights.
For more early-learning printables, explore our Educational Coloring Pages & Activities.
🎅 S Is for Santa
Try:
S is for Santa.
Then think of:
- Snow
- Star
- Stocking
- Sleigh
Draw one small picture beside each word.
The gallery already gives you Santa, snow, and stars as inspiration.
🦌 R Is for Reindeer
Practice:
R is for Reindeer.
Other R words might include:
- Red
- Rainbow
- Rabbit
- Ribbon
Decorate the letter R with tiny Christmas bulbs.
📖 Turn All Nine Pages Into a Christmas Story
The gallery has enough different characters to create one wonderfully strange holiday adventure.
Maybe:
- Children discover a mysterious Christmas present.
- Santa stops beside the fireplace.
- Holiday cookies disappear.
- A penguin finds a trail in the snow.
- The reindeer becomes tangled in Christmas lights.
- A magical unicorn arrives.
- Everyone gets trapped inside a snow globe.
- Santa climbs onto the chimney.
- The story ends with a peaceful Christmas celebration.
The Nativity page can remain a separate faith-centered scene or be placed at the beginning of a family Christmas book.
Write a sentence or paragraph beneath every finished page.
🕵️ Solve the Missing Christmas Cookie Mystery
The holiday cookies have disappeared.
Who took them?
Possible suspects:
- Santa
- Penguin
- Reindeer
- Unicorn
- Children
Draw clues around the cookie page.
Maybe there are hoofprints.
Perhaps glitter leads toward the unicorn.
Write the solution.
💡 Write the Tangled Reindeer Lights Story
How did a reindeer end up with Christmas lights on its antlers?
Maybe:
- An elf was decorating too quickly.
- The reindeer ran through a Christmas tree lot.
- It wanted to look festive.
- The lights are actually magical.
Write the story.
Then draw what happens when the lights turn on.
❄️ The Snow Globe Comes Alive
Imagine the snowman inside the globe wakes up.
What does it see outside the glass?
Maybe it meets the penguin.
Perhaps the unicorn uses magic to free it.
Write:
At midnight, the snow globe began to shake even though nobody had touched it…
🏫 Christmas Holiday Coloring for the Classroom
These nine pages work particularly well when a group needs choices.
Teachers might use them for:
- Morning work
- Early finishers
- December art centers
- Holiday parties
- Indoor recess
- Creative writing
- Classroom decorations
- Take-home activities
Students can choose among Santa, winter animals, fantasy characters, gifts, cookies, or other holiday themes.
The Nativity page provides a religious Christmas option for settings where that fits the curriculum or celebration.
🖼️ Create a Classroom Christmas Gallery
Let every student choose a favorite.
Display the finished pages under a heading such as:
Christmas in Color
Merry & Bright
Our Holiday Art Gallery
Colorful Christmas Creations
Because the designs are so different, the display can feel much more varied than a wall of identical worksheets.
🍪 Create a Christmas Cookie Art Table
Use the cookie page alongside blank paper.
Kids can color the provided cookies and then invent new ones.
Add:
- Crayons
- Colored pencils
- Washable markers
Challenge everyone to design the most unusual paper Christmas cookie.
Maybe one looks like a penguin.
Another is shaped like a unicorn.
🎄 Make a Christmas Character Bulletin Board
Choose:
- Santa
- Penguin
- Reindeer
- Unicorn
- Snowman
Cut out or display the finished characters with appropriate supervision.
Arrange them around one giant paper Christmas tree.
Give each character a speech bubble.
Soon the bulletin board becomes a Christmas comic.
🏠 Christmas Coloring at Home
These pages are easy to use during:
- December weekends
- Snow days
- Christmas parties
- Family gatherings
- Holiday travel
- Christmas Eve
- Quiet afternoons
Print several ahead of time and create a small coloring station.
Different family members can choose different designs.
Someone might color the Nativity while another chooses the unicorn.
There is no need for everyone to work on the same page.
👨👩👧 Hold a Family Christmas Coloring Night
Give everyone:
- Coloring page
- Crayons
- Pencils
- Markers
Try a theme such as:
Traditional Christmas
Rainbow Christmas
Winter Wonderland
Silliest Christmas Possible
Display everyone’s finished artwork together.
The goal is not to decide which is best—just to see how differently everyone interprets the same season.
✂️ Turn Finished Pages Into Christmas Crafts
Completed pictures can become:
- Christmas cards
- Gift tags
- Garland
- Wall art
- Classroom displays
- Scrapbook pages
- Placemats
- Storybook illustrations
Cut out individual characters or objects with age-appropriate supervision.
Combine Santa, the penguin, reindeer, unicorn, and snowman into one completely new scene.
💌 Make Homemade Christmas Cards
Several gallery designs work especially well for cards.
Try:
- Nativity
- Santa by the fireplace
- Reindeer
- Snow globe
- Children with gift
Color the design and mount it on folded cardstock.
Write:
Merry Christmas!
Warm Holiday Wishes
Have a Merry & Bright Christmas
inside.
🏷️ Make Christmas Gift Tags
Use small drawings inspired by:
- Cookie
- Reindeer
- Penguin
- Snowman
- Present
- Christmas tree
Color and cut them out.
Write:
To:
and
From:
on the back.
Add ribbon or string.
🧵 Make a Christmas Character Garland
Draw or cut out several small Christmas characters.
Alternate:
Santa
Penguin
Reindeer
Snowman
Unicorn
Attach them along ribbon or string.
Add stars and presents between the characters.
Hang the finished garland near your holiday artwork.
📓 Make a Christmas Coloring Book
Combine this collection with:
- Christmas Coloring Pages
- Top 10 Christmas Coloring Pages
- Christmas Tree Coloring Pages
- Gingerbread Man Cookies Coloring Page
- December Coloring Page
Create a cover that says:
My Christmas Coloring Book
Add your name and year.
Save the finished book with your holiday decorations.
🎄 How This Collection Differs From Our Other Christmas Pages
Fun Free Coloring Pages now has several Christmas collections with different jobs.
Our Christmas Coloring Pages feature a larger mix of festive designs such as Christmas gnomes, Santa and reindeer, gingerbread characters, a skiing bear, kawaii penguins, and other cute scenes.
Our Top 10 Christmas Coloring Pages are a curated set of classic favorites including the Nativity, stocking, ornament, wreath, gingerbread house, Santa, snowman, and tree.
Our Christmas Tree Coloring Pages focus specifically on decorating trees, presents, lights, ornaments, and tree-centered Christmas scenes.
This Christmas Holiday Coloring Pages collection is the character-and-scene variety pack, mixing Santa, children, cookies, the Nativity, winter animals, fantasy, and a snow globe.
📅 Pair the Collection With December Coloring
For a page dedicated specifically to the month, visit our December Coloring Page.
That design includes a Christmas tree, gifts, stars, and a Santa hat.
Use it as the beginning of your December coloring collection, then move into these nine holiday scenes.
😍 Add More Cute Christmas Coloring
The penguin, unicorn, snowman, and reindeer make this page a natural companion to our Cute Coloring Pages.
Use soft pastel palettes on both collections.
Try:
- Pink
- Mint
- Lavender
- Baby blue
- Peach
You can create an entire kawaii Christmas art wall.
🦄 Continue Into Fantasy Coloring
The unicorn design gives this Christmas page a playful fantasy connection.
Visit our Fantasy Coloring Pages for even more magical subjects.
Imagine that the Christmas unicorn brings characters from those fantasy worlds to the North Pole.
What would a dragon decorate for Christmas?
What gifts would a fairy want?
Let one coloring page inspire the next.
🎉 Explore More Holiday Coloring
Christmas may fill December with color, but there are celebrations throughout the year.
Visit our Holiday Coloring Pages for:
- Easter
- Halloween
- Thanksgiving
- Valentine’s Day
- St. Patrick’s Day
- New Year’s
- Fourth of July
- Christmas
Save favorite pages in one large holiday coloring binder.
❄️ Explore Winter Coloring Too
Many of these scenes also fit naturally with winter.
The ice-skating penguin, snow globe, rooftop Santa, and reindeer look right at home among snowflakes and icy landscapes.
Visit our Seasonal Coloring Pages to continue coloring through winter and the rest of the year.
🖍️ Best Supplies for Christmas Holiday Coloring Pages
Crayons are excellent for younger children and larger areas.
Colored pencils work especially well for:
- Nativity details
- Reindeer fur
- Clothing
- Cookie decorations
- Snow globe shading
- Fireplace details
Markers create bright Christmas reds, greens, blues, pinks, and purples. Slightly heavier paper may help if marker ink tends to bleed through ordinary printer paper.
Gel pens can add:
- Gold stars
- Silver snowflakes
- Christmas lights
- Sprinkles
- Tiny highlights
You can also combine supplies.
Use pencils on the reindeer and markers on the Christmas lights, for example.
🖨️ How to Use These Free Christmas Holiday Coloring Pages
Choose the Christmas scene that catches your eye and print your favorite.
Then decide on a palette.
Maybe Santa’s fireplace scene will be classic red and green.
Perhaps the penguin belongs in a pale-blue winter wonderland.
The reindeer might have rainbow lights.
The unicorn can become pink and lavender.
The Nativity might use deep night-sky blues and warm earth tones.
The snow globe could be filled with silver and pastel snow.
Once the printed design is finished, add your own background details, write a story, turn the picture into a card, or move on to another page.
With nine very different designs, there is plenty of Christmas left to color.
🎄 Fill the Holidays With Color
From Santa Claus, Christmas cookies, gifts, and the Nativity to an ice-skating penguin, light-covered reindeer, magical unicorn, snowman snow globe, and snowy rooftop adventure, these free printable Christmas holiday coloring pages bring together an especially varied set of seasonal favorites.
Use traditional red and green, create icy winter palettes, turn every character rainbow-colored, add stories, make cards and decorations, design imaginary gifts, or combine the nine pages into a homemade Christmas coloring book.
Some pages celebrate familiar Christmas traditions.
Others are simply silly, cute, snowy, or magical.
Together, they make a colorful way to enjoy the holiday season one printable at a time.
Merry Christmas and happy coloring!
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📚 Sources
- Library of Congress — Today in History: December 25
- Library of Congress — Dear (Whoever You Are), Here’s the First Christmas Card
- National Museum of American History — Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Turns 75
- National Park Service — Caribou vs. Reindeer
- National Park Service — Caribou: Did You Know?
- National Museum of American History — Santa Claus Christmas Ornament
- Smithsonian Libraries and Archives — A Biography of the American Snow Globe
