December has arrived, bringing twinkling lights, wrapped presents, decorated trees, chilly winter days, and plenty of reasons to get creative. This December Coloring Page captures some of the cheerful sights of the season in one festive picture that kids can make completely their own.
With a Christmas tree, presents, stars, and a classic Santa hat to color, there are plenty of spaces for bright crayons, markers, or colored pencils. Stick with traditional holiday colors or forget the rules entirely and create a rainbow-filled December scene. Christmas trees don’t have to be green, presents don’t have to be red, and Santa’s hat can be any color your imagination chooses.
🎄 Decorate the Christmas Tree
The Christmas tree is one of the stars of this December coloring page. Traditional green branches are always beautiful, but young artists can experiment with different shades of green to give the tree more depth. Try dark green around the edges and lighter green toward the middle, or make each section of the tree a slightly different shade.
Then comes the best part: decorating.
Color the ornaments red, gold, silver, blue, purple, pink, or every color of the rainbow. Stars and decorations can sparkle in bright yellows and metallic-looking shades, while imaginative colorists might create an entirely different kind of tree. A pastel pink Christmas tree? Absolutely. An icy blue tree with silver ornaments? Perfect for winter.
For even more trees waiting to be decorated, visit our Coloring Pages of Christmas Trees.
🎁 Create a Pile of Colorful Presents
Wrapped presents make December feel especially festive, and each gift on the page is another chance to experiment with colors and patterns.
Try classic red wrapping paper with green ribbon, blue paper with silver bows, or gold paper tied with bright red ribbon. You can also invent wrapping paper by adding your own tiny designs. Polka dots, candy canes, snowflakes, stars, stripes, hearts, and little Christmas trees can turn a simple gift box into something completely unique.
Children can even imagine what might be hiding inside each present. Is it a toy? A book? Art supplies? A stuffed animal? Maybe it contains something magical that doesn’t exist anywhere except in their December story.
🎅 Give Santa’s Hat a Creative Makeover
A fluffy Santa hat adds another familiar Christmas touch to the picture. Traditionalists can reach for a bright red crayon and leave the trim white, but there is no rule saying Santa’s hat always has to look the same.
Try a deep burgundy hat, a sparkling gold one, or even stripes of red and green. Younger children may enjoy keeping the design simple, while older kids can add shading, patterns, or tiny decorations.
You could even create a completely new Santa outfit by imagining what the rest of the costume would look like to match your colorful hat.
⭐ Make the December Stars Shine
The stars scattered through the picture offer small details that can really brighten the finished page. Yellow and gold are natural choices, but pale blue, silver, white, pink, and purple can create a dreamy winter-sky effect.
For extra sparkle, outline the stars in one color and fill the centers with another. Metallic crayons, glitter crayons, or gel pens can also be fun for older children who want their December masterpiece to shine.
These little details are a good reminder that sometimes the smallest parts of a coloring page can make the biggest difference.
❄️ December Color Palette Ideas
Not sure which crayons to choose? Try building your picture around a simple December color theme.
- Classic Christmas: red, green, gold, and white
- Winter Wonderland: icy blue, silver, white, and lavender
- Candy Christmas: pink, turquoise, red, mint green, and white
- Cozy Christmas: deep red, forest green, brown, cream, and gold
- Rainbow Holiday: every bright color in the crayon box
- Pastel December: blush pink, pale blue, mint, lavender, and soft yellow
Choosing a color palette can be especially fun for older children, but younger artists should feel free to grab whichever crayon looks best at the moment. A December coloring page is much more fun when imagination gets to make the rules.
🖍️ A Fun December Activity for Kids
Coloring makes an easy activity for a chilly afternoon, a classroom holiday center, a Christmas party, or a quiet moment at home. Children can work on the page independently or gather around a table and color together while holiday music plays in the background.
Working with crayons, pencils, markers, paintbrushes, and other art materials also gives children opportunities to use the small muscles of their hands. The National Association for the Education of Young Children includes drawing, scribbling, and writing with crayons, pencils, and markers among activities that can help children practice fine motor skills.
You can add a little storytelling to the activity, too. Ask questions such as:
- Who decorated the Christmas tree?
- What is hidden inside the presents?
- Where is Santa going?
- What does the room around the tree look like?
- Is it snowing outside?
- What happens next in the picture?
Suddenly, a coloring page becomes the beginning of a December story.
✂️ Turn the Finished Page Into a Holiday Craft
Once the coloring is finished, there are several ways to keep using the artwork.
Display it on the refrigerator, hang it in a classroom, or add it to a December art wall. Children could also write “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas” on their finished picture and turn it into a homemade decoration.
Another fun idea is to ask children to create a second drawing showing what they imagine happens outside the picture. They might add Santa’s sleigh, a snowy house, reindeer, more presents, snowmen, or an entire Christmas village.
Families could even save a December coloring page each year and create a small collection of holiday artwork. Seeing how a child’s drawings and coloring change over the years can make those pages especially fun to look back on later.
🏫 Easy for Classrooms and Holiday Parties
This December coloring page can also work well when you need a simple seasonal activity that requires very little preparation. Print copies for a classroom art station, Christmas party table, library activity, homeschool lesson, or holiday gathering.
Set out crayons, washable markers, or colored pencils and let each child interpret the picture differently. When everyone finishes, line the pages up together. Even though everyone started with the same illustration, the finished pictures will probably look completely different.
That’s part of what makes coloring so much fun.
☕ A Cozy Coloring Break for Adults, Too
Kids aren’t the only ones who can enjoy a December coloring session. Adults may find that sitting down with a simple creative activity provides a welcome change of pace during an especially busy time of year.
Cleveland Clinic notes that coloring can help some adults direct their attention toward a simple present-moment activity. So if December starts feeling packed with errands, shopping, decorating, cooking, and celebrations, consider picking up a colored pencil and joining the kids for a few minutes.
There is no competition and no perfect finished result required. It’s simply a chance to make something colorful.
🎄 Find More Christmas Coloring Fun
If this December picture puts you in a festive mood, there are plenty of other holiday designs to explore.
Our Christmas Coloring Pages collection includes even more cheerful seasonal scenes, while Christmas Holiday Coloring Pages offers additional ways to celebrate with crayons and colored pencils.
You can also color some sweet holiday friends with our Gingerbread Man Cookies Coloring Page.
And if you’re working your way through the calendar, don’t miss the November Coloring Page for another seasonal coloring activity.
🎨 Celebrate December With Color
December can be busy, exciting, cozy, and wonderfully colorful all at once. This December Coloring Page offers a simple way to enjoy some of the season’s familiar sights while giving kids plenty of freedom to invent their own holiday world.
Color the tree, decorate the presents, brighten the stars, give Santa’s hat a makeover, and add any extra details you can imagine. Whether your finished picture is filled with traditional Christmas red and green or every color in the rainbow, the most important part is enjoying the creative process.
Happy December, and happy coloring!
🔗 Related Coloring Pages
- Christmas Coloring Pages
- Coloring Pages of Christmas Trees
- Christmas Holiday Coloring Pages
- Gingerbread Man Cookies Coloring Page
- November Coloring Page
📚 Sources
- NAEYC — Help Your Child Build Fine Motor Skills
- Cleveland Clinic — 3 Reasons Adult Coloring Can Actually Relax Your Brain
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