Top 10 Christmas Coloring Pages: Free Printable Holiday Favorites for Kids

Make the holiday season a little more colorful with our Top 10 Christmas Coloring Pages, featuring a festive mix of traditional Christmas scenes, cheerful winter characters, holiday decorations, sweet treats, and the Nativity.

This collection brings together ten very different Christmas designs. Kids can color Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus beneath the Star of Bethlehem, fill a Christmas stocking with bright holiday colors, decorate a snowy Christmas scene with a smiling snowman, give Santa Claus a colorful makeover, design an ornament and wreath, build an imaginary gingerbread house, decorate a Christmas tree, or bundle up an adorable teddy bear for a day in the snow.

That variety is what makes this collection different from our larger Christmas Coloring Pages gallery. Think of this page as a curated set of 10 classic Christmas favorites, with a little bit of everything in one place.

Use traditional red, green, gold, and white, create an icy blue winter wonderland, try pretty pastels, or turn Christmas into an explosion of rainbow color.

Choose your favorite page—or color all ten!

🎄 What’s Included in Our Top 10 Christmas Coloring Pages?

This festive collection includes:

1. A Christmas Nativity scene
2. A Christmas stocking with gifts and holiday decorations
3. A cute snowman beside a Christmas tree
4. Santa Claus with a Christmas tree
5. A Merry Christmas activity and coloring page
6. A Christmas ornament
7. A Christmas wreath
8. A gingerbread house
9. A decorated Christmas tree with presents
10. A teddy bear dressed for snowy winter weather

Some designs focus directly on the Christmas story, while others celebrate familiar decorations, seasonal treats, Santa Claus, or snowy winter fun.

That makes it easy for families and classrooms to choose the pages that fit their own holiday traditions.

🎨 Choose a Christmas Color Palette

Red and green are the obvious Christmas favorites, but they are only the beginning.

Try one of these palettes.

Classic Christmas

• Red
• Forest green
• Gold
• White

Winter Wonderland

• Ice blue
• Silver
• White
• Navy
• Lavender

Candy Christmas

• Pink
• Red
• Mint
• Turquoise
• White

Cozy Christmas

• Burgundy
• Evergreen
• Brown
• Cream
• Gold

Vintage Christmas

• Muted red
• Olive green
• Mustard gold
• Cream
• Dusty blue

Rainbow Christmas

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue
• Purple

You can use the same palette across all ten pages to create a coordinated Christmas coloring collection.

✨ 1. Color the Christmas Nativity Scene

The first design depicts the Nativity, with baby Jesus in the manger surrounded by Mary, Joseph, the Wise Men, a shepherd, animals, the city of Bethlehem, and the star above.

This page gives families looking for a religious Christmas coloring activity a detailed scene centered on the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus.

Begin with warm earth tones.

Try:

Stable: Browns and tans
Night sky: Navy or deep blue
Star: Gold or yellow
Clothing: Reds, blues, greens, creams, and purples
Animals: Natural browns, grays, creams, and whites

The bright Star of Bethlehem can become the focal point of the entire picture.

⭐ Make the Christmas Star Glow

Color the star bright yellow or gold.

Then add lighter yellow around it to suggest a glow.

If you’re using colored pencils, gradually fade the color into the night sky.

You can also add tiny stars throughout the background.

Perhaps the brightest star is nearly white in the center with golden rays extending outward.

🌌 Create a Bethlehem Night Sky

Instead of leaving the background plain, create a deep nighttime scene.

Layer:

• Navy
• Indigo
• Purple

Add tiny white stars.

Leave the area around the main star slightly lighter.

A dark sky can make the Nativity figures and the bright Christmas star stand out beautifully.

📖 Christmas and the Nativity

For Christians around the world, Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus.

December 25 had become an established date for the Feast of the Nativity in Rome by the fourth century, although Christmas customs continued to develop and absorb traditions from many places and cultures over the centuries.

The Nativity page gives families a natural opportunity to talk about the religious meaning of Christmas while coloring the figures and scene.

🧦 2. Fill the Christmas Stocking With Color

The second page features a Christmas stocking surrounded by gifts, lollipops, evergreen branches, and ornaments.

A stocking is perfect for playing with patterns.

Color it:

• Red with white trim
• Green with gold stars
• Blue with snowflakes
• Pink with candy stripes
• Rainbow-colored

Then decorate the gifts around it.

Every box can have completely different wrapping paper.

🎁 Design Christmas Wrapping Paper

Turn the presents into mini design projects.

Add:

• Polka dots
• Candy canes
• Snowflakes
• Stars
• Christmas trees
• Stripes
• Hearts

Try repeating one color throughout several presents to keep the page coordinated.

For example, use gold ribbons on red, green, blue, and purple boxes.

🍭 Color the Christmas Candy

The lollipops and candy details are perfect for bright colors.

Try:

• Red and white
• Pink and white
• Green and white
• Rainbow swirls

Maybe the stocking belongs to someone who asked Santa for nothing but candy.

Draw a few additional treats around it.

📝 Design Your Own Christmas Stocking

Draw a large stocking on another sheet of paper.

Add your name across the top.

Then decorate it with:

• Snowmen
• Stars
• Reindeer
• Penguins
• Candy canes
• Christmas trees

Choose your dream stocking colors.

No sewing required.

⛄ 3. Color the Snowman & Christmas Tree

The third design combines two wonderful December themes: a smiling snowman and a Christmas tree.

Keep most of the snowman white and add pale blue or gray shadows around the edges.

Then use bright colors for:

• Hat
• Scarf
• Buttons
• Carrot nose

Color the nearby Christmas tree deep green or turn it into a completely imaginary tree.

Maybe it’s pink with turquoise ornaments.

🧣 Give the Snowman a Christmas Scarf

Design a scarf using:

• Red and green stripes
• Snowflakes
• Candy-cane patterns
• Stars
• Rainbow colors

Add matching mittens or a hat.

Perhaps the snowman is dressed especially nicely because it is Christmas Eve.

❄️ Build a Winter Wonderland

Expand the background with:

• Snowflakes
• Snow-covered trees
• Little houses
• Moon
• Stars
• Animal tracks

Keep the snowy areas mostly white and use pale blue or lavender for shadows.

This makes the colorful tree and snowman’s clothing stand out.

For another entire snowman scene, try our Winter Coloring Page of a Boy and Girl Making a Snowman.

🎅 4. Color Santa Claus & the Christmas Tree

The fourth page features a smiling Santa Claus beside a Christmas tree.

For a familiar Santa look, use:

• Red coat
• Red hat
• White trim
• Black boots
• Black belt

Then color the tree in deep evergreen shades.

But Santa does not have to wear red on your coloring page.

Try:

• Blue
• Purple
• Green
• Gold
• Rainbow stripes

Artists have portrayed Santa in different ways over time, so paper Santa can wear whatever you choose.

🎅 A Little Santa Claus History

The modern American image of Santa Claus developed gradually from older Saint Nicholas traditions and later artwork, literature, advertising, and popular culture.

By the nineteenth century, recognizable Santa imagery was already appearing in the United States.

Illustrator Thomas Nast played an important role in shaping the familiar full-sized, bearded Santa in the later nineteenth century, including his association with the North Pole.

By the early twentieth century, the jolly bearded Santa familiar today had become increasingly recognizable.

🎁 Fill Santa’s Christmas Scene

Add more details around Santa.

Draw:

• Gift sack
• Toys
• Reindeer
• Fireplace
• Stockings
• Cookies

Perhaps the Christmas tree belongs inside Santa’s workshop.

Maybe elves are hiding behind it.

Turn the page into your own North Pole scene.

🦌 Add a Reindeer Friend

Draw a reindeer beside Santa.

Use tan, brown, and cream for a realistic version.

Or make the reindeer:

• Purple
• Pink
• Blue
• Rainbow

Add bells around its neck.

Perhaps it is getting ready for Christmas Eve.

📝 5. Color the Merry Christmas Activity Page

The Merry Christmas worksheet and coloring design gives kids another way to combine holiday lettering with drawing and coloring.

Start with the words.

Try:

MERRY: Red and green

CHRISTMAS: Rainbow

Or alternate colors letter by letter.

Add gold, silver, or colorful outlines to make the greeting stand out.

✏️ Decorate the Merry Christmas Letters

Don’t just fill the letters with solid colors.

Try:

• Stripes
• Polka dots
• Candy-cane patterns
• Snowflakes
• Tiny stars

Each letter can become its own miniature coloring design.

Older children might create one coordinated pattern across the entire phrase.

💌 Turn It Into a Christmas Card

The Merry Christmas design is a natural choice for a homemade card.

Color the page.

Mount part of the design on folded cardstock.

Inside, write:

Merry Christmas!

Wishing You a Wonderful Christmas

Warm Holiday Wishes

Give it to a grandparent, friend, neighbor, teacher, or family member.

🎄 Make Christmas Name Art

Write your own name in large letters beneath the greeting.

Decorate each letter with holiday symbols.

For example:

• Snowflakes
• Ornaments
• Trees
• Stars
• Candy canes

A simple coloring page becomes personalized Christmas artwork.

🔴 6. Decorate the Christmas Ornament

The sixth design focuses on a Christmas ornament, giving you a blank holiday decoration to fill with almost any palette or pattern.

Try a classic glass-ball look:

• Red
• Gold
• Silver
• Blue

Add a bright highlight to one side.

Or create a completely patterned ornament.

Use:

• Stripes
• Stars
• Flowers
• Snowflakes
• Hearts
• Swirls

Christmas ornaments have appeared in a huge variety of materials, shapes, colors, and designs over the years, so there is no need to limit your imagination.

✨ Create a Vintage Glass Ornament

For an old-fashioned feel, try:

• Silver
• Pink
• Gold
• Pale blue

Add delicate stripes.

Use a metallic pencil or gel pen if available.

Smithsonian museum collections preserve Christmas ornaments made in Germany, Japan, and the United States in colors ranging from mirrored silver to pink, gold, and multicolored designs.

That means vintage Christmas ornaments were certainly not limited to simple red and green.

🌈 Create a Rainbow Ornament

Divide the ornament into horizontal bands.

Color:

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple

Add silver or gold around the top.

Draw several more ornaments around it and make each one different.

🎄 Design an Ornament for Your Tree

Imagine the page is a plan for a real ornament.

What would you put on it?

Maybe:

• Family name
• Current year
• Snowman
• Pet
• House
• Star

Draw your idea.

You could create a new imaginary ornament design every year.

🌿 7. Color the Christmas Wreath

The seventh page features a Christmas wreath, one of the holiday season’s most familiar decorations.

Begin with several greens.

Try:

• Pine green
• Forest green
• Olive
• Blue-green

Don’t make every branch identical.

Then add:

• Red berries
• Gold ribbon
• Pine cones
• Ornaments

Perhaps your wreath has a huge red bow.

Or maybe everything is blue and silver.

🎀 Design the Wreath Bow

Choose a bold accent color.

Classic choices include:

• Red
• Burgundy
• Gold
• Plaid-inspired red and green

Or try:

• Pink
• Turquoise
• Purple
• Rainbow stripes

Add little highlights along the folds so the bow looks dimensional.

🌲 Why Evergreens Appear in Christmas Decorations

Evergreen plants remain green through winter, which has helped give them symbolic importance in many winter traditions.

Christmas wreaths have often been made from evergreen branches, holly, berries, pine cones, and other plant materials.

Smithsonian Gardens notes that American Christmas plant traditions developed from a mixture of immigrant customs, with holly, ivy, evergreen branches, wreaths, and Christmas trees becoming familiar parts of holiday decoration.

🧵 Make a Paper Christmas Wreath

Use the coloring page as a craft template.

Color the wreath.

Cut it out with age-appropriate supervision.

Then add paper:

• Berries
• Bow
• Pine cones
• Stars

Mount it onto a larger sheet of cardstock.

You can also draw a completely new wreath on paper and decorate it with favorite Christmas objects.

🍪 8. Decorate the Gingerbread House

The eighth design is a gingerbread house, giving you an entire edible-looking building to decorate.

Start with warm brown walls.

Then add bright candy colors.

Try:

• White icing
• Red candy
• Green gumdrops
• Pink frosting
• Yellow stars
• Blue windows

There is no need to follow realistic architecture.

A gingerbread house is much more fun when the roof is covered in candy.

🍭 Build a Candy Roof

Cover the roof with:

• Gumdrops
• Peppermints
• Candy canes
• Jelly beans
• Frosting
• Sprinkles

Use repeated colors to form patterns.

Maybe the roof alternates:

Red, green, red, green.

Or create rainbow rows.

❄️ Add Frosting Snow

Use white icing as imaginary snow.

Cover:

• Roof
• Windows
• Door
• Ground

Add blue shadows around the frosting if you want more dimension.

Draw tiny icing icicles hanging from the roof.

Maybe a powdered-sugar blizzard just passed through Gingerbread Village.

🏘️ Create a Gingerbread Village

Draw more buildings beside the house.

Try:

• Gingerbread school
• Gingerbread bakery
• Gingerbread castle
• Gingerbread toy shop

Connect them with candy-cane streetlights.

Add gingerbread people walking around.

You have now turned one house into an entire edible town.

🍪 Add Gingerbread Friends

Our Gingerbread Man Cookies Coloring Page features two cheerful gingerbread friends standing together while snowflakes fall around them.

Imagine those characters live in this gingerbread house.

Color both pages using the same:

• Frosting colors
• Candy palette
• Snow colors

Now they become parts of the same story.

🎄 9. Decorate the Christmas Tree & Presents

The ninth design features another enduring Christmas favorite: a decorated tree with boxes of presents underneath.

Christmas trees are perfect coloring subjects because nearly every part can be customized.

Begin with several greens.

Try dark forest green around the outer branches and lighter green in the center.

Then decorate with:

• Ornaments
• Garland
• Lights
• Star
• Candy canes

Finally, color every present differently.

🌲 A Little Christmas Tree History

Evergreen plants have been used in winter traditions for centuries, but the decorated Christmas tree tradition developed much later.

Historical accounts strongly associate decorated Christmas trees with German-speaking Europe.

The custom became increasingly popular in North America during the nineteenth century, particularly as German traditions spread and were adopted more widely.

Over time, Christmas trees became one of the most recognizable secular and religious-season holiday decorations in many countries.

For a whole gallery devoted to them, visit our Coloring Pages of Christmas Trees.

⭐ Choose a Tree Topper

What goes at the very top?

Try:

• Star
• Angel
• Snowflake
• Bow

Or invent something new.

Maybe a teddy bear sits at the top.

Perhaps your tree has a rainbow.

Color the topper bright enough that it becomes one of the first things you notice.

🎁 Design the Presents

Every present under the tree can look different.

Try combinations such as:

Red paper + gold ribbon

Blue paper + silver bow

Green paper + red ribbon

Pink paper + turquoise bow

Add wrapping-paper patterns.

No two gifts need to match.

🎄 Create a Themed Christmas Tree

Instead of random ornaments, choose a theme.

Snowflake Tree

Blue, white, and silver.

Candy Tree

Red, white, pink, and mint.

Rainbow Tree

Every bright color.

Woodland Tree

Brown, green, red, animals, pine cones.

Vintage Tree

Gold, burgundy, cream, muted green.

Print the page several times and create a whole collection of themed trees.

🧸 10. Color the Christmas Teddy Bear in the Snow

The final design features an adorable teddy bear bundled in winter clothes and enjoying the snow.

Color the bear:

• Honey brown
• Chocolate
• Tan
• Cream
• Gray

Then make the winter outfit much brighter.

Try:

Hat: Red
Scarf: Green
Coat: Blue
Mittens: Yellow

Or give the teddy bear a pastel winter wardrobe.

🧣 Design the Teddy Bear’s Winter Outfit

Add patterns to the clothing.

Try:

• Snowflakes
• Stars
• Stripes
• Hearts
• Candy canes

Make the hat and scarf match.

Or create intentionally mismatched winter clothes.

Maybe this bear dressed itself.

❄️ Create a Snowy Teddy Bear Adventure

Add:

• Snowflakes
• Snowman
• Sled
• Evergreen trees
• Snow-covered hills

Perhaps the teddy bear is heading to meet the snowman from Page 3.

Draw a trail through the snow connecting their adventures.

📖 Write a Christmas Teddy Bear Story

Try a story starter:

On Christmas Eve, the teddy bear heard bells outside and…

The teddy bear followed footprints through the snow until…

Hidden beneath the Christmas tree was…

Nobody knew where the teddy bear went after midnight until…

Use the colored page as the story’s first illustration.

🎨 Which Christmas Coloring Page Should You Choose?

Not sure where to begin?

Choose based on what you enjoy most.

For traditional Christmas: Nativity

For decorating: Christmas tree or wreath

For treats: Gingerbread house

For Santa fans: Santa and Christmas tree

For winter fun: Snowman or teddy bear

For crafts: Ornament or stocking

For homemade cards: Merry Christmas page

Or simply print all ten and create your own Christmas coloring book.

🔴 Try a Classic Red & Green Challenge

Color all ten pages using primarily:

• Red
• Green
• White
• Gold

You may be surprised at how many different pictures can come from the same four colors.

Use brown where needed for gingerbread, animals, and wooden details.

Keep snow mostly white.

The entire collection will look coordinated when displayed together.

🩵 Create a Winter Wonderland Collection

Try the opposite approach.

Avoid traditional Christmas red and green.

Use:

• Pale blue
• Navy
• White
• Silver
• Lavender

Create icy trees, blue ornaments, silver ribbons, and lavender winter clothing.

Even Santa could wear navy.

This palette can make the collection look elegant and wonderfully wintry.

🍬 Create a Candy Christmas Collection

Use:

• Pink
• Mint
• Red
• Turquoise
• White

These colors work especially well on:

• Gingerbread house
• Stocking
• Ornaments
• Presents
• Tree decorations

Add candy-cane stripes wherever possible.

The result can look like one giant Christmas sweet shop.

🌈 Create a Rainbow Christmas

Give each of the ten pages a different main color.

For example:

Nativity: Blue
Stocking: Red
Snowman: Turquoise
Santa: Purple
Merry Christmas: Rainbow
Ornament: Pink
Wreath: Green
Gingerbread House: Orange
Tree: Multicolor
Teddy Bear: Yellow

Display everything together.

There is no requirement that Christmas artwork be red and green.

🎲 Play Christmas Roll-and-Color

Grab one six-sided die.

Assign each number:

1 — Red
2 — Green
3 — Gold or yellow
4 — Blue
5 — Purple
6 — Your choice

Roll and color one detail with the matching shade.

Keep going until the picture is complete.

Try it with two copies of the same page and see how differently they turn out.

🔢 Count the Christmas Decorations

Turn the pages into simple counting activities.

Ask younger children to count:

• Presents
• Ornaments
• Stars
• Snowflakes
• Trees

Then create challenges.

Color 3 ornaments red.

Draw 4 snowflakes.

Add 5 stars.

Older children can invent instructions for someone else to follow.

🔤 C Is for Christmas

Write a big C.

Practice:

C is for Christmas.

Think of more C words:

• Candy
• Cookie
• Cat
• Cake
• Cloud
• Crayon

Decorate the C with tiny:

• Trees
• Stars
• Snowflakes
• Ornaments

For more simple learning activities, explore our Educational Coloring Pages & Activities.

🎄 T Is for Tree

Use the Christmas tree design for another alphabet activity.

Practice:

T is for Tree.

Then think of:

• Toy
• Teddy
• Train
• Tiger
• Turtle

Decorate a giant letter T with Christmas lights.

🎅 S Is for Santa

Try:

S is for Santa.

Other S words include:

• Snow
• Star
• Stocking
• Sleigh
• Scarf

That gives you an entire Christmas S-word collection.

Draw a little picture beside each word.

📖 Turn the 10 Pages Into a Christmas Story

Arrange the printables in your own order.

Perhaps:

1. A teddy bear wakes up in the snow.
2. It sees a decorated wreath.
3. It discovers a gingerbread house.
4. Santa appears.
5. They decorate a Christmas tree.
6. Everyone hangs stockings.
7. The snowman joins the party.
8. They make ornaments.
9. Everyone says Merry Christmas.
10. The story ends with the Nativity.

Or create a completely different sequence.

Write a sentence beneath every picture.

🗓️ Make a Christmas Coloring Countdown

Ten pages make a perfect mini countdown.

Color one page each day for the ten days leading up to Christmas.

Number them:

10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

Save the Nativity, Santa, or favorite page for Christmas Eve.

At the end, display the full set together.

🏫 Christmas Coloring Pages for the Classroom

This collection gives teachers several options instead of requiring every student to color the same design.

Pages can be used for:

• Morning work
• Early finishers
• Holiday parties
• December art centers
• Indoor recess
• Creative writing
• Classroom displays
• Take-home activities

Families and schools can choose secular winter/Christmas designs such as snowmen, ornaments, trees, gingerbread houses, and teddy bears, while the Nativity offers an option for settings where a religious Christmas activity is appropriate.

🎄 Create a Classroom Christmas Gallery

Let students choose their favorite design.

Display the finished pictures together.

Possible headings include:

Christmas in Color

Our Holiday Gallery

A Merry & Bright Classroom

Coloring Our Way to Christmas

The different designs will make the display much more varied than using one identical worksheet.

✂️ Turn Finished Pages Into Christmas Crafts

Completed pages can become:

• Christmas cards
• Gift tags
• Garland
• Classroom decorations
• Placemats
• Scrapbook pages
• Holiday posters
• Christmas book covers

Cut out individual trees, ornaments, stockings, or wreaths with age-appropriate supervision.

Combine several into one Christmas collage.

🏷️ Make Homemade Gift Tags

The ornament, stocking, wreath, gingerbread house, and Christmas tree can all inspire small gift tags.

Draw a miniature version on cardstock.

Color it.

Write:

To:

and

From:

on the back.

Add ribbon or string.

A small handmade tag can make even simple wrapping feel personal.

💌 Make Homemade Christmas Cards

Several of these designs work particularly well as cards.

Try:

• Nativity
• Santa
• Wreath
• Christmas tree
• Merry Christmas lettering
• Teddy bear

Color the picture and mount it onto folded cardstock.

Add:

Merry Christmas!

Warm Holiday Wishes

Have a Wonderful Christmas

inside.

🧵 Make a Christmas Garland

Choose several elements:

• Stockings
• Ornaments
• Trees
• Gingerbread houses
• Snowmen

Draw or cut out simplified versions.

Attach them along ribbon or string.

Alternate shapes and colors.

Hang the finished garland near your coloring display.

📓 Make a Christmas Coloring Book

Print all ten designs.

Color them over several days.

Add a cover:

My Christmas Coloring Book

Write your name and the year.

Staple or bind the pages together.

Save it with your holiday decorations and look at it again next Christmas.

📅 Pair the Collection With December Coloring

For a page specifically celebrating the month, visit our December Coloring Page.

That printable features a Christmas tree, presents, stars, and Santa’s hat.

Pair it with this Top 10 collection to create a broader December activity set.

Kids can color the December page first and then choose one Christmas favorite each day afterward.

🎄 Explore the Bigger Christmas Collection

When you’ve finished these ten designs, continue with our Christmas Coloring Pages.

That larger gallery adds:

• Christmas gnome
• Santa’s sleigh
• Santa and reindeer
• Gingerbread cookies
• Skiing bear
• Gingerbread house
• Kawaii penguin
• Kawaii Santa and deer

The two collections complement one another nicely.

Top 10 Christmas Coloring Pages focuses on a curated set of classic favorites, while Christmas Coloring Pages offers a larger mix of cute and festive characters and scenes.

🎁 Explore More Christmas Holiday Coloring Pages

Our Christmas Holiday Coloring Pages provide another large festive collection.

There you’ll find designs including:

• Santa by the fireplace
• Holiday cookies
• Children with presents
• Nativity scene
• Ice-skating penguin
• Reindeer with Christmas lights
• Christmas unicorn
• Snow globe
• Santa on a chimney

That page leans strongly into varied holiday scenes and characters, making it another natural next stop after this Top 10 roundup.

🌲 Decorate More Christmas Trees

If the decorated tree is your favorite design, visit our Coloring Pages of Christmas Trees.

That collection lets you concentrate entirely on:

• Trees
• Ornaments
• Gifts
• Lights
• Garlands
• Tree toppers

Print several and create a different decorating theme for every tree.

🍪 Color the Gingerbread Friends

If the gingerbread house is your favorite, continue with our Gingerbread Man Cookies Coloring Page.

The two cheerful gingerbread characters can become residents of your newly colored house.

Use matching frosting and candy colors so everything looks like part of one gingerbread village.

🎉 Explore More Holiday Coloring Pages

Christmas is only one part of the year.

Our Holiday Coloring Pages bring together printable activities for Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, New Year’s, the Fourth of July, and more.

Save favorite finished pages in a binder and gradually create a year-long holiday coloring collection.

❄️ Explore More Seasonal Coloring

Christmas and winter naturally overlap in much of the Northern Hemisphere.

For snowmen, chilly weather, monthly printables, and other seasonal ideas, visit our Seasonal Coloring Pages.

You can follow the year month by month from snowy January through spring, summer, fall, and back to December.

🖍️ Best Supplies for Christmas Coloring Pages

Crayons work especially well for younger children and larger areas.

Colored pencils are useful for:

• Nativity details
• Wreath greenery
• Gingerbread decorations
• Ornament patterns
• Clothing
• Shading

Markers create bright reds, greens, blues, purples, and candy colors. Slightly heavier paper may help when marker ink tends to bleed through ordinary printer paper.

Gel pens can add:

• Gold
• Silver
• Stars
• Ornament highlights
• Tiny decorative details

Mix materials if you want.

You could use colored pencils on the Nativity, markers for Santa, and metallic gel pens on the ornaments.

🖨️ How to Use These Free Christmas Coloring Pages

Choose your favorite Christmas design and print the page.

Then gather your art supplies.

You might begin with traditional holiday colors or choose a completely new palette.

Color the main illustration first.

Then look around the empty areas and decide whether the scene needs:

• Snowflakes
• Stars
• Gifts
• Lights
• Candy
• Reindeer
• Extra trees

When you’re finished, display the picture, turn it into a card, use it in a craft, or move on to the next design.

With ten different pages to choose from, you could create something new every day.

🎄 Celebrate Christmas With 10 Colorful Favorites

From the Nativity and Santa Claus to stockings, snowmen, ornaments, wreaths, gingerbread houses, Christmas trees, presents, and a teddy bear playing in the snow, these Top 10 Christmas Coloring Pages bring together an especially varied collection of holiday favorites.

Color them traditionally in red, green, white, and gold, create an icy winter wonderland, experiment with candy-colored pastels, or turn every page into a rainbow.

You can also make cards, create ornaments and gift tags, build a gingerbread village, write Christmas stories, count down to December 25, or print all ten pages and create your own holiday coloring book.

Choose a favorite—or color every one.

Merry Christmas and happy coloring!

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• December Coloring Page
• Winter Coloring Page of a Boy and Girl Making a Snowman
• Holiday Coloring Pages
• Seasonal Coloring Pages
• Educational Coloring Pages & Activities

📚 Sources

• Library of Congress — Today in History: December 25
• Smithsonian Institution — Must Be Santa
• Smithsonian Institution — The History of the Christmas Tree
• Smithsonian Institution Archives — Trees of Christmas
• Library of Congress — Making Winter Wreaths Inspired by Library Collections
• Smithsonian Institution — Wire Frame Wreath
• National Museum of American History — Christmas Ornament
• Smithsonian Libraries and Archives — The White House in Gingerbread: Memories and Recipes