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Christmas Coloring Pages

December is the month when a printer earns its keep. There is a long stretch between the end of term and Christmas Day, most of it indoors, and a coloring page fills twenty minutes of it without a screen, a battery or a set of instructions anyone has to read out loud.

These are the pages that work for the two-to-five range specifically: trees, stockings, gingerbread people, reindeer with soft faces, and snowmen wearing hats at an angle. Bold outlines, closed shapes, and nothing so detailed that a small hand gives up halfway. Everything prints black and white, which matters when you are printing thirty of something.

A finished sheet is also worth more than usual at this time of year. A colored tree becomes a card for a grandparent, a stocking becomes a gift tag, and a four year old who made either of those is genuinely pleased with themselves — which is a better outcome than most December activities manage.

Demand builds from early November and runs to Christmas Eve. These pages stay up all year.

23 pages

Which of these suits my child?

Two year olds
One big shape, filled however they like. A single bauble or a plain tree is plenty. Do not expect green on the tree and red on the bauble — color matching to real objects comes later, and a purple reindeer is a completely normal two-year-old reindeer.
Three year olds
Sheets with a few clear regions work well now: a gingerbread person with buttons, a stocking with a cuff, a snowman with a scarf. Three-year-olds start choosing colors on purpose rather than grabbing whatever is nearest, and these pages give that choice somewhere to go.
Four and five year olds
Print the scenes with several elements — a tree with decorations, a reindeer with a harness, a snow globe with a snowman inside it. There is enough here to hold attention for a proper stretch, and the smaller enclosed areas are good handwriting practice disguised as a holiday.

Every sheet lists the ages it suits, and the 2, 3, 4 and 5 year old pages carry the full range if you would rather start there.

Getting the most out of them

Turn one into a card
Fold a sheet of paper in half, glue the colored picture on the front, and a relative gets something a child actually made. This is the highest-value thing on this page and it takes four minutes.
Print before the rush
Printer ink runs out at the worst possible moment in December. If you are planning to print a batch for the holidays, do it in November while a replacement cartridge can still arrive in time.
Good for the long car journey
A clipboard, six sheets and a handful of crayons take up no space and need no signal. Print at 100% scale so the outlines stay thick enough to follow on a moving back seat.

The printing guide covers the scale setting that decides whether a sheet comes out the size it was drawn at, and most of these can also be colored on screen if the printer is out of ink.

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