🎄 Holidays & Celebrations
Happy Christmas Tree Colouring Page
Ages 2–5
🎄 Holidays & Celebrations
Waving Christmas Elf Colouring Page
A cheerful elf in a floppy santa hat waves one mitten while holding a big round bauble in the other hand.
- Suitable for
- Ages 2–5
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Easy
- Printing
- Black & white
Free, no sign-up. A4 · Print at 100% scale
What your child practises
- Fills large closed shapes such as the hat and tunic without needing to lift the crayon often
- Keeps colour inside the rounded bauble and mitten outlines
- Uses a repeating pattern to colour the horizontal stripes on the leggings
- Handles smaller detailed areas like the shoe pom-poms and curled toes as a next step up
- Talks about the picture using words like wave, bauble and elf while colouring
About this worksheet
This elf stands facing forward with a big open-mouthed smile, one mitten raised in a wave and the other hand holding up a large round bauble by its loop. He has a floppy santa hat with a pom-pom on the end, pointed ears poking out either side, a scalloped collar, a wide belt with a square buckle, a jagged-hem tunic, striped leggings, and curly-toed shoes each finished with their own pom-pom.
Nearly every shape on this page is big and closed, so it is forgiving for a hand that is still learning to stay inside the lines. The hat, the tunic, the bauble and the mitten are all wide, rounded spaces a young child can fill in a few confident strokes. The leggings bring in a bit more structure with their horizontal stripes, and the shoe curls and pom-poms give slightly fussier bits for a child who wants a small challenge once the big areas are done. It is also a good page for talking through the picture as they go: what is he waving at, what colour should the bauble be, does he live at the North Pole.
There is nothing fiddly or tightly enclosed here, so it sits on the easy end of the Christmas sheets in this set. It suits a three or four year old colouring largely on their own, and it works just as well as a first crayon page for a younger sibling who mostly wants to make marks inside big shapes without getting frustrated.
How to use this sheet
Start with the hat and tunic since they are the biggest spaces, then move to the bauble and mitten. Save the striped leggings and curly shoes for last, as they need a steadier hand. If a child gets tired, stopping after the big shapes still leaves a finished-looking page.
