What young colorers find
- A tree drawn with thick lines, with a star on top and three hanging ornaments
- Three smiling characters, one of them Santa, each holding a present under the snowflakes
- A snowman in a hat with antlers, between a gingerbread man cookie and a gingerbread bear
- A polar bear cub in a Santa hat and scarf, sitting in the snow between fir trees
- Big shapes with thick outlines: a star, a bell with a bow, a gift box, a candle with a flame, a snowman and a winter mitten
Several sheets feature a unicorn, a gingerbread bear or big smiling figures, so a child can talk about the characters while coloring.
Setting up the table
- Print on plain paper, then tape the corners down so the page stays still.
- Offer four or five chunky crayons instead of a full box.
- Let the child choose the first area. There is no wrong color for a reindeer.
- Stop whenever the child does. A half-colored sheet is still a finished sheet.
- Keep the page and the crayons within reach, so the child can find the colors alone.
Games with one page
Name and find
Ask the child to point to the star, the scarf, the present. The page doubles as a vocabulary game.
Count and match
Count the ornaments or the snowflakes first, then color that many red. Repeat with blue.
Both games work with any sheet, including the one with a smiling tree and four smiling presents, where each child can claim a present.
When the shapes feel easy, the easy Christmas coloring pages have a bit more to fill in, and the cute pages add more characters with large eyes.