Christmas Coloring Pages

The tree, the stockings and the reindeer sheets, because they are quick enough to finish inside one lesson and everyone can work at their own pace. The elf workshop is the better choice if you want a longer activity or something several children can share on one large print. All are free printable PDFs, so a class set costs nothing beyond paper.

Use three greens rather than one. Put the darkest green in the recesses between branches and toward the center of the tree, a mid green across the general mass, and the lightest on the branch tips catching the light. Color the ornaments last, and leave a small crescent of white paper on each one so they read as glass.

Choose the light source, then commit. Everything facing the fire takes warm yellow, gold and orange, strongest nearest the flame; everything turned away takes deep blue or violet. Fill the background rather than leaving it white, a small light only looks bright when it is surrounded by something dark.

Yes. The smaller subjects, the tree, the stockings, the reindeer, reproduce well when printed at reduced size and folded, and there are no licensed characters anywhere in the set, so they are free to use for cards, gift tags and classroom decorations.

On our house coloring pages, which carry a gingerbread house with icing scallops along both roof edges, a candy cane leaning at each side of the door and gumdrops along the base of the walls. Its candy cane stripes are drawn as open outlines rather than filled in, so the striping is left to you. That hub also holds a log cabin, a snow covered igloo and a two story house with a paving stone path, all of which print well alongside these Christmas sheets for a December set that is not entirely trees and stockings.