These four sheets are a little different from the tracing and step-by-step pages I usually share. There is nothing to copy. Each one gives you a single Christmas outline inside a snowy frame, and the job is to finish it: patterns, faces, toys, icing, whatever the artist dreams up. That makes them a good fit for mixed ages, from a three-year-old with a fat crayon to a ten-year-old who wants to design the fanciest stocking in the house.
Choose a Christmas Activity Sheet
Design Your Stocking
An empty stocking with a fluffy cuff. Give it a pattern, write a name across the top, then fill it with the toys you hope to find on Christmas morning.
Decorate the Tree
A bare three-layer tree on a stand. Add ornaments, lights and a star, then pile presents underneath. A tree with only candy ornaments is allowed.
Give the Snowman a Face
A round snowman head under a very tall top hat, still waiting for a face. Happy, sleepy, surprised or a little grumpy? The artist decides.
Make a Gingerbread Person
A plain cookie shape fresh from the oven. Add a face, icing squiggles and buttons, then give your gingerbread person a name.
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All four sheets also live in the free Christmas drawing tool on ChristmasActivityBooks.com. Pick a sheet, then use pens, a paint bucket and Christmas stickers with a mouse, a finger or a stylus. Nothing is uploaded; when the picture is finished you can save it or print it.
Ideas for the Art Table
Print a stack and let everyone choose. Siblings can each decorate the same tree and compare, or a whole class can make a wall of stockings, every one different.
- Stocking: ask what each toy is before it gets colored. Robot puppies and rocket sleds are welcome.
- Tree: try a theme. Only animals, only candy, or every ornament a different pattern.
- Snowman: print two and draw two moods. A grumpy snowman is always popular.
- Gingerbread person: make it someone you know. A gingerbread grandma, a gingerbread astronaut, a gingerbread you.
Print on US Letter paper and choose “Fit to page” if your printer needs a little room at the edges. Teachers are welcome to print copies for the whole class.
20 More Free Christmas Worksheets
Need a bigger stack for December? My 20 free Christmas worksheets add a sweater for the yeti, cookie fractions, Christmas bingo, a letter to Santa and gift tags, with an answer key. Celebrating Hanukkah? There are 20 free Hanukkah worksheets too, and 20 Thanksgiving worksheets for November.
More Christmas Characters to Draw
If these sheets are a hit, my three Christmas books have 50 characters each, from Santa and reindeer to penguins and elves. Pick the one that matches how your child likes to make pictures.
How to Draw: Christmas
50 Christmas characters, each built in six illustrated steps. Ages 5+.
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Trace Then Color: Cartoon Christmas Characters
50 festive characters to trace and color. Ages 3+.
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Draw by Grid: Christmas
50 Christmas characters to copy one square at a time. Ages 5+.
Explore this book → View on Amazon ↗About the Artist
I’m Kevin Coulston, a cartoonist, children’s book author, illustrator, and member of the National Cartoonists Society. I’ve published more than 100 books of drawing, tracing and coloring activities, comics and picture books, and I drew these Christmas outlines myself.
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