If your children love to color, free Christmas coloring pages are the perfect fun activity to get them into the holiday spirit (and keep them occupied) during the holiday break from school. So grab some crayons, markers, and color pencils and give them room to work their creativity.
And if the mood strikes you, join in on the fun. Coloring can be a great way to relax and have fun with your kids and bring out the kid within yourself, too.
1. Edupics
Both younger and older children will love the Christmas coloring pages on this site. There are more than 100 free Christmas-themed coloring pages for kids here, ranging from simple pictures such as candy canes to Christmas stockings and elves in outfits with intricately-detailed patterns.
2. Christmas Coloring Pages from About’s Family Crafts Guide
About.com’s Family Crafts Guide Sherri Osborn has compiled this fun assortment of Christmas coloring pages. You’ll find candy canes, Santa, and even a bear decorating a Christmas tree. Perfect for younger grade-schoolers.
3. Clip Art 'n Crafts
Ornaments, bells, gingerbread man, and other holiday-themed coloring pages can be found on this site.
4. 18 Places to Find Free Christmas Coloring Pages
Another awesome list of great resources for free Christmas coloring pages from Stacy Fisher, About.com’s Guide to Freebies.
5. Crayola Coloring Pages
There are some fun printable Christmas coloring pages to choose from on the Crayola site. Plus, kids can also try their hand at coloring pictures online.
6. Kaboose
Santa in his sleigh, carolers, stained-glass pictures and more make up the collection of Christmas coloring pages on this site.
7. DLTK’s Coloring.ws
DLTK’s Crafts for Kids has a site just for coloring pages called Coloring.ws, which includes Christmas-themed drawings. It also offers Christmas coloring pages on the main site, at dltk-kids.com. Christmas coloring pages include multiple variations of pictures of Santa, stockings, angels, candy canes -- all the Christmas-themed coloring pages your child could want.
8. HelloKids.com
There are lots of Christmas coloring pages for kids to choose from on this site. Angels, Christmas trees, Santa, elves -- you’ll have a hard time choosing from many great Christmas pictures for your kids to color.
9. Coloring Pages for Kids
You can find Santa, Frosty, Christmas decorations, presents, and many more Christmas coloring pages on this site.
10. Coloring-Page.net
There are lots of fun Christmas coloring pages to choose from on this site. You’ll find Rudolph, Santa, presents, and other usual selections as well as some imaginative pictures kids are sure to love such as a cute angel on a star or a puppy with a ribbon.
11. Raising Our Kids
An excellent resource for lots of great Christmas coloring pages for both older and younger kids. You’ll find simple pictures such as a puppy in a stocking or more detailed pictures of Santa with toys and children.
