Christmas Printables: Coloring Pages and Activities

Whether you have a long trip over the river and through the woods to your holiday gatherings, or just want to give kids something fun to do at home during their holiday break, these Christmas printable coloring pages and other activities might be just the thing.

This giant nutcracker coloring page from Hattifant has been on my list to share for a long time. It’s so big! It would be a fun family project to have everyone work on their own section, then put it together and see how it looks.

If you’d rather have coloring pages that are a little smaller, The Little Frugal House has a collection of 75 free Christmas themed printables in a PDF in Dropbox, so you can download the whole set and print out what you need.

Learn about how Christmas is celebrated in other parts of the world with these educational coloring sheets from Rock Your Homeschool. Even more coloring printables, including some games like I spy, a memory game and printable diner style game placemats are available from Gathering Beauty.

Print and color Christmas and winter themed bookmarks from Jessie Steury to use in all those books you’re getting for Christmas. (My grandmother always gave everyone in the family a book for Christmas, and I try to do the same.)

Bear and Dear has some word scramble pages you can print out and challenge everyone in the family to see who can figure out all the words fastest.

And you can slip a little learning in with this tessellated Christmas tree activity from Little Bins for Little Hands. A tessellation is a repeating pattern that uses the same shape over and over and doesn’t leave any holes. Their printable tree tessellation shows Christmas trees right side up and upside down in the negative space (minus a little at the edges). Of course you could just color the trees like a coloring page, but you can also cut out the trees and make them into a tessellated Christmas tree.

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Road Trip Printables

The other day I shared some crafts involving fall leaves, but there are a lot of fun leaf-related activities that don’t use real leaves, so I wanted to share some of those, too.

Like these watercolor leaves from The Artful Parent. These are so pretty and would be great to make a garland or decorate the table for Thanksgiving. You could experiment with different kinds of paper, combine watercolors and crayons, use an eyedropper to apply liquid watercolors — there are lots of different ways to play with this one!

Because I’m a knitter of course I love any project that involves yarn, so this fall leaf lacing craft from Our Kid Things is right up my alley. The multicolored yarn they used is a lot of fun, or stick with fall colors. Either way it’s a great fine motor skill activity!

Using leaf shapes to make other crafts is a great way to incorporate leaves into the classroom without having to use actual leaves. For little kids this sensory painting activity from Kids Craft Room would be a lot of fun (I think this would be fun for some older kids and adults, too, to be honest) and makes a fun and easy decoration.

Of course leaf activities don’t just have to be crafts. Check out this great leaf matching game from Made to be a Momma. These leaves are so cute and after you’ve prepped the game you can play it over and over with no prep. Use fewer sets for younger kids and the full set for older ones.

You can also use leaf shapes in all sorts of learning activities, like in this fall leaf number tower activity from Fun Learning for Kids. There are leaves with single numbers on them that kids can use to stack cubes on in one-to-one correspondence, as well as ones that show dots like dice so kids can add up the numbers to build their stacks.

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