Christmas Printables: Coloring Pages and Activities

December 20, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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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Sensory Fun and Learning with Ice Cream Inspired Activities

When it’s hot outside it’s fun to do any kinds of activities that involve ice, water or anything cold. Check out my water and ice activities here, and read on for sensory and science experiments using and inspired by ice cream, and maybe grab a sweet treat after you’re finished.

In the Playroom has a bunch of ice cream inspired STEM challenges that would be great for older kids. These include things like designing an ice cream cone holder that will hold cones upright, making the highest stack of “scoops” (using cotton balls) and making a cover that can keep ice cream from melting so quickly. The challenges and printable pages kids can use as they work on their experiments individually or in teams are included in a free download.

This ice cream water table from Happy Toddler Playtime doesn’t use real ice cream, but you could try chilling the shaving cream for the fake ice cream base (though cans of shaving cream should not be frozen). Or just throw some ice cubes in there while you play.

You could also make fluffy ice cream slime (not edible) with this recipe from STEAMsational Family and use that in a sensory tray or table if you like.

Happy Toddler Playtime also has an ice cream cone volcano idea, which is the classic baking soda and vinegar project with an ice cream twist.

Turn building an ice cream cone into a lesson about sharing with this idea from Extremely Good Parenting. Read the book Should I Share My Ice Cream? and then make paper into an ice cream ball you can share with someone else (or just make for fun).

Learn about states of matter and sequencing with a melting Popsicle experiment (you could also do with ice cream) from Mrs. Jones’ Creation Station. This is a good one if you have a sunny spot on the playground or in the yard where kids can observe and time the melting of a frozen treat, ideally while eating their own. There’s also a free printable for kids to record their observations if they didn’t get too sticky.

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