Eight drawings picked out of the full library and nothing else: a snowman, a penguin, a gingerbread man, a robin, an elf face, a Santa face, a cat and a dog. Every one is the simple version of its subject, so the shapes are large, the gaps are wide and there is nothing fiddly to stay inside.
Cute is a face, not a drawing style
Seven of the eight are a face, drawn big and set high on the page with open paper all round it: the snowman, the penguin, the gingerbread man, the elf, Santa, the cat and the dog all look straight out at you. The robin is the exception and is drawn in profile, with one eye and a beak.
What all eight do share is the shape count. Each one is built from a handful of large rounded areas with wide gaps between them, and nothing on any of the sheets is narrow enough to be a problem for a small hand. That is also why the Picture list is eight entries long and not forty.
The cat and the dog
Two of the eight are drawn specifically as pets rather than as Christmas characters. The cat is a sitting shape with a bauble beside it. The dog is a sitting shape in a wide woolly scarf, with the ears and the muzzle reduced to a handful of curves.
Both have their own pages with the more detailed versions on them, a cat in a Santa hat and a dog with a puppy, if the simple ones turn out to be too plain for the child you are printing for.
Printing them for a young child
The sheet opens on Standard. For anyone under about five, move the Line weight control along to Chunky before you print. Every drawing here is already built from large shapes, and the thickest outline widens the gaps further, which is what lets a crayon held in a fist produce something recognisable.
Plain 80gsm copier paper is fine for crayons and pencils. Move up to 100gsm or 120gsm if felt tips are involved, because the open areas on these drawings are exactly where marker ink soaks through to the table.
Questions
- Which pictures are on the cute colouring list?
- Eight: a simple snowman, a penguin, a plain gingerbread man, a robin, an elf face, a Santa face, a cat and a dog. Each one is the large shape version of its subject rather than the detailed drawing.
- Are the cute Christmas colouring pages free?
- Yes. All eight print and download free, with no account to create and no watermark across the artwork. You can run off as many copies as a family or a class needs.
- What age are these sheets for?
- Roughly two to six. The shapes are large and the enclosed areas are wide, which suits a hand that cannot yet follow a line closely. Older children usually want the detailed versions on the subject pages instead.
- Can I get more detailed versions of the same subjects?
- For six of the eight, yes. The cat, dog, penguin, gingerbread man, elf and Santa each have a subject page carrying their standard and detailed drawings. The snowman and the robin appear only in the mixed audience sets.