Seven drawings, picked on one rule: the subject has to have a face. A snowman, a penguin, a polar bear, a seal pup, a snowy owl, a robin and a dog in a scarf, each in its simple version. That rule is also the reason there is no sled and no ice skate anywhere on this page.
Cute is a face, and a sled has not got one
The full winter list runs to twenty-six drawings, and a good half of them are objects: a bobble hat, a sled, a pair of skates, a snow globe, a mug of cocoa, snowflakes. They make decent colouring sheets and not one of them is cute, because cute is something a child reads in a pair of eyes.
What is left is a snowman, five winter animals and a dog, all drawn looking out of the page. Seven entries is short enough that a child can take in the whole list and choose from it, which is the other half of why the page exists at all.
The dog is a visitor
Six of the seven belong to winter. The dog does not, strictly. It is the simple drawing from the Christmas dog page, a sitting shape in a wide woolly scarf with the ears and the muzzle reduced to a few curves, and a scarf is all it takes to make a dog a winter dog. Leaving it out would have left a list of six.
If the simple version turns out to be too plain, the penguin, the polar bear and the dog each have a subject page carrying their standard drawings, which have considerably more in them.
What to change before you print
The sheet opens at the everyday line thickness. For anyone under about five, move the Line weight control along to Chunky first. These drawings are already built from large rounded areas, and the heaviest outline widens the gaps between them further without taking anything out of the picture.
Press Redraw and the small parts are drawn again rather than the whole picture. On the snowman that means a different set of buttons, two to four of them and all the same shape, which is enough to stop two copies of the same sheet looking identical on a table.
Questions
- Which pictures are on the cute winter list?
- Seven: a snowman, a penguin, a polar bear, a seal pup, a snowy owl, a robin and a dog in a scarf. Each is the simple version of its subject rather than the detailed drawing.
- Why is there no sled or snowflake on this page?
- Because the list is built from subjects with faces. The sled, the snow globe and the snowflakes all sit on the main winter colouring page, which carries all twenty-six drawings.
- What age do these suit?
- About two to six. The shapes are large and well separated, which is what a hand that cannot yet follow a line closely needs. Older children usually prefer the standard drawings on the subject pages.
- Are the cute winter colouring pages free?
- Yes. All seven print and download free, with no account and no watermark on the artwork. Print as many copies as a family, a class or a group needs.