Christmas Tree Coloring Pages

Start with a bare tree and make it yours. Each Christmas tree coloring page here is a little different: a plain fir with nothing on it so you can draw the decorations, a tree buried in presents, a family carrying one home from the farm and a towering town-square tree with hundreds of lights. Simple triangle trees suit toddlers, and the heavily decorated ones can keep an adult busy for an evening.

Christmas tree coloring page designs

  • Decorate-your-own trees: bare branches where you add the ornaments, lights and star yourself
  • Simple trees: three stacked triangles and a trunk, about the easiest shape there is
  • Trees with presents: wrapped boxes, a toy train on a track and a cat under the lowest branch
  • Tree farm trips: rows of firs, a sled and a tree tied to the car roof
  • Decorating night: a family hanging ornaments, untangling lights and lifting a child to place the star
  • Outdoor trees: a town-square tree, a snowy tree with birds and a forest of evergreens
  • Detailed trees: every branch drawn, with garlands, candy canes, bows and baubles

A few Christmas tree facts

Christmas trees are evergreens, usually fir, spruce or pine, which keep their needles all winter. Bringing a decorated tree indoors is a custom that grew up in Germany several hundred years ago and spread to Britain and America in the 1800s. Before electric lights, families clipped small candles to the branches. A farm-grown tree usually needs seven years or more to reach living-room height, and growers plant new seedlings to replace the ones they cut. The star or angel on top is a nod to the Christmas story.

What to do with a Christmas tree coloring page

  • Advent tree: print a bare tree on December 1 and draw one ornament on it each day until Christmas.
  • Sticker and glitter tree: color the branches green, then add sticker ornaments, sequins or dots of glitter glue.
  • Fingerprint lights: dip a fingertip in washable paint and press colored lights along the garland lines.
  • Greeting cards: fold a small tree page in half and write your message inside.
  • Classroom forest: have each student decorate one tree, then line them up along the wall.

Frequently asked questions

Are these Christmas tree coloring pages free?

Yes. Every Christmas tree coloring page here is free to print and download for personal and classroom use.

What shade of green is best for a Christmas tree?

Use two. Color the whole tree in a medium green, then go over the lower edge of each branch layer with dark green to add depth. A touch of blue-green makes it look like a spruce.

Is there a Christmas tree with no decorations to color?

Yes. The decorate-your-own pages show a bare tree, so you can draw ornaments, lights, popcorn strings or anything else before coloring.

Do you have ornament pages to go with the tree?

Yes. See Christmas ornament coloring sheets for round, teardrop and star ornaments you can color, cut out and hang.