Free Christmas Ornaments Coloring Pages: 112 printable PDF designs featuring baubles, snow globe scenes, wreaths, and ornament-themed characters. Each page can be downloaded as a PDF to print or colored online in the browser.
The modern glass ornament began in the German town of Lauscha, where glassblowers led by Hans Greiner started hand-shaping and painting glass baubles in the mid-1800s, replacing the fruit and nuts earlier German trees had used. The look spread to Britain after an 1840s newspaper illustration of Queen Victoria’s decorated tree, and it reached the United States in the 1880s through the retailer F. W. Woolworth. This collection colors that same round, painted-glass tradition, from the plainest bauble to the most detailed patterned design.
This set works well across a wide age range in one household: the plain bauble pages suit a child just starting to color a round shape, while the mandala and snow globe pages give an older child, a teen, or an adult more detail to work through. It is also a natural way to talk about why certain ornaments get kept and reused each year instead of thrown away.
What Is Inside This Collection
The 112 pages fall into a few clear groups, built around the ornament’s shape, its interior pattern, and the scenes or characters around it.
Classic Bauble and Ball Designs
The largest share of the collection is single, oversized ornament outlines, plain round or oval baubles shown alone or hanging from a branch. Color these in a traditional Red, Green, or Gold, since a flat, single-color fill is what reads most clearly on a shape with almost no interior line work.
Patterned and Decorative Ornaments
A second group takes the same round outline and fills it with a symmetrical pattern: swirls, stars, a crescent moon, or a dense mandala built from repeating shapes. Alternate two or three contrasting colors section by section rather than filling the whole page with one color, since the pattern only reads clearly when neighboring sections stand apart.
Snow Globe Scenes
Several pages reshape the ornament into a snow globe, with a small scene, caroling children, a reindeer, an ice castle, sealed inside a rounded glass dome, and hung from a pine branch. Color the globe’s interior in cool Blue and Gray tones and leave the outer ornament frame in a warmer Red or Gold, so the two halves read as separate spaces.
Ornament Characters and Activities
A smaller set of pages puts a character to work around the ornaments themselves: an elf opening a door built into an oversized ornament, two elves blowing and painting glass baubles, a gnome collecting ornaments into a basket, and a snowman baking gingerbread inside a cozy scene. Color these figures in classic Christmas Red and Green with a warm skin tone, keeping white reserved for beards and fur trim.
Wreaths and Holiday Extras
The remaining pages step outside the single-ornament format to cover a Christmas ornament wreath, a full ornament-covered tree, and small holiday extras like holly leaves with berries and a lantern paired with holly. Color the greenery a deep Forest Green with Red berries and a touch of Gold, the same palette that keeps a real wreath looking traditional.
What Christmas Ornament Coloring Pages Do
Circle control, not just color control. Most coloring pages ask for straight edges and gentle curves. Still, an ornament page is almost entirely one continuous circle or oval, sometimes nested inside a second circle in the snow globe designs. The American Academy of Pediatrics points to structured coloring like this as a useful way to build fine motor control in children ages 2 through 7, and a shape built almost entirely from curves gives that skill a distinctly different kind of practice than tracing a house or an animal.
A rehearsal for the real tree. Deciding which bauble gets which color, or sorting a page of ornaments by pattern, mirrors the exact choice a child makes later while actually hanging ornaments on a family tree. Few coloring subjects connect this directly to a task the colorer will carry out with their own hands within the same season.
Repetition, calm, and a measurable effect. A 2005 study in the Art Therapy Journal recorded lower anxiety in people coloring within a set outline compared with those drawing freehand. The mandala-style and snow-globe pages here, built from small repeating sections or one contained circular scene, suit that same slow, structured motion, which matters more than usual during a Christmas week already full of travel, guests, and a packed schedule.
A tradition built on keeping things, not discarding them. Real ornaments are rarely bought fresh each year; most households keep a mixed collection of store-bought and homemade pieces that get added to and passed down over time. The craft ideas in this collection, a keepsake memory page, a dated gift tag, turn a colored page into that same kind of object, something meant to be kept rather than colored once and set aside.
How to Color Christmas Ornament Pages Well
- Classic red baubles: Color the base a Red or Scarlet, then leave a small unfilled highlight near the top edge for glass shine, with a touch of Mahogany along the lower curve for shadow.
- Green ornaments and holly: Layer Forest Green as the main fill with Pine Green in the folds or shaded sections, and keep any holly berries in Scarlet rather than green so they read as a separate detail.
- Gold and metallic caps or trim: Crayon and marker sets do not have true metallic shine, so approximate it with Goldenrod as the base and a lighter Yellow Orange streak along one edge instead of an even, flat fill.
- Snow globe interiors: Fill the background of the globe with a light Sky Blue wash and leave small unfilled patches of white paper for snow, reserving Gray only for shadowed drifts at the base of the scene.
- Gnomes and elves: Keep hats and coats in Scarlet or Pine Green, skin in a warm Apricot, and save white exclusively for beards and fur trim so the figure does not blend into the ornament color around it.
- Mandala and swirl patterns: Alternate two or three colors, such as Blue Violet, Red Violet, and Turquoise Blue, section by section around the design, since the pattern reads clearly only when neighboring sections contrast.
5 Creative Craft Ideas With Christmas Ornament Coloring Pages
- Ornament Garland. Materials: several colored plain bauble pages, scissors, and a length of twine or ribbon. Cut around each colored bauble, then string them along the twine spaced a few inches apart to hang across a mantel or window.
- Gift Tag Ornaments. Materials: a colored bauble or star page, scissors, a hole punch, and ribbon. Cut out the colored shape, punch a hole near the top, and tie it onto a wrapped gift with ribbon in place of a store-bought tag.
- Ornament Standee Display. Materials: a colored ornament page, scissors, glue, and a folded strip of cardstock. Cut out the colored page, glue it to the folded cardstock base, and stand a few finished pieces along a windowsill or table as a small display.
- Ornament Memory Page. Materials: three or four colored ornament designs, scissors, glue, and a sheet of paper. Cut out and glue the colored designs onto the paper, then write the year underneath to build a simple, dated keepsake page to keep with other holiday memorabilia each season.
- Paper Window Collage. Materials: a cluster of colored ornament pages, scissors, and tape. Cut out each colored page and tape it to a window pane in an overlapping group so daylight shows through the paper from behind.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Christmas ornament coloring pages?
Christmas ornaments coloring pages are printable outline drawings of ornament shapes, mainly round baubles, plus snow globes, mandala patterns, and holiday characters. This collection offers 112 free designs as printable PDFs or online coloring pages.
Where does the tradition of Christmas ornaments come from?
The modern glass ornament began in Lauscha, Germany, where glassblowers hand-shaped and painted glass baubles in the mid-1800s. The style reached Britain in the 1840s and the United States in the 1880s through retailer F. W. Woolworth.
What colors are traditionally used for Christmas ornaments?
Red, green, and Gold are the most traditional colors, with silver and white for a cooler, snowier look. Early glass ornaments often relied on a plain metallic-lined interior rather than paint for their shine.
What is a snow globe ornament?
A snow globe ornament is shaped like a miniature snow globe, with a small scene, carolers, a reindeer, and a snowy village enclosed inside a rounded dome. Several pages in this set use that format.
Can these coloring pages be used for more than coloring on paper?
Yes. Most pages show a single ornament shape that can be cut out after coloring and turned into a garland, a gift tag, or a small standee.
What is the difference between a bauble and an ornament?
An ornament is the general term for anything hung on a tree. A bauble specifically means the round or oval glass or plastic ball style, though most people use the two words interchangeably today.
Are Christmas ornament coloring pages suitable for young children?
The plain, oversized bauble pages suit children as young as three. The snow globe and mandala pages have finer detail and suit older kids, teens, and adults.
What age group are the mandala and snow globe pages best for?
These pages include smaller background details, patterned sections, and nested shapes, so they suit children ages 8 and up, along with teens and adults who prefer a slower, more detailed page.
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