What could be more exciting at Christmastime than a beautiful pile of presents waiting to be opened? This Christmas Gift Boxes Coloring Page turns that holiday excitement into a fun creative activity, inviting kids and adults to decorate festive presents with their favorite colors and patterns. The printable is designed around Christmas gift boxes and encourages plenty of creative coloring.
From classic red-and-green packages to rainbow presents covered in stars and stripes, every gift can look completely different. Grab the crayons, markers, or colored pencils and create a colorful pile of Christmas surprises!
🎁 A Pile of Christmas Surprises
Wrapped presents are one of the most recognizable sights of the Christmas season.
There is always a little mystery surrounding a beautifully wrapped package.
What could be inside?
A toy?
A new book?
Something handmade?
A surprise from Santa?
That makes gift boxes especially fun to color because children can imagine not only how each present should look but also what might be hiding underneath the wrapping paper.
Before coloring, kids could even decide who each present belongs to.
Maybe one is for Mom, another is for Dad, and the biggest box came straight from Santa’s workshop!
🎨 Choose Your Christmas Colors
Classic Christmas colors are an easy place to begin.
Try combinations such as:
- Red and green
- Red and gold
- Green and silver
- White and gold
- Burgundy and forest green
- Red, green, and white
But Christmas presents certainly don’t have to follow traditional colors.
For a brighter pile of gifts, try:
- Pink and turquoise
- Purple and silver
- Mint and coral
- Blue and gold
- Rainbow colors
- Pastel pink, blue, yellow, and lavender
One of the most enjoyable approaches is to make every gift completely different.
🎀 Make the Bows Stand Out
Ribbons and bows can become the stars of a Christmas present.
Instead of coloring the bow the same shade as the wrapping paper, choose a contrasting color.
A red present could have a shimmering gold bow.
A green present could have a bright red ribbon.
A pale blue present might look beautiful with silver.
A pink box could have a candy-cane-striped bow.
Children can also shade the folds of the ribbons slightly darker to make the bows look more dimensional.
Metallic pencils and glitter pens are perfect for adding a little Christmas sparkle.
⭐ Design Your Own Wrapping Paper
The open spaces on gift boxes are perfect for experimenting with patterns.
Kids can add their own designs before coloring.
Try drawing:
- Candy canes
- Snowflakes
- Christmas trees
- Stars
- Polka dots
- Stripes
- Hearts
- Gingerbread people
- Tiny ornaments
- Holly leaves
- Bells
- Little reindeer
- Peppermints
Older children might enjoy making each package look like a completely different style of wrapping paper.
One could have tiny Christmas trees, another could have diagonal candy-cane stripes, and another could be covered with colorful stars.
🌈 Try a Different Theme for Every Present
Instead of choosing colors randomly, give each Christmas gift its own theme.
Candy Cane Gift
Use alternating red and white stripes with a green bow.
Winter Wonderland Gift
Try icy blue, white, silver, and lavender.
Santa Gift
Use bright red wrapping with a black, white, and gold ribbon inspired by Santa’s suit.
Christmas Tree Gift
Combine several shades of green with red and gold decorations.
Gingerbread Gift
Use warm brown, white, red, and green.
Rainbow Christmas Gift
Use as many bright colors as possible!
This is an easy way to make every package unique while encouraging kids to experiment with color combinations.
✨ Add Some Christmas Sparkle
Christmas is the perfect excuse for a little extra sparkle.
Once the main coloring is finished, children can add highlights using:
- Glitter pens
- Metallic markers
- Gold pencils
- Silver pencils
- Stickers
- Sequins
- Small adhesive gems
Gold and silver look particularly pretty on ribbons, bows, stars, and decorative details.
If using loose glitter with younger children, a glitter glue pen can be much easier—and considerably less messy!
🖍️ Coloring Supplies to Try
You don’t need special art supplies for this Christmas activity.
Try using:
- Crayons
- Colored pencils
- Washable markers
- Gel pens
- Glitter pens
- Metallic pencils
- Watercolor pencils
Crayons are excellent for younger children, while colored pencils make it easier to add shading and small details.
Markers create bold, cheerful colors that work especially well for Christmas wrapping paper.
If using markers, placing a spare sheet of paper underneath the coloring page can help protect the table.
🎄 A Fun Christmas Activity for Kids
The original Christmas Gift Boxes Coloring Page is intended as a festive printable activity and can also become a personalized holiday decoration once completed.
It can be an easy activity for:
- Christmas break
- Snow days
- Classroom holiday parties
- Homeschool art time
- December playdates
- Family gatherings
- Christmas movie afternoons
- Holiday craft tables
- Christmas Eve
- Quiet time during busy December days
Print a few different pages, put a container of coloring supplies in the middle of the table, and create a simple Christmas coloring station.
For more festive designs, explore the Christmas Coloring Pages collection.
🎅 Imagine What Is Inside the Presents
Here’s an easy way to turn coloring time into a storytelling game.
Ask children to imagine what is inside every gift box.
Then give them fun questions such as:
Who is the present for?
Who wrapped it?
Did Santa bring it?
What is hiding inside?
Which present would you open first?
Which package contains the biggest surprise?
Children might decide there is a teddy bear in one package, a train in another, and perhaps even a mischievous Christmas puppy hiding in the biggest box.
Older children can write their answers or create a short Christmas story about the presents.
✂️ Turn the Finished Page Into a Christmas Decoration
The fun doesn’t have to end when the coloring is finished.
The page itself can become part of your Christmas decorations, just as the original printable suggests.
Try:
- Hanging it on the refrigerator
- Adding it to a Christmas art wall
- Displaying it in a child’s bedroom
- Giving it to grandparents
- Adding it to a December scrapbook
- Displaying it in a classroom
- Framing a favorite finished picture
- Using it as part of a homemade Christmas gallery
If several children color the same picture differently, display them together. It can be fun to see how many completely different designs come from one coloring page.
🏷️ Make Your Own Gift-Design Challenge
For another activity, turn the coloring page into a wrapping-paper design contest.
Give everyone a different challenge.
For example:
Design the fanciest present.
Design a present for Santa.
Create a present using only three colors.
Design the silliest wrapping paper.
Create a winter wonderland gift.
Make the brightest present possible.
There doesn’t need to be a winner—the fun is seeing how differently everyone interprets the same idea.
❤️ Fill Christmas With Color
A pile of Christmas presents already feels full of possibilities, and a coloring page makes those possibilities even bigger.
Will your gifts be wrapped in traditional red and green?
Covered in sparkling snowflakes?
Decorated with candy canes and gingerbread people?
Or transformed into a rainbow pile of presents unlike anything Santa has ever delivered?
There is no wrong answer.
Choose your favorite colors, add a few imaginative patterns, decorate those bows, and create a pile of Christmas gifts that looks ready for the most colorful Christmas morning ever. 🎁🎄✨
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