Few things say Christmas quite like a beautifully decorated Christmas tree.
Twinkling lights, shiny ornaments, colorful garlands, wrapped presents, and a bright star at the very top all come together to create one of the most recognizable scenes of the holiday season.
These Christmas Tree Coloring Pages offer lots of different ways to enjoy that festive tradition on paper. There are cheerful decorated trees for children, simple outlines ready for your own ornaments, trees surrounded by Christmas presents, and intricate patterned designs with enough tiny details to keep older kids and adults happily coloring for quite a while.
Best of all, your Christmas tree can look however you want it to.
Traditional red and green?
Beautiful.
Pink and gold?
Absolutely.
Rainbow ornaments on a turquoise tree?
Why not?
Grab the crayons, colored pencils, or markers and start decorating—without having to untangle a single string of Christmas lights. 🎄✨
🎄 Classic Christmas Trees to Color
A classic decorated Christmas tree is always a wonderful place to begin.
Fill the branches with rich evergreen shades and then add ornaments, garlands, lights, and a star.
Traditional Christmas colors work beautifully:
- Forest green
- Bright red
- Gold
- Silver
- White
But don’t feel limited to them.
Your tree could have blue ornaments and silver ribbons.
Maybe it’s covered with pink decorations.
Perhaps every bauble is a different color.
A coloring page gives you the chance to decorate a tree in a style you might never try in your living room.
⭐ Start With the Star on Top
The star at the top of the Christmas tree is often one of the first details to catch your eye.
Gold and yellow are natural choices, but you can experiment with:
- Silver
- White
- Red
- Blue
- Pink
- Rainbow colors
Metallic pencils and glitter gel pens work especially well for Christmas stars.
You can also add little lines and sparkles around the star to make it look as though it’s glowing.
For a Christmas Eve picture, try adding a dark blue background so the star appears especially bright.
🔴 Fill the Tree With Colorful Ornaments
Ornaments are where a Christmas tree coloring page really comes to life.
Every bauble can have its own color.
Try traditional shades such as:
- Red
- Green
- Gold
- Silver
Then mix in:
- Purple
- Turquoise
- Pink
- Royal blue
- Orange
- Lime green
You could make all the ornaments match for an elegant tree or give every single one a completely different color.
Larger ornaments can even be filled with patterns.
Add:
- Stripes
- Polka dots
- Stars
- Snowflakes
- Hearts
- Zigzags
- Tiny Christmas trees
It’s like designing your own collection of Christmas decorations.
🎁 Christmas Trees Surrounded by Presents
A tree with presents piled underneath immediately brings to mind Christmas morning.
Those gift boxes also give you even more spaces to fill with color.
Try creating your own wrapping paper.
One gift could be red with tiny white snowflakes.
Another might be green with a gold ribbon.
Make the next one pink with purple stars.
Or try a blue box covered in little Christmas trees.
Mix and match:
- Plaid
- Stripes
- Dots
- Stars
- Candy cane patterns
- Snowflakes
- Holly
- Bows
Children can even imagine what’s inside each present while they color.
🎀 Color the Ribbons & Bows
Sometimes the bows on Christmas presents are just as much fun to color as the gifts themselves.
Choose colors that contrast with the wrapping paper.
For example:
Red box + gold ribbon.
Green box + white bow.
Pink box + turquoise ribbon.
Blue box + silver bow.
If the ribbons are large enough, use a darker shade around the folds and a lighter shade in the middle.
Even simple shading can make a bow look more dimensional.
👧 Simple Christmas Tree Coloring Pages for Kids
Simple tree designs are perfect for younger children.
Large branches, big ornaments, bold outlines, and uncomplicated presents give little hands plenty of room to color.
There’s no need for children to use realistic shades.
Let them create:
A purple Christmas tree.
Orange ornaments.
Pink presents.
Rainbow garland.
Blue snow.
If they enjoy the activity, that’s what matters.
Simple Christmas tree pages can be especially useful for:
- Classroom activities
- Christmas parties
- Snow days
- Holiday break
- December quiet time
- Family gatherings
- Christmas Eve
- Visits with grandparents
✏️ Start With a Simple Tree Outline
A plain Christmas tree outline can actually be one of the most creative coloring pages.
Instead of having all the decorations already drawn for you, the simple shape becomes a blank canvas.
Add your own:
- Ornaments
- Garlands
- Christmas lights
- Candy canes
- Stars
- Bells
- Bows
- Snowflakes
You can even draw presents beneath the branches.
Children could turn identical tree outlines into completely different pictures.
One might make a candy-themed tree.
Another could create a rainbow tree.
Someone else might fill every branch with stars.
🍬 Design a Candy Christmas Tree
Why not imagine a Christmas tree decorated entirely with sweets?
Draw or color ornaments to look like:
- Peppermints
- Gumdrops
- Candy canes
- Lollipops
- Wrapped candies
- Gingerbread cookies
Use bright reds, pinks, greens, blues, purples, and yellows.
Add candy cane garland around the branches and perhaps a giant peppermint instead of a star at the top.
This can be especially fun for younger children who enjoy adding their own details.
❄️ Create a Snow-Covered Christmas Tree
A snowy Christmas tree calls for an entirely different color palette.
Begin with deep green branches.
Leave portions white to represent snow, then lightly add:
- Pale blue
- Lavender
- Soft gray
- Silver
around the edges.
Avoid coloring all the snow heavily.
Leaving plenty of white keeps it looking bright and fresh.
Add a few snowflakes around the tree if there’s open space.
Suddenly your decorated Christmas tree is standing in the middle of a winter wonderland.
🌙 Make It Christmas Eve
Want your coloring page to feel completely different?
Turn it into a nighttime scene.
Color the background:
- Navy blue
- Midnight blue
- Deep purple
Then use bright yellow, gold, white, and silver around the Christmas lights and stars.
Warm yellow windows or glowing decorations can stand out beautifully against a dark background.
Add a moon or a few extra stars.
You might even draw Santa’s sleigh traveling across the sky.
🌈 Create a Rainbow Christmas Tree
Sometimes every color deserves a place on the tree.
Start with either traditional green or a neutral tree such as white.
Then work through the colors of the rainbow:
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Purple
Repeat them throughout the ornaments and lights.
Add pink and turquoise if you want even more color.
A rainbow tree is especially fun on pages with lots of small ornaments because you never have to choose the same shade twice.
💕 Try a Pastel Christmas Tree
For something softer, create a pastel Christmas tree.
Try:
- Blush pink
- Mint
- Lavender
- Baby blue
- Peach
- Cream
Use pale green or even pink for the tree itself.
Finish with silver or champagne-colored details.
Pastel colors can give even a traditional Christmas tree picture a completely different personality.
✨ Make an Elegant Christmas Tree
If you prefer a more sophisticated look, choose a limited palette.
For example:
Deep Green + Burgundy + Gold
or
Navy + Silver + White
or
Emerald + Champagne + Cream
or
Black + Gold + Deep Green
Repeat those colors throughout the ornaments, garlands, presents, and star.
A limited color palette can make even an intricate coloring page feel beautifully coordinated.
🌀 Detailed & Zentangle-Style Christmas Trees
Some Christmas tree coloring pages are filled with far more than ordinary branches and baubles.
Intricate patterns, spirals, flowers, dots, geometric shapes, and repeating designs can cover the entire tree.
These pages are especially enjoyable for older kids, teens, and adults.
Don’t feel as though you need to finish everything in one sitting.
Start with one section.
Color one pattern.
Move on to the next.
A detailed Christmas tree can become a project you return to over several December evenings.
🎨 Choosing Colors for Detailed Designs
An intricate tree can feel a little overwhelming when you first look at all those tiny spaces.
One easy approach is to choose four or five colors before beginning.
For example:
Red + Green + Gold + Cream
or
Blue + Silver + Lavender + White
or
Pink + Mint + Turquoise + Purple
Repeat those colors throughout the page.
This keeps you from having to make a new decision every few seconds and helps the finished picture feel connected.
Another option?
Use every pencil in the box.
There’s no rule saying a detailed Christmas tree has to coordinate.
🖍️ Best Supplies for Christmas Tree Coloring Pages
Almost any coloring supplies can work.
Crayons are great for young children and larger tree designs.
Colored pencils are especially useful for branches, ornaments, patterns, and detailed areas.
Markers create bold, bright Christmas colors.
Fine-tip markers help with tiny sections in intricate designs.
Gel pens are excellent for stars, lights, and small decorative details.
Metallic pencils or pens are wonderful for gold and silver ornaments.
Glitter pens can add Christmas sparkle to stars, garlands, snowflakes, and baubles.
You can also combine different materials on the same page.
🌲 Use More Than One Shade of Green
A tree doesn’t have to be filled with a single green pencil.
Try combining several shades.
Use:
- Forest green
- Pine green
- Emerald
- Olive
- Sage
- Blue-green
Place darker greens where branches overlap and lighter greens near the outer tips.
Even using two or three shades instead of one can give the tree more depth.
💡 Color the Christmas Lights
Christmas lights are tiny details that can completely brighten the page.
Make them:
- Red
- Yellow
- Blue
- Green
- Pink
- Purple
- Orange
Alternate the colors as they travel around the branches.
For a glowing effect, leave a small white center inside each bulb or lightly shade yellow around it.
Children can also draw additional lights if the tree looks like it needs even more sparkle.
Can a Christmas tree have too many lights?
On a coloring page, definitely not.
🎀 Color the Garland
Garland creates sweeping lines through the branches and helps tie the whole tree together.
Traditional garland might be:
- Gold
- Silver
- Red
- Green
But you can make it much more playful.
Try rainbow garland, peppermint stripes, or a string of colorful beads.
Metallic pens are particularly nice for garlands because they can stand out against darker green branches.
⭐ Draw Your Own Ornaments
If the tree has open spaces, add decorations of your own.
Try drawing:
- Bells
- Stars
- Snowmen
- Gingerbread men
- Candy canes
- Angels
- Hearts
- Tiny presents
- Snowflakes
- Little animals
You could even give your tree a theme.
Perhaps every ornament is a snowflake.
Maybe it’s an animal Christmas tree.
Or a gingerbread tree.
Or a tree decorated entirely with stars.
🧸 What Would Be Under Your Dream Christmas Tree?
Once the tree is decorated, think about the presents beneath it.
What would you put there?
Children can draw their imaginary Christmas wishes among the gift boxes.
Maybe there’s:
- A bicycle
- A stuffed animal
- A doll
- Building blocks
- Books
- Art supplies
- A toy train
- A puppy
Or perhaps the best present is simply one enormous mystery box with a giant bow.
🎄 Create Your Dream Christmas Tree
Pretend you can decorate any Christmas tree in the world.
What would it look like?
Would it be ten feet tall?
Covered entirely in lights?
Filled with handmade ornaments?
Pink?
White?
Rainbow-colored?
Would there be a giant star on top or something completely unexpected?
Use your coloring page to experiment.
There’s no decorating budget and no ornaments that can break.
You can change the entire style simply by reaching for another crayon.
👨👩👧👦 Make Christmas Tree Coloring a Family Activity
Christmas tree coloring works especially well as a family activity because everyone can choose a page that matches their age and interests.
Younger children might prefer a simple tree with large ornaments.
Older children can choose pages with more detailed decorations.
Adults may enjoy an intricate patterned or zentangle-style design.
Set everything out on the table with coloring supplies and Christmas music.
Add hot chocolate and a few cookies if you like.
Then simply color together.
☕ Have a Cozy Christmas Coloring Night
December evenings seem made for quiet Christmas activities.
Gather:
- Christmas tree coloring pages
- Colored pencils
- Crayons
- Markers
- Gel pens
- Christmas music
- Hot chocolate
- A few holiday treats
Turn down the lights and let the real Christmas tree glow nearby while you color paper versions of your own.
You don’t need to finish anything.
Color for ten minutes or two hours.
The whole idea is to enjoy a little Christmas creativity.
🎬 Color During a Christmas Movie
If you’ve seen your favorite Christmas movie enough times to know every scene, coloring can be the perfect companion activity.
Choose a page that doesn’t require too much concentration and work on it while the movie plays.
Add a blanket, snacks, and something warm to drink.
It’s a wonderfully easy Christmas night at home.
✂️ Turn Finished Trees Into Decorations
Once you’ve finished coloring, use the artwork as part of your Christmas décor.
You could:
- Hang it on the refrigerator
- Create a Christmas art wall
- Display it in a classroom
- Add it to a holiday scrapbook
- Frame your favorite picture
- Give it to grandparents
- Decorate a child’s bedroom
- Attach it to a Christmas bulletin board
If everyone in the family colors one tree, display them together as your own little Christmas tree forest.
🎁 Make Homemade Gift Tags
Smaller Christmas tree designs can become gift tags.
Color the tree.
Cut it out carefully.
Attach it to cardstock.
Punch a small hole and thread ribbon through it.
Write the recipient’s name on the back.
A handmade tag adds a personal touch even to a simply wrapped present.
💌 Turn Christmas Trees Into Cards
A colored Christmas tree is practically ready-made for a homemade Christmas card.
Attach the finished tree to folded cardstock and add a greeting.
Try:
Merry Christmas!
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!
Wishing You a Merry & Bright Christmas!
Season’s Greetings
Joy to the World
Children can create cards for grandparents, teachers, friends, neighbors, or relatives.
🎀 Make a Paper Christmas Tree Garland
If you have several finished tree pictures, cut them out and turn them into a garland.
Attach the trees along a ribbon or piece of string.
Hang them:
- Across the mantel
- Along a bookshelf
- On a classroom wall
- Across a window
- In a child’s bedroom
Let several people contribute trees and you’ll end up with a wonderfully colorful collection.
🖼️ Frame Your Favorite Design
Detailed Christmas tree pages can look surprisingly beautiful once they’re finished.
Choose colors that coordinate with your holiday décor, then place your favorite finished tree in a simple frame.
A green, red, and gold tree looks wonderfully traditional.
Blue and silver creates a wintry feel.
Pink, mint, and champagne produce something more playful.
Display it each December as a piece of handmade Christmas artwork.
🏠 Build a Christmas Scene Around the Tree
The tree doesn’t have to stand by itself.
Use blank areas around the picture to create an entire Christmas room.
Draw:
- A fireplace
- Stockings
- Presents
- Windows
- Snow outside
- A rug
- A comfortable chair
- A sleeping dog
- Santa sneaking into the room
Or place your tree outside in a snowy Christmas village.
A little imagination can transform a simple coloring page into a complete holiday scene.
✨ Add Your Own Christmas Magic
Finished coloring pages don’t need to match the picture you imagined when you started.
Maybe you reached for pink when you planned to use red.
Perhaps the silver ornaments became purple.
Maybe your green tree slowly turned into a rainbow tree.
That’s part of the fun.
A coloring page gives you the framework.
Everything else is up to you.
❤️ Decorate a Christmas Tree Any Way You Like
One of the best parts of Christmas is watching the tree slowly come together.
First the branches.
Then the lights.
Then the ornaments.
Finally the star.
Christmas tree coloring pages capture a little of that same feeling without needing boxes of decorations or a ladder.
Color a classic green tree.
Create a sparkling winter tree.
Design a pastel Christmas tree.
Fill every branch with rainbow ornaments.
Pile presents underneath and add as many lights as you can fit.
There is no correct way to decorate your paper Christmas tree.
So pick your favorite page, gather your brightest colors, and start creating a little Christmas magic one ornament at a time. 🎄⭐🎁✨
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