There’s something magical about Christmas lights.
A simple string of tiny bulbs can transform an ordinary tree, doorway, house, or mantel into something that suddenly feels unmistakably like Christmas. Red, green, blue, gold, white, rainbow-colored—however they’re arranged, those little lights are one of the happiest sights of the holiday season.
These Christmas Light Coloring Pages bring that glow to paper with playful reindeer wrapped in lights, Santa Claus surrounded by colorful bulbs, festive wreaths and garlands, Christmas ornaments, holly, and cheerful holiday messages.
And because these are coloring pages, there’s no need to worry about whether your lights actually match.
Make every bulb a different color.
Create an entire strand of pink Christmas lights.
Give Rudolph rainbow lights around his antlers.
Cover Santa in blue, purple, gold, and green.
Grab your crayons, colored pencils, markers, or gel pens and light up Christmas one colorful bulb at a time. 🎄💡✨
💡 Christmas Lights to Color
Christmas lights are especially fun to color because you can use almost every shade in the box.
Traditional multicolored lights might include:
- Red
- Green
- Yellow
- Blue
- Orange
- Purple
Or choose one color for the entire strand.
Try:
- Warm gold
- Icy blue
- Bright red
- Pink
- White and silver
- Rainbow colors
You can also create a repeating pattern.
Red, green, yellow, blue.
Then repeat it all the way along the string.
By the time you reach the final bulb, your coloring page will be glowing with Christmas color—even if the lights themselves are only on paper.
🌈 Create Rainbow Christmas Lights
If you can’t decide which colors to use, use them all.
Start with red.
Then orange.
Yellow.
Green.
Blue.
Purple.
Repeat the sequence along the strand.
Add pink and turquoise if you want an even brighter display.
Rainbow lights work particularly well on playful Christmas scenes featuring Santa or reindeer because they bring lots of little pops of color to the page.
✨ Make the Lights Look Like They’re Glowing
You can create the illusion of glowing Christmas lights with a very simple coloring trick.
Color the center of each bulb fairly lightly.
Use a slightly darker shade around the outside.
Then add a pale halo around the bulb.
For a yellow light, for example:
Color the bulb yellow.
Add a little orange around the edge.
Then lightly shade pale yellow around the outside of the bulb.
That soft surrounding color can make it look as though the Christmas light is actually shining.
🦌 Reindeer With Christmas Lights on Its Antlers
Reindeer antlers are apparently perfect places for hanging Christmas lights.
A reindeer with strands of festive bulbs draped around its antlers creates a wonderfully playful holiday coloring scene.
Begin with the reindeer itself.
Try natural shades such as:
- Caramel
- Golden brown
- Chestnut
- Chocolate
- Tan
- Cream
Then make the Christmas lights as bright as possible.
Red, yellow, blue, green, pink, and purple bulbs will stand out beautifully against warm brown fur.
🔴 Could It Be Rudolph?
There’s one easy way to turn almost any Christmas reindeer into Rudolph.
Give it a bright red nose.
Use scarlet or cherry red, then leave a tiny white highlight on one side to make the nose appear shiny.
You could even draw a few little sparkle lines around it.
Now Rudolph has two ways to illuminate Christmas Eve:
His famous glowing nose—and an entire string of lights wrapped around his antlers.
That seems like plenty of visibility for Santa’s sleigh.
🎄 Decorate the Reindeer’s Antlers
Christmas lights don’t have to be the only decorations.
Add your own:
- Holly
- Red berries
- Tiny ornaments
- Bells
- Bows
- Garland
- Snowflakes
Perhaps Santa’s reindeer hold an annual antler-decorating competition at the North Pole.
If so, your coloring-page reindeer is clearly planning to win.
🎅 Santa Claus With Christmas Lights
Even Santa can apparently get tangled up in the decorations once in a while.
A Santa Claus surrounded by Christmas lights gives you plenty of classic holiday details to color.
Start with:
- Bright red for Santa’s coat and hat
- White for the fluffy trim and beard
- Black for the boots and belt
- Gold for the belt buckle
Then fill the Christmas bulbs with contrasting colors.
Bright blues, yellows, greens, purples, and pinks can really stand out against Santa’s famous red suit.
😄 Did Santa Get Tangled in the Lights?
Perhaps Santa was trying to help decorate the workshop.
Maybe he was hanging lights on the Christmas tree.
Or perhaps he simply walked through the wrong doorway at the wrong moment.
Children can invent their own explanation for why Santa ended up surrounded by Christmas lights.
Add elves laughing in the background.
Draw a Christmas tree nearby.
Perhaps Rudolph is trying to help untangle him.
A coloring page can easily become the beginning of a funny Christmas story.
🎅 Design Santa’s North Pole Light Display
Imagine how many Christmas lights Santa must have at the North Pole.
There could be lights around:
- Santa’s workshop
- The reindeer stable
- The toy warehouse
- The elves’ houses
- The sleigh garage
- The North Pole Christmas tree
Use blank space around Santa to create your own enormous Christmas light display.
Maybe candy canes act as lampposts.
Perhaps giant glowing stars line the path to Santa’s workshop.
There are no electricity bills in a coloring-page North Pole.
Go wild.
🦌 Christmas Reindeer With Garland & Wreaths
Christmas lights look even more festive when they’re combined with greenery.
A reindeer decorated with garland and a wreath gives you a beautiful mix of natural and bright Christmas colors.
Try deep green for the evergreen branches.
Use several shades:
- Forest green
- Pine
- Emerald
- Sage
Then add bright red berries and colorful lights.
A red bow or golden bells can finish the design.
🌿 Use More Than One Shade of Green
Evergreen garland doesn’t have to be one solid shade.
Begin with medium green.
Add dark forest green where branches overlap.
Use a little blue-green in the shadows.
Add lighter green toward the ends of the needles.
Layering just two or three greens can make the wreath or garland look much fuller.
🔔 Add Golden Christmas Bells
If your reindeer decorations include bells, bring out the gold or yellow pencils.
Use deeper gold or orange around the edges and lighter yellow toward the middle.
Metallic gold pens can look especially pretty here.
Silver works just as well.
Maybe every member of Santa’s reindeer team has a different-colored sleigh bell.
🎀 Color the Christmas Bows
Ribbons and bows provide another opportunity to add strong color.
Try:
- Traditional red
- Burgundy
- Gold
- Silver
- Royal blue
- Pink
- Purple
- Candy-cane stripes
Add a darker shade where the ribbon folds inward.
Keep the center of each loop slightly lighter.
That little bit of shading can make even a simple bow appear more three-dimensional.
🎄 “Merry Christmas” Lights & Decorations
A Christmas coloring page filled with holly, baubles, lights, and a cheerful Merry Christmas message gives you lots of smaller festive details to work on.
You might begin with the words themselves.
Color them:
- Red and green
- Gold
- Rainbow
- Blue and silver
- Pink and mint
Then move outward into the decorations.
Add bright berries, green holly leaves, colorful ornaments, and glowing strings of lights.
✍️ Color the Christmas Lettering
Large holiday lettering doesn’t have to be one flat color.
Try alternating:
Red letter.
Green letter.
Gold letter.
Then repeat.
Or create a gradient.
Start each letter dark at the bottom and lighter at the top.
You can also add tiny patterns inside larger letters:
- Snowflakes
- Stars
- Stripes
- Dots
- Candy-cane lines
A little glitter gel pen around the edges can make the greeting stand out even more.
🔴 Color the Christmas Ornaments
Baubles are another perfect place to experiment.
Try combinations such as:
- Red and gold
- Blue and silver
- Pink and champagne
- Purple and turquoise
- Green and white
Leave a tiny white spot on one side of each ornament to suggest reflected light.
You can even draw tiny patterns inside larger ornaments.
🌿 Add Holly & Berries
Holly brings classic Christmas color to almost any design.
Use dark greens on the leaves and bright red on the berries.
For extra depth, combine several greens instead of one.
Berries can also be shaded with burgundy on one side and bright red on the other.
Add a tiny white highlight and they’ll appear shiny.
🎨 Christmas Light Color Palette Ideas
Christmas lights can fit almost any decorating style.
🎄 Classic Multicolor
Use:
- Red
- Green
- Yellow
- Blue
- Orange
Cheerful and nostalgic.
✨ Warm White Christmas
Try:
- Cream
- Pale yellow
- Champagne
- Gold
- Deep green
Perfect for a softer, elegant look.
❄️ Icy Christmas Lights
Use:
- Pale blue
- Navy
- White
- Silver
- Lavender
Ideal for snowy scenes.
💕 Pastel Christmas Lights
Try:
- Pink
- Mint
- Lavender
- Baby blue
- Peach
Sweet and playful.
🍬 Candy Christmas
Use:
- Red
- Pink
- Mint
- Turquoise
- White
Perfect for whimsical Santa and reindeer pictures.
💎 Jewel-Tone Christmas Lights
Try:
- Emerald
- Ruby
- Sapphire
- Amethyst
- Gold
Rich and dramatic.
🌈 Rainbow Christmas
Use everything.
There’s no such thing as too much color on a Christmas light page.
🌙 Make a Christmas Eve Background
Christmas lights look especially bright against a dark night sky.
Try filling the background with:
- Navy
- Midnight blue
- Deep purple
- Dark teal
Then leave stars and snowflakes white or silver.
Bright Christmas bulbs will stand out dramatically against the darker colors.
Add a moon if there’s room.
You could even draw Santa’s sleigh in the distance.
❄️ Add Falling Snow
Christmas lights and snow are a wonderful combination.
Leave most snowy areas white and lightly add:
- Pale blue
- Lavender
- Soft gray
around the edges.
Draw extra snowflakes in empty spaces.
If Christmas lights appear near the snow, you can even add tiny touches of the bulb colors onto the surrounding snow to suggest reflected light.
A red bulb might create a faint pink glow.
A blue light could leave a little pale blue nearby.
🖍️ Best Supplies for Christmas Light Coloring Pages
Almost any coloring supplies will work.
Crayons are perfect for younger children and larger spaces.
Colored pencils give you more control over small bulbs, wires, holly leaves, and detailed decorations.
Markers create wonderfully bright Christmas lights.
Fine-tip markers are useful when the bulbs are small.
Gel pens can add extra brightness to tiny decorative details.
Metallic pens are ideal for gold and silver ornaments, bells, and lettering.
Glitter pens may be especially appropriate here.
Christmas lights are supposed to sparkle, after all.
🖊️ Try Bright Markers for the Bulbs
Markers are particularly fun for Christmas lights because they create strong, saturated colors.
Color each bulb carefully while leaving a tiny white highlight.
Alternate several bright shades along the wire.
If you’re printing your pages at home, put an extra sheet of paper underneath in case the marker ink bleeds through.
✏️ Use Colored Pencils for Shading
Colored pencils allow you to create softer effects around the lights.
Start lightly.
Add more pressure around the edges.
Layer a second color where you want shadows.
Colored pencils are also particularly useful on:
- Reindeer fur
- Santa’s clothing
- Evergreen branches
- Holly leaves
- Wreaths
✨ Bring Out the Glitter Pens
Christmas light coloring pages are an excellent excuse to add glitter.
Try it on:
- Light bulbs
- Stars
- Snowflakes
- Ornament highlights
- Santa’s hat
- Wreath decorations
You don’t need glitter everywhere.
A few sparkling areas will stand out more than covering the entire page.
👧 Easy Christmas Light Coloring for Kids
Christmas light pages are a simple December activity for children.
Younger kids can focus on coloring each bulb a different shade without worrying too much about complicated details.
Try asking:
What color comes next?
Can you find all the red lights?
Which bulb should be blue?
Can you make a repeating pattern?
It turns a basic coloring page into a simple color and pattern game.
🔴🟢 Create a Repeating Light Pattern
Teach children a simple pattern.
For example:
Red.
Green.
Red.
Green.
Or:
Red.
Yellow.
Blue.
Red.
Yellow.
Blue.
Continue the pattern along the entire string of lights.
More advanced patterns might include:
Red, red, green, blue.
Or:
Pink, purple, blue, green.
It’s an easy way to add a little puzzle-like element to Christmas coloring.
👨👩👧👦 Make It a Family Christmas Activity
Christmas light coloring works for almost any age.
Put several pictures on the table and gather the coloring supplies.
Children can choose Santa or the reindeer.
Older kids and adults might enjoy the more detailed wreath and ornament designs.
Add:
- Christmas music
- Hot chocolate
- Christmas cookies
Then simply color together.
There’s no complicated craft setup and very little cleanup.
🎉 Create a Christmas Light Coloring Station
If you’re hosting a Christmas party, set up a small coloring area.
Include:
- Christmas light coloring pages
- Crayons
- Colored pencils
- Washable markers
- Gel pens
Children can visit the table whenever they want a quieter activity.
You could even have everyone color one section of a long paper Christmas light strand and display all the finished pieces together.
🏫 Christmas Classroom Activity
Christmas light coloring pages can also work well for December classroom activities.
Children can use them during:
- Quiet time
- Indoor recess
- Holiday activity stations
- Christmas parties
- Early-finisher time
A whole class can color different pages and combine them on a bulletin board.
Add a sign that says:
Our Classroom Is Merry & Bright!
💡 Design Your Own Christmas Light Strand
Once the printed page is finished, draw your own strand.
Begin with a long looping wire.
Then add bulb shapes along it.
Make the bulbs:
- Round
- Teardrop-shaped
- Star-shaped
- Traditional Christmas bulb shapes
Color each one differently.
You could even write a letter inside each bulb to spell:
MERRY CHRISTMAS
🏠 Draw a House Covered in Christmas Lights
Turn a simple coloring page into an entire neighborhood scene.
Draw a house in the background and add Christmas lights:
- Along the roof
- Around the windows
- Around the front door
- Across the porch
- Around trees and bushes
Add a wreath to the door and snow on the roof.
Perhaps your house has the biggest Christmas light display in town.
🎄 Decorate a Christmas Tree With Extra Lights
If there’s room, draw a Christmas tree beside Santa or the reindeer.
Add strings of lights around the branches.
Then color them using the same palette as the lights elsewhere on the page.
Add ornaments, garland, and a star.
The result can turn one character coloring page into a complete Christmas scene.
🦌 Make a North Pole Light Display
Imagine Santa’s workshop covered in Christmas lights.
Draw:
- Santa’s workshop
- Reindeer stables
- Elf cottages
- Candy-cane lampposts
- A giant Christmas tree
Then cover everything in lights.
Perhaps the elves have created the most spectacular Christmas display anywhere in the world.
Considering where they live, that seems appropriate.
✂️ Turn Finished Pictures Into Decorations
Finished Christmas light coloring pages can become part of your holiday décor.
You could:
- Hang them on the refrigerator
- Create a Christmas art wall
- Display them in a classroom
- Add them to a holiday scrapbook
- Frame your favorite
- Give them to grandparents
- Decorate a child’s bedroom
Brightly colored Christmas lights look especially cheerful when several finished pages are displayed together.
💌 Make Homemade Christmas Cards
A Christmas light picture can easily become a handmade holiday card.
Attach your finished coloring to folded cardstock and add a message such as:
Merry & Bright!
May Your Christmas Shine!
Merry Christmas!
Wishing You a Bright and Beautiful Christmas!
Light Up the Holidays!
Children can make cards for grandparents, teachers, friends, or neighbors.
🎁 Make Christmas Gift Tags
Small sections of colored Christmas lights can also become gift tags.
Cut out part of your finished design.
Attach it to cardstock.
Punch a small hole.
Thread ribbon through it.
Write the recipient’s name on the back.
A strip of colorful Christmas bulbs can make even simple wrapping paper feel extra festive.
🎀 Make a Paper Christmas Light Garland
You can even create your own coloring-page version of Christmas lights.
Draw or print several large bulb shapes.
Color each one.
Cut them out carefully.
Attach them along a piece of black or green string.
Hang the paper lights:
- Across a mantel
- On a classroom wall
- Along a bookshelf
- Across a window
- In a child’s bedroom
No outlet required.
🌟 Make Every Bulb Different
Challenge yourself to create a strand where no two Christmas lights look alike.
Use different colors.
Add stripes.
Draw dots.
Create snowflake patterns.
Add tiny stars.
Make one bulb rainbow-colored.
Turn another into a peppermint.
Give the next one glitter.
By the time you finish, you’ll have a completely unique strand of Christmas lights.
❤️ Make Your Christmas Merry & Bright
Christmas lights have a wonderful way of making even an ordinary December evening feel special.
They glow in windows.
Twinkle on Christmas trees.
Outline houses.
Wrap around wreaths and garlands.
And, apparently, occasionally get tangled around Santa Claus and the antlers of his reindeer.
These Christmas light coloring pages let you create that same festive feeling with nothing more complicated than a box of colors.
Make the bulbs red and green.
Create a rainbow strand.
Give Rudolph sparkling antlers.
Cover Santa in colorful lights.
Fill wreaths with greenery and glowing decorations.
Then add your own stars, snowflakes, ornaments, and Christmas sparkle.
There’s no untangling required and no burned-out bulb to find.
Just plenty of color and a little Christmas creativity.
So choose your favorite page and make this Christmas merry, bright, and wonderfully colorful. 🎄💡🌈✨
