Here are 16 free Santa coloring pages to print at home or in class. Six show Santa himself, three show Mrs. Claus, the elves and the reindeer, and seven are North Pole and Christmas scenes. Tap Print to put one picture on a full sheet of Letter or A4 paper, or Download to save it.
Updated by the Frugal Santa elves
Every picture is a black-line drawing made for this page. Print sends just that picture to one full sheet, with a line at the bottom for the artist's name. Download saves the PNG file, 1728 by 2368 pixels, to print later or color in a drawing app.
Six Santa Claus coloring pages: Santa waving hello, flying his sleigh, climbing out of a chimney, taking a cookie break, painting toys, and one big jolly face.
Santa's helpers at home. Read more about Mrs. Claus and Santa's reindeer while the crayons come out.
Free printable Christmas coloring pages with no Santa in them: a tree, snowmen, a gingerbread house, stockings, the village, a penguin and a wreath.
Free for home and classroom use. Print as many copies as you like for your family, your class, a scout troop or a party. Please don't resell these pages or post them as your own. The drawings were made for Frugal Santa in 2026.
Start with Santa's face, Santa waving, the reindeer friends, the snowman family and the candy cane wreath. Each one has big shapes, plenty of open space and only a few small parts, so a crayon held in a fist still lands mostly inside the lines. Santa's face is the simplest of all: one hat, one beard, two eyes and a lot of room to scribble. The detailed pages suit older kids and grown-ups. The workshop has a toy train, blocks and a rocking horse, the chimney page has rows of bricks and roof tiles, and the penguin's hat and scarf are covered in tiny patterns. The CDC's milestone checklists give a feel for what small hands can do: most children draw a circle when shown how by age 3, hold a crayon between fingers and thumb by age 4, and write some letters of their name by age 5. Every card in the gallery above is marked Easy, Medium or Detailed.
| Level | Pages | Try it with |
|---|---|---|
| Easy | Santa waving, Santa's face, Reindeer friends, Snowman family, Candy cane wreath | Toddlers and preschoolers, chunky crayons |
| Medium | Santa's sleigh, Christmas tree, Gingerbread house, Stockings by the fire, North Pole village | Kindergarten and up, crayons or colored pencils |
| Detailed | Santa in the chimney, Santa's cookie break, Santa's workshop, Mrs. Claus baking, Elves with a big present, Penguin with presents | Older kids and grown-ups, sharp colored pencils or fine markers |
Tap Print under the picture you want. Your browser's print window opens with just that drawing, sized to fill one portrait sheet of US Letter (8.5 by 11 inches) or A4 paper, with a thin margin all round and a "Colored by" line at the bottom for the artist's name. Pick your printer and press Print. You can choose black and white or grayscale in the settings, because the drawings are black lines only and need no color ink. Each picture is 1728 by 2368 pixels, which comes to more than 250 pixels per inch on the sheet, so the lines print crisp rather than fuzzy. The Print all button at the top of each group sends every picture in that group at once, one per sheet. To keep a copy for later, choose Save as PDF as the printer in Chrome or on a Mac, or tap Download to save the PNG file itself.
Plain printer paper is fine for crayons and colored pencils, and cardstock is better for markers and paint. Most home printer paper is 20 lb bond, about 75 grams per square meter. Wax crayons sit on top of it and pencils barely dent it, so one pack of everyday copy paper covers a whole class party. Marker ink soaks into thin paper, and big areas like Santa's suit or the full moon over his sleigh can show through on the back or mark the table. Slip a scrap sheet underneath, or print on 65 lb cover cardstock, which is about 176 grams per square meter and much stiffer. Watercolor and poster paint wrinkle thin paper as it dries, so use the heaviest sheet your printer says it can take. Check the supported paper weights in its manual, set the paper type to cardstock or the heaviest option, and feed one sheet at a time so it doesn't jam.
| Coloring with | Print on | Tip |
|---|---|---|
| Crayons | Printer paper | Color lightly first, then go over it again for a deeper color. |
| Colored pencils | Printer paper | Keep a sharp point for the Detailed pages and their small spaces. |
| Washable markers | Cardstock | Put a scrap sheet underneath and color big areas in short strokes. |
| Watercolor or paint | The heaviest paper your printer takes | Use a damp brush, not a wet one, and let it dry flat under a book. |
| Glitter glue and stickers | Cardstock | Leave it flat overnight before it goes on the fridge. |
Red with white fur trim is the classic look, but on a coloring page there is no wrong answer. Early pictures of Santa show him in all sorts of colors, red among them, long before the famous soda ads. An 1868 candy advertisement already dressed him in a red jacket, and he wore red and white on several covers of Puck magazine in the first years of the 1900s. In 1931 the artist Haddon Sundblom painted his first Santa for Coca-Cola's Christmas ads, and he kept painting him until 1964. Those paintings helped fix the red suit, black belt and snowy beard as the picture most people know, though Coca-Cola's own history says Santa already wore red before Sundblom. For the classic look, use the colors below. Then let kids try a purple suit, a striped beard or rainbow mittens. Santa won't mind.
Set up a coloring station: one stack of pictures, one mug of crayons and a pencil for names. Print all six Santa pages for a table of six, so each child starts on a different picture, then swap halfway through. The Easy pages work for preschool and kindergarten, and the Detailed ones keep older grades busy through a class party or an indoor recess. Afterward, hang the finished pages in the hallway as a Santa gallery, grouped by picture, so kids can see how differently the same Santa turned out. For a writing tie-in, ask older kids to add two or three sentences under the name line: who is in the picture, what they are doing, and why they chose those colors. If some families in the class don't celebrate Christmas, the snowman family and the penguin with presents are winter pictures with no Santa in them, and every sheet works for a quiet-time basket.
Coloring is a good way to fill the minutes before a live video call with Santa. Pick a picture, color it, and keep it close. When the call starts, kids can tell Santa what they colored and why his suit came out green this year, then ask for the gift they're wishing for. Santa listens and answers out loud, live, on a phone, tablet or computer, with no app to install. A grown-up starts the call and sits in. After the call, the wishes come back as a list with store prices, lowest first. New to it? Read how to call Santa before you start.
Yes. There is no sign-up, no email and no watermark. Print or download as many as you like for home or classroom use.
Tap Print, then choose Save as PDF as the printer in Chrome or on a Mac. Print all saves a whole group as one PDF, one picture per page. Download gives you the PNG file.
Yes. Print sizes each picture to fit a portrait sheet of either US Letter or A4, with a small margin all round.
Yes. Download the PNG, open it in a drawing or photo app, and color over the lines with a brush or a fill tool.
Please don't. The pages are free for home and classroom use only. Share a link to this page instead, so others can print their own.
Live videoA live video call with Santa for kids and grown-ups. Tell him your wishes, then see each one priced across stores, lowest first. $1 a minute.
Call Santa
How to draw SantaAn easy Santa face in 10 steps, plus a full-body Santa in 8.
Letter to SantaFill in a letter on festive paper, print it and mail it north.
Santa's reindeerAll nine names in order, what they mean, and which one you are.
Christmas countdownDays, weeks and sleeps until Christmas, live in your time zone.