About these winter coloring pages
Winter coloring pages are made for snow days: snowmen with carrot noses, snowflakes with six delicate arms, penguins sliding on ice, polar bears, kids sledding down a hill, mittens and scarves, and mugs of hot cocoa with marshmallows. Our free printable winter pages include a single snowflake or mitten for toddlers, snowy village and ice-skating scenes for school-age kids and detailed snowflake mandalas for teens and adults.
Print them on US Letter or A4 paper, or color them online. Unlike Christmas pages, winter pages fit the whole cold season, from the first frost in December to the last snowfall in March, so they keep a classroom or a living room cheerful long after the holiday decorations come down.
A snow-day activity
When school is closed for snow, kids spend the morning outside and come in with cold cheeks and wet gloves. A stack of winter pages and a warm drink at the table is the perfect second half of the day: color the snowman you just built, or the sledding hill you just raced down.
Winter pages are also a good way to learn about cold places and the animals that live there. Color a polar bear and a penguin side by side, then talk about why they never meet in the wild: polar bears live in the Arctic in the far north, and most penguins live in the far south.
Snowflake pages make an easy art project. Color them in icy blues and silvers, cut them out and tape them to a window, where the light shines through like real frost. On the next snowy day, catch a few real flakes on a dark glove or a piece of black paper and look closely: you will see the same six arms as on the page.
Winter is also the season of short days and long evenings. A calm half hour with a winter page after dinner, with a lamp on and a warm drink, is a gentle way to wind down before bed in the darkest weeks of the year.
Winter pictures to color
These are the pages kids pick most once the weather turns cold.
A snowman page is a good place to start with small children: color the hat, the scarf and the buttons in their favorite colors, and talk about what they would put on a real snowman. Older kids can turn a winter scene into a story. Who lives in the snowy cabin? Where is the sled going? Write two or three lines under the picture and the page becomes a short winter tale to read aloud on a dark evening.
- Snowmen: with hats, scarves, buttons and carrot noses
- Snowflakes: ice crystals with six sides or six arms
- Penguins and polar bears: animals built for the cold
- Winter sports: sledding, ice skating, skiing and snowball fights
- Warm clothes: mittens, hats, boots and cozy sweaters
- Hot cocoa: a steaming mug after playing in the snow
Winter facts to share while you color
- In the Northern Hemisphere, winter begins with the winter solstice around December 21, the shortest day of the year.
- Snowflakes almost always have six sides or six arms, because of the way water molecules join when they freeze.
- A polar bear's fur looks white, but its skin underneath is black, which helps it soak up heat from the sun.
- Emperor penguins huddle together in large groups and take turns standing in the warm middle.
- Some animals, such as hedgehogs and many bats, hibernate through the winter to save energy.
- Fresh snow is mostly trapped air, which is why it keeps small animals warm in burrows underneath it.
- Arctic foxes change color with the seasons: brown or gray in summer, white in winter.
- In the far north, people can sometimes see the northern lights, ribbons of green and pink light in the winter sky.
Which winter page for which age
- Toddlers (2–3)
- One big snowman, a mitten or a simple snowflake with thick lines. Blue and white crayons on colored paper look great.
- Preschool (3–5)
- Snowmen to dress with hats and scarves, penguins, sleds and snowflakes to count.
- Kids (5–10)
- Kids sledding and skating, snowy villages, polar animals and winter forests. They can compare the Arctic and the Antarctic animals on two pages side by side.
- Teens and adults
- Snowflake mandalas, detailed winter landscapes and cozy cabin scenes with fine lines, perfect for a long evening indoors while it snows outside.
Coloring tips and color ideas
- Use a cool winter palette: icy blue, silver, white, navy and a touch of purple.
- Leave snow white and add light blue or gray shadows on one side of each shape.
- Give the snowman a bright scarf and hat so it stands out against the white.
- Color a night sky in dark blue, then use a white gel pen for falling snow and stars.
- Silver and white glitter glue make snowflakes and icicles sparkle.
- Try printing on light blue paper so the white parts of the page look like snow.
Ideas for home, school and parties
- Window snowflakes: color, cut out and tape them to the glass for a frosty look.
- Snow-day kit: keep a folder of winter pages and a box of pencils ready for the next day school is closed.
- Classroom display: a winter wonderland wall with every student's snowman.
- Cozy sign: write "Let it snow" or "Hot cocoa season" with the free quote maker and color it for the kitchen.
- A winter family coloring book: upload photos of the kids in the snow and Coloriki turns them into a coloring book to color on the next cold day.
How to print winter coloring pages
- Open the page you like and press Print it. A PDF opens, sized for US Letter; the A4 PDF is next to it.
- In the print window choose "Fit to page" or 100% scale, and plain white paper. Thicker paper (100 to 120 gsm) is better for markers and paint.
- Print a few copies: kids like to try different colors on the same picture.
- Prefer screens? Press Color it online and color with a tap on a phone, tablet or computer.