Free Printable Christmas Cards to Color

These free printable Christmas cards are a fun activity for kids of all ages! Your child or students will love sharing their own Christmas cards with friends and family members.

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These cards also make great kindness gifts for local nursing homes and hospitals. No matter how you decide to use your free Christmas card to color, I hope you enjoy.

Making coloring Christmas cards is a fun way for your entire family (or classroom) to get in the Christmas spirit. Each person can add his or her own personal touch to the cards.

You may be surprised by how different the same design colored by two different people can turn out! Your kids will love giving their own unique cards to a loved one or friend.

This post includes eight free printable cards in two different styles. Each of the color-in holiday cards is available both in a postcard style and in a fold-over style.

A top down photo of two pages of printable Christmas cards to color.

In addition to being fun, coloring also provides stress relief and fine motor skills practice. They also make a great last-minute card if you need something in a hurry! A handmade card is so much more special than a store-bought card.

The inside of the card is blank, so that you can add your own Christmas message. The single-fold design cards are a perfect fit for a standard 4x6 card envelop, once the card is trimmed down.

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How to use printable Christmas card templates

These printable Christmas coloring cards are designed for US letter sized paper.

For best results, print your cards on card stock or a heavy weight, premium paper. My favorite paper is 32# HP premium printer paper. It isn't as thick as card stock, but it is ultra bright and has a smooth finish that's beautiful and fun to color on.

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Regular copy paper is more yellow, thinner, and rougher than the options given above, but it works if it's all you have access to.

Make sure your printer settings show "print to scale: 100%" or a similar language that indicates the image is being print at full size if you want have cards that fit in a 4x6 envelope.

You will also need a paper cutter/trimmer or scissors. A paper trimmer is more accurate and faster, but scissors will work.

I personally use and love my Fiskar's paper trimmer. It has a guide wire to show exactly where your cut will be. I've had mine for almost a decade and it's still going strong!

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12" personal paper trimmer, bend-resistant rails and aluminum alignment grid.
Sleek, space-saving design features durable rails that won't bend or bow, so you get a straight, true cut every time.
Compact 12" trimmer is ideal for home office or craft projects.

And, of course, you'll need your favorite art supplies! Don't limit yourself to pencils and crayons - feel free to use different mediums like acrylic or poster paints, glue, litter, and other embellishments.

We primarily used our Tanmit gel pens and these multicolored pencils to color our own Christmas cards.

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A close up photo of a printable Christmas card with a dinosaur and two gel pens

Collection of printable Christmas cards previews

Your set of printable Christmas coloring pages cards includes eight different designs to different ways so you can create your perfect Christmas card.

There is one design without any text. Other cards have various holiday messages such as:

Let it snow
Hope your Christmas is dino-mite
Hope your Christmas is magical
Happy Hoidays
Merry Christmas
Santa Paws is coming to town

As noted above, each design is available as a postcard style and a fold-over card style. All pages are included in the same PDF file. I'm including images of only the postcard style cards so that you have less to scroll past.

A preview of four Christmas cards to color. One has gingerbread men, another has a dinosaur, another has children building a snowman, and a Christmas unicorn

A preview of four Christmas cards to color. One reads happy holidays, another Merry Christmas, a third Santa Paws is coming to town, and the final one says ho! ho! ho!

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