Trace & color
Trace Then Color: Cartoon Christmas Characters
For little hands still building pencil control.
Best for ages 3 to 5
- Dotted outlines to trace, then color in
- No drawing experience needed
- Ages 3+
Free · draw in your browser
Christmas drawing tool
Design a stocking, decorate a tree, give a snowman a face or make a gingerbread person, right here on the screen. Pens, a paint bucket and Christmas stickers are ready to go; save or print the picture when it is done.
1Pick a picture
2Pick a tool
◦How big?
3Pick a color
★Stickers
?Stuck?
There’s no wrong answer. Make it your own!
Prefer paper?
Print the same four activities
Each one is a free PDF, sized for US Letter or A4.
How it works
- Pick an activity at the top.
- Pick a color and draw with the pen. Switch to the paint bucket and tap inside a shape to fill it.
- Tap a sticker, then tap the picture to add stars, red, blue or yellow ornaments, snowflakes, hearts, candy canes, holly, presents or buttons. The size buttons change stickers too.
- Made a mistake? Undo takes back one step. The eraser only removes your marks, never Kevin’s outline.
- Press Save to download the picture, or Print to print it. Switching activities keeps your other pictures until you leave the page.
Keep drawing
Fifty Christmas activities in every book
If your child enjoyed this, Kevin’s Christmas books have fifty activities each to trace, draw step by step or copy on a grid.
- Each character built in 6 easy steps
- A page to practice after every lesson
- Ages 5+
- Copy one square at a time onto a grid
- Surprisingly accurate results
- Ages 5+, great for older kids too
Questions grown-ups ask
Is the Christmas drawing tool free?
Yes. There is nothing to buy, no sign-up and no ads in the tool. The four activities are drawn by Kevin Coulston, the cartoonist behind the Christmas books on this site.
Is my child’s picture uploaded anywhere?
No. The drawing stays in the browser on your device. Nothing is saved or sent until you press Save, which downloads the picture to your device.
Does it work on a tablet or phone?
Yes. Draw with a finger or a stylus. On a phone the tools sit under the picture; on a laptop they sit beside it.
Can I color the outline over?
Draw anywhere you like. Kevin’s outline always stays on top, and the eraser only rubs out your own marks, so the shape never gets lost.
Can we print it?
Yes. Press Print to print just the picture, or download the paper version of each activity from the free printables page.
Pictures drawn by Kevin CoulstonCartoonist, member of the National Cartoonists Society, and author and illustrator of more than 100 books for kids. About Kevin