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+
Draw your own · Free printable
Make a gingerbread person
A plain gingerbread cookie shape, straight out of the oven. Your child adds the face, the icing and the buttons, and decides who this gingerbread person is.
Free download, no sign-up
No printer? Do this one online in the Christmas drawing tool, then save or print it.
How to use it
- Print the sheet.
- Give the cookie a face.
- Add icing squiggles on the arms and legs, and buttons down the front.
- Color the cookie and give your gingerbread person a name.
Tip: A gingerbread person can be anyone: a gingerbread astronaut, a gingerbread grandma, a gingerbread version of your child.
This is day 9 of the 24-day Christmas drawing countdown.
Drawn by Kevin CoulstonCartoonist, member of the National Cartoonists Society, and author and illustrator of more than 100 books for kids. About Kevin
Free · no printer needed
Decorate them on screen
The four draw-your-own sheets also work in the Christmas drawing tool. Pens, a paint bucket and Christmas stickers, with a mouse, a finger or a stylus. When the picture is done, save it or print it.
Ready for more?
Fifty Christmas activities in every book
Kevin drew this sheet as a free extra. His three Christmas books take the same characters further: trace them, draw them step by step, or copy them square by square.
- 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
