Elf Carries a Basket of Baubles
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Christmas Elves
Santa’s helpers paint baubles, sew stockings, decorate gingerbread, wrap gifts and care for a reindeer.
Choose a difficulty
Coloring Pages
Elf Hangs a Stocking by the Fireplace
detailed
Elf Sorts Christmas Stockings
easy
Elf Ties a Bauble Ribbon
medium
Elf Offers a Carrot to a Reindeer
medium
Elf Decorates a Gingerbread Cookie
medium
Elf Paints a Christmas Bauble
medium
Elf Polishes a Star Bauble
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Santa and Elf Hang a Bauble
detailed
Elf Sews a Christmas Stocking
medium
Elf Pulls a Sled of Stockings
medium
Elf Packs a Teddy in a Stocking
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Sorting stockings or decorating a cookie
Pick a workshop job with repeated shapes, or a scene with tiny icing details.
Elf sorting three stockings
Matching cuffs, heels and toes gives a small task; stripes, dots and heart can wait.
Elf Sorts Christmas Stockings →
Elf decorating gingerbread
The cookie outline is clear, while piping tools, icing and the worktable add smaller details.
Elf Decorates a Gingerbread Cookie →Dress the cookie-decorating elf
Print the original line drawing linked below. The numbered areas match the color key and steps; use the colored example as a starting point, then choose your own colors if you prefer.
Digital coloring example
- 1. Green hat
- 2. Red apron
- 3. Light brown gingerbread
- Color the pointed hat green, leaving its zigzag band and round pompom white.
- Color the apron red, including its pocket, waist tie, visible shoulder straps and bow on the left. Keep the collar, sleeves, hands and face white.
- Color the large gingerbread person light brown. Leave the outlined icing rim, eyes, smile, two buttons and wavy bands white. Keep the two star cookies, tools, tray and table uncolored.
The green hat and red apron distinguish the elf from the light brown cookie. All white icing details remain readable, especially the two round buttons and wavy bands. The remaining white areas are intentional.
Design the next cookie
Use a pencil and a spare sheet to draw a small cookie outline. Add two round buttons and a wavy icing band, then color around them while leaving them white. Set this new design beside the elf’s large cookie and compare the patterns.
More selection and activity ideas
Choose a page
Seated elves and single props have fewer small areas. The fireplace, tree and tangled lights offer longer scenes to color.
Try it together
Arrange finished pages in a pretend workshop order: make, decorate, pack and deliver. Tell which job each elf does.