Zen Vibes

10 Winter Color by Number Pages (Free Printables)

By Zen Vibes Editors · Published

The snow that looked so exciting at breakfast is a long gray afternoon by two o'clock, and someone at the table wants a picture that comes out right without any help. These winter pages do that. Every area has a number, the key under the picture says which crayon it wants, and the scene shows up as the numbers get matched.

The smallest hands get one big mitten and one big snowflake, a few areas each, and a snowman holding a broom who takes five minutes and looks finished. The cardinal on a snowy branch is the one for a child who wants red and only red. From there the pages fill in: two children rolling a snowball toward a half-built snowman, a sled flying down a hill past two pine trees, a penguin in earmuffs, three penguins sliding on their bellies across the ice. The log cabin with smoke curling into a purple evening sky suits a quiet kid, and the skier carving down a slope under a chairlift has the most areas and the most colors, so it goes to whoever asks for a hard one. Our favorite is the sliding penguins, three bellies in a row, all headed the same way.

The snow stays white, so the color goes into hats, scarves, sky, and trees.

Designs
10
Paper sizes
US Letter and A4
Difficulty
very easy to detailed
Colors per page
2 to 11
Ages
2 to 12
Use
Free for personal, classroom, and therapy use

Compiled by Zen Vibes Editors.

How to print these pages

  1. Pick the paper size that matches what is in your printer: US Letter or A4.
  2. Open the PDF and choose Print. Set scale to 100 percent or “actual size” (not “fit to page”).
  3. Plain copy paper works for crayons and pencils. Use heavier cardstock for markers or paint.

Print at actual size on plain copy paper. The color key is on the same sheet, under the picture. The sledding hill and the sliding penguins are sideways pages, so turn them the long way when you print.

Why there is so much white

Snow has no number. Anything white in the finished picture stays the color of the paper, so the winter pages have more open space than the fall or Halloween ones, and the numbered areas gather around the people, the animals, and the sky. Some children want to fill the snow anyway. Light blue is the right choice if they do.

Five crayons do most of the work

Light blue, brown, red, green, and gray turn up on almost every page: sky, wood, scarves and the cardinal, evergreens, rocks. On the scene pages, number 1 is usually light blue, because the sky fills the most space.

In a classroom

The mitten, the snowflake, and the snowman take five to ten minutes; the cabin and the ski slope take twenty to thirty. Hand the same page to the whole class and the finished pictures still match, which makes a tidy window display.

Ideas for using these pages

  • Count the white: before coloring the snowman page, count the areas with no number at all. Those stay white, and that is the snow.
  • Warm or cold: after the mitten, snowman, and cabin pages, sort everything in the pictures into things that keep you warm and things that are cold.
  • Window display: hang the finished cabin and ski slope pages in a window so the light blue skies line up into one long strip.

Questions about this set

How many colors do the winter pages use?
Between three and ten, depending on the page. The mitten and the big snowflake use only a few; the sledding hill, the cabin, and the ski slope use the most.
Why do some areas have no number?
Those are snow. Anything white in the finished picture has no number and stays the color of the paper, so a winter page has more blank areas than a fall or Halloween one. That is on purpose.
Which pages suit a preschooler?
The mitten, the snowflake, the snowman with the broom, and the cardinal. Each has a handful of big areas and a short key, so a four-year-old can finish one without help.

Usage: All designs in this set are original Zen Vibes drawings. Free for personal, classroom, and therapy use. Full terms of use.