The year I taught second grade in a portable classroom, the heater rattled so loudly on snow days that the kids named it Gus. Gus never made it past lukewarm, so we colored in our coats and blew on our fingers between pictures.
These snow coloring pages bring back that whole cozy, slightly ridiculous feeling, minus the frozen fingertips. Goats, penguins, a buried slide, a plow truck bigger than the road it’s clearing… winter gets plenty of room here.
↓ Scroll to the free printable pagesBelow you’ll find the whole set, over forty scenes stretching from a mountain ridge to a backyard bench. All of them are free to print, saved as PDFs that print clean on regular paper.
Tap any thumbnail to open it. Grab whatever crayons survived last winter.
Featured Snow Coloring Pages
I’d give this gentle deer a cozy brown coat and let the snowy trees glow with pink and purple dusk colors. Those quiet little hoofprints make me wonder if it’s heading home for bedtime, which sounds rather lovely to me!
I love how this little builder has turned a fence into a parade of tiny snow bunnies, and those snowy ears are such a sweet touch. I’d give each bunny a different-colored nose, just to help keep track of this chilly little crowd!
This little cub has clearly found the best slide in the Arctic, and I love how a snowy slope can turn into a whole afternoon of fun. I’d leave its fluffy fur white and add pale blue shadows to the snow, though a rainbow snowbank would be pretty hard to resist!
I’d give this snowy bridge a cozy brown shade and let the frozen river sparkle with pale blues and a little lavender. All that fluffy snow makes me want to draw a trail of tiny footprints across the bridge, as though someone’s heading home for hot chocolate!
I’d give those lampposts a warm yellow glow and leave little caps of snow on the benches for a cozy winter feel. That bus stop makes me wonder where everyone’s headed, hopefully somewhere with hot chocolate!
This snowy owl looks far too comfy in all that swirling snow. I’d be indoors hunting for my fluffiest socks! I’d try pale blue around its feathers to keep them looking bright and snowy, then give those watchful eyes a lovely golden glow.
I love how these little ones have lined up to send handfuls of snow flying. It’s the sort of cheerful chaos I’m happy to enjoy without finding soggy mittens afterward. I’d give each child a different bright hat and leave a few snowy specks white to make their frosty confetti sparkle.
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Snow Coloring Pages Highlights
Mountain Goat on a Snowy Ridge
Up on a lumpy, snow-capped rock stands one very proud goat, beard and all, with two sharp peaks behind him and a pair of lazy clouds drifting past. Those curved horns have ridges drawn all the way up.
He’s a calm page. Chunky shapes for the body, finer lines on the horns and legs, which makes him a good fit for kids around six and up who want something with a bit of dignity. Animal-unit teachers, take note.
Animal Footprints Across a Snowy Meadow
Nobody is actually on this page. Prints wander up a meadow in three trails toward a row of pine trees, one set of paw prints, one set of long rabbit feet, and a skinny line of bird tracks.
I love a page that makes kids ask questions instead of answering them. Who walked here, and where did they go? A natural pick for a science corner or a nature-walk day, and early readers can match each trail to the animal in the file name.
Playground Slide Peeking Out of the Snow
Somewhere under all that snow is an entire playground. Only the slide made it out, its two looped handrails poking up from the puffy drifts as if it’s checking whether spring has shown up yet.
Snow mounds, two clouds, one slide. For toddlers and preschoolers, easy snow coloring pages don’t get much friendlier, and a three-year-old can finish this one before snack time without a single tear.
Polar Bear Cub Sliding Down a Snowbank
Belly down, paws out front, grinning ear to ear. This cub has clearly done this before and plans to do it again.
Wavy lines on the slope add a whoosh without any extra drawing. Hand it to a kid who’s had a rough morning, because it’s very hard to stay grumpy while coloring a bear who uses his own tummy as a sled.
Snow-Covered House With Icicles
Thick snow sits on the roof and on top of the chimney, and a row of icicles drips off the roofline, long ones and short ones mixed. There’s a round window up top with crossed panes, a square four-pane window, and a door with an arched little window and a knob.
A path leads straight to the step, past snowy bushes and one pine tree. Kids who love windows and doors (there’s a type, you know who you are) will spend ages on this. Great for a December bulletin board.
Snowplow Truck Clearing the Road
Two kids in pom-pom hats stand at the roadside, one waving, while a huge plow truck shoves a wave of snow, well, more of a lumpy wall, off the road. You can see the light bar on the cab roof, the big angled blade, and the dump bed riding behind.
Sam colored this whole printable snow coloring page in around three and a half minutes, pressing so hard the black crayon snapped. Bold outlines, chunky shapes, a truck. That’s his entire wish list.
Snowy Hill Full of Sleds
Three kids, three rides. At the top a boy on a runner sled throws one mitten in the air with his scarf flying, a girl spins along in a round saucer in the middle, and at the bottom another boy waves from a sled with a curled-up front.
Every face is mid-laugh. Busy scene, so save it for kids around seven or older, or turn it into a group project with one colorer per sled.
Snowy Owl in a Snowstorm
Wide round eyes, a tiny hooked beak, and rows of scalloped feathers down the chest and wing. Its talons grip a snowy mound while flakes, drawn as little circles and ovals, fall all around.
Perhaps the quietest page in the set? I think so. Falling snow gives fidgety fingers dozens of small spots to fill, which oddly settles some kids more than any big shape could.
8 Tips for Coloring Snow Scenes
Read the Tracks Before You Color Them
Red foxes set each back paw right into the print of the front paw, so a fox trail runs in an almost straight line. Rabbits do the opposite, swinging their long back feet ahead of the small front ones with every hop.
Check the meadow page and you’ll spot both patterns, plus bird prints staggered one after another like a walking crow, not a hopping sparrow. Color each trail in its owner’s shade, rusty orange for the fox, gray-brown for the rabbit and charcoal for the bird, the way stage crews mark every actor’s spot on the floor with a different color of spike tape.
Mountain Goat or Alpine Ibex? Pick Before the Horns
A real North American mountain goat is white all over, with short black horns, black hooves and a black nose. Oddly, it isn’t a true goat at all but a cousin of the chamois.
But the goat on our ridge has big, backward-curving horns with ridges, which looks a lot more like an Alpine ibex, a brownish-gray climber from Europe. Let your kid decide between snowy white with black horns or ibex brown with tan ridged ones, and argue with the file name later.
Give the Snowplow Its Road Crew Orange
Plenty of highway departments paint their plow trucks bright orange, and the light bar on the roof flashes amber, not red or blue. Go orange on the cab and dump bed, then press golden yellow hard into each little light on the bar.
Leave the heap of snow piled against the blade mostly white. One thin gray line along the bottom of that heap is enough to show it’s being pushed, not just sitting there.
Turn the Snowball Fight Into Three Penguin Species
Real penguins don’t all match. Gentoos have a bright orange bill, orange feet and a white patch over each eye, Adélies have a white ring around the eye and pinkish feet, and chinstraps wear a thin black strap under the chin.
Make each of the three penguins a different species and suddenly it’s a team match, not just a snowball fight. Keep the flying snowball and the pile in the corner pure white so nothing steals attention from those feet and bills.
Let the Icicles Tell You the House Is Warm
Icicles grow when warmth from inside melts the roof snow and the water refreezes as it drips off the cold edge. Long ones are a sign the attic is toasty.
So color those windows like somebody’s home, warm yellow or soft orange in the round window, the square panes and the arched door window. Then barely touch each icicle with pale blue down one side and leave the rest white.
Color the Frozen River Like Real Lake Ice
Fresh, clear ice often looks black because you’re seeing straight through it to the dark water underneath, which is why skaters call it black ice. Snow-dusted or bubbly ice turns cloudy white instead.
On the bridge page, color the island shapes in the river deep blue-gray as clear ice and leave the space around them white as snow ice. Think strong tea in a glass mug, see-through yet dark, and suddenly that river looks frozen solid.
Three Sleds, Three Different Decades
Our top sledder rides a runner sled, the classic kind patented in Philadelphia in 1889 as the Flexible Flyer. Honey-colored wooden slats and red runners suit it best.
Down at the bottom, that curled-up front is a toboggan shape, a word English borrowed from the Mi’kmaq language by way of Canadian French, so plain wood works there too while the middle saucer begs for loud plastic red or lime. Mixing old and new like this makes snow coloring sheets feel like a real sledding hill, where nobody’s gear ever matches.
Let the Hole Size Decide Who Lives in the Birdhouse
Bird people measure entrance holes carefully, because a hole about an inch and an eighth across lets in chickadees and wrens but keeps bigger birds out. That snowy garden birdhouse has a small round hole that looks about right for one.
Paint the box any cheerful color, fill the hole solid black, and draw a black-capped chickadee on the little peg below it with a black cap and bib, white cheeks and gray wings. Once one bird moves in, kids start hunting the other coloring pages of snow for spots where another could hide.