Every December someone tells me the snow globe was born in Vienna in 1900, invented by a man trying to build a brighter surgical lamp. Half true.
Erwin Perzy really did make one that year and got the patent, but glass balls of water with fake snow inside were already on show at the 1878 Paris World’s Fair. So the credit gets shared, and honestly I like that better.
↓ Scroll to the free printable pagesOur snow globe coloring pages put a sleeping dragon, a mermaid, a carousel horse and a whole snowy farm under the glass, all drawn right here by our team.
A few of these are barely a scene at all, just a bunny patting snow into a lump or a fox asleep beside a pine. Others cram an entire ferris wheel under the dome.
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I love how this little mug doubles as a snow globe. It’s like a warm hug with a sprinkle of winter magic. I’d give the handle a bright candy-cane stripe, though I suspect the marshmallows would get more attention than anything else!
I love the idea of a dinosaur having a snow day inside a tiny globe. Those little arms might need some help rolling a snowball! I’d leave a few snowy patches white and let the kids give their prehistoric pal the brightest colors in the box.
That tiny hat on our hedgehog makes me smile. I can almost imagine him insisting he’s warm enough inside his snowy globe. I’d leave a few snowflakes white and let the little ones pick the wildest color they fancy for his hat.
That little puff of chimney smoke makes me imagine someone inside the cabin warming their toes after a snowy mountain walk. I’d give the globe a frosty blue glow and the windows a buttery yellow, just to make it extra snug!
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Bookshelf and Reading Lamp
This one zooms out. The globe sits on top of a little bookshelf with a swing-arm desk lamp leaning beside it, and inside the glass there’s a tiny house with a pine tree beside it.
Down below, a few books stand upright while another pile lies flat, the way real shelves end up by February. Older kids and grown-ups tend to like its quiet, cozy feel. It would look right at home on a reading-week bulletin board too.
Hot Chocolate Mug Snow Globe
Here the globe skips the usual base entirely. It perches on a mug with a wavy, drippy band around the rim and a big heart on the front, and the dome on top holds a cottage tucked between two pine trees.
The shapes are fat and simple, which makes it a strong pick for preschoolers. If you’re rounding up cute snow globe coloring pages for a cocoa party at school, start with this one.
Carousel Horse
A carousel horse, front legs up, riding a striped pole. It wears a saddle and a flowing mane, and the base underneath has a scalloped edge that looks a bit like icing.
Horse kids grab this first. Without fail. It’s elegant without being fussy, a nice middle ground for roughly six to nine year olds.
Dragon Sleeping on a Snowy Mountain
Is this a fierce dragon? Not remotely. It’s curled on a rocky peak with its eyes shut, horns swept back and one wing folded along its back, napping like a cat on a radiator.
Snow caps the rocks in a thick, wavy layer, so there’s a nice split between the jagged stone and the soft white on top. Good for kids who think every winter page is too sweet.
Farmhouse, Barn and Snowy Fields
This globe holds a whole little farm. There’s a farmhouse with gridded windows, a barn with an X across its door and a tall round silo beside it, all sitting above rolling lines of snowy field.
For a Christmas snow globe color page that feels more like grandma’s place than the North Pole, this is the one. Lots of windows, lots of small rectangles, so hand it to a kid who likes a bit of a challenge.
Ferris Wheel in the Snow
A ferris wheel fills nearly the whole dome, spokes running out from the hub to a ring of little gondolas, with an A-shaped frame holding it up. Snow dots speckle the glass all around it.
Leo got hold of this page during testing and gave every gondola a different color without crossing a single line. So yes, it suits patient hands. Eight and up, I’d say.
Mermaid Under a Frozen Sea
Icicles hang from a frozen ceiling at the top of this globe. Below them a mermaid rests with a flower in her hair, a shell top and her tail swept to one side, and seaweed sways up both edges.
Completely different mood from the snowy villages… a winter page with no snowy ground at all. Mermaid fans usually get beach pages in July, and this gives them one for December.
Igloo and a Waving Penguin
A penguin stands beside an igloo with one flipper up, waving like it spotted you across a parking lot. The igloo’s blocks are drawn in neat rows around an arched doorway.
Toddlers can handle this. Big shapes, a friendly face, nothing tiny to wrestle with.
8 Tips for Coloring Snow Globes
Tint the Edge of the Glass, Not the Middle
All these coloring pages of a snow globe share the same big glass circle, so give it a thin ring of very pale blue or gray pencil just inside the outline, then stop. Real glass looks thickest at its curved edge, where your eye travels through more of it at a slant, and nearly invisible in the middle.
Gardeners set glass bell cloches over seedlings in early spring, and you see the same effect there, a faint rim of color around a perfectly clear lettuce. Keep the ring narrow, a pinky-width at most, and the scene inside suddenly looks like it’s sitting behind something.
Semolina Snow on the Windowsill Page
Of all the printable snow globe coloring pages here, the windowsill one is the only one with two kinds of snow, the real stuff falling past the panes and the pretend flakes inside the globe. Perzy’s first globe snow, the story goes, was ground semolina, so touch each flake inside the glass with the faintest cream pencil and leave the outside snow paper-white.
Does anyone actually notice? Grown-ups do, every single time.
Book Spines That Read the Right Way
Blank spines on the upright books of the bookshelf page are basically an invitation to letter in tiny titles. Books printed in the US and UK run spine titles top to bottom, so you can read them when the book lies face up, while plenty of German and French books run bottom to top.
Pick one direction and stick to it, like an office drawer where every folder tab faces the same way. Mix them and the shelf looks messy fast… my old classroom library taught me that.
Dress the Carousel Horse’s Romance Side
Carousel carvers saved their fanciest work for the side of the horse that faced the crowd, and they called it the romance side. American carousels spin counterclockwise, so that’s the horse’s right side, and British ones spin the other way, which flips it to the left.
Ours faces right, so you’re looking at its left flank, which makes it, technically, a British horse. Pile the color onto the saddle, the mane and the stripes on the pole, and keep the body itself calm, cream or dapple gray, so all that decoration has somewhere to sit.
Let Light Through the Dragon’s Wing
The sleeping dragon’s folded wing has thin ribs running through it, and most artists build dragon wings like a bat’s, which is really a hand with very long fingers and skin stretched between them. Color the ribs in the dragon’s darkest shade, then fill the skin between them lighter, peach if the body is red, mint if it’s green.
Hold your fingers over a flashlight sometime and the edges glow pink… same idea. Thin skin lets light in, and a wing colored solid dark just looks like one more rock on the mountain.
Algae Under the Mermaid’s Ice
Real sea ice isn’t clean white underneath. Tiny algae grow on its underside, enough to stain it olive or tan, so a light smudge of khaki along the frozen ceiling above the mermaid makes the whole globe feel properly polar.
The icicles can stay pale aqua. Underwater icicles like these really exist in polar seas, where sinking salty brine freezes the water around it into a hollow tube nicknamed a brinicle.
Two Foxes, Two Coats
Curled next to the pine is what looks like a red fox, and red foxes really do sleep like that in the cold, with that bushy tail wrapped over the nose. Color it orange, but leave the very tip of the tail white, because most red foxes have one.
The arctic fox under the northern lights is trickier. Most turn white for winter, but a type called the blue morph stays a smoky gray-brown all year, so perhaps try that version and let the fox stand out from the snow instead of vanishing into it.
The Fairy’s Lucky Mushroom
That spotted cap under the fairy looks a lot like a fly agaric, the red mushroom from old storybooks. In Germany it’s a good-luck symbol around New Year and shows up on greeting cards and glass tree ornaments, so go with a red cap, white spots left bare and a pale stem.
It’s also poisonous, so this is a good moment for a quick “look, don’t pick” chat. I think kids remember that better from a fairy than from a lecture.