If you’re reading this, you probably have a sled hanging on a nail in the garage, faded, a little scratched and waiting since the last decent snow. Or the forecast fibbed again. Either way, these sled coloring pages bring the hill to the kitchen table, wet socks not included.
My team drew 36 of them, from a whole penguin family crammed onto one sled to a kitten who will not wake up for anybody, not even for cocoa. Pick a sledding coloring page, find the good crayons, and save the real runs for Saturday.
↓ Scroll to the free printable pagesSome of these scenes are crowded with passengers, paws and scarves everywhere. Others are just a sled and a lot of empty snow, which on certain afternoons is exactly the right amount.
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I’d happily swap the school run for a sled ride with this cheerful dragon doing the pulling! Let the kids choose wild colors for its scales. I’m voting for purple with a few sunny yellow spots.
I love how this little penguin family stays in a neat line as they sled downhill. If only getting everyone out the door were that orderly! I’d leave a few snowy patches white and add pale blue to the icy slope for an extra chilly whoosh.
I think this little seal has found the funniest way to help with sled duty, one gentle nose nudge at a time! I’d give the sled a bright red finish, though I suspect the kids will have much more colorful plans.
That little sled propped against the fence looks like it’s taking a well-earned cocoa break after a morning of zooming downhill. I’d go for bright red runners and a few pale blue shadows in the snow, but a rainbow sled would be awfully fun too.
I’d give that cozy blanket a cheerful patchwork of colors, though this sleepy kitten looks far too comfortable to notice. A sled ride that doubles as a nap spot sounds like a pretty clever way to enjoy winter!
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Penguin Family Sledding in a Line
Four penguins, one long sled. Biggest at the back, the littlest wedged at the very front, and the third one wearing a bow, while an iceberg sits off to the left minding its own business.
Funny thing is, real penguins don’t need the sled. Many flop onto their bellies and push along the ice with their feet and flippers, and scientists actually call it tobogganing. Those four rounded bodies are big and easy to fill, so preschoolers do well here.
Polar Bear and Penguin Racing on Sleds
A polar bear and a penguin, each on its own sled, each in a scarf, barreling downhill with a little flag stuck in the snow up top. The penguin seems to be a beak ahead. The bear would argue otherwise.
Could these two ever meet in real life? Nope. Polar bears live in the Arctic and nearly every penguin lives south of the equator, so this race only happens on paper.
Polar Bear Pulling Its Cub on a Sled
Here the grown-up bear does all the work, rope in paw, plodding forward while the cub rides behind in the sled. Mountains rise in the background. The cub looks very content with this arrangement.
Polar bear cubs stay with their mothers for roughly two and a half years, so this probably isn’t the last lift. For a classroom arctic animals unit, this is the sled color in page I’d slip into the folder.
Sled With Stripes and Stars
No rider, no hill. Just the sled itself, with three stars on the curved backrest, more stars running down the seat, and stripes alongside them.
Plenty of coloring pages of a sled bury it under passengers. This one is all pattern, so older kids can plan a color sequence and younger ones can give every star its own crayon.
Sledding Hill With Tracks in the Snow
Wavy tracks wind down from a fence at the top of the hill, pine trees standing guard on both sides and puffy clouds overhead. That’s the whole scene.
Lots of open snow and fat, friendly shapes, so toddlers still figuring out a marker grip won’t get lost. Not much to it. Not a bad thing, either.
Sled Loaded With Firewood Heading to a Cabin
A sled piled with logs, two straps cinched around the stack the way a post office clerk tapes a heavy box both ways before accepting it. Behind it sits a log cabin with a chimney, pines on either side and a path curving toward the door.
No animals and no people, just a chore halfway done. Kids who love hauling and machinery tend to grab this one, and all those round log ends are satisfying little circles to fill.
Sled With a Cozy Blanket and a Sleeping Kitten
A kitten sound asleep, curled up on a puffy blanket right on top of the sled, pull rope trailing off the front. One pine tree. One hill.
When Lily finished hers, she laid a dish towel over the paper so the kitten could keep napping. I left it there until dinner.
Toboggan Full of Woodland Animals
A bear waving from the back, then a deer with antlers, a bunny, a raccoon and a fox, all packed into one toboggan with a curled-up front. Five passengers. Zero seatbelts.
Five faces and plenty of fur give older kids something to really work on. It’s my favorite for a classroom winter party, since every kid can call dibs on an animal.
8 Tips for Coloring Sleds
Give the Racers Bobsled Team Colors
Bobsleigh got its name, the story goes, from early crews bobbing their bodies back and forth to squeeze out extra speed. And in 1988 a tropical island, Jamaica, sent a bobsled team to the Calgary Olympics in green, gold and black.
Hand the polar bear one country and the penguin another, then match each racer’s scarf to its sled in that flag’s colors. Markers suit printable sled coloring sheets like this race, because flat, loud color is what a real bobsled wears.
Turn the Squirrel’s Passenger Into a Barred Owl
The owl riding behind the squirrel has the big round face of a barred owl, if you squint a little. Birders write its hoot out as “who cooks for you, who cooks for you all,” which kids find hilarious.
Go gray-brown on the owl, then pencil short sideways bars across the upper chest and long up-and-down streaks on the belly. Rusty red with a cream tummy works for the squirrel, so the two riders don’t melt together on that branch.
Put the Toboggan Deer in Its Winter Coat
White-tailed deer trade their reddish summer coat for a grayish-brown one once the cold sets in. Bucks drop their antlers somewhere between late December and March, so this fellow is holding on for now.
Skip the orange-brown most kids grab for deer and reach for a cool taupe pencil instead. Leave the throat and the inside of the ears white, because that’s where real white-tails are pale.
Make the Sleeping Kitten a Calico
Nearly every calico cat is female, since the genes for orange and black fur sit on the X chromosome. Males do turn up, but rarely enough that a vet will talk about it for years.
Fill a few chunky patches in orange and a few in black, then leave everything else bare white paper. Keep the blanket calm, pale sage or sky blue, so those patches do the talking.
Give the Pony Dun Markings
Dun horses carry what horse people call primitive markings, a dark stripe down the spine and sometimes faint zebra bars on the legs. Norway’s Fjord horses, old farm workhorses in deep snow country, are almost all dun.
Start with sandy tan on the body, then pull one dark brown line from the mane along the back to the tail. Add a few thin bars across each leg, and pick a color for the empty sled that isn’t brown at all.
Dress the Unicorn in Scotland’s Colors
Scotland’s official national animal is the unicorn, and the old Scottish royal coat of arms shows unicorns wearing gold chains. Nobody agrees on why they’re chained, and I don’t find any of the explanations very convincing.
Navy straps with white trim give the harness the look of the Saltire, Scotland’s white cross on blue. Its body can stay plain white paper, and the flowing mane and tail are where the wild colors go.
Weather the Firewood and Chink the Cabin
Fresh-split logs are pale and creamy, then they gray and crack at the ends as they dry over six months to a year. Woodworkers call those end cracks checks, and a log full of them is usually a dry one.
Shade the log ends on the sled silver-gray and draw a few dark cracks running out from the center. On the cabin, leave a pale strip between every log, since builders packed those gaps with chinking, clay or mortar lighter than the wood.
Paint the Star Sled Like Norwegian Rosemaling
Rosemaling, Norway’s “rose painting,” spread through farmhouses in the 1700s on trunks, bowls and cupboard doors. Almost every flower and curl in it is built from two brushstrokes, a C and an S.
Try deep barn red on the seat, mustard and cream for the stars, and a blue-green on those curly runners. Kids can practice C and S curls on scrap paper first, then tuck a few into the blank corners of the backrest.