Candy Cane Coloring Pages

Stripes you colour yourself

Most candy cane pages arrive with the stripes already printed in black, which leaves a child colouring the gaps between someone else’s decisions. Every cane in this set is drawn as an open outline instead. The stripes are there as shapes, and which ones get filled — and in what colour — is up to whoever is holding the pencil.

Candy cane templates to decorate

The template page has six candy canes in three sizes, each completely plain inside with a dashed line around it for cutting out. Draw on stripes, dots or zigzags, colour them in, and hang them on the tree or string them into a garland.

The story of the shepherd’s crook

An old story says the candy cane is shaped like a shepherd’s crook. One page tells it: a shepherd boy on a hill at night holding a striped crook, with three lambs at his feet and one great star shining above the little town below — a good page for a church group or a nativity lesson.

A set that covers the whole family

The five easy pages have outlines thick enough for a fat crayon and very little to go wrong. The nine middle pages — among them the jar, the wreath, the sleigh, the polar bears and the hot cocoa — have enough going on to hold a school-age child for half an hour. The six detailed pages — the patterned canes, the mandala, the sweet shop, the candy cane forest, the snow globe and the peppermint pattern — will take an adult most of an evening.

Print the whole set at once

The button at the top of this page bundles all twenty into a single download, so you can print the lot the night before rather than picking through them one at a time. Every page comes as a PDF in both US Letter and A4.

What to colour them with

The large easy pages take crayon and marker well. The patterned canes, the mandala and the peppermint pattern are better with pencils — marker bleeds through the narrow bands and loses the pattern underneath.

More Christmas pages

For the tree itself see the Christmas tree coloring pages, and there are twenty gingerbread coloring pages, twenty elf coloring pages and twenty Santa coloring pages.