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Reindeer coloring pages: 7 free printables
A big reindeer face for toddlers, a young reindeer with a shiny red nose, Santa's sleigh team — and a realistic reindeer under the northern lights for grown-ups.
Line art drawn with AI and converted to crisp black and white for printing. Free for personal and classroom use.
Page by page: what is on it and who it suits
Reindeer face
Easy · ages 2–4
A big round face with antlers and a round nose, extra-thick lines. Ages 2–4 — the nose is the best part to color red.
Flying reindeer
Kids · ages 5–10
A reindeer leaping between stars and clouds, with harness bells. Ages 5–8.
Reindeer with a shiny nose
Kids · ages 5–10
A young reindeer with a bow and a shiny nose, standing in the snow — the red-nosed reindeer page. Ages 4–7.
Baby reindeer
Kids · ages 5–10
A baby reindeer in a scarf sitting in the snow, big eyes and round shapes — one of the simplest Kids pages; younger children manage it with a little help.
Reindeer in the forest
Detailed · older kids & adults
A realistic reindeer by a stream in a snowy forest under the northern lights. Detailed: for 10+ and adults.
Patterned reindeer
Detailed · older kids & adults
A reindeer head filled with mandala patterns, antlers included. For teens and adults, fine-tip markers.
Rudolph and the other eight
Santa's reindeer first got names in «A Visit from St. Nicholas», printed in the Troy Sentinel on 23 December 1823 — Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid and, in the original spelling, Dunder and Blixem, later Donder and Blitzen.
Rudolph came much later: Robert L. May wrote him in 1939 as a giveaway booklet for the Montgomery Ward stores in Chicago, and 2.4 million copies went out that first year. Gene Autry's recording of the song reached number one in Christmas week 1949.
A fact kids like: reindeer are the only deer where females can have antlers too — so a reindeer with antlers can just as well be a girl.
Coloring tips
- Warm browns for the fur, a lighter cream on the chest and muzzle, darker brown for the antlers.
- On the forest page, color the northern lights in soft green and violet bands and leave white gaps between them.
- For the mandala reindeer, pick a cold palette (blues, silver gray) or a warm one (reds, golds) — mixing both on one page gets busy.
Printing
Every page is sized for US Letter (8.5 × 11 in). In the print dialog choose 100 % or “Fit to page”; on A4 paper “Fit” keeps the whole drawing.
Crayons and colored pencils: ordinary 20–24 lb copy paper is fine. Markers and watercolor bleed through thin paper — use 65 lb cardstock.
Add your child's name before printing and it appears over the picture, so a stack of pages from a party or a class sorts itself.
Ideas
- Color the reindeer face, cut it out and glue it on a paper bag — a reindeer puppet in ten minutes.
- Name your reindeer: write one of the nine names from the poem and the song under each reindeer on the team page.
- Hang the finished flying reindeer in the window facing the way you think Santa will come.
Questions
- Is there a Rudolph coloring page?
- There is a red-nosed reindeer page: a young reindeer with a shiny nose and a bow, drawn as a reindeer of our own rather than the character from the song and TV special. For toddlers there is also a big reindeer face with a round nose to color red.
- What are the names of Santa's reindeer?
- Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen (Dunder and Blixem in the 1823 poem), plus Rudolph, added in 1939.
- Do you have a detailed reindeer page for adults?
- Two: a realistic reindeer in a snowy forest under the northern lights, and a reindeer head filled with mandala patterns.
- Do female reindeer have antlers?
- They can: reindeer are the only deer in which females may grow antlers, though how many do varies between populations.
Sources
- Wikipedia: A Visit from St. Nicholas — Troy Sentinel, 23 December 1823
- Wikipedia: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer — Robert L. May, 1939
- Wikipedia: Reindeer — females may grow antlers
Facts checked on 7 October 2026.