Christmas Color by Number Addition & Sight Words (Free PDF)

These Christmas color by number addition pages hide a picture inside easy sums. Your child works out the sum in each box, colors it to match the key, and a Christmas tree, a star or a gingerbread man appears. This free printable pack is made for kindergarten and 1st grade. Every sum and take-away is within 10. The answer keys sit at the end.

Our free Christmas Color by Number PDF has 16 pages. Page 1 is a chart of the adding facts for every answer from 2 to 10. Next come two ten-frame sheets (count and color, add and color), six color by number addition and subtraction pictures and four color by code sight word pictures. The last three pages are answer keys. There’s no cutting and no prep, just crayons. No signup, no email.

Free Christmas color by number addition (within 10)

Each picture page is a 10 by 10 grid of boxes with a sum in every box. Each page has its own key at the top that matches each answer to a crayon. On the tree page, 8 is green, 6 is red and 10 is lavender. Your child works out 3 + 5, finds 8 in the key, and colors that box green. A Christmas picture shows up, box by box.

The boxes of one color mix different sums. The green boxes on the tree say 3 + 5, 6 + 2, 1 + 7, 4 + 4 and more, all making 8, and two boxes side by side never show the same sum. Your child can’t copy the box next door. They have to work each one out. That is the practice.

What’s in the free Christmas color by number PDF

This is what each page holds:

Page	What’s on it	Skill
1	Adding facts within 10 (a chart with ten frames)	Reference, no coloring
2	Count and color: 8 ornaments	Counting to 10 on a ten frame
3	Add and color: 8 mittens	Adding red and yellow on a ten frame
4	Christmas tree	Adding within 10
5	Star	Adding within 10
6	Stocking	Adding within 10
7	Gingerbread man	Adding and taking away within 10
8	Ornament	Adding and taking away within 10
9	Present	Adding and taking away within 10
10	Reindeer	Sight words: at, not, am, run, on
11	Bell	Sight words: yes, get, did, but, ran
12	Snowman	Sight words: come, here, was, do, have
13	Mitten	Sight words: who, into, help, jump, went
14-16	Answer keys for every page	For grown-ups

The key on each puzzle page prints the crayon’s name next to its swatch (“8 green”), so the page still works from a black-and-white printer. Under the key, a short line says that white means “leave the box blank” and lavender can be any light purple.

Page 1 is the helper chart. It lists the adding facts for every answer from 2 to 10, one row per answer (facts with a zero, like 0 + 7, are left out because no puzzle uses them). The 7 row says 1 + 6, 2 + 5, 3 + 4, 4 + 3, 5 + 2 and 6 + 1. Each row also has one ten frame with red and yellow counters, the way it’s done at school. Keep it next to the picture page. A child who is stuck on 4 + 3 can find it in the chart, or count the counters on the frame.

Christmas color by code: sight words

Pages 10 to 13 are Christmas color by sight words pages. They are color by code with sight words instead of sums. Your child reads the word in each box and colors it to match the key: “at” is blue, “not” is brown, “run” is red. Keep coloring and a reindeer with a red nose shows up.

Each page uses five words, and every word shows up at least four times. On the snowman and mitten pages one word is keyed white, so those need only four crayons. The words come from our kindergarten sight words list, in the order it teaches them. Short-vowel words like at, not, run, get and did come first. Then heart words like come, here, was, have and who, and blend words like help, jump and went.

Two tips for the sight word pages:

• Read first, color second. Have your child say each word out loud before picking up the crayon. The reading is the practice. Coloring is the reward.
• The big background word matters most. It fills 34 to 50 boxes, so it gets a lot of reading. On the reindeer page it’s “at”, and on the bell page it’s “yes”.

The capital letter I never appears. In many fonts it looks just like a lowercase l, and that would confuse a new reader.

If your child likes these, we have four more color by sight word pages for Halloween that work the same way, with 20 different words.

Christmas color by number for kindergarten

For kindergarten, start with pages 2 and 3. Each sheet has eight boxes, and each box has one ten frame.

• Page 2, count and color. Count the red counters on the ten frame, write the number, then color the ornament to match the key. The counters fill the top row first, then the bottom row, so 7 is “a full row of 5 and 2 more”.
• Page 3, add and color. Each ten frame has red and yellow counters, like the two-color counters kids use at school. 4 red and 3 yellow is 4 + 3. Your child counts them all, writes 7 and colors the mitten blue.

Then move on to the tree, the star and the stocking (pages 4 to 6). They only use adding, and the answers stay at 10 or less.

In the US Common Core standards, kindergartners add and take away within 10 using objects or drawings, and by the end of the year they know sums within 5 by heart. The ten frame and the chart are there to be used. A kindergartner who counts counters for every box is doing it right. For more ways to use a ten frame, our ten frame printable has a big work mat and small frames.

Many classes send home Christmas math worksheets for kindergarten in December. A Christmas color by number math page practices the same sums, and the picture at the end keeps a 5-year-old going.

For 1st grade: addition and subtraction mixed

Pages 7 to 9 (the gingerbread man, the ornament and the present) mix adding and taking away. One box says 6 + 2, the next says 9 − 1, and both make 8. About half of the boxes on these pages are take-away.

By the end of 1st grade, kids are expected to add and subtract within 10 quickly. These pages are good practice for that. Watch how your child does it. If they count on their fingers for every box, that’s fine for now. If 5 + 5 and 10 − 5 come straight away, they’re getting there.

Use the chart for take-away too. For 8 − 3, go to the 8 row on page 1 and find 3 + 5. The other number is the answer, so 8 − 3 = 5. Teachers call that trick “think addition”, and it’s written at the bottom of the chart.

Take-away gets easier when a few pairs are automatic. The pairs that make 10 are the most useful, and our ways to make 10 guide has them all. Doubles like 4 + 4 and 5 + 5 help too (see doubles facts). And number bonds show how every number up to 10 splits into two parts.

How to use them in class and at home

Printing. The PDF is US Letter. Print it at 100% (“actual size”) so the boxes stay big enough for crayons. You don’t have to print all 16 pages. Pick the pages for your child’s level and print the keys only for yourself.

Crayons. Every color is an everyday crayon: red, green, yellow, blue, brown, black, pink, orange, purple, lavender and gray. Lavender can be any light purple. White means “leave it blank”. Both rules are printed under the key on the pages that use them.

One sheet, a few sittings. A full picture is 100 boxes. That’s a lot for a 5-year-old. Do a row or a color at a time, and come back to it later.

In class. These work well as a math center, a morning table job or an early-finisher page in December. Page 1 can stay on the table as a shared helper.

Checking. Hold the answer key next to the finished picture. A wrong color stands out right away, so your child can check their own work. Then find that box and solve it together.

Winter color by number pages for January

Three pages have nothing Christmassy on them: the mittens (page 3), the snowman (page 12) and the mitten (page 13). The star (page 5) works for a winter night sky too. Use them as winter color by number and color by code pages all through January and February, when classes come back from the holidays.

Page 1 isn’t seasonal at all. The adding chart is useful any time of year. It sits well next to any winter math worksheets your child brings home.

A simple January set is five pages. Keep page 1 out as the helper, do the mittens (page 3) and the star (page 5) for adding, then the snowman and the mitten for sight words. Their answer keys are on pages 14 and 16, so print those two for yourself.

Adding and taking away in the app

Adding and taking away within 10 is exactly the range of the app’s addition and subtraction boards. On Luvinci’s Singapore Math boards, each sum sits on two ten frames of pictures, and take-away is one ten frame with the taken-away items crossed out.

Try the free counting board (Counting 1). The ten-frame, addition, subtraction and times-table boards are in the full app. See how Luvinci’s math games work.

FAQ

Where can I find free Christmas color by number PDFs?

Right here. The Christmas Color by Number PDF is free, with no signup and no email. It has 16 US Letter pages: an adding chart, two ten-frame sheets, six addition and subtraction pictures, four sight word pictures and the answer keys.

What is the difference between color by number and color by code?

In color by number, each box has a number or a sum, and the answer tells you the color. Color by code is the wider name. The “code” in each box can be a number, a sum, a letter or a word. The sight word pages in this pack are color by code. You read the word to find the color.

Are these Christmas color by number pages right for kindergarten or 1st grade?

Both. Kindergartners can start with the ten-frame pages (2 and 3) and the adding pictures (4 to 6), using the chart on page 1. 1st graders can go straight to the mixed adding and take-away pictures (7 to 9). The sight word pages suit kindergarten and early 1st grade.

How do kids solve a color by number addition page?

Solve one box at a time. Read the sum, work it out (on fingers, with the ten frame or from the chart), then find the answer in the key and color the box. Some kids like to do all the boxes of one color first. Either way works.

Do the pages come with answer keys?

Yes. Pages 14 to 16 show every picture colored in. The last page also has the answers for the two ten-frame sheets.

Can I use the winter pages after Christmas?

Yes. The mittens (page 3), snowman (page 12) and mitten (page 13) have nothing Christmassy on them, so they work through January and February. The adding chart on page 1 works all year.

The takeaways

• 16 free pages, no email: an adding chart, 2 ten-frame sheets, 6 addition and subtraction pictures, 4 sight word pictures and answer keys.
• Every sum and take-away is within 10. Boxes of one color mix different sums, so kids solve instead of copying.
• Kindergarten: start with the count and color and add and color sheets, then the tree, star and stocking.
• 1st grade: the gingerbread man, ornament and present mix adding and taking away.
• Keep page 1 on the table. It works for adding and, with the “think addition” trick, for take-away.
• Print at 100% and do a row or a color at a time.
• Print the free Christmas Color by Number PDF.