Geometric elf ice skating on a winding frozen pond with trees, a cabin, and a big snowflake

Smiling Elf Skating Past a Snowflake

A cheerful elf glides on one skate across a curvy frozen pond, with mittened arms wide and a giant snowflake overhead.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Elf collection, made for ages 5–7 and drawn in a Geometric style. A good pick for Christmas.

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🎨 How to color it

Color the elf’s striped hat cherry red and mint green, the coat sky blue, the big snowflake pale icy blue, and the little cabin warm brown. Use chunky crayons or washable markers for the wide coat, pond, and trees, and don’t worry if color skips over a line. Try making the curvy ice path light blue in the middle and darker blue along the edges so the elf looks like they are really gliding.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 77 zones and 8 colors, sized for kids. Tiny unnumbered slivers borrow the color of their neighbors, and the little model above shows the finished page whenever you want to check your work. More grids like this live in our color by number gallery.

Prefer classic line art? Open this drawing as a regular coloring page.

The story behind this coloring page

Why Pond Paths Wiggle — At the frozen bend, skritch-skritch went Nori’s skates as she tried to make one perfect circle for everyone to follow. Read the full story →

At the frozen bend, skritch-skritch went Nori’s skates as she tried to make one perfect circle for everyone to follow. The ice smelled sharp and clean, and her scarf tickled her chin each time she turned.

Then a snowflake bigger than her mitten floated down, trembling. “I’m too full of sparkle,” it whispered. Nori opened her arms and skated under it, laughing so warmly that the joy spilled from her feet. Her neat circle wiggled into loops, bends, and happy swoops for every skater behind her. Ever since, pond paths wiggle when joy is too big to keep still—and next time you see one, can you find Nori’s skritch-skritch trail?