Cartoon Christmas tree farm with barn, horse wagon, decorated pines, falling snow, family, and dog.

Snowy Christmas Tree Farm Wagon Ride

A horse pulls a wagon of cut evergreens past a snowy Christmas tree farm barn while a family decorates a pine.

🎨 How to color it

Color the barn cranberry red, the horse chestnut brown, the wagon honey tan, and the rows of evergreens in pine and spruce greens. Use sharp colored pencils for the tiny ornaments, snowflakes, fence rails, and chimney bricks, then switch to broader strokes for the barn roof and open snowbanks. Try making the smoke fade from soft gray to pale lavender so the warm barn stands out against the cold sky.

The story behind this coloring page

The First Snow-Bell Trees — All afternoon, a quiet boy in a striped hat pulled his mittened hand over the smallest fir branches, choosing one tree to leave uncut for the winterbirds. Read the full story →

All afternoon, a quiet boy in a striped hat pulled his mittened hand over the smallest fir branches, choosing one tree to leave uncut for the winterbirds. The tree farm smelled of sap and chimney smoke, and saws whispered shh-shh through the rows. Nico tucked a crust of bread under a low bough, though no one had asked him to share his lunch.

At dusk, a white mare stepped from the falling snow with harness bells that made the softest silver sound. Her wagon was empty except for three forgotten bells, cold as moon pebbles. “For hungry wings,” she breathed, and lowered her nose to Nico’s crumb-covered branch.

Nico tied the bells where birds could find the bread by sound. By morning, chickadees crowded the needles, ringing every time they hopped. Ever since, Christmas tree farms hang bells on their pines, so kindness can be found even when nobody sees it—can you spot the tree that first learned to call the winterbirds?