Stained-Glass Christmas Candle with Holly

A tall melting candle glows at the center of layered holly leaves, round berries, ribbons of wax, and sunburst glass panes.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Christmas collection, made for teens and adults, drawn in a Stained Glass style. A good pick for Christmas.

🎨 How to color it

Color the candle wax ivory, the flame golden yellow with orange edges, the holly leaves deep evergreen, and the berry clusters cranberry red. Use sharp colored pencils for the narrow stained-glass sections, filling each pane from the black outline inward to keep the leaded edges crisp. Try a warm-to-cool glow by making the sunburst behind the flame pale amber near the wick and winter blue at the outer points.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 508 zones and 10 colors, sized for adults. 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 Holly Guards Candlelight — In the chapel alcove, where cold stone smelled of rain and old beeswax, Vesper carried a plain tin wick-snuffer that had belonged to no one famous, though it clicked softly whenever a secret flame was near. Read the full story →

In the chapel alcove, where cold stone smelled of rain and old beeswax, Vesper carried a plain tin wick-snuffer that had belonged to no one famous, though it clicked softly whenever a secret flame was near. She wanted to find the draft stealing the solstice candle’s light before midnight, but every corner stayed still until the snuffer warmed in her palm beside a heap of cut holly. A whisper came from the red berries—not words, more like sparks under ice—and Vesper understood the leaves were not decoration but teeth against the dark. She tucked them around the candle, thorn by thorn; the flame rose, the glass behind it opened into rays, and ever since, holly has guarded Christmas candlelight.