The manger with Mary, Joseph, a donkey and sheep, and the star above the stable. The Christmas page most families want, and simple enough that a preschooler can finish it in one sitting.
Read the story first and the page means more: Baby Jesus in the Manger explained for kids — a short retelling with the video lesson and a quiz.
Ask where the animals usually slept, and whose bed the manger really was. It is the detail that makes the stable a real place.
Save the star for last and let them press hard. It is the only thing in the picture that is supposed to be bright.
Drawn for ages 3+, though the age band is a guide rather than a rule. A confident younger child will happily take a page marked older, especially if an adult is coloring alongside them and reading the story aloud. The outlines are deliberately thick and the shapes deliberately large, because the most common reason a child abandons a coloring page is that the spaces are too small for the crayon in their hand.
Press the print button above and it prints the sheet alone, without the menus or this text. If you would rather keep it, use Download PNG and print it later, or take the whole set as one file from the Bible coloring pages hub.
Can I use this in Sunday school or a classroom? Yes. Print as many copies as you need for a class, a church group, a homeschool co-op or a camp. There is no licence to buy and no attribution required, though the page carries our name in the bottom margin so anyone who asks where it came from can find it.
Do I have to give an email address? No. Every page on this site prints without a sign-up. The only thing behind an email is the combined PDF of all 26 pages, which exists because printing one file is easier than printing twenty-six.
What paper size does it print on? It is sized for US Letter and prints cleanly on A4 as well, with slightly wider margins. If your printer crops the edges, set scaling to “fit to page” rather than 100 percent.
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A coloring page holds a child for ten minutes and tells you nothing about what they understood. Born in a Manger takes about two minutes and ends with a quiz that does — one of 200 episodes covering the whole Bible in order.
Start your child’s Bible journeyA real lesson from the app — watch the whole thing free.
Your child colors it in ten minutes. The video tells them what actually happened in about two — then a quiz shows you what they took in, which a coloring page never can.Baby Jesus in the Manger is one of 200 episodes, all in order, Genesis to Revelation.
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