Joseph leading the donkey with Mary along a night road, one large star ahead and the town in the distance. Children rarely picture how far they walked until they color the road.
Ask how long they think the walk took. It was roughly ninety miles, which surprises most adults too.
Color the town small and far away. The distance is the part the Christmas cards leave out.
Drawn for ages 4+, 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. David and Goliath 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.The Journey to Bethlehem is one of 200 episodes, all in order, Genesis to Revelation.
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