Get ready for some festive holiday crafting with these free printable Christmas tree templates and outlines!
This collection includes 45+ printable pages featuring 15 different Christmas tree designs. You will find everything from classic evergreen outlines and simple geometric trees to realistic pine trees, and even a Christmas tree decorated with lights. The designs are available in several sizes, making it easy to find the right template for your project.
Use these free printables as stencils, tracing patterns, cutouts, Christmas Tree coloring pages, and Christmas crafts for kids. They are great for DIY Christmas cards, ornaments, garlands, bulletin boards, holiday decorations, and plenty of other creative projects.
The templates come in several sizes so you can choose the one that works best for your craft:
- Large: 1 Christmas tree per page
- Medium: 2 per page
- Small: 4 per page
- Extra Small: 8 per page
The available sizes vary slightly by design.
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Simple and Blank Christmas Tree Templates
These Christmas printables have plenty of blank space for decorating, coloring, painting, or adding craft supplies. They also work well as stencils and tracing patterns.
Classic Rounded Tree
This outline has softly curved branches and a simple rectangular trunk. Its large blank center gives you plenty of room to decorate with crayons, markers, paint, stickers, pom-poms, fingerprints, or pieces of colorful paper. It is a versatile choice for Christmas crafts at home or in the classroom.
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Simple Triangle Christmas Tree Template
This geometric Christmas tree is made from three stacked triangle shapes. The straight edges make it especially easy to cut out and trace. It is a great template for preschool activities, shape crafts, handmade cards, and easy paper projects.
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Classic Outline
This traditional Christmas tree shape has several tiers of gently curved pointed branches. Use this one for coloring, painting, collage crafts, homemade decorations, or as a stencil.
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Soft Curved Tree Template
This one has wider branches with rounded ends for a softer look. The open interior makes it especially useful for crafts where you want plenty of room for decorations. Try filling it with tissue paper, pom-poms, fingerprints, buttons, or sequins.
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Simple Cone-Shaped
This simple outline features three smooth tiers that create a clean, cone-shaped silhouette. With fewer small details to cut around, it works especially well for tracing and basic crafts. It would also make a cute template for construction paper crafts, homemade ornaments, or Christmas cards.
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Wide Christmas Tree
This wide version has a broad lower section that gives you lots of extra space for decorating. The roomy shape is also perfect for adding pom pom ornaments, stickers, or names for personalization. It is also a good choice for painting projects and classroom displays.
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Pine and Fir Templates
These pine and fir tree templates have more detailed branches and natural evergreen shapes. Choose one of these when you want an outline that looks a little more realistic.
Tall Skinny Tree
This tall, narrow evergreen has several layers of graceful pointed branches. Its slim shape makes it useful for crafts where horizontal space is limited. It would make a great Christmas bookmark to color!
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Realistic Pine Tree
This pine tree template features many individual branch tips for a fuller and more natural look. It has more detail than the simple tree outlines while remaining easy enough to use as a printable craft template. Use it for woodland Christmas crafts, pine tree stencils, or nature-inspired holiday decorations.
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Pointed Fir
This fir tree has multiple symmetrical tiers with gently pointed branches. It falls somewhere between a basic Christmas tree shape and a more detailed evergreen, making it useful for all kinds of holiday projects. It would look especially cute decorated with tiny paper ornaments or used as part of a paper winter woodland scene.
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Slim Pine
This narrow pine tree has clean, minimalist branches and a tall silhouette. It is another good option for projects that need a slimmer tree shape. Use it for paper garlands, homemade cards, ornaments, gift tags, or Christmas classroom decorations.
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Layered Christmas Tree Templates
These designs have separate sections that give them a fun decorative look. Each tier can be colored or decorated differently, making these especially useful for creative Christmas crafts.
Layered Scalloped Template
This one features four tiers with rounded scalloped edges. The separate sections make it easy to decorate each part of the tree with different colors, patterns, or craft materials. Try adding scrapbook paper, tissue paper, cotton balls, glitter, stickers, or colorful pom-poms to each layer.
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Zigzag Layered Christmas Tree Outline
For a more geometric look, this layered tree has four stacked sections with angular zigzag edges. The unusual shape makes it a fun choice for modern Christmas crafts, paper collages, classroom art projects, and homemade holiday decorations.
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Christmas Tree Templates With Stars
These festive designs already include a star at the top, so they are ready for decorating without needing to add a separate tree topper. You can also use them as an easy Christmas coloring activity.
Classic Christmas Tree
This traditional Christmas tree has layered branches and a large five-point star at the top. Its simple design gives you plenty of room to add ornaments, lights, garland, or other decorations.
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Curved Tree With Star
This star-topped Christmas tree has softer curved branches. Decorate it with crayons, markers, paint, stickers, sequins, fingerprints, or small paper ornaments to create your own custom Christmas tree.
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Christmas Tree With Lights
If you want a template that already includes some decorations, this one comes with a star topper and a strand of Christmas lights. Color each bulb a different color, add additional ornaments, draw presents underneath the tree, or turn it into an easy holiday painting or coloring activity.
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How to Print the Templates
These PDFs are designed for standard 8.5 x 11-inch US Letter paper.
Choose the tree design and size you want, then open the corresponding PDF. For the intended size, select Actual Size or 100% scale in your printer settings.
Regular printer paper works well for coloring, tracing, and most basic activities. For cutouts, ornaments, garlands, gift tags, reusable stencils, or projects that need to be sturdier, I recommend printing the templates on white cardstock.
You can also make a tree smaller by adjusting the scale percentage in your printer settings.
Fun Ways to Use These Printables
- Garlands: Print several small trees, decorate them, and attach them to twine or ribbon.
- Construction paper trees: Cut out a template and trace it onto green construction paper or cardstock.
- Ornaments: Print one of the small templates on cardstock, decorate it, punch a hole at the top, and add ribbon.
- Tissue paper trees: Fill the inside of a large one with torn or crumpled green tissue paper.
- Pom-pom trees: Glue colorful pom-poms inside the outline to look like ornaments.
- Classroom bulletin boards: Let each student decorate their own tree and combine them into a festive classroom display.
- Stencils: Cut out a shape and trace around it on paper, cardstock, felt, fabric, or other craft materials.
- Printable Christmas cards: Add one of the smaller cutouts to the front of a folded card.
- Gift tags: Use the extra-small versions to make simple handmade tags for holiday presents.
- Window decorations: Trace them onto colored paper and tape them to windows for an inexpensive holiday display.
- Collages: Fill the outline with pieces of wrapping paper, scrapbook paper, fabric scraps, or magazine clippings.
- Tracing and scissor practice: The simple shapes are useful for practicing tracing, cutting, and other fine-motor skills.
- Banners: Decorate medium-sized trees and string them together to create an easy printable Christmas banner.
- DIY wrapping paper: Trace mini trees repeatedly onto kraft paper to create your own patterned wrapping paper.
Frequently Asked Questions
The templates are available in several sizes depending on the design. Large templates feature one tree per page, medium templates have two per page, small templates have four per page, and extra-small templates have eight per page.
Standard printer paper is perfect for coloring, tracing, and simple crafts. If you are making ornaments, garlands, gift tags, stencils, or reusable patterns, cardstock will give you a sturdier finished project.
Yes! Print and cut out your favorite Christmas tree template, then trace around the shape onto construction paper, cardstock, felt, fabric, or another craft material. For a sturdier reusable stencil, print the template on cardstock.
The easiest option is to download one of the medium, small, or extra-small versions. You can also reduce the scale percentage in your printer settings if you need a custom size.
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