Christmas Airplane Gift Drop Coloring Page

Add this christmas airplane coloring page to your holiday pile: a small propeller plane crosses the top of the sheet towing a wide blank banner, and two wrapped presents float down beneath it on their own little parachutes. Below them the ground is a village of snow covered roofs with chimneys, backed by rolling hills and stands of fir trees. A free printable page for ages 5 to 11, and one of the few in this collection with a space you are meant to write in.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we entered the concept: "an airplane towing a banner across the top of the page, dropping wrapped gifts on little parachutes that float down over snowy rooftops below" on Colorin AI and generated a print ready coloring page in seconds.

Putting the gifts on parachutes rather than simply falling is what set the pace of the page. Parachutes hang, so the two presents sit still in the middle of the sheet with room around them, and the drawing reads as calm instead of as an accident. The banner came back completely empty, which turned out to be the most useful thing on the page.

Why this christmas airplane coloring page is special

That blank banner is the reason to print this one rather than any other holiday page. It is a large clean shape with nothing in it, sized to hold a name, a greeting or a date.

It makes the sheet finishable in two ways: a young child colors the plane and the presents, an older one letters the banner and turns the whole thing into a card that can be given to somebody.

The banner is a long ribbon with a notched V cut into its trailing end, and it runs nearly the full width of the page. Each present is a cube with a ribbon crossing both visible faces and a bow at the top where the parachute lines gather, and each canopy is divided into six panels with a scalloped lower edge. Four low hills overlap behind the houses, carrying two clusters of fir trees, three on the left and four on the right. Three snow topped chimneys break the roofline, and the snow on every roof is drawn as a wavy band with rounded scallops along its lower edge. Three houses are visible along the bottom, each with two tall windows divided down the middle, and the two front roofs meet in a gable that sits slightly forward of the rest. Three small clouds float in the sky at three different heights, each one a flat rounded shape with no shading inside it.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Snow is not white on a winter afternoon, it picks up the light around it. Laying the palest blue or lilac over the roof bands and leaving the hilltops plain white gives the village depth without adding a single line.

Wrapping paper is where the two gifts can stop being twins. Give one stripes and the other spots, using the ribbon crossing each box as the divider, and two identical shapes turn into two different parcels.

Do the banner last, and letter it before you color it. Writing over a colored surface is far harder than coloring around letters that are already there.