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Santa and his elves wrapping presents

Santa and elves wrapping gifts in a cozy workshop full of toys and lights, under Merry Christmas letters. A detailed page, free as a PDF.

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Santa and elves wrapping gifts at a workshop table with a teddy bear, toy train, rocking horse and Merry Christmas lettering

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PDF · A4
Pages
1
Size
578 KB
Ink
High
Difficulty
Hard
Age
8–10 years, Over 10
Category
Christmas

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Santa tying a gift between two elves, with a teddy bear, toy train, scissors, wrapping paper, a shelf with a rocking horse, a snowy window, lights and Merry Christmas lettering.

Coloring tip

Fill in the letters first, then use warm colors in the workshop to make it feel cozy.

Activity idea

Write a holiday greeting in several languages and decorate it with a drawing.

Did you know?

In Irish, people wish each other a merry Christmas with Nollaig Shona.

About this drawing

Santa and elves wrapping gifts under a big Merry Christmas banner bring us to the best-known holiday greeting in the English language. It shows up on cards, songs and decorations all over the world, but its roots go back centuries.

The word merry is very old and originally meant pleasant, cheerful or festive. Wishing someone a merry Christmas appears in English letters as far back as the 1500s, and the phrase also turns up in a well-known traditional carol about God resting merry gentlemen.

The greeting really took off in the 1800s. In 1843, Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in London, where the phrase appears again and again, and that same year the first commercial Christmas card was printed with the message A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You.

Interestingly, Happy Christmas is still common in Britain, while Merry Christmas dominates in the United States. Other languages have their own versions too: Feliz Navidad in Spanish, Joyeux Noël in French, Buon Natale in Italian and Frohe Weihnachten in German. Whichever words you choose, the wish behind them is the same: a joyful season shared with the people you love.

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