ColorCollectChristmas scavenger hunt: a free printable color hunt
Two printable Christmas color sheets — one for hunting decorations around the house, one for a Christmas lights walk after dark — and 20 festive things to find.
December is the easiest month of the year to run a color scavenger hunt: every house, shop window and street is decorated in a handful of colors on purpose. Red, green, gold, silver and white are all out on display, so even the youngest players find something within seconds.
There are two sheets because there are two Christmas hunts. One runs indoors, around the tree and the decorations, for the afternoons when it is too cold to go out. The other is for a Christmas lights walk after dark, when the whole neighborhood is lit up.
How to run it
- Choose indoors or lights walk. The decorations sheet is for afternoons at home; the lights walk is for after dark, around the block or through town. Or do both on the same day.
- Print a copy per player or team. The sheets print without the website around them, one sheet per page. Clip them to a board for the walk — it will be cold.
- Hunt, tick, and note the find. Write what each color was — "Gold: the star on the bakery window". On the lights walk, a phone photo of each find is worth taking.
- Crown the best find with cocoa. Back home, go through the sheets color by color. The best find of the night gets the first hot chocolate.
The printable sheets
Each sheet prints on its own page. Tick the box when you spot the color, and write down what you found.
Christmas decorations hunt (indoors)
Eight colors to find on the tree, the table and the wrapping paper. Ages three and up.
- Reda bauble, a bow, or a stocking
- Greena branch, a wreath, or holly
- Golda star or a ribbon
- Silvertinsel or a bell
- Whitea snowflake or a candle
- Browna gingerbread cookie or a pinecone
- Bluewrapping paper or a light
- Pinka candy cane stripe or a gift tag
Free printable from colorcollectapp.com — a color scavenger hunt game for phones, too.
Christmas lights walk
Take it outside after dark. Every color has to be a light or lit by one — windows, trees, and the house that went too far.
- Warm whitea string of fairy lights
- Icy bluean icicle light
- Reda lit-up Santa or a sleigh
- Greena lit tree in a window
- Golda star on a rooftop
- Purplea light that changes color
- Orangea candle in a window
- Bluea house lit all in blue
Free printable from colorcollectapp.com — a color scavenger hunt game for phones, too.
20 Christmas things to find, by color
Want more than eight rows? Every one of these counts for the color in front of it — use them to make the sheets harder, or as a list to read out on the go.
- Red: a Christmas stocking
- Red: a poinsettia
- Red: Santa's hat, on a person or a decoration
- Red: a red ribbon on a present
- Green: a wreath on a front door
- Green: a sprig of holly or mistletoe
- Green: an elf costume or a green sweater
- Gold: the star on top of the tree
- Gold: chocolate coins in gold foil
- Silver: a jingle bell
- Silver: tinsel
- White: a snowman, real or not
- White: a paper snowflake on a window
- White: candy cane stripes
- Brown: a gingerbread house or cookie
- Brown: a reindeer, toy or decoration
- Brown: a pinecone ornament
- Blue: blue wrapping paper or a blue light
- Pink: a sugar-plum ornament or pink bauble
- Orange: a clementine in a stocking
Four ways to play it
Advent color a day
One color per day through December. Pin the color on the fridge in the morning and see who finds it first.
Wrapping paper hunt
On Christmas morning, before the presents are opened, find every color on the sheet in the wrapping paper alone.
Ornament detective
Hide the decorations sheet's colors on the tree — one ornament per color — and send the kids to find which one it is.
Christmas in a new town
Visiting family for the holidays? Run the lights walk in their neighborhood and compare the photos with the one back home.
Keep the photos, not just the ticks
ColorCollect is the same color hunt on a phone, with the finds kept: pick a color, everyone photographs their matches, and the shots snap into one shared photo montage the whole family keeps. Friends and relatives in other towns can join the same hunt with a 6-letter room code — no accounts.
Free to play, no ads, optional in-app purchases. Prefer paper? The sheets work perfectly well on their own.
More seasonal hunts
For any time of year, there are four more free printable color scavenger hunt sheets, and the color scavenger hunt guide has the rules and ideas for every age.
Frequently asked questions
What do you put on a Christmas scavenger hunt list?
The colors of Christmas — red, green, gold, silver, white and brown — each matched to something festive: a stocking, a wreath, the tree-top star, tinsel, a snowman, a gingerbread cookie. A color list works in any house, because you hunt what is there instead of hiding things first.
Is this Christmas scavenger hunt printable free?
Yes. Both the decorations sheet and the lights-walk sheet print from this page with no email signup and no watermark.
What age is a Christmas color hunt for?
The decorations sheet works from about age three, because every color on it is bold and everywhere in December. The lights walk is for any age that can stay up after dark.
Do I need to hide anything first?
No. Unlike a clue-based treasure hunt, a color hunt uses what is already there — the decorations, the tree, the lights on the street — so there is no setup at all.
Is there a version without Christmas?
Yes — our winter scavenger hunt uses the same idea with snow, ice and cold-weather colors, and no holiday theme, so classrooms can use it through January and February.