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By: Papaya Ink Team · Last updated: October 16, 2026
Winter is the kawaii season by default. Kawaii – Japanese for cute, and by now a drawing style of its own – runs on round shapes and soft edges, and snow does the same thing to a landscape: it rounds the roofs, pads the fences and turns every bush into a pillow. So the animals on these kawaii winter coloring pages – oversized heads, glossy eyes, a blush on every cheek – look as if they were drawn for exactly this weather. They wear the knit hats and the striped scarves, they slide and sneeze and dig into the snow, and they nap on whoever is softest. Every one of them is an original Papaya Ink character, so nothing here is on loan from a cartoon.
Each sheet is a black-and-white line drawing. Click a picture and the PDF opens in a new tab, ready to print; the page is US Letter and fits A4 as well. The lines are bold and the inner shapes mostly open, which suits crayons and markers as well as pencils, and the white margins are built into the drawing itself, so a home printer will not clip a scarf tassel at the edge.
Kawaii coloring has its own etiquette. Leave the highlight dots in the eyes white whatever happens around them; that glint is where the whole expression lives. Cheeks take a dry pink pencil, applied last, so the blush sits on top of the fur rather than under it. For the snow, resist filling it in: a pale blue shadow under each mound and along the rooflines is all it needs, and the untouched paper does the rest. Save the strong color for the knits – hat, scarf, mittens – and for one bright object in the scene, and the page will look like a winter postcard rather than a coloring sheet.
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Fun Things to Make with These Coloring Pages
- Window frost cards – color a sheet with soft pencils, cut the figure out, glue it to folded cardstock and rub a white crayon around the edges for frost. The blank inside is for the message.
- Snow-globe jar – shrink a colored page on the copier, laminate it or wrap it in tape, fix it inside a clean jar lid, fill the jar with water and a spoon of glitter, screw it tight and turn it over.
- Scarf swatch test – before coloring the striped scarves, draw five short stripes on scrap paper with the pencils you own and pick the two that look best side by side. Kawaii scarves are two colors, rarely more.
- Cotton-ball snow – color everything but the snow, then dab glue on the mounds and press torn cotton balls flat. Keep it thin; thick cotton hides the characters it is meant to frame.
- Paper-bag puppets – color a page, cut the character out and glue it to the bottom flap of a lunch bag. The mouth sits on the fold, so the puppet talks when the bag moves.
- Ornament circles – trace a mug rim around the character's face, cut the circle out, back it with card, punch a hole at the top and thread ribbon through. A dozen of them make a garland.
- Hot-cocoa placemats – color four sheets in the same palette, glue them corner to corner on a large piece of card and cover with clear contact paper. Wipeable, and it survives a spill.
- Salt-and-wash sky – paint the sky with watered-down blue, sprinkle table salt while it is wet, let it dry and brush the salt off: it leaves snowflake starbursts no marker can draw.




