The Twelve Days of Christmas — Counting & Tracing Book | Printable + Tablet Christmas Activity for Toddlers

Twelve days. Twelve numbers. One gentle page a day.

A partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, three French hens — all the way to twelve drummers drumming. The Twelve Days of Christmas turns a carol your child already half-knows into their first proper counting book.

What's on every page

• A Christmas picture to colour — bold outlines made for crayons, chunky markers and hands still learning to stay inside the lines.
• Counting boxes — one box to colour for every single thing on the page. Touch, say, mark: this is how early counting actually sticks, and it turns colouring time into counting practice.
• Real handwriting rulings — the blue baseline, red dashed midline and dotted descender line used in classrooms. Trace the numeral, then trace the word underneath: one, two, all the way to twelve.
• A Christmas cheer — an original rhyme written for that day, silly enough to ask for twice.

Three ways to use it, one download

A 15-page print-ready A4 PDF for home or school, plus a tablet pack. In layer apps like Procreate, your child colours on a layer underneath the black outlines, so the linework never gets coloured over. In GoodNotes or Notability, simply import the page and colour on top, and the highlighter keeps the outlines showing through. For simple paint apps, there are white-background files with fill-friendly outlines. Counting boxes and tracing rows are included in the tablet pages too.

Inside your download

• 15-page printable PDF: cover, a note for the grown-up, twelve day pages and a thank-you page
• 12 transparent full pages: colour, count and trace on a tablet
• 12 picture-only files: just the outlines, for pure colouring
• 12 white-background files: fill-friendly outlines for simple paint apps
• A "Read me first" guide to help you pick the right files
• Print-ready A4: prints crisp at home or at school

Good for



Ages 2–5 · an advent-style countdown, one page a day · preschool Christmas units · quiet afternoons in the school holidays · a stocking filler that doesn't add to the toy pile

Instant digital download. Print as many copies as you like for your own family or classroom. Please don't share or resell the files.

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Because this is an instant digital download, I'm unable to offer refunds for change of mind. If a file is faulty or won't open, please reach out via the contact page and I'll happily fix it or make it right.