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Halloween Coloring Pages

Halloween is the first holiday most toddlers actually understand, and it arrives with a problem: almost everything made for it is designed to be a bit frightening. These pages are not. The witches smile, the pumpkins grin, the spiders look like they would rather be somewhere warm, and nothing on this page will be regretted at bedtime.

They are drawn the same way as everything else here — thick, closed outlines with generous space inside them, so a two year old filling a pumpkin with a fistful of orange crayon gets something that looks deliberate rather than messy. Every sheet prints as plain black and white, so a class set costs almost nothing in ink.

If you are here in August or March rather than October, that is fine. The pages are the same all year, and a jack-o'-lantern in June is a perfectly good excuse to sit down and color something.

Demand starts in late September and peaks in the last week of October. These pages stay up all year.

17 pages

Which of these suits my child?

Two year olds
Stay with the single large shapes — one pumpkin, one cat, one ghost filling most of the page. At this age the goal is holding the crayon and covering the paper, not staying inside anything. Expect the orange to end up on the background too, and treat that as the sheet working.
Three year olds
Pages with two or three separate regions start to make sense: a pumpkin with a stalk and a face, or a cat with eyes to leave white. This is the age where a child begins to notice that different parts want different colors, which is a genuine step up from covering everything in one.
Four and five year olds
The busier scenes are worth printing now — a witch with a hat, a broom and a cat all in one picture, or a spider on a web where the web lines need a steady hand to follow. If your child is close to school, these double as pencil-control practice with a costume on.

Every sheet lists the ages it suits, and the 2, 3, 4 and 5 year old pages carry the full range if you would rather start there.

Getting the most out of them

Print a stack, not a sheet
Halloween coloring is a party activity as much as a table activity. Print eight or ten, put them in the middle of a table with a tub of crayons, and they will outlast most games. Grayscale and draft quality are fine — these are outlines, and nobody is examining the line weight.
Make them last
Slide one into a plastic pocket and hand over a dry-wipe marker, and the same pumpkin can be colored, wiped and colored again for the whole of October. This is the single cheapest trick on this site and it works for every sheet, not just these.
Cut them out
A colored pumpkin taped to a window is a decoration, and a four year old who made the decoration will point it out to everyone who visits. Cutting around a thick outline is also real scissor practice, which is on every pre-school readiness checklist there is.

The printing guide covers the scale setting that decides whether a sheet comes out the size it was drawn at, and most of these can also be colored on screen if the printer is out of ink.

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