Halloween Bat Flying Past a Full Moon Coloring Page

The moon on this sheet is a plain circle, and it is big. It fills most of the upper half of the paper, drawn as a single unbroken outline with just two small craters marked near the center, so it is essentially one very large field with a couple of dots in it.

Crossing in front of it is the bat, wings open wide and body turned toward the viewer. The near wing overlaps the moon's edge, which is the detail that makes the composition work: it puts the animal in front rather than floating beside. Both wings carry finger lines and scalloped lower edges, and the face is small and plain, with two filled eyes, a short smile and two triangular ears.

Three chunky five pointed stars sit around the moon, drawn with rounded corners rather than sharp ones.

The appeal here is the contrast between one huge simple shape and one smaller detailed one. A child can fill the moon in seconds and then slow down on the bat. It also prints well scaled down, because nothing on the page relies on fine line work to be readable.