Friendly Halloween Spider on a Pumpkin Coloring Page

A big round cartoon spider takes up the top two thirds of this sheet, and a smaller pumpkin sits below it with clear white paper in between. The legs reach down toward the pumpkin without touching it, so the two shapes stay easy to color separately.

The spider has eight legs, four on each side. The top one on each side lifts up and out, and the three below it step down toward the pumpkin. Every leg is drawn in segments, with a bend partway along and a pointed tip at the end.

Its face is two round eyes, each with a filled pupil and a small white highlight, above a wide curved smile that hooks up at both ends. There are no eyebrows, no cheek patches and no fangs anywhere on the page.

The pumpkin is wider than it is tall. Four curved rib lines divide the front into five panels, the middle one much the widest and dipping lowest along the bottom edge. A short stem leans out of the top and finishes in a tight spiral curl.

Every line on the page is thick and the areas are large, so it holds up at a reduced size or on a photocopier. Orange and green is the obvious route. A purple pumpkin reads just as well here, because nothing else on the page fixes the season. This is the gentlest Halloween design in the set.