Monster Trick or Treating With a Candy Bucket Coloring Page

Halloween night, and the monster is the one collecting the candy. He walks toward you mid stride, shaggy all over, with a ribbed candy pail swinging from one hand and filled to the brim with wrapped sweets. Those wrappers are the detail worth saving for last. Color each one a different shade and the pile reads as a real handful of candy rather than a lump. The pail itself carries evenly spaced vertical ribs running down it, and that is the most useful surface on the page. Alternate two tones rib by rib and the bucket turns round and solid in a way a flat fill never manages. It is the same trick that works on barrels, baskets and fence posts. The monster is covered in short scallop strokes of fur from his horns down to his feet. Keep him in one tone and let the pail and the candy carry the brightest color. Color everything brightly and nothing on the page stands out at all. His grin shows a row of blunt square teeth, and those look best left white against a darker mouth. This sheet pairs naturally with our pumpkin coloring pages and the wider Halloween collection if you are putting together a party activity pack. Download the PDF free.