Ghost Coloring Pages
Free printable ghost coloring pages featuring cute friendly ghosts, haunted houses, trick-or-treating scenes, and moonlit graveyards.
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Ghosts are the easiest Halloween subject to color and the least frightening, which is why they suit a wider age range than almost anything else on the shelf. These 15 ghost coloring pages run from a single smiling ghost with four shapes to fill up to a full haunted house, so a preschooler and a fourth grader can work at the same table. Every design downloads as a free ghost coloring page PDF sized for US Letter paper, 8.5 by 11 inches, with no sign-up.
What Is in the Collection
The friendly ghosts are the starting point and the ones most children pick first. Cute Smiling Ghost Waving Hello, Three Little Ghosts Floating in a Row, Ghost Family of Three Floating Together and Baby Ghost Hugging a Teddy Bear.
The Halloween ghost coloring pages put the ghost in the middle of the night itself. Ghost Floating Above a Smiling Jack-o-Lantern, Ghost Trick or Treating With a Candy Bucket, Ghost Wearing a Pointed Witch Hat, Ghost Holding a Balloon at a Halloween Party and Child in a Bedsheet Ghost Costume.
The spookier scenes carry more line work and suit older children. Haunted House With Ghosts Floating in the Windows, Ghost Peeking Out of an Attic Window, Ghost Peeking Out From Behind a Tombstone and Ghost Floating in Front of a Full Moon With Bats.
Three more round out the set: Ghost Cat With a Curled Floating Tail and Sleepy Ghost Floating With a Pillow, both for children who want the season without the scare.
Who These Pages Are For
The printable cute ghost coloring sheets suit ages 3 to 7. The waving ghost, the baby ghost with its teddy and the row of three are the easiest starting points, since each is built from a handful of large closed shapes with nothing fine to stay inside.
The scenes suit ages 8 and up. The haunted house, the attic window and the moonlit graveyard add architecture, shingles and grass, and they reward a child who has the patience to work section by section. Teachers use ghosts in the last week of October precisely because they are the safe end of the holiday, and the friendly designs here give a nervous child a way to join in. For the rest of the season see Halloween, and for the pointed hats and cauldrons see Witches.
Printing and Coloring Tips
Do not color the ghost white. This is the one page type where children freeze, because the subject is already the color of the paper. The fix is to leave the ghost blank and color everything around it instead, or to give the ghost the palest wash you have and put strong color into the pumpkin, the hat or the bucket. A ghost reads as a ghost because of what surrounds it.
Use the negative space on purpose. On the moon page, filling the big circle behind the ghost with a dark or graded color and leaving the ghost untouched produces the strongest result in the whole set, and it takes one crayon.
Print on 65 lb cardstock if the pages are going on a window. Ghost sheets get taped to glass more than any other Halloween design, and copy paper buckles and goes transparent in a way cardstock does not.
More line art in this direction: Halloween, Witches and Bats.
Frequently Asked Questions
What color should a ghost coloring page be?
Traditionally the ghost stays white, so the interesting decision is what goes behind it. Color the sky, the moon, the pumpkin or the grass and let the paper itself be the ghost. If a child wants the ghost colored, pale gray, mint, lilac and pale blue all keep it looking ghostly, while a solid bright fill makes it read as a balloon or a snowman instead.
Why are ghosts drawn wearing bedsheets?
The sheet comes from burial custom rather than from folklore about spirits. For centuries the dead were wrapped in a winding sheet for burial, so a returning spirit was pictured in the last clothing anyone had seen it in. Victorian stage productions made the draped white figure a standard costume, and cartoonists simplified it into the rounded shape with two eye holes that children draw today. Child in a Bedsheet Ghost Costume is the version of that costume most families actually make.
Are ghost coloring pages too scary for preschoolers?
Not these ones. Every ghost in this collection is drawn smiling, with round proportions and big eyes, which is the opposite of the tall hollow-eyed figure that frightens young children. If a three or four year old is nervous about Halloween, start with the baby ghost and its teddy bear or the sleepy ghost with its pillow, then move to the jack-o-lantern page. Save the haunted house and the graveyard until they ask for them.
Can I print these for a classroom or a party?
Yes. Every sheet is free to print in any quantity for home, classroom or party use, and there is no sign-up or watermark. The party ghost with its balloon and bunting and the row of three ghosts work best for a group, because both have repeated shapes that come back looking different from every child. Printing one design per guest and taping the finished pages up as a wall is a common use in late October.
Can I print these on A4 paper?
Yes. Every file is sized for US Letter. Choose "Fit to page" in your print dialog and the design scales down to A4 with no clipping.