Halloween Coloring Pages

Every Halloween theme on the site is linked from this page: Halloween itself, pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, scary and spooky scenes, witches, skeletons, bats, spiders, and sugar skulls for Day of the Dead. The running total sits above the themed lists under the grid. It is counted from what is published at the moment you load the page rather than typed into the copy, so it cannot go stale.

The jack-o-lanterns on the porch, the trick-or-treating children, the friendly ghost and the black cat are all drawn round and cheerful rather than menacing. Nothing in this set has a genuinely frightening face. The skeleton in the graveyard is the most atmospheric, and it is dancing.

Leave the cut-out eyes, nose and mouth as untouched white paper and ring each one with the palest yellow, then a touch of orange where the glow spills onto the pumpkin's surface. Keep the rest of the pumpkin a mid orange with deeper shadow on the side away from the carving, and color the background dark. The contrast is what creates the glow.

Cover it completely. Lay deep blue, indigo or violet over the whole sky area in two or three light layers rather than one heavy pass, keeping it darkest at the top of the page and slightly lighter near the horizon. Leave the moon and any stars as bare paper, adding them afterwards over dark pigment only works with a white gel pen.

Yes. Every sheet linked from this page is a free printable PDF with no sign-up, no account and no licensed characters, so they are fine for parties, classrooms and group activities.

Our spider coloring pages are the closest companion set. They include a spider on a pumpkin, a spider in a witch hat and three spiders dangling on silk threads, all drawn friendly rather than scary, so they suit the same age range as the pages above. Our ghost coloring pages are the other companion set, and the friendliest one: fifteen smiling ghosts, a haunted house and a moonlit graveyard, drawn gentle enough for a preschooler who finds the rest of Halloween too much. The skeleton coloring pages are the other natural pairing, with a trick or treating skeleton, a skeleton in a witch hat and a gravestone scene drawn at the same bold line weight.