Harvest Festival With Hay Bales And Corn Stalks Coloring Page

A harvest display is set out across the front of the picture, with round hay bales stacked at one side, bundles of corn stalks tied and standing upright, and baskets of squash, apples and gourds arranged along the ground. Bunting hangs above and a barn stands behind. Everything is drawn with thick clear outlines and the objects are large and well spaced, making this an easy, cheerful page for children from about four upward.

The variety of produce is the point here, so lean into it. Gourds in particular come in every shade going, and letting a child color each one differently, including some in stripes, is entirely faithful to how a real harvest table looks. Keep the hay bales and corn stalks in a consistent pale gold so all that color has something calm to sit against.

Those standing bundles of corn stalks have a proper name. Farmers call them shocks, and before machinery took over, cutting the corn and standing it in shocks to dry in the field was the ordinary way of finishing the harvest everywhere corn was grown.