Add some pumpkin glow this Halloween afternoon with our jack-o’-lantern coloring pages! These adorable pumpkin-themed prints have everything from toothy smiles to silly expressions, and spookier-than-thou carved faces! From a sweet winking pumpkin to an eerie lantern waiting on old stone steps, there’s a page here for everyone!
There are some great coloring breaks (some may be short) but also some that allow more creative freedom as far as working in the shadows, background details and small intricacies go. A fun way to get kids’ creativity going this Halloween season whether they’re using them as part of a classroom activity or just spreading some crayons around the kitchen table!
Free Printable Jack-o’-Lantern Coloring Pages
These free printable jack-o’-lantern coloring pages are formatted as PDFs that should fit on standard US Letter-sized paper. You can print them off if you want some color-time this Halloween either at home or at school.
We have included both a very simple and cute one for those who might be young and just learning to color as well as more complicated ones with a gargoyle, an attic window, or even a little wooden boat that could provide some extra coloring time!
Try using crayons if you’re trying to color bigger sections of the Halloween pumpkins but then get out the colored pencils when it comes to narrowing down certain parts of the carving and shading them! Also keep in mind that if your printer clips the edge make sure to pick ‘fit to page’ before printing.
How to Color Jack-o’-Lantern Pages Using Your Imagination
Check out these 3 awesome ideas that will take your pumpkin coloring sheets from boring to totally rad using only things you already have around the house.
1. Give Your Pumpkin a Candlelit Glow
Fill the carved out eyes and mouth sections with yellow and then layer on some orange to mimic the flicker of the light from within.
Try to keep the colors relatively bright. Don’t get too deep into the color palette here because you want the effect of a candle lit up inside.
2. Invent a Funny Pumpkin Character
Pick a pumpkin with a crooked mustache or surprised mouth for an expressive face. Try painting your jack-o-lantern with unexpected colors to create a unique character.
Add a striped hat or rosy cheeks to make your jack-o-lantern more interesting. Maybe you can even paint his or her tiny name beneath their face! Purple pumpkins always seem cheerful next to green stems.
3. Build a Spooky Night Scene
You could use the lantern that’s floating in a boat (or peeking through a broken window) as inspiration for your Halloween scene; just add anything you think would be nice in your Halloween painting!
For example, shade the background into a deep blue and add some bare tree branches, clouds or little waves next to the boat. Or leave some little areas of white to show moonlight. Once you’re done with your Halloween pumpkin picture, you could also choose to hang it onto a piece of black paper so that the colors really pop.
Let us know if we can help with anything else!
Keep those crayons handy and give each of these cute jack-o’-lantern coloring pages some Halloween personality!