Looking for ways to liven up Autumn? Our pumpkin coloring pages are perfect! Kids love them, as they feature all sorts of pumpkins: twisting vines, cheerful faces, chunky ridges, woodland details, and more. There’s even some that include cute animals like a kitten, a hedgehog, or tiny little mice!
These pumpkin coloring sheets can be used as part of quiet time, fall classroom activities, Halloween parties, or just a quick craft project when you get back from a trip to the pumpkin patch. Plus, you can color them using orange crayons (always welcome) or try mixing things up by adding yellow gourds, green stems, patterned leaves, or even purple Halloween Pumpkins!
Free Printable Pumpkin Coloring Pages
You’ll love these free printable pumpkin coloring pages that are perfect for younger children who love to color! And you can also use them with more advanced kids and even adults.
There are different versions of pumpkins next to fallen leaves and mushrooms, some are stacked together with small gourds, others rest on top of hay bales, and there are ones growing up through rows of corn stalks and sunflowers.
Each pumpkin coloring sheet is a PDF file and printed to fit into an A4 size piece of paper. If the borders look too close to the edge when you print this one, choose “Fit To Page” from your printers options menu, or edit the sheet using our coloring page size converter. Then grab your crayons, colored pencils or washable markers.
5 Hands-On Ideas Using Pumpkin Coloring Pages
And when you’re done with the coloring? Use these paper crafts to create decorations, games, and more! All you need are some paper, glue, scissors, and other stuff around the house!
1. Make a Pumpkin Patch Bulletin Board
Each kid colors a unique pumpkin printable (we have versions that range from bold designs with three little leaves to intricate gourds covered in curling tendrils), then cut around the completed picture to hang on green or brown poster paper. We always put some paper vines and name labels in there too, plus maybe an ornately painted hand drawn fence as a backdrop for our work.
In a classroom setting you might want kids to write down an autumn word or pumpkin fact under their artwork. Just adding a few acorns and mushrooms between the gourds really makes this display pop!
2. Create Harvest Basket Place Cards
Cut out a cute little pumpkin that pokes its head above a woven basket or select another fall coloring page. Once colored, simply cut your finished picture out into a small rectangle of paper and glue to some folded card stock (so that it will stand up on its own). Write down the name of the guest next to the picture and embellish with a little bit of raffia bow or leaf sticker (if applicable).
These DIY placecards are perfect for use at your Thanksgiving dinner, harvest party, or classroom snack table! It also makes kids excited about helping decide where people will be seated around the table.
3. Build a Pumpkin Fairy Carriage
First colour and cut out your magical pumpkin carriage with leafy wheels. Then glue it onto some dark blue card stock – add a little moon and stars as well as a winding road (or maybe you have an idea for a tiny passenger?). To give a little more interest we’ve covered the sky using some small bits of tissue paper for our clouds. You could also try adding some cotton wool for some mist!
If you wanted to turn your completed pumpkin coloring page into a nice little decoration why not fold up a bit of card stock into a stand and attach this to the back? You’ll then be able to put your pumpkin on display!
4. Make a Funny Pumpkin Face Puzzle
Print the friendly owl carved pumpkin printout, sleepy faced gourd printout or smiling pumpkin with crown of leaves.
Color the image and glue it to some cardboard from a cereal box (to make it sturdier). Once dried completely, draw six or ten puzzle sections (depending upon how challenging you want it) on the back of the image. Cut along these lines.
For preschoolers keep the puzzle section chunks, but if your kid is an older child, they might enjoy solving tricky shapes! Don’t forget to store them in an envelope labeled with its number and name, so that all the puzzle bits don’t get lost somewhere.
5. Create a Pumpkin Life Cycle Wheel
We think we would love this pumpkin coloring sheet if it wasn’t for one thing – that cut open pumpkin! But there are lots of things you can discuss with the kids while they color and cut out this realistic cut-open pumpkin printable… seeds, fibers, skin, the curved stem! So after cutting out the main picture, attach it onto the middle of a paper plate.
Then around the edge draw 4 simple stages showing what happens from when the pumpkins were first planted as a seed through to growing into a beautiful pumpkin. You could even do some arrows connecting each stage together. Or for an even easier option just print another circle of paper with a viewing window and connect the two circles together with a split pin!
This pumpkin coloring worksheet would be great to include alongside any pumpkin science lesson plans where you’re teaching the kids all about pumpkins. It’s also a wonderful hands on fall activity that teaches kids about how a garden plant grows and changes over time.
So grab those printing favorites… print our favorite pumpkins coloring pages!