Halloween Coloring Pages

Our free Halloween coloring pages are more sweet than scary. Color a grinning jack-o'-lantern, a friendly ghost floating over a pumpkin patch, a black cat on a fence or a row of trick-or-treaters in homemade costumes. There are big, simple shapes for small hands and detailed haunted houses for older kids and grown-ups, all original and ready to print.

Halloween designs you can print

  • Jack-o'-lanterns: carved pumpkins with happy, silly and surprised faces, plus blank pumpkins so you can draw your own
  • Friendly ghosts: sheet ghosts waving, carrying candy buckets and peeking out of windows
  • Black cats and bats: cats with arched backs on fences and bats hanging upside down under a full moon
  • Witches and wizards: pointy hats, striped socks, broomsticks and bubbling cauldrons
  • Haunted houses: crooked towers, creaky gates and glowing windows with lots of small details
  • Trick-or-treaters: kids in homemade costumes holding buckets and pillowcases
  • Candy and treats: candy corn, lollipops, caramel apples and wrapped sweets

What Halloween is about

Halloween falls on October 31 every year. Its roots go back about 2,000 years to Samhain, a Celtic festival that marked the end of the harvest and the start of winter. Today it's mostly about costumes, carved pumpkins and trick-or-treating, when kids go door to door collecting candy from neighbors.

Ways to use Halloween coloring pages

  • Party table activity: set out a stack of pages and a cup of crayons so guests have something to do while everyone arrives.
  • Window gallery: color, cut out and tape ghosts, bats and pumpkins to the front window for trick-or-treaters to see.
  • Classroom countdown: hand out one page each day of the last week of October and staple them into a booklet on the 31st.
  • Candy alternative: roll up a page with two crayons and a ribbon for trick-or-treaters who can't have sweets.
  • Costume planning: let kids design a costume on a blank trick-or-treater page before you start making it.

Frequently asked questions

Are these Halloween coloring pages free?

Yes. Every Halloween coloring page here is free to print and download for personal and classroom use.

Do you have cute Halloween coloring pages that aren't scary?

Yes. Most of this page is cute: smiling pumpkins, friendly ghosts and kittens in witch hats. Look for pages marked Easy. If you want something a little creepier, try Spooky Halloween.

Are there Halloween coloring pages for adults?

Yes. Pages marked Detailed have haunted mansions, a shelf of potion bottles and Halloween mandalas with small spaces that suit fine markers and colored pencils.

Can I print these as a Halloween coloring book?

Yes. Print the pages you like, add a blank sheet for a cover and staple the left edge. For a tidier booklet, see how to make a coloring book.