Halloween Art and Coloring Activities for
Kids

From LoveToKnow Kids

With autumn just around the corner, many people are turning their thoughts toward Halloween art and coloring activities for kids. Coloring is great for learning manual dexterity and small muscle hand control, and art can encompass a wide variety of activities from crafts to painting to sand art.

Check out our great Halloween activities!

Fall Coloring Pages

One of the best Halloween art and coloring activities for kids includes free printable coloring pages encompassing the beauty and traditions of the fall. Although there are numerous websites with free coloring pages, here are just a few of the best Halloween art and coloring activities for kids:

Google Fall Coloring Pages—Google pulls up more than 41,000 pages featuring Halloween and autumn activities. Tie these into studies about the pilgrims, Columbus and other autumn traditions and historical events of significance.

Kaboose--In addition to coloring pages for other major holidays, Kaboose offers many pages for the Halloween season. Many excellent images of Mom and child picking out a pumpkin for carving at the local pumpkin farm or Dad and son raking leaves and jumping in them.

Preschool Coloring Book—These printable coloring pages are organized by name and topic. Everything from fall leaves to pumpkins to scarecrows. Aimed at the preschool aged child.

Halloween Art and Coloring Activities for Kids

Looking for something more specific to Halloween? You'll find printables, games and activities at these sites:

Family Fun—Offers a special section for Halloween crafts. Learn how to make decorations for your yard to ghoul things up or find out about cute and crazy costumes. Also features a special section of Halloween printables. In addition to coloring pages, offers party invitations, pumpkin carving patterns and directions for making a bat mobile.

Billy Bear's Halloween Party—This site is chock full of resources for your child for every day leading up to Halloween and every day after. The site has a special page filled with Halloween activities and printables, but you'll want to bookmark this site and visit the other areas available as well. Offers games on Halloween safety, pumpkin patterns, desktop themes and printables.

Halloween Joys—Halloween coloring pages of things like a haunted house, friendly ghost, Count Dracula and pumpkins. Also download MySpace layouts, backgrounds, graphics games and funny pictures.

Free Coloring Pages--Save trees! Let your child color these Halloween pages online with a Paint type setup. Includes images of a cute kitten in a pumpkin, a strange looking funny ghost, a scarecrow, a Happy Halloween image and several others. Choose from a drop down menu.

DLTK Kids—Scooby Doo is always facing scary situations. Join Scooby, Shaggy and the gang with these free printable coloring pages featuring the fearful canine. Two Halloween specific images featuring Scooby Doo.

Enchanted Learning—This site is chock full of educational opportunities for your child. Halloween printables and crafts include details on how to make balloon ghosts, a pasta skeleton, a papier mache spider and a ghost pop up card.

Uncommon Courtesy—Perfect hub for finding additional Halloween coloring pages. Links to a dozen of the best sites around.

ABC Teach—Unit studies offer the opportunity to study a particular topic, such as Halloween, while learning about a wide variety of educational topics. Find worksheets for Halloween alphabets, Halloween board games and many other games and activities. Hours of educational fun and learning can be found on this website.

Kiddy House—Site includes Halloween facts and activities, coloring pages, craft activities, clipart, songs and poems to share with your child or students, games and story time ideas. Also has several teacher modules on topics such as measuring pumpkins (math) or writing your own Halloween story (creative writing).

These pages and activities should keep a child busy for hours on end and will provide a rich opportunity for learning not only about the traditions associated with Halloween and the fall of the year but also provide additional learning opportunities through unit theme studies.