Fall
Maple leaves, acorns, a pumpkin patch with a scarecrow, a squirrel holding an acorn like a prize. Pages a child can guess without reading the key.
10 pages
Free Printable Color by Number Pages
By Zen Vibes Editors · Published
Color by number is the page you hand a child who says they cannot draw. Every area has a number, the key at the bottom says which color each number is, and the picture shows up as they go. There is no wrong answer and the finished page always looks right, which is why kids who have given up on coloring will sit still for one of these. Grown-ups like them for the same reason, plus they are calming in a way that open coloring is not.
The sets here follow the year, fall and the holidays coming up, with dinosaurs for the children who want a dinosaur regardless of the month. Inside each set the pages run from a single pumpkin with three colors and a handful of big shapes, up to a whole village street with a dozen colors and more areas than you can count at a glance. Every page also shows what it looks like finished, so a child can pick by the result.
Fall leaves and pumpkin patches, then Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, each up well before the day so there is time to print a stack for the table.
Halloween
A grinning jack-o'-lantern, a ghost waving, a cauldron bubbling, and a haunted house with a welcome mat. Silly, never scary, and orange and purple come out on their own.
10 pages
Thanksgiving
A turkey with its tail fanned out, a slice of pie, a cornucopia, and a whole dinner table seen from above. What the kids' table gets while the food finishes.
10 pages
Christmas
One big ornament, a gingerbread person, a fireplace with stockings, and a sleigh over the rooftops. A stack for the kitchen table that gets shorter every day in December.
10 pages
Big friendly creatures where nobody can say you got the color wrong, starting with dinosaurs: a handful of colors for little kids, whole valleys for older ones.
Dinosaurs
A baby dinosaur, an egg cracking open, a long-neck reaching for leaves, and a whole valley with a smoking volcano. Any color is the right color.
10 pages
Picking the right one
Count the colors in the key. Three to five with big areas suits a two- to five-year-old and a chunky crayon. Six to eight with a simple background is comfortable for five to nine. Ten or more across a full scene takes longer and rewards pencils or fine markers, which is where older kids and adults land.
Any crayon box will do
The key names ordinary colors, red, orange, light green, light blue, and so on, so a standard box covers every page. Missing one? Use the closest color for every area with that number and the picture still comes out right.
The blank bits
A few very small areas have no number because a number would not fit. Color them to match whatever they are part of, or leave them white. Areas that are white on purpose, eyes and clouds and ghosts, have no number either.