This new Halloween coloring page from children’s book illustrator, Melanie Hope Greenberg, marks our two year collaboration to bring you a fun coloring page each month. A boy in costume fishes for apples in the sink and the Halloween icons on the side can be turned into stick puppets for extended pretend play.
I left the Halloween coloring page out on the table for my art-resistant 5 year old and he immediately sat down and started coloring his in! I was quite delighted. He thought it was super duper hilarious that the boy was standing on the toilet! Ah, 5 year old boys. Gotta love them.
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Halloween Coloring Page Pretend Play Craft
This coloring page is also a craft. Fancy that!
What you need for the craft:
- Finished Halloween coloring page
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Craft sticks, you could also use straws or unsharpened pencils.
I cut out the Halloween images on the side of the page (my son didn’t want to, but go ahead at let your child wield the scissors if they so desire!) and glued them to wooden craft sticks to create fun Halloween stick puppets!
Your child can use his or her new Halloween stick puppets for pretend play, to dance around the house singing spooky songs, or perhaps recreate a favorite Halloween story book — or invent a story of his or her own.
More Halloween Coloring Pages:
Be sure to print out last year’s trick or treating coloring page, which includes leaves to turn into dancing, singing puppets.
Don’t forget our very first coloring page, a Halloween or Day of the Dead Mask.
Kids will imagine their next disguise with this costume coloring page!
See all of Melanie’s coloring pages:
Meet the illustrator:
Melanie Hope Greenberg is an award winning author and illustrator of more than 15 children’s books. Her cheerful, vibrant illustrations can be found in books such as Good Morning, Digger, Down in the Subway and A City Is. Her very popular Mermaids on Parade was selected as a Bank Street Best Book, and for the Texas Reading Club and PBS Kids Summer Reading Lists.
Mermaids on Parade is a modern classic. The official NYC tourism website even named it as a “future classic”. Melanie also has a mermaid tail craft to go along with the story, for all the kids who love to dress up.
You can learn more about Melanie’s school visits where she talks to kids about the process of creating a book.
Melanie signs all copies of her books purchased through her Amazon vendor link. {You can also click on a cover below and scroll through the third party vendors to find Melanie’s vendor link. Please note: book cover links are affiliate links.)
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stephanie says
October 15, 2014 at 12:37 pmHalloween and free- never a better combination!! 🙂
Maya says
October 15, 2014 at 12:59 pmI love these coloring pages! And yup, totally funny that he is standing on the toilet 🙂
Jodie @ Growing Book by Book says
October 15, 2014 at 1:04 pmWow, I didn’t realize that Good Morning Digger was one of her books. My boys really enjoy that one. The mermaid one looks really cute too.
Jodie @ Growing Book by Book says
October 15, 2014 at 1:05 pmOh yes, both of my boys want to be police officers for Halloween!
Carolyn says
October 15, 2014 at 1:08 pmA dragon!
Jeanette Nyberg says
October 15, 2014 at 1:27 pmI’ve got 1 mini Darth Vader and 1 pirate going on at my house. 🙂
becky m says
October 15, 2014 at 2:06 pmMy daughter will be one of the million “Elsa’s” (from Frozen) this year. And as a result, her 2 yr old brother will be Olaf since I get to pick his costume. 🙂
Rachael K says
October 15, 2014 at 5:10 pmMy 2 year old doesn’t quite know that Halloween exists, and depending on the weather, she may not find out yet this year either 😉
D Schmidt says
October 15, 2014 at 9:44 pmOne really wants to be a Magician and the other a Witch
Ana says
October 16, 2014 at 6:39 amI love Melanie’s coloring pages!
Jill says
October 16, 2014 at 9:16 amWith three kids, the costume discussion is always percolating in the background throughout the year. This year my eight year old and six year old sons will be blue and red ninjas, respectively. My daughter will be a cow girl. We are 15 days out. So fingers crossed that they don’t change their minds.
Amy @ Sunlit Pages says
October 16, 2014 at 9:38 amI think our entire family of six is going to dress up as pirates. This looks like a fun book!
Amanda says
October 16, 2014 at 10:44 amMy kids are being steampunk lady and Captain Ranger (hybrid superhero).
Megan Brewer says
October 16, 2014 at 12:00 pmMy son and daughter are going as Ash and Pikachu from pokemon.
Kavya Seetala says
October 17, 2014 at 4:01 pmShe wants to be Elsa.
Kim C says
October 18, 2014 at 1:28 pmMy daughter will almost be 1, she is going to be a pink poodle! It’s cuter than It sounds!
livivua says
October 19, 2014 at 12:05 amsnow white
Megan Sheakoski says
October 21, 2014 at 12:54 pmHarry Potter!
Wendy Marlowe says
October 21, 2014 at 1:07 pmNo surprise here, my daughter is going to be Elsa. She just had her “princess” these 5th birthday party and all the girls dressed up as Elsa. We had 6 Elsa’s running around the house!
Jenny Win'E says
October 21, 2014 at 1:23 pmMy daughter is 10 and wants to be a Greek goddess. My son is still deciding
Emma @ P is for Preschooler says
October 21, 2014 at 1:49 pmI have a little Elsa all ready to do some trick-or-treating (and more than a week still to wait!)
pattylouyse says
October 21, 2014 at 4:53 pmMy daughter LOVES mermaids! Thanks for having a give-away!
haunted house says
October 15, 2015 at 3:59 pmI LOVE THE HAUNTED HOUSE COLORINGS………