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 a Halloween 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 5 year old and he immediately sat down and started coloring it in! I was quite delighted.
He thought it was super duper hilarious that the boy in the illustration was standing on the toilet! Ah, 5 year old boys. Gotta love them.
Halloween Coloring Page Pretend Play Craft
This coloring page is also a puppet craft that could be included at a Halloween party or for a pre-trick-or-treating activity.
What you need:
Halloween coloring page
- Download and Print --> (by clicking link you agree to the terms of service, see below*) Halloween Coloring Page
Crayons, colored pencils or markers
Wood craft sticks, unsharpened pencils or straws
Glue stick, or tape
Scissors
Directions
After coloring in the coloring sheet, cut out the Halloween images on the side of the page. If you child wants to wield the scissors, let them so do with child-sized scissors.
It's not necessary to cut on the lines, you can cut the skull, Frankenstein head and jack-o-lantern with a wide border if you wish.
Glue or tape each image to a 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, recreate a favorite Halloween story book, or invent a story of his or her own.
MORE: How to make stick puppets
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.
Do your kids prefer finger puppets? Our Halloween finger puppets put the "treat" in trick-or-treat.
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!
Draw some spooky residents for this haunted house coloring page and craft template.
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.
You can learn more about Melanie's school visits where she talks to kids about the process of creating a book.
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stephanie says
Halloween and free- never a better combination!! 🙂
Maya says
I love these coloring pages! And yup, totally funny that he is standing on the toilet 🙂
Jodie @ Growing Book by Book says
Wow, 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
Oh yes, both of my boys want to be police officers for Halloween!
Carolyn says
A dragon!
Jeanette Nyberg says
I've got 1 mini Darth Vader and 1 pirate going on at my house. 🙂
becky m says
My 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
My 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
One really wants to be a Magician and the other a Witch
Ana says
I love Melanie's coloring pages!
Jill says
With 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
I think our entire family of six is going to dress up as pirates. This looks like a fun book!
Amanda says
My kids are being steampunk lady and Captain Ranger (hybrid superhero).
Megan Brewer says
My son and daughter are going as Ash and Pikachu from pokemon.
Kavya Seetala says
She wants to be Elsa.
Kim C says
My daughter will almost be 1, she is going to be a pink poodle! It's cuter than It sounds!
livivua says
snow white
Megan Sheakoski says
Harry Potter!
Wendy Marlowe says
No 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
My daughter is 10 and wants to be a Greek goddess. My son is still deciding
Emma @ P is for Preschooler says
I have a little Elsa all ready to do some trick-or-treating (and more than a week still to wait!)
pattylouyse says
My daughter LOVES mermaids! Thanks for having a give-away!
haunted house says
I LOVE THE HAUNTED HOUSE COLORINGS.........