Halloween colouring page

A pumpkin, a bat, a hanging spider and a buckled witch hat on one printable sheet, black outlines on white.

Four Halloween shapes share this sheet, drawn in black outline on white: a large ribbed pumpkin with a curled stem, a bat in flight with both wings spread and two round eyes, a spider hanging from its web, and a pointed witch hat with a buckled band. Nothing sits on top of anything else in a way that hides an edge, so each shape can be finished on its own and the page can be set down between sessions. We drew it and laid it out at A4, and the PDF prints without the stem or the tip of the hat getting trimmed.

Start with the pumpkin if you want the sheet to look finished early. The ribs divide the body into tall panels, and treating each panel as its own small area keeps the colour even instead of streaky across the whole shape. Leaving the panel edges a shade darker than the middles gives the gourd a round belly without any blending at all. The curled stem is a separate closed shape and can take a completely different colour from the body, which is the easiest way to keep it from disappearing into the orange.

The bat is mostly one broad silhouette, so the decision there is whether to fill it solid or not. A solid fill in black or a deep grey reads clearly from across a room and takes a marker well. If you would rather keep some detail, colour the wings a lighter tone than the body and leave the two round eyes white, since white eyes are the only bright spot the shape has. The wing edges are scalloped, and following each curve slowly at the border keeps the outline crisp instead of furry.

The spider hangs on a single thread, and the web lines behind it are the thinnest work on the sheet. A coloured pencil holds a fine line better than a marker tip here, and a light touch is enough since the web is already drawn for you. If a marker does wander over a web line, the line usually still shows through a light colour, so pale grey or pale blue is more forgiving than a saturated one. The spider's body is small enough that one flat colour across the whole of it looks deliberate.

The witch hat gives you two shapes to separate: the tall cone and the wide brim, split by a band with a buckle on it. Colouring the band and the cone differently makes the buckle read as hardware rather than as a hole in the hat. The buckle itself can stay bare white paper, which suggests metal without any technique at all. If the cone and brim end up the same colour, a slightly heavier pass on the brim keeps the two from flattening into a single silhouette.

This is a sheet for the hour before the evening starts, when the costume is half assembled and dinner is not ready. Finished, it can go in a window facing the street, where the heavy outlines still read from the pavement after dark. The four shapes can also be cut apart and used separately: the hat on the front of a card, the pumpkin taped to a candy bowl, the bat and the spider stuck to a doorframe. Cutting around a curved outline is more forgiving than cutting a straight edge, because a wobble just follows the shape.

Nothing on the sheet requires the usual Halloween palette. A purple pumpkin, a green hat and a brown bat make the page look intentional rather than wrong, and the outlines carry the subject well enough that every shape stays recognisable. If you want the traditional look instead, the useful contrast is between the warm pumpkin and the cooler objects around it, with the paper left white behind all four so the shapes stay separate from one another rather than merging into a single dark cluster.

We built the PDF at A4, so it prints from a home printer without scaling. Heavier paper such as card stands up to markers that bleed and makes any cut-out pieces stiff enough to tape up. The PNG previews show exactly what you are getting before you send anything to the printer. If you plan to fill the bat solid black, printing a second copy first is worth doing, since a fully filled shape cannot be undone and the rest of the sheet is still waiting.

Published 28 August 2026Updated 28 August 2026741 words