Be Creative! Projects : Coloring Pages: Halloween Pumpkins

Coloring Fun: Punkin, Pumpkin and Halloween Jack-O-Lantern Coloring Pages

Based on Nit Wits Comic #15

By Chris Dunmire

Get out your crayons and have some coloring fun! If you're looking for some fall fun, my grinning pumpkin coloring pages absolutely won't bore you out of your gourd!

Simply download and print one or more of my three FREE Nit Wits Pumpkin coloring pages and unleash your creativity with the medium of your choice (crayons, colored pencil, paint, markers, or collage).

If you're feeling extra creative for the autumnHalloween season, then be sure to check out Creativity Portal's Pumpkin Carving resources and print my free pumpkin carving pattern to the Nit Wits Punkin project. And if you're feeling especially silly, print out my REAL PUMPKIN PATCH!

Project Materials Needed:

• Nit Wits coloring page (PDF format: 3 to choose from!)

• Crayons, colored pencils, markers, paint, collage materials, or other creative medium of your choice.

Try It!

1. Download and print one of the fall or Halloween pumpkin coloring pages from the selection below. There are three to choose from: Nit Wits Punkin, Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin, and Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin Gourd.
   
   Printing Tips: Print the coloring page on thick paper or cardstock if you wish to cut out, collage, or paint your pumpkin. For crayon coloring, print page on regular printer or copier paper.
   
   
2. Color page with crayons, colored pencils, markers, or other medium of your choice.
   
   
3. When you're done, sign your masterpiece. If you're feeling bold, hang it on the refrigerator door for all to see!

What You'll Learn:

The truth behind what really goes on inside of a pumpkin patch! Did you really think that all of those orange gourds had no life other than to sit around waiting to be picked for your Halloween party?

The NEXT Creative Step...

If you liked coloring my Nit Wits page, how about drawing some cartoony things yourself? •

Pumpkin Coloring Pages Download Selection:

Coloring Page: Nit Wits Punkin (PDF)
The pierced, punk rock rebel gourd.

Coloring Page: Nit Wits Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin (PDF)
The traditional happy Halloween Jack-O-Lantern

Coloring Page: Plain Pumpkin (PDF)
The regular ol' fall pumpkin patch pumpkin gourd.

Even if you adore the grinning Halloween pumpkins, you don't have to leave without a "normal" looking pumpkin to color. You know what I mean, a regular ol' plain pumpkin that will just make you smile to the moon!

Enough downloading already... go get your coloring and artistic groove on! •

© Chris Dunmire 2004, 2007. All rights reserved.

Updated 12/20/13