30 Fall Coloring Pages (Free Printable PDFs)

Trees, leaves and forest friends

Cute fall pages come first, with a fall gnome, a squirrel on a log and a hedgehog carrying an apple on its back. Next come the harvest pages, such as the apple tree with its ladder, the autumn tree and a scarecrow standing in the field.

Fall outings have their own group. Kids can color an apple picking trip, a hay ride on a farm wagon, or a leaf pile ready for a jump. Older colorists can settle in with the fall cottage or the fall wreath.

Fall coloring pages by age

• Ages 3 to 5: Try the kawaii fall page or the acorn. Big shapes are all small hands need.
• Ages 5 to 8: The fall leaves page works well with real leaves beside it, so kids can match the colors.
• Ages 8 to 12: The fall barn and the fall owl have more parts to plan.
• Teens and adults: The fall mandala and the fall cottage take the most time. Sharp colored pencils help.

Printing a stack of fall pages

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Fall outings to pair with a page

A coloring page works well before or after a real outing. Color the apple picking page the night before you go to an orchard, then ask your child to compare it with the real trees. After a walk, bring home a few leaves and match them to the leaf pages. Kids notice far more when they have just colored the same thing.

A rainy Saturday is a good time for the cozy pages. Make a warm drink, put on music, and let each person choose a page. The fall barn and the hay ride take a while, so they suit a long afternoon. Smaller kids can color one big pumpkin on the kawaii page, then move on to something else.

Teachers can use the set for a whole unit. Start with leaves in September, move to apples and pumpkins in October, and finish with the harvest pages in November. Hang each new page beside the last one, and by the end of the term you will have a wall that shows the season changing.

Best colors for autumn art

You only need a few crayons to make a fall picture sing. Red, orange, gold and brown do most of the work, and a pale blue sky helps them stand out.

• Mix two or three warm colors on one tree so it does not look flat.
• Choose a dull green for the grass, since bright green feels more like spring.
• Add a darker brown over trunks and logs for a bark look.
• Keep a white spot on each apple and pumpkin to make it shine.

If your crayon box is short on orange, color yellow first and go over it lightly with red. It is a small trick, and it also teaches young kids how colors mix.

Why leaves turn red and gold

Green leaves get their color from chlorophyll, which helps a tree make food from sunlight. As days grow shorter, trees stop making it, and the green slowly fades away. Yellow and orange were in the leaf all along, so they finally show. Reds are made fresh in the fall. You can read more on Wikipedia.

Many animals are busy at this time of year too. Squirrels bury nuts for later. Hedgehogs eat as much as they can before their long winter sleep. Birds start to fly south. Talking about these things while you color is an easy way to fit in some science.

Nature walks and easy crafts

Take a page outside. Bring a clipboard, sit under a real tree and try to match its colors. Then pick up a few fallen leaves on the way home.

Back indoors, lay a leaf under thin paper and rub over it with the side of a crayon. The veins will show up on the paper. Cut out the leaf shapes and glue them around your colored tree to give it a frame. You can also press real leaves inside a heavy book and add them to the page once they are flat.

Apple printing is another hit. Cut an apple in half, dip it in paint and stamp it on paper. A paper plate wreath takes just a few minutes too, using leaves cut from your finished pages.

Ideas for teachers

Fall is a busy time in the classroom, and these pages fit many units. Use the two trees for a lesson about the seasons. Count apples for math, then graph which fruit the class likes most. The animal pages pair well with a short talk on hibernation or on how creatures get ready for the cold.

Early finishers can keep a folder of pages at their desks. Teachers may also like to use the pictures as story starters. What will the squirrel do with that acorn? Who left the ladder by the apple tree? Each child can write one or two lines under the drawing.

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A season for slowing down

The school year is in full swing by now, and evenings get dark early. A coloring page can be a calm way to end a long day. Put on some quiet music, make a mug of something warm and color together for a little while. It does not need to be neat. Most kids just like having you beside them.

Slow fall pages for teens and grown ups

The older pages in this set each have one detail worth planning around. On the fall barn, it is the painted quilt block on the wall. Barn quilts are a real thing in farm country, big painted squares that copy the look of a sewn quilt. Choose three colors and repeat them evenly, and treat it like a small puzzle.

The fall wreath is easier if you work in groups. Color every pumpkin first, then the pine cones, then the berries, and fill in the leaves last. A mix of rust, gold and dull green keeps the ring from turning into one orange blur.

For the fall cottage, start with the red arched door, since it sets the mood for the whole house. The cozy fall mug is a shorter project, good for a single evening. Leave the whipped cream nearly white and add a touch of pale gray or tan on one side, so it looks soft and round.

One more for a family table is the thankful tree. It has twelve big leaves, so everyone can write one thing they are grateful for each night until the tree is full.

Next stops after autumn

Autumn leads right into the big holidays. Our Halloween coloring pages have friendly ghosts and pumpkins, and our Thanksgiving coloring pages bring in turkeys and pies. For more wildlife, try our animal coloring pages.

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