14 November Coloring Pages (Free Printable PDFs)

What November asks for

Halloween is over and winter has not started, which leaves a month about harvest, thanks and falling leaves. Two dates shape it. Veterans Day comes on November 11, and Thanksgiving comes late in the month. The pages follow that same path.

Begin with the outdoors. The fall leaves page has a big maple leaf with oak, birch and ginkgo leaves around it. Two giant acorns hang from a branch while a chipmunk holds a tiny one of its own. The autumn tree has a rope swing, a rake and a pile of leaves to jump in. A scarecrow in patched overalls stands in a cornfield with two crows on his arms, and the harvest moon rises huge behind a red barn, with an owl and a small fox below.

Next comes the Veterans Day page. A waving American flag flies above a wall that says Thank You Veterans, with autumn trees in the back. It is a calm, respectful choice for a school assembly or a note to a family member who served.

Food takes over near the end of the month. The Thanksgiving dinner has a roast turkey on a platter with rolls, cranberries, gravy and mashed potatoes. The pumpkin pie smiles at you from a farmhouse table. A woven cornucopia spills apples, grapes, corn and a pumpkin, and the harvest basket holds much the same crop in front of hay bales. The pumpkin and the kawaii fall page are the two sweetest picks for small kids.

November coloring pages for every age

• Ages 3 to 5: Give them the smiling pumpkin or the kawaii fall picnic. Both have a big happy face in the middle of the sheet.
• Ages 4 to 7: The turkey has large tail feathers that can each take a new color. The acorns and the leaves are simple too.
• Ages 6 to 10: The scarecrow, the basket and the harvest moon add a farm scene around the main subject.
• Ages 8 to 12: Try the cornucopia, with its woven horn, or the flag, which takes a steady hand along the stripes. The thankful tree adds some writing.

Fall colors that feel warm

Leaves are the best part of this month. A single leaf can hold more than one color, so start with yellow and let orange or red creep in from the edge. Dark veins can go in last with a brown pencil. If you use the maple leaf for red and the ginkgo for gold, the page will show off the differences in shape.

Pumpkins have ribs, and that gives you a simple way to shade. Color the whole thing orange, then go along each curved line with a darker orange or a little brown. The middle of each rib stays bright, and the pumpkin looks round.

The turkey's tail is a pattern job. Repeat red, orange and yellow around the fan, in the same order each time. Keep the body brown so the tail stands out. The basket and the cornucopia take a similar kind of patience. Use two browns or two tans and switch between them so the weave looks real.

For the moon, start with a warm yellow and add soft orange in the round craters. A dark purple sky around it will make it glow. Use a real flag as your guide for the Veterans Day page. Solid strokes in one direction will keep the red stripes clean, and leaving the white stripes bare is the easy way to keep them white.

Veterans Day in plain words

Kids often ask what the day is for, so a short answer helps. Veterans Day honors everyone who has served in the US military. Memorial Day is the one for those who died in service, and people mix the two up all the time. The date comes from the end of the fighting in World War I, on November 11, 1918.

Before your class starts the flag page, take a look at a real one. It has 13 stripes for the first colonies and 50 stars for the states. The drawing waves, so some stripes fold out of sight, and that gives kids a nice puzzle to count. A child with a family member who served can write that name in small letters under the stone wall.

Early dark and a big moon

Clocks go back on the first Sunday of November in most of the US, so it gets dark soon after school. Keep a small stack of pages by the table for those long evenings. The acorn page and the kawaii picnic are short enough to finish before dinner.

The harvest moon page is a good excuse to step outside. A real harvest moon is the full moon closest to the first day of fall, so it comes in September or early October. November's full moon has an old name of its own, the Beaver Moon. Look up the date, set a reminder and go out with a coat on to see it rise. Then come back in and color the barn, the owl and the small fox while the real moon is fresh in your mind.

Print once, use all month

The set works well for a monthly classroom plan. Use the leaves and acorns in the first week, the flag before November 11, the farm pages after that and the food pages in the last few days before Thanksgiving break. Press Download all at the top of this page for one file with the whole set. Press PDF on any card for one sheet. Pages fit US Letter paper, and if you print on A4, turn on Fit to page. Press Color to fill in a page on a phone, tablet or computer.

Thanksgiving tables are a good place for these. Print a stack, put out a cup of crayons and let the kids color while the food cooks.

Thank you notes and leaf walks

The thankful tree works as a class project. Each student writes something on a leaf, such as a person, a pet or a good book. You can also make it a family page. Add one new leaf at dinner each night until the tree is full.

For Veterans Day, students can color the flag and write a short thank you note on the back. Ask a school office or a local group how to pass the notes along.

Go on a leaf walk and bring back a few real ones. Lay them next to the leaves page and try to match the shapes. Young kids can sort their leaves by color and count each pile.

The Thanksgiving dinner page is great for an easy writing prompt. Ask kids to label each dish and star the one they like best. Then cut the corn, apples and pumpkins from a spare harvest basket page and make a pattern on the table.

Use any page for free at home or in class, as our free use license explains. Look through our Thanksgiving coloring pages and fall coloring pages for even more.

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