Fall Coloring Pages

These fall coloring pages capture autumn as kids experience it outdoors: crunchy leaves, acorns and chestnuts, rainy walks under an umbrella and animals getting ready for winter. Most pages show nature and weather rather than Halloween, which makes them a good fit for the whole season, from the first cool days of September to late November.

Kids can color a squirrel finding acorns by an oak tree, a hedgehog with an apple by the compost bin, a badger preparing its burrow, a beaver building a dam in an autumn stream and a fox under a maple tree. Bird pages include a woodpecker in a birch grove, an owl on a rainy evening and a crow on a fence beside a field. Children appear too: a boy flying a kite in an autumn meadow, a boy packing leaves in the park, a child under an umbrella in the rain and a visit to an autumn market. A scarecrow by the garden shed, paper lanterns and a smiling corn cob in the leaves add a bit of harvest cheer.

Most designs are medium difficulty and suit kids ages 6 to 10, while younger children can color the larger shapes with a little help. Leaves, fur, feathers and raindrops create lots of small areas, which makes the pages good practice for pencil control, patience and mixing warm fall colors.

Two subcategories help you find a theme fast. Fall Leaves and Chestnuts Coloring Pages gathers leaves, acorns, chestnuts and colorful foliage, and Mushroom Coloring Pages is all about forest mushrooms.

The pages are free to download and print as many times as you like, which makes it easy to try a second color scheme. They are sized for A4 paper and scale to US Letter with "Fit to page." Standard 20 lb printer paper suits colored pencils; choose cardstock for markers or paint so nothing bleeds through.

Pumpkins and friendly ghosts live in the Halloween section, and the other seasons are waiting in Winter Coloring Pages, Spring Coloring Pages and Summer Coloring Pages.