Articles in "Seasonal & Holidays"

A clean black-and-white line art coloring page of a friendly jack-o-lantern next to a sitting black cat on a porch, only the candle glow inside the pumpkin colored in warm orange, everything else unco

Halloween coloring pages, and the real story behind the spooky stuff

Color a jack-o-lantern, ghost, or black cat, then find out where each Halloween tradition actually came from, all the way back to an old Irish autumn.

4 min read

A clean black and white line art coloring page of an apple tree heavy with fruit, all apples drawn in plain outline except three apples fully colored in glowing ripe red, warm and inviting, thick clea

Apple coloring pages that follow an orchard day from tree to pie

A set of apple coloring pages laid out as one orchard afternoon, from the first tree you pick to the pie that cools on the windowsill that night.

3 min read

A clean black and white line art coloring page of one large maple leaf with five pointed lobes and detailed veins, a few lobes filled with warm autumn color fading from green at the base to gold then

Fall leaf coloring pages where no color is wrong

Print maple, oak, and ginkgo leaves, then color them any shade you like. The gold and scarlet were hiding in the green all along.

4 min read

A clean black-and-white line art coloring page of a pumpkin patch at dusk, rows of round pumpkins on curling vines with wide leaves, one single pumpkin in the center glowing warm orange as if lit from

Pumpkin coloring pages for a slow afternoon at the patch

One afternoon at the pumpkin patch, from the hayride to the windowsill, with a page to color at every stop.

3 min read

A whimsical line-art coloring-page drawing on white paper of a slender branch holding maple, oak and ginkgo leaves, where several leaves are lifting off the page and drifting downward, turning fully c

Fall leaves coloring pages, and the color that was hiding all summer

The yellow was in the leaf all summer, hidden under the green. Print maple, oak and ginkgo pages and reveal the color yourself.

4 min read

A clean black and white line art coloring page style drawing of a grandmother and a small grandchild sitting side by side, with only a single heart between them colored in warm red, everything else pu

Grandparents Day coloring pages made to keep

A portrait of grandma, a heart for grandpa, a page small enough to mail. Print, color, and give something they will actually keep.

3 min read

A black-and-white line-art drawing of an open classroom door on a sheet of paper, with colorful crayon light, stars and confetti spilling out through the open doorway and lifting up off the page into

Back to school coloring pages for first-day butterflies

Color the backpack, the bus, and the classroom door before the first day arrives, and watch the big morning start to feel a little smaller.

3 min read

A field guide style plate showing five different autumn leaf shapes arranged in a neat row: maple, oak, ginkgo, sweetgum and birch, drawn as clean black and white line art in a coloring page style, bu

Autumn leaf coloring pages, sorted by the tree they fell from

Fall leaf pages grouped by the tree they fell from. Color the shape, then go outside and find the real one.

5 min read

A child's bright crayon drawing of a cheerful yellow school bus driving along a sunny road, colored with visible waxy crayon strokes, simple and joyful, no text or letters anywhere, horizontal composi

Back to school coloring pages, matched to the moment your kid is in

One page for the jittery night before, another for the rushed first morning, and a calm one for the walk home after day one.

3 min read

Tiger coloring pages for a stripe pattern that has never existed

No two tigers share a stripe pattern. Researchers count wild tigers by them. Six signatures, plus pages to print for Tiger Day.

4 min read

A cozy coloring corner on a living room floor near a glowing television, two young children lying down coloring soccer-themed pages with crayons, scattered coloring pages and a cup of crayons, warm ev

A coloring corner that keeps kids happy through a World Cup match

Set up a simple coloring corner so the kids stay happy and you actually get to watch the match. What to pack, and how to time it to the ninety minutes.

4 min read

Flat overhead view of a homemade tournament wall chart on a big sheet of white paper, a bracket of empty hand-drawn boxes connected by lines, several brightly colored small paper flags placed in some

Turn the World Cup into a color-in wall chart for kids

Channel all that tournament energy into a wall chart your kids color a flag into after every match. Here is how to set it up in about five minutes.

4 min read