Seasonal & Holidays

For the dates that come around anyway

Halloween, Advent, Easter, the last week of the summer holidays. Seasonal pages and activities gathered so you're not searching for them the night before.

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A candid landscape lifestyle photograph in a cozy Hungarian kitchen on a bright October afternoon. From a three-quarter angle beside a five-year-old child, show the child coloring the inner ring of a

Hungary national day coloring pages, and the cockade your child pins on

Which ring of the cockade is red? The question that starts a 23 October craft: color the rosette, cut it out, pin it on, plus a flag and the Parliament.

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A child's hands hold up a coloring page of a single carnation, colored red and green with crayon, in front of a bright, softly blurred autumn window.

Virgen del Pilar coloring pages, and the cloak a class builds from one flower each

The 12 October flower offering in Zaragoza, told from dawn to night, with pages for a flower cloak the whole class builds together.

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A folded paper card colored in crayon with a green chalkboard on an easel and a red apple stands on a wooden desk in an empty classroom, next to a real apple and four crayons.

Teacher appreciation coloring pages, folded into a card the teacher keeps

Five questions a child asks before World Teachers' Day, answered with pages that fold into a card and leave room for a name in their own handwriting.

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Seen from above, a child's hands color a maple leaf page in orange and red pencil on a light wooden table, beside the same leaf page finished and oiled so the paper turns translucent, next to a saucer of oil and cotton balls.

Suncatcher coloring pages that turn a bare October window into stained glass

One grey afternoon, a few printed pages and a saucer of oil, and a bare October window that ends the day glowing like stained glass.

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Four animal coloring pages, a fox, a leaping humpback whale, an elephant and a stretching cat, partly colored in crayon and laid out on a light wooden table with loose crayons and an oak leaf.

Animal coloring pages for World Animal Day, one habitat at a time

A tour for 4 October: one habitat per stop, one move your child acts out, then the page. Plus where World Animal Day came from.

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A child's hands hold a crayon-colored harvest basket coloring page, with apples, a pumpkin, grapes, bread and wheat, up against a sunny window with autumn trees outside.

Harvest coloring pages, and what actually goes in the Erntedank basket

A tour of the Erntedank basket, one stop at a time: the field, the orchard and the garden, with a page to color for everything that goes in.

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A child's hands hold up a Brandenburg Gate coloring page in front of the real gate in Berlin; the left half is coloured in warm red and yellow crayon, the right half in blue and green, split by a pencil line.

German Unity Day coloring pages, and the picture that only works in two halves

The day two Germanys became one, told in three dates, with a gate page that only works once two people have each finished a half.

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A large, friendly green felt dragon sitting on a wooden table, facing a small wooden toy knight who holds a round blue shield.

Michaeli dragon coloring pages, in order from fierce to friendly

The 29 September festival puts a dragon in front of one small brave person. The same set of pages, laid out from the fiercest to the friendliest.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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