Celebrate the change of seasons with 4 free printable fall coloring pages that kids will love. Download & print the letters “fall” among autumn leaves, a dog frolicking in a deep pile of fall leaves, a not-so-scary scarecrow standing alert among sunflowers and our fall activity checklist filled with childhood memory-making fun.
In fact, these fall printables are among our most popular coloring pages pinned on Pinterest. Each autumn families and classrooms print and create together with these popular printables.
Free Fall Printables for Kids to Color & Paint
These printable coloring pages are easy to print, color, and turn into colorful masterpieces!
Our kids enjoy coloring, it’s one of their favorite quiet activities to do while I am one-on-one homeschooling a sibling. This past week, they had fun coloring fall leaves together. We also have a fun scarecrow, dog, and fall activity list to color, too!
You can download the coloring page that we enjoyed together, just click here and continue below to find the rest of our coloring pages.
Adorable Fall Coloring Sheets for Kids
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We grabbed our coloring page supply list…OK, there are some non-traditional art supplies on our list. Let me explain the method behind our coloring madness just a bit more…
To decorate fall coloring pages, I first gathered some craft supplies. Markers, watercolors, and crayons were a good start, giving my kids a variety of mediums to work with.
We also used mustard seeds, pumpkin pie spice, and apple pie seasoning. Using spices for art?!
You can just grab what you have on hand.
We will explain what the spices are for later.
How to Decorate Our Fall Coloring Printables
Next, I let the kids color their pages!
We tried different techniques to give the leaves color and dimension. Below, you can see what crayon and marker look like.
- First we traced along the veins of the leaves with crayon, talking about the importance of veins not just for us humans, but for leaves and plants, too!
- Then, we used marker to color the rest of the leaf. This technique is called crayon resist, because the marker resists the crayon, so the veins of the leaves seem to pop out.
Crayon Resist Art Technique for Coloring Pages
My daughter did the same crayon resist technique, but used watercolor paints, instead of marker.
The results were fabulous!
The different shades of the watercolors give the leaves even more dimension.
Fall Harvest Coloring Pages
After the kids colored the leaves a variety of fall harvest colors, we filled in the letters with glue, and poured mustard seeds over the word “fall”, to add texture and make it stand out!
This led to a really interesting discussion of texture in artwork, and how it can really add to a piece of art.
Sensory Crafts With Free Autumn Printables
After the fun of the texture lesson, and the fact that it added to the sense of “touch” in this activity, we decided to take it to the next level, including the sense of smell!
We headed back into the cupboards to pick out some yummy fall spices.
My kids settled on pumpkin pie spice and apple pie seasoning, which seemed fitting for fall.
Adding Fall Scents to Our Coloring Page Art
Other spices and smells to consider are cloves and cinnamon.
Even peppercorns could add dimension, and would be something a little different!
Just be careful, and maybe wear disposable gloves (wash hands well before touching face or hands, after!).
Educational Play and Learning with Coloring Pages
Add more fun and creativity to coloring time by seeking ways to add dimension to your picture! In addition to coating pictures with seeds, our girls also love sprinkling their pictures with glitter, or painting over the coloring page with a dark color to make the crayon “pop” out.
Fine Motor Skill Development with Simple Art Techniques
Coloring is a great way to work on fine motor skills. Not only staying inside the lines, but also squeezing glue to fill the letters, and then sprinkling the seeds, so as to not waste them, all help our girls work develop skills they will need for writing!
Print these printables on cardstock, to keep the shapes more firm so that you can have more options to make fall decorations out of your creations!
We love to take advantage of free leaf printables on cardstock, so that we can cut them out, and use balled up pieces of tissue paper in fall colors to decorate the leaves.
Next, just punch a hole in one end, and string a DIY fall harvest garland!
Download & Print Our Free Printable Fall Coloring Pages
We have multiple fall coloring pages that you can download and enjoy with your kids. The DIY Activity list (below) is a great way to have your children help create your fall bucket list!
Do your kids do something other than color with their coloring pages?
Kirstylee
(Edit)I love your idea of using mustard seeds over the letters. I can’t wait to do this activity with my son.
Melissa
(Edit)Thanks for sharing!! Perfect for my co-op preschool 🙂
Danielle Needham
(Edit)I love your fall leaves picture with the seeds in the letters FALL! I’d like to do it with my kids, but the Fall Leaves link above brings me to the page with the dog in the leaves. Is there a way you can send the link to me? I’d greatly appreciate it! Thank you!
Elizabeth Valls
(Edit)Having trouble too. Can you fix the link to the fall leaves page? It takes us to the dog. 🙁
Arena
(Edit)So sorry about that! We’ve updated the link!
Arena
(Edit)So sorry! Just updated the link!