70 New Free Coloring Pages, Including 10 for Halloween

There are 70 new pictures in the free printable coloring library today. Halloween gets ten new designs, and twenty other collections get three each. The additions range from a sleeping kitten and a large acorn to an apple orchard, a jungle waterfall and a cozy holiday baking table. Every new picture is a single black-and-white illustration with open coloring spaces and portrait print margins.

Choose a large, simple subject for a short activity, or a fuller scene when you feel like taking your time. All the additions use original generic animals, settings, costumes and equipment. Sports uniforms are plain, so children can invent their own team colors. Every library page is free to print or download without an account.

Ten new Halloween pictures to choose from

The Halloween collection now has twenty pages. The ten additions keep the mood cheerful: friendly creatures, homemade costumes and autumn decorations. Start with one of the bold pictures below, then move to a scene or a pattern if you want more detail.

• Four easy pictures: a ghost peeking out of a pumpkin, a smiling spider and web, an owl wearing a witch hat, and a friendly monster holding a cupcake.
• Two playful scenes: a teddy bear in a mummy costume and two ghosts sharing a picnic.
• Four more detailed choices: a pumpkin-shaped witch cottage, a homemade costume parade, a garden of pumpkin lanterns, and a circular bat, moon, star and leaf pattern.

For a small Halloween activity, let each person choose a creature and give it a name. A pumpkin can have stripes, a ghost can wear spots, and a bat can have rainbow wings. Put the finished pictures together as a little gallery, or use the costume parade to begin a story about where the characters are going.

New animals and a little everyday magic

Eight animal and fantasy collections have three new pages apiece. Each offers a simple subject, a picture with a little more detail and a fuller setting, so there is room for different preferences at the same table.

• Cats: a sleeping kitten in a basket, a kitten watching a butterfly from a window, and cats exploring a greenhouse.
• Dogs: a puppy beside a shoe, a dog at the beach, and dogs exploring a park.
• Butterflies: a butterfly on a daisy, butterflies above lavender, and a flower garden.
• Lions: a cub beside a leaf, a lion watching a butterfly, and a family beneath an acacia tree.
• Monkeys: a monkey with a coconut, a vine scene with a toucan, and monkeys beside a waterfall.
• Woodland animals: a badger, a beaver beside a log dam, and a treehouse with an owl and squirrel.
• Farm animals: a donkey, piglets beside a pumpkin, and a stable scene with a horse and cat.
• Unicorns: a baby unicorn on a cloud, a waterfall scene, and an enchanted garden.

More autumn, winter and celebration choices

Autumn adds acorns and oak leaves, a hedgehog with an apple basket and an orchard. Pumpkins adds a wheelbarrow, a sunflower-and-snail scene and a harvest cottage porch. Thanksgiving adds a turkey beside a pumpkin, an apple pie and a porch filled with harvest vegetables. Pair an animal page with one of these scenes to make a two-page autumn story.

For later in the year, Christmas adds patterned baubles, a reindeer beside a sleigh and a cookie baking table. Winter adds a penguin in a scarf, a rabbit on a sled and a frozen woodland pond. New Year adds party poppers, a celebration table and fireworks above a small town. The New Year sheets have no printed year, so you can save them for another celebration too.

Diwali adds a diya among lotus petals, a plate of sweets and a lamp-and-marigold arrangement. Hanukkah adds a dreidel with a pouch of gelt, a plate of sufganiyot and a nine-candle hanukkiah in a winter window. St. Patrick’s Day adds a shamrock tied with a bow, a cottage beneath a rainbow and a shamrock-and-daisy wreath. Pick the celebrations your family enjoys, and invite children to share what the pictures remind them of.

Sports and school get three new pages each

The soccer collection adds a ball, whistle and cones, children celebrating a goal and a community pitch. American football adds a ball on a kicking tee, a team huddle and an equipment bench beside a practice field. Try the same colors across the equipment, or invent a different palette for each picture.

Back to school adds a paint palette and brushes, children caring for a classroom plant and an art corner with easels and supplies. These work for a classroom activity or a small creative break at home. Children can draw their own artwork inside the blank canvases on the art-corner sheet.

Print one favorite or make a small coloring book

1. Open a collection and choose a picture. The easy pages for kids and pages for adults also include selections from this release.
2. Use Print for a paper copy, or Download to keep the full-size WebP. Choose your printer’s fit-to-page setting and check the preview before printing.
3. For several favorites together, select library pictures in the free coloring book maker and download one printable PDF.

A small set can be enough: one easy animal, one seasonal picture and one scene with more detail. Keep any unfinished pages for another day, put spare paper underneath wet markers, and let each artist choose how much of the page to color.