Cats and Halloween are a wonderfully spooky combination. Add pumpkins, witch hats, full moons, ghost costumes, and a little Halloween magic, and you have the perfect inspiration for an October coloring session.
This collection of Halloween cat coloring pages includes 10 different designs, ranging from classic black-cat scenes to playful kittens wearing costumes and helping with pumpkin carving.
Some are sweet, some are a little mysterious, and all of them are ready for plenty of Halloween color.
Grab your crayons, colored pencils, or markers and choose your favorite feline—or color the entire collection!
🐈⬛ Why Are Cats Associated With Halloween?
Black cats have long appeared in European folklore surrounding witches, luck, and superstition. Over time, the black cat became one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween alongside pumpkins, bats, ghosts, and witches.
Today, Halloween cats are usually much more fun than frightening. You’ll find them on decorations, costumes, greeting cards, party supplies, and—of course—coloring pages.
The designs below include everything from traditional black cats beneath the moon to adorable cats wearing witch and ghost costumes.
🎃 10 Halloween Cat Coloring Pages
Each picture offers a different Halloween scene, so kids and adults can experiment with traditional orange and black or invent completely unexpected color combinations.
There’s no rule saying a Halloween cat has to be black. Purple, gray, orange, white, striped, spotted, or even rainbow-colored cats are welcome here!
🐈⬛ 1. Black Cat Sitting on a Fence
Start with one of Halloween’s most classic images: a black cat perched on a fence.
This coloring page gives you the perfect opportunity to create a traditional Halloween scene. Color the cat deep black or charcoal gray, then add nighttime shades around it.
A dark blue or purple sky can create a spooky evening atmosphere, while orange or yellow details can add a warm Halloween glow.
You could also draw your own additions around the picture, such as bats, stars, a moon, jack-o’-lanterns, or a distant haunted house.
🖨️ Print or save this coloring page: Click the image above to open the full-size version, then print it from your browser or save it to your device.
🎃 2. Cat in a Witch Hat Sitting on a Halloween Pumpkin
This little Halloween cat is ready for trick-or-treat night!
The picture features a cute cat wearing a pointed witch hat while sitting on a large Halloween pumpkin.
There are plenty of possibilities for color here. Try an orange pumpkin with a black cat and purple witch hat for a traditional Halloween palette, or create something completely different.
A striped hat, spotted cat, or multicolored pumpkin can make your finished page one of a kind.
🖨️ Print or save this coloring page: Open the full-size image above, then print or save it for your Halloween coloring collection.
🌙 3. Cat Sitting on the Moon
This Halloween cat has found an especially magical place to sit.
Perched against a moonlit scene, the cat creates a simple picture that can become either spooky or dreamy depending on the colors you choose.
Try coloring the moon pale yellow, gold, silver, or even light blue. A dark purple or midnight-blue background can make the moon stand out dramatically.
For extra detail, add tiny stars, flying bats, wispy clouds, or a distant silhouette of a witch on a broomstick.
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🎃 4. Witch Cat With Two Halloween Pumpkins
One pumpkin apparently wasn’t enough for this little witch cat!
This page features a cat wearing a witch hat while sitting with two Halloween pumpkins.
Because the picture contains several large areas to color, it’s a fun opportunity to experiment with different pumpkin shades. Try classic orange, pale cream, green, yellow, or even purple.
The witch hat can be decorated too. Add stripes, stars, moons, dots, or any pattern you like.
🖨️ Print or save this coloring page: Click the picture above to open the full-size image, then print or save it.
🧙♀️ 5. Witch Cat Sitting Inside a Halloween Pumpkin
This cat has found the ultimate Halloween hiding place—a pumpkin!
The coloring page features a cute cat wearing a pointed witch hat while sitting inside a Halloween pumpkin.
Traditional orange, black, green, and purple would work beautifully here, but there’s plenty of room for imagination.
Kids could even turn the pumpkin into a magical cauldron-like creation by surrounding it with stars, sparkles, bubbles, or tiny Halloween shapes.
🖨️ Print or save this coloring page: Open the image above at full size, then print it or save it to your device.
🔪 6. Playful Cat Carving Halloween Pumpkins
Apparently humans aren’t the only ones preparing jack-o’-lanterns for Halloween.
This playful coloring page features a cat busy carving pumpkins for the spooky season.
There are plenty of little storytelling possibilities here. What kind of jack-o’-lantern is the cat making? Will it be silly, scary, surprised, or friendly?
Kids can color the picture first and then draw additional carved pumpkins around the scene.
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👻 7. Cute Cat Wearing a Halloween Costume
Cats deserve Halloween costumes too!
This coloring page features an adorable cat dressed up for the holiday, making it especially fun for children who are excited about choosing their own Halloween costumes.
Use the page as inspiration for a little storytelling activity.
What is the cat pretending to be?
Where is it going?
Does it have a trick-or-treat bag?
What kind of candy does a Halloween cat hope to receive?
There’s no wrong answer.
🖨️ Print or save this coloring page: Click the picture to view the full-size version, then print or save it for later.
👻 8. Kawaii Cat in a Ghost Costume
This might be the cutest little ghost you see all Halloween.
The kawaii-style coloring page features a cat dressed in a ghost costume, combining two favorite Halloween characters in one playful design.
A white ghost costume is the obvious choice, but children can make it any color they like. Try lavender, pale blue, pink, green, or even rainbow stripes.
The cat underneath can be black, orange, gray, white, brown, or completely imaginary.
🖨️ Print or save this coloring page: Open the full-size image above, then print it from your browser or save it to your device.
📚 9. Witch Cat Lying on Books
Not every Halloween cat spends the evening trick-or-treating.
Some apparently prefer studying spells.
This page features a cute cat wearing a witch hat while lying on a stack of books. It’s a fun choice for anyone who loves cats, Halloween, books, or all three.
Give each book a different color and imagine what might be written inside.
Perhaps they’re books about potions, ghosts, magical pumpkins, spells, or secret Halloween recipes.
🖨️ Print or save this coloring page: Click the image above to view the full-size picture, then print or save it.
🎃 10. Cat Sitting on a Halloween Pumpkin
Finish the collection with another classic Halloween combination: a cat and a jack-o’-lantern.
The simple black-and-white design gives you plenty of freedom to decide how spooky—or how cheerful—you want the finished picture to be.
Try a bright orange pumpkin with a black cat for a traditional look, or create a completely unexpected combination.
You could also draw a background around the cat, adding a moon, stars, leaves, candy, ghosts, or a spooky Halloween night sky.
🖨️ Print or save this coloring page: Click the picture above to open the full-size version, then print or save it.
🖍️ Halloween Cat Coloring Ideas
Don’t feel limited to orange and black.
Halloween offers one of the best excuses to experiment with unusual combinations.
Try:
- Black cats with glowing yellow eyes
- Purple cats with orange witch hats
- Gray cats beside bright orange pumpkins
- White ghost cats against dark blue skies
- Green and purple striped witch hats
- Golden full moons
- Pink and purple pumpkins
- Rainbow-colored Halloween cats
- Dark blue skies filled with silver stars
Children can also decorate the empty spaces around the pictures with their own Halloween drawings.
Add bats, candy corn, ghosts, spiderwebs, autumn leaves, tiny pumpkins, stars, or trick-or-treat bags.
✏️ Turn the Coloring Pages Into Halloween Activities
These pictures can easily become more than simple coloring pages.
Tell a Halloween Story
Ask your child to choose one cat and invent a story about it.
Why is the cat sitting on the moon?
What spell is the witch cat studying?
Who taught the other cat to carve pumpkins?
Where is the ghost cat going?
A simple coloring page can become the starting point for an entire Halloween adventure.
Design a Witch Hat
Several cats in this collection wear witch hats.
Instead of coloring them one solid color, decorate the hats with:
- Stars
- Moons
- Stripes
- Polka dots
- Spiderwebs
- Pumpkins
- Candy
- Tiny ghosts
Create a Halloween Background
Once the main picture is finished, fill the blank spaces.
Draw a haunted house, graveyard, pumpkin patch, autumn forest, night sky, or Halloween party around your cat.
Name Each Halloween Cat
Every cat needs a good Halloween name.
Try names such as:
- Midnight
- Pumpkin
- Salem
- Shadow
- Boo
- Luna
- Magic
- Spooky
- Binx
- Cobweb
Or invent something completely new.
🎨 Coloring Supplies to Try
Crayons are an easy choice for younger children and work especially well on pictures with larger areas.
Colored pencils are helpful for smaller details, witch hats, faces, books, and pumpkin decorations.
Markers create bright, bold colors. If you’re printing on regular paper, place another sheet underneath to help protect your table from bleed-through.
Older kids and adults can also experiment with gel pens, fine-tip markers, metallic pencils, or blended colored pencils.
🧘 Coloring Isn’t Just for Kids
Adults can enjoy these Halloween cat pages too.
Coloring offers an easy creative activity that doesn’t require advanced drawing skills. Research on structured coloring activities—including mandala and patterned coloring—has found that coloring can help some people relax and may temporarily reduce feelings of stress or anxiety.
So there’s no need to give all the crayons to the kids.
Pick a witch cat, make yourself a Halloween drink, and color one too.
🖨️ How to Print the Halloween Cat Coloring Pages
For the best results:
- Choose the Halloween cat you want to color.
- Click the image to open its full-size version.
- Select Print from your browser or device.
- Choose Fit to Page if the image doesn’t automatically fill the paper correctly.
- Print and start coloring.
Regular white printer paper works well for crayons and colored pencils.
If you plan to use markers, heavier paper may work better.
Website note: Make sure each image in WordPress links to its full-size media file so visitors can easily open the larger version before printing.
🎃 Fun Ways to Use Finished Halloween Cat Pictures
Don’t put the finished artwork straight into a drawer.
Turn it into part of your Halloween decorating.
You can:
- Hang the pictures on the refrigerator.
- Create a Halloween coloring gallery.
- Decorate a classroom bulletin board.
- Tape them to bedroom doors.
- Make homemade Halloween cards.
- Use them as party decorations.
- Staple several together into a Halloween coloring book.
- Add them to a Halloween scrapbook.
- Have children exchange finished pictures with friends.
- Display one new cat every day as Halloween approaches.
You could even let everyone in the family color the same picture and compare the completely different results.
🐾 Cats Can Be Lucky Too
Although black cats have been connected with bad-luck superstitions in parts of European folklore, attitudes toward black cats have varied widely across different cultures.
That makes the Halloween black cat better treated as a fun seasonal symbol—not something genuinely unlucky.
And on a coloring page, the only magic a black cat needs is a good box of crayons.
👻 More Halloween Coloring Fun
If you enjoyed these Halloween cats, there are plenty of other spooky and sweet designs to color.
Younger children can start with our Halloween Coloring Pages for Preschool Children.
For uncomplicated Halloween pictures, visit Simple Halloween Coloring Pages.
Kids who enjoy cute characters may especially like our Kawaii Halloween Coloring Pages.
And for a little extra challenge, try our Halloween Coloring Pages by Number.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How many Halloween cat coloring pages are on this page?
There are 10 Halloween cat designs, including cats with pumpkins, witch hats, a moon, books, costumes, and pumpkin-carving scenes.
Are all the cats scary?
Not at all. Most of these designs are cute or whimsical rather than frightening, making them suitable for a fun Halloween coloring session.
Do Halloween cats have to be black?
No! Black cats are a traditional Halloween image, but your coloring pages can feature cats in any color you like.
Try gray, orange, brown, white, purple, pink, blue, striped, spotted, or rainbow cats.
Which page is best for younger children?
Children often enjoy the simpler pumpkin, costume, and ghost-cat designs, but the best choice depends on the child and how much detail they enjoy coloring.
Can adults color these pages too?
Of course. Coloring isn’t limited to children, and the Halloween theme can make these pages a relaxing seasonal activity for adults as well.
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Happy coloring—and have a purr-fectly spooky Halloween! 🎃🐈⬛
📚 Sources
- HISTORY – Why Black Cats Are Associated With Halloween and Bad Luck — background on black-cat folklore and Halloween symbolism.
- Mayo Clinic Health System – Mental Health Benefits of Coloring — overview of coloring as a relaxing activity.
