Trick-or-Treat Pumpkin Worksheet & Coloring Page for Kids

Trick-or-Treat Halloween worksheet featuring two blank pumpkins for children to decorate with their own jack-o’-lantern faces and colors. | Nadezda Barkova

What kind of jack-o’-lantern would you create if you could design absolutely any face you wanted?

This Trick-or-Treat pumpkin worksheet and coloring page gives kids two blank pumpkins and lets their imaginations do the rest. Instead of coloring a jack-o’-lantern face that has already been drawn for them, children become the designers — adding their own eyes, noses, mouths, expressions, and Halloween personalities before coloring the finished pumpkins.

One pumpkin might be spooky.

The other might be silly.

Maybe one has giant vampire fangs while the other has heart-shaped eyes and a crooked grin.

There really isn’t a wrong answer.

It’s an easy Halloween activity for preschoolers, kindergarteners, elementary-age children, homeschool art time, classroom celebrations, pumpkin-carving night, or a quiet October afternoon at home.

For even more creative seasonal fun, explore Halloween Activities for Kids: Crafts, Coloring Pages & Printables.

🎃 Design Your Own Jack-o’-Lanterns

The fun part of this worksheet is that the pumpkins don’t already have faces.

Kids get to decide exactly what their jack-o’-lanterns will look like.

Start by asking:

Should your first pumpkin be spooky or silly?

Then decide on the features.

What kind of eyes will it have?

What shape should the nose be?

Will the mouth be smiling, frowning, laughing, or filled with jagged monster teeth?

Once the first pumpkin is finished, create a completely different personality for the second one.

You could even imagine the two pumpkins are characters in the same Halloween story.

✏️ How to Use the Trick-or-Treat Worksheet

All you need are a few simple art supplies.

Look at the two blank pumpkins.
Decide what personality each pumpkin should have.
Draw eyes on the first pumpkin.
Add a nose and mouth.
Repeat with the second pumpkin.
Add extra details such as eyebrows, teeth, scars, glasses, or hats.
Color the pumpkins.
Decorate the rest of the page.
Give each jack-o’-lantern a name.
Display your finished Halloween artwork.

A pencil is useful for drawing the faces first because children can easily change their designs.

Once they’re happy with the faces, they can trace the lines with a crayon or marker.

🖍️ What You’ll Need

Keep the supplies simple:

The Trick-or-Treat worksheet
Pencil
Eraser
Crayons
Colored pencils
Washable markers

Optional extras might include:

Halloween stickers
Glitter glue
Googly eyes
Metallic markers
Orange or black construction paper

If you’re using markers, placing an extra sheet of paper underneath can help protect the table.

👀 Start With the Eyes

Eyes can completely change a jack-o’-lantern’s expression.

Try drawing:

Triangle Eyes

The classic jack-o’-lantern look.

Round Eyes

Perfect for a friendly or surprised pumpkin.

Sleepy Eyes

Draw half-closed eyes for a pumpkin that stayed up too late on Halloween night.

Angry Eyes

Slant them inward for a more mischievous expression.

Heart Eyes

Maybe this pumpkin loves Halloween candy.

Star Eyes

Give your pumpkin a magical look.

Different-Sized Eyes

One giant eye and one tiny eye can create an especially goofy monster face.

Try giving the two pumpkins completely different eyes and see how quickly they develop their own personalities.

😁 Create a Pumpkin Mouth

Now comes the best part — the grin.

A jack-o’-lantern mouth can be almost anything.

Try a:

Big smile
Crooked smile
Zigzag mouth
Toothless grin
Vampire mouth
Monster mouth
Tiny surprised “O”
Giant laughing mouth
Frown
Sideways grin

Add teeth if you like.

Maybe your pumpkin has one tooth.

Maybe it has twenty.

Maybe it lost three teeth eating too much Halloween candy.

👻 Make One Spooky and One Silly

Here’s an easy way to turn the worksheet into an extra challenge.

Create two opposite pumpkins.

Pumpkin One: Spooky

Give it:

Narrow eyes
Sharp teeth
Jagged mouth
Scars
Dark colors

Pumpkin Two: Silly

Give it:

Giant round eyes
One little tooth
Funny eyebrows
Huge smile
Bright colors

When you’re finished, compare them.

Which one would you put on the porch to scare trick-or-treaters?

Which one looks like it would tell jokes?

🎨 Do Pumpkins Have to Be Orange?

Absolutely not.

Real pumpkins come in more colors than just bright orange, and a coloring activity gives children even more freedom.

Create a:

Purple pumpkin
Green pumpkin
Pink pumpkin
Blue pumpkin
Rainbow pumpkin
Black-and-orange striped pumpkin
Polka-dot pumpkin

You can also make one traditional orange jack-o’-lantern and one completely imaginary version.

Halloween art doesn’t have to look realistic.

🧠 What Kids Can Practice

Drawing and coloring activities give children opportunities to use several skills while they create.

✋ Fine-Motor Practice

Holding pencils, crayons, and markers and intentionally making lines and shapes uses small hand and finger movements.

Head Start notes that developing fine-motor control and hand-eye coordination helps preschoolers perform increasingly complex tasks, including drawing finer details.

🎨 Creativity

The pumpkins begin without faces, which means children make the important artistic decisions.

They decide:

What the faces look like
Which colors to use
Whether the pumpkins are scary or friendly
Which extra decorations belong on the page

👀 Visual Planning

Before drawing, children can think about where the eyes, nose, and mouth should go.

💬 Storytelling

Once a pumpkin has an expression, it almost automatically begins to feel like a character.

Ask children to describe their pumpkin and explain why it looks the way it does.

NAEYC encourages art experiences that allow children to make choices, explore materials, talk about their creations, and develop their own ideas.

🏠 Easy Halloween Activity for Home

This worksheet is easy to bring out whenever children want something creative to do during October.

Use it for:

Rainy fall afternoons
After-school quiet time
Weekend activities
Family Halloween nights
Playdates
Halloween movie night
Pumpkin-carving night
Waiting for trick-or-treating

Keep several Halloween coloring and puzzle pages together in a folder so kids can choose an activity whenever they’re ready.

You can add more options from our Halloween Coloring Activity Sheets collection.

🏫 Halloween Classroom Activity

Teachers can also use the pumpkin worksheet as a simple seasonal art activity where Halloween-themed materials are appropriate.

It could work for:

Morning work
Art centers
Preschool activities
Kindergarten centers
Early-finisher folders
Indoor recess
Classroom Halloween parties
Creative writing prompts
Take-home activities

Once children finish their pumpkins, hang them together on a bulletin board.

A classroom full of completely different jack-o’-lantern faces can make a fun Halloween display.

🎃 Turn It Into a Real Pumpkin-Carving Plan

This worksheet can also become a practice page before carving a real pumpkin.

Before anyone touches a carving tool, children can experiment with different face ideas on paper.

Try several possibilities.

Do you like:

Triangle or round eyes?
Two teeth or ten?
Happy or scary?
Symmetrical or crooked?
Simple or detailed?

Once everyone has chosen a favorite design, use the drawing as inspiration for the real jack-o’-lantern.

Our Art of Pumpkin Carving: Tips and Tricks for Perfectly Carved Jack-o’-Lanterns has more ideas for planning and carving a pumpkin.

Safety note: Adults should handle sharp pumpkin-carving tools when young children are participating.

🖊️ Try the No-Carve Version

Don’t want to carve a real pumpkin?

Use the worksheet to plan a painted or marker-decorated pumpkin instead.

Children can copy their paper design onto a pumpkin using washable markers, paint, stickers, or other craft supplies.

Possible no-carve decorations include:

Googly eyes
Felt shapes
Foam stickers
Yarn hair
Paper hats
Washable paint
Craft jewels

This lets younger children turn their drawing into a real pumpkin decoration without needing to carve it.

🤪 Make the Silliest Pumpkin Contest

If several children are completing the activity together, challenge everyone to create the silliest jack-o’-lantern possible.

Ideas include:

Twenty teeth
One giant eye
Three noses
Curly eyebrows
Glasses
A mustache
A bow tie
A tongue sticking out

When everyone is finished, display the pumpkins together.

Instead of choosing one winner, create fun categories:

Silliest Smile

Most Surprised Pumpkin

Best Monster Teeth

Funniest Eyes

Most Colorful

Pumpkin Most Likely to Eat All the Halloween Candy

😈 Create the Spookiest Pumpkin

Prefer something creepier?

Design a pumpkin that would look at home outside a haunted house.

Try:

Sharp triangular eyes
Jagged teeth
Scars
Cracks
Angry eyebrows
Vampire fangs
Uneven grin

Then color the background with dark purples, blacks, grays, and deep oranges.

Add bats and a full moon for an extra spooky atmosphere.

🧙 Give Your Pumpkin a Costume

Why should humans have all the Halloween costume fun?

Draw a costume on your jack-o’-lantern.

Turn it into a:

Witch
Vampire
Pirate
Ghost
Monster
Cat
Superhero
Skeleton
Wizard

A witch pumpkin might have a pointed hat.

A vampire pumpkin could have fangs and a cape.

A pirate pumpkin needs an eye patch.

Now your pumpkin isn’t merely a decoration — it’s dressed for Halloween too.

🕷️ Add Halloween Accessories

Once you’ve drawn the faces, fill the empty space around them with Halloween details.

Add:

Bats
Ghosts
Candy
Spiders
Spiderwebs
Stars
Moon
Witch hats
Autumn leaves
Tiny trick-or-treat bags

You could even draw little arms and legs on the pumpkins and turn them into complete characters.

🍬 Send Your Pumpkins Trick-or-Treating

The worksheet already has a Trick-or-Treat theme, so why not turn the pumpkins into trick-or-treaters?

Draw a candy bucket beside each one.

Then decide what each pumpkin collected.

Maybe Pumpkin #1 got:

Chocolate bars
Lollipops
Candy corn

And Pumpkin #2 got:

Gummy bats
Caramels
Pumpkin-shaped candy

Which pumpkin got more?

Which one would share?

Which one secretly ate three pieces before getting home?

📖 Give the Pumpkins Names

Once those blank pumpkins have faces, they need names.

Try:

Jack

Pumpkin Pete

Grinning Greta

Boo

Gourdy

Jackie O’Lantern

Toothy

Patch

Or invent something completely original.

Write each name below its pumpkin.

Then decide which character is older, funnier, braver, or more mischievous.

📚 Turn the Worksheet Into a Story Prompt

Use the two finished pumpkins as characters in a Halloween story.

Try this opening:

“On Halloween night, two jack-o’-lanterns named Jack and Patch suddenly discovered that they could talk…”

What happens next?

Maybe they:

Go trick-or-treating
Meet a friendly ghost
Roll away from the pumpkin patch
Visit a haunted house
Help a witch find her broom
Search for missing candy
Try to scare a black cat

Younger children can tell the story aloud.

Older children can write several sentences or an entire Halloween adventure.

✏️ Make It Easier for Younger Children

For children who aren’t sure how to begin, offer a few choices.

Ask:

“Should the eyes be round or triangles?”

Then:

“Should the pumpkin smile or frown?”

Then:

“How many teeth should it have?”

Breaking the design into individual choices makes a blank pumpkin much less intimidating.

You can also draw one simple example on separate paper — not directly on the child’s pumpkin — and let them decide whether they want to use that idea.

🦇 Make the Activity More Challenging

Older children can extend the worksheet with additional challenges.

Mirror Image

Try making both pumpkin faces symmetrical.

Opposite Pumpkins

Make one happy and one angry.

Memory Pumpkin

Study a jack-o’-lantern picture, hide it, and recreate the face from memory.

Detailed Pumpkin

Add elaborate textures, shadows, and patterns.

Story Challenge

Write a Halloween story featuring both pumpkins.

Carving Challenge

Design a face that could realistically be carved from a real pumpkin.

This last challenge introduces an interesting problem: every part of a carved design needs to work physically when sections are removed.

🖨️ Create a Halloween Activity Pack

Pair the pumpkin worksheet with several other quiet activities.

Add:

Coloring pages
Mazes
Color-by-number sheets
Matching games
I Spy puzzles
Spot-the-difference activities
Complete-the-picture drawings

For a cute coloring option, try our 5 Free Cute Halloween Coloring Pages to Print.

A small collection can become a homemade Halloween activity book for home, parties, classrooms, travel, or family gatherings.

🎉 Halloween Party Coloring Table

The pumpkin worksheet is particularly easy to use at a kids’ Halloween party because every child can create something different from the same starting picture.

Set out:

Pumpkin worksheets
Crayons
Pencils
Erasers
Colored pencils
Washable markers
Halloween stickers

Let children create their pumpkin faces whenever they want a break from louder games.

Afterward, hang all the pictures together for an instant party decoration.

🖼️ Turn the Finished Worksheet Into Halloween Decor

Don’t put the finished pumpkins away.

Use them to decorate!

Children can:

Hang the page on the refrigerator
Add it to a classroom bulletin board
Tape it to a bedroom door
Turn it into a Halloween card
Add it to a scrapbook
Create a pumpkin gallery
Cut out the pumpkins for a banner

If several children complete the worksheet, combine all of their pumpkin faces into one enormous Halloween wall display.

🎃 Compare Your Paper Pumpkin With a Real Jack-o’-Lantern

If you’re carving pumpkins later in the season, save the finished worksheet.

Once the real jack-o’-lantern is complete, put it next to the drawing.

How similar are they?

Did anything change?

Was the paper design easier to create than the carved version?

Did you simplify any shapes?

This can make the worksheet feel like the first step in a larger Halloween project rather than just another coloring page.

💡 Let Kids Make the Creative Decisions

There is no “correct” face for these pumpkins.

One child may create a perfectly symmetrical jack-o’-lantern.

Another may draw a completely wild monster face.

Another may decide the pumpkin doesn’t need a scary expression at all.

That’s part of the fun.

Structured art activities can provide a starting point, but giving children opportunities to make their own creative choices lets the finished work reflect their individual ideas.

So resist the temptation to make every pumpkin look the same.

The weirder the pumpkin gallery becomes, the more interesting it may be.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Trick-or-Treat worksheet?

It is a Halloween drawing and coloring activity featuring two blank pumpkins. Children create their own jack-o’-lantern faces and then color and decorate the finished designs.

Who created the original artwork?

The Halloween Haunt page credits the artwork to Nadezda Barkova.

What age is the worksheet for?

It can work well for preschool and elementary-age children. Younger children can create simple faces, while older children can add more detailed designs and backgrounds.

What supplies do kids need?

A pencil, eraser, crayons, colored pencils, or washable markers are enough to get started.

Do the pumpkins have to look scary?

Not at all. Kids can create spooky, silly, cute, surprised, happy, sleepy, or completely ridiculous pumpkins.

What can children practice with this activity?

Drawing and coloring can provide opportunities to use fine-motor control, make creative choices, plan a picture, and describe or tell stories about finished artwork.

Can teachers use this in the classroom?

Yes. It can work as an art center, early-finisher activity, Halloween classroom-party sheet, creative writing prompt, or seasonal take-home page.

Can we use the drawings as pumpkin-carving ideas?

Yes. Kids can experiment with jack-o’-lantern faces on the worksheet before selecting one as inspiration for a real pumpkin. Adults should handle sharp carving tools for young children.

Can I use this as a no-carve pumpkin activity?

Absolutely. Draw a face on the worksheet first, then copy it onto a real pumpkin using washable markers, paint, stickers, or craft decorations.

What can kids do after completing the worksheet?

Give the pumpkins names, add Halloween backgrounds, write a story, turn the pictures into decorations, or use a favorite face as inspiration for a real jack-o’-lantern.

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🧡 Create Your Own Pumpkin Personalities

Two blank pumpkins.

Two completely empty faces.

And almost endless possibilities.

Give one a giant toothy grin and the other tiny sleepy eyes. Create a spooky monster, a cheerful trick-or-treater, or the silliest jack-o’-lantern anyone has ever seen.

Then add color, backgrounds, names, costumes, and stories until the pumpkins feel like your own Halloween characters.

And if you really love one of the designs, save it for pumpkin-carving night and see whether you can bring your paper jack-o’-lantern to life on a real pumpkin.

Happy creating — and happy trick-or-treating! 🎃🍬🖍️