by Chanell Gautreaux

Created on: October 08, 2009

You can easily spend hours or even days searching the internet for printable coloring pages to entertain your children or students. The search can take even longer when searching for specific pages with specific themes. Below are fifteen web sites with a variety of free Halloween themed coloring pages to download or print.

In the holiday section of its website BillyBear4kids.com has a few coloring pages along with and assortment of dozens of other Halloween printables for everything from mazes to three dimensional crafts. Find the Halloween page here:

http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/halowen/party -p.htm

Kaboose offers six Halloween coloring pages on its website as well as additional links to fun crafts, games, puzzles and other printables. Find it all at: http://holidays.kaboose.com/halloween-color.html

Abcteach offers thousands of free printables and in addition to the almost one dozen Halloween coloring pages are games, craft and a variety of learning activities for primary school classroom use. http://www.abcteach.com/directory/seasonalholidays/h alloween/

About.com also has a list of coloring pages and other Halloween activities. Scroll down the page for links to additional Halloween printables and the Halloween index. (There is also a coloring page index for other printable coloring sheets.) http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/halloweentheme/a/10 1501a.htm

Preschoolcoloringbook.com has a nice assortment of Halloween themed coloring pages which are designed specifically for younger children with simpler images that have less detail making them easier to color. http://www.preschoolcoloringbook.com/color/cphallowe en.shtml

At Coloring-page.net you will find over 40 pages of free Halloween Coloring sheets ranging from cute costumed clowns and ballerinas to traditional ghost and goblin imagery. http://coloring-page.net/halloween.html

DLTK has four options for Halloween coloring. Find links for "draw the details", Riddles, Bingo Dauber and regular coloring pages at: http://www.dltk-holidays.com/halloween/coloring.htm

The Hershey's chocolate company offers eight nifty Halloween coloring pages online as well as an interactive coloring book, stencils, clip art, certificates, word games, crafts, recipes and much more. There are teacher resources available as well. http://www.hersheys.com/trickortreats/activities/col oring.asp#

Crayola offers an assortment of twenty-five printable Halloween coloring pages including invitations, games, mazes, bingo game cards and a witch that you color, cut and fold so that it stands on its own. http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/search.cf m?txt_search=halloween

PapaJan.com has almost a dozen pages of links for free printable Halloween coloring pages on its website with images ranging from monsters and tombstones to costumed clowns and ballerinas. http://www.coloringpages.net/halloween.html

Kidsturncentral.com offers a handful of cute Halloween coloring pages to print and use and if you follow the Halloween Headquarters link in the middle of the web page it will lead you to a host of other Halloween activities for kids including costume ideas, recipes, poetry and crafts. http://www.kidsturncentral.com/holidays/hcolor.htm

Apples4theTeacher.com has great coloring pages to print or use online including some with text for use with young readers and interactive pages for beginner and ESL readers. http://www.apples4theteacher.com/coloring-pages/hall oween/

Perhaps the best coloring pages of all are the ones at FamilyFun.com. The site actually has a Halloween coloring page creator that lets you customize your Halloween coloring page. Choose from five different costumed trick or treaters and five different backgrounds. Coloring page creator

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