DECATUR — Businesses and holiday party planners get into autumn and the Halloween spirit almost as much as kids and their families.
Scovill Zoo's Boo at the Zoo is adorned with classic decorations, including skeletons relaxing on the permanent dolphins.
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Brothers Kipton, 9, and Kylar Smith, 12, carefully select the pumpkins for their Halloween jack-o'-lanterns at Black Bart's Pumpkin Patch in Warrensburg on Wednesday, Oct. 28.
Pumpkins rise out of the patch to be picked at Black Bart's Pumpkin Patch in Warrensburg on Wednesday, Oct. 28.
A home is decked out in decorations for Halloween in Decatur on Wednesday, Oct. 28.
Pumpkins are part of Boo at the Zoo's classic decorations.
Celebrate Halloween with these free coloring pages, activities, and printables
1. Crayola Witch’s Hat Printable Halloween Coloring Page
Crayola has dozens of free printable Halloween coloring pages, bingo cards, mazes, and more available on their website. This intricate paisley printed witch’s hat coloring page is perfect for keeping older kids entertained.
2. Cute Ghosts Printable Halloween Coloring Pages
If you need something a little less complicated for younger children, print out this cute ghost coloring page from Prudent Penny Pincher. It’s just the right amount of detail for toddlers.
3. Haunted House Coloring Pages
Monday Mandala collected several printable haunted house coloring pages with varying levels of detail for kids of all ages. Print one out for every family member to design your own creepy haunted houses.
4. Halloween Printable Maze Worksheets for Young Children
These cute printable Halloween mazes from Persia Lou feature skills, pumpkins, haunted houses, and ghosts. They’re easy enough for young kids, though some may be a little more challenging for pre-K children.
5. Halloween Word Search Printable
Make reading practice more fun with this Halloween word search from Happiness is Homemade featuring words like candy, monster, spooky, mummy, and ghost.
6. Pin the Nose on the Jack-o’-Lantern
These printable pin-the-tail games from Woo! Jr. are perfect for Halloween parties or rainy fall days. Choose from pin the tail on the cat, pin the nose on the Jack-o’-Lantern, or pin the nose on the witch — or print out all three if you can’t decide.
7. Printable Halloween Bingo Cards
Use candy corn as markers for a game of Halloween bingo with these printable cards from The Incremental Mama.
8. Halloween Mask Printables for Coloring
Color your own Halloween masks this year with these printable pages from World of Printables. With designs including vampire, zombie, mummy, cat, devil, spider, and bat printables, there’s plenty of room for imaginative play long after coloring time is over
9. Halloween Mandala Print Pumpkin Coloring Page
Need a coloring page to entertain older kids (or yourself)? Print out this beautifully designed mandala pumpkin coloring page from Coloring Pages Only.
10. Halloween A to Z Printable Activity Page
J is for Jack-o’Lantern. S is for Spooky. Z is for Zombie. Have a creative brainstorm with this Halloween printable A to Z worksheet from Homemade Heather.
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Donnette Beckett
"Together Decatur" Columnist and Food/Drink Reporter
