Pumpkin Coloring Pages
Welcome to my Pumpkin coloring pages section.
Pumpkins are a fruit! They grow from flowers and hold lots of seeds, which makes them cousins of melons and cucumbers.
Jump to: Preschool | Pumpkin Patch | Decorations | Picking | Farm | Magical Friends | Jack-o'-Lanterns | Pumpkin Pie
Preschool Pumpkins
The lines running from the stem to the bottom of a pumpkin are called ribs. Every pumpkin grows its own number of them, which is why no two pumpkins are shaped exactly alike.
Pumpkin Patch
A pumpkin grows on a long trailing vine, and one vine can sprawl across several metres of ground. That's why a pumpkin patch looks like a jungle of leaves with the pumpkins hiding underneath.
Pumpkin Decorations
Pumpkins make great decorations for indoors and outdoors during the autumn!
Picking Pumpkins
Never carry a pumpkin by its stem! The stem can snap right off, and a pumpkin without its stem goes soft much faster. Farmers leave a few inches of stem on and carry their pumpkins in their arms or in a basket.
Pumpkins on the Farm
After they're picked, pumpkins are often left in the sun for a week or so to "cure." It toughens up the skin so they keep for months, which is how a barn full of pumpkins can last into winter.
Magical Pumpkin Friends
In the story of Cinderella, a fairy godmother turns a pumpkin into a golden carriage. That has to be the most famous magic trick a fruit has ever pulled off. Japanese folk stories have fox spirits called kitsune, and they grow more tails as they get older and wiser, up to nine.
Jack-o'-Lanterns
Before pumpkins, people in Ireland and Scotland carved their jack-o'-lanterns out of turnips. When families moved to North America they found pumpkins were bigger and a whole lot easier to carve, and the tradition never looked back.
Jack-o'-Lantern coloring pages
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin pie is really a custard pie. The pumpkin gets mixed with eggs, milk and spices, then baked until it sets like a soft pudding.
Thanksgiving Food coloring pages
Fun facts about pumpkins:
- A Rhode Island grower’s pumpkin weighed in at 3,156 pounds this month, the first ever to pass 3,000 pounds. That’s heavier than a lot of small cars, and it grew from a single seed in one season. (record set Oct 14, 2026)
- Pumpkins float! Every fall in Windsor, Nova Scotia, people hollow out giant pumpkins, climb inside and paddle them across a lake in a pumpkin regatta.
- A pumpkin starts as a yellow flower that opens for just one morning. Only the flowers with a tiny baby pumpkin behind them can grow into the real thing.