Haunted Mansion

This Haunted Mansion Pumpkin coloring page combines two classic Halloween favorites: a huge scary jack-o'-lantern and a creepy old mansion that looks like it has been abandoned for years.

The enormous carved pumpkin dominates the front of the drawing, complete with angry eyes and a jagged grin. Behind it stands a grand Victorian-style haunted mansion with tall towers, broken windows, creeping plants and dark rooms. Bats fly through the cloudy sky while bare trees and fallen leaves add to the spooky autumn setting.

There is plenty to color throughout the page. Younger children can concentrate on the large pumpkin and mansion, while older kids and adults can spend more time on the windows, roof, wooden walls, plants, trees and other smaller details.

A Scary Pumpkin Drawing for Halloween

The jack-o'-lantern is the clear star of this Halloween drawing.

Rather than a friendly smiling pumpkin, this one has been carved with a much more sinister expression. Its sharply angled eyes, skull-like nose and huge jagged mouth create the sort of pumpkin you might expect to find outside a haunted mansion on Halloween night.

Traditional orange is the obvious choice for the pumpkin, but adding darker shades around the grooves can give it more depth. The carved sections could be filled with yellow or orange to make it appear as though a candle is glowing inside.

You could also try completely different colors. Green can create a rotten pumpkin effect, while purple, red or even ghostly white can turn the jack-o'-lantern into something more unusual.

The Creepy Haunted Mansion in the Background

Behind the pumpkin is a large old mansion that looks perfect for a ghost story.

The building has several floors, tall windows, pointed roofs and an imposing central tower. Some windows appear broken or completely dark, while plants have begun spreading across parts of the walls.

A long path runs from the front of the page towards the mansion, making it easy to imagine somebody having to walk past the frightening pumpkin before reaching the front door.

For a traditional haunted mansion look, the building could be colored with dark browns, grays and faded wooden shades. Black windows can make the rooms appear empty, while small touches of yellow could suggest lights glowing mysteriously inside.

Jack-O'-Lanterns and Halloween

Carved pumpkins have become one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween.

Families carve faces and designs into pumpkins before placing lights inside them to create jack-o'-lanterns. They are commonly displayed outside homes throughout October and are especially popular on Halloween night.

The tradition has links to an older custom from Ireland and Britain where people carved faces into vegetables such as turnips. When Irish immigrants took the tradition to North America, pumpkins proved much easier to carve and eventually became closely linked with Halloween.

Today, jack-o'-lantern designs range from simple smiling faces to extremely detailed works of art.

The frightening pumpkin in this coloring page definitely belongs at the scarier end of the scale.

Bats, Bare Trees and an Abandoned Mansion

The smaller details help turn this from a simple pumpkin drawing into a full Haunted Mansion Pumpkin scene.

Bats can be seen flying around the towers of the mansion, while the trees surrounding the property look old and twisted. Fallen leaves cover the path, giving the drawing a clear autumn feel.

These details provide plenty of opportunities to add Halloween colors. Deep reds, oranges and browns can be used for the autumn leaves, while the sky could be dark blue, gray, purple or even black.

You could also add a large moon behind the clouds if you want to make the finished scene even more dramatic.

Create Your Own Haunted Mansion Story

One of the fun things about a haunted mansion drawing is imagining what might be happening inside.

Perhaps the mansion has been empty for a hundred years and nobody in the nearby town will go near it. Maybe ghosts appear in the tower windows every Halloween night. Or perhaps the giant pumpkin sitting outside is there to stop visitors from reaching the front door.

Children can use the coloring page as the starting point for their own Halloween story, adding ghosts, spiders, gravestones, black cats or other creepy characters around the scene.

Extra pumpkins could also be drawn along the path to create an entire row of glowing jack-o'-lanterns leading towards the mansion.

A Fun Halloween Coloring Activity

This Haunted Mansion Pumpkin coloring page works well as an October activity at home, in school or at a Halloween party.

The combination of large open spaces and smaller architectural details means different ages can approach the page in different ways. It can be colored quickly using crayons or given much more detail with colored pencils and careful shading.

The finished drawing could also make a great Halloween decoration. Place it on a wall, classroom display or window alongside other scary coloring pages featuring witches, ghosts, skeletons, vampires and creepy clowns.

The combination of a haunted mansion and scary pumpkin also makes this page suitable for anyone looking for something a little darker than the usual cute Halloween coloring pages.

Free Printable Haunted Mansion Pumpkin Coloring Page

This free printable Haunted Mansion Pumpkin coloring page brings together a scary jack-o'-lantern, creepy Victorian mansion, flying bats and an autumn setting in one detailed Halloween scene.

Print the page and create your own color scheme for the huge pumpkin and mysterious mansion behind it. Whether you choose classic orange and black Halloween colors or something completely different, there are plenty of spooky details waiting to be colored.