Free Printable Pumpkin and Jack-o-Lantern Stencils and Craft Activities

Whether you celebrate Halloween, Trick-or-treat, All Saint's Day or harvest festivals, a common theme for all autumn activities includes pumpkins. Use these free printable pumpkins crafts, coloring and cut and paste for preschool lessons and games.

www.bhg.com (click here) has thirty-eight free printable Halloween pumpkin jack-o-lantern stencil patterns. Use these for pumpkin designs, coloring pages, holiday cut-outs and crafts. Place the stencil on black paper and trace the pattern. Cut out the shapes with scissors or an exact-o knife. Glue colored tissue paper to the back of the black paper to create a holiday stained glass window picture.

Reader's Digest (www.rd.com ) has twelve jack-o-lantern pumpkin face carving stencils. Use for pumpkin carving, coloring or to make Halloween stained glass pictures as described in the activity above. You might even print a set of pumpkin stencils, cut them out and laminate them. Use for preschool children's' art projects. Instead of carving a big messy pumpkin, children will enjoy practicing their fine motor and carving skills on play dough or recycled Styrofoam vegetables trays. Laminated stencils make great painting stencils also. You may want to use the pumpkin stencils for cake or cookie decorating.

Family Crafts at about.com Still need more jack-o-lantern Halloween pumpkin stencils? about.com has thirteen more links for free printable Halloween pumpkin stencils. Create jack-o-lantern faces, pictures or spiders, witches, ghosts, goblins, skeletons for your pumpkins and holiday crafts. The great thing about pumpkin stencils is that they make excellent simple coloring pages for young children.

Teas 2 Dine 4 (click here) has links for dozens of free printable Halloween, pumpkin and trick-or-r-treat craft projects and coloring pages. Teas 2 Dine 4 is an enormous clearing house of free printable craft links for Halloween fun. There are close to 100 Halloween and pumpkin themed free printable links for you to explore.

Fun With Pictures (click here) has twelve free printable coloring pages featuring pumpkins with faces and uncarved pumpkins.

Creativity Portal (click here) has several cute cut and paste pumpkin craft activities. These free printable Halloween crafts will tickle your children's fancy with funny, silly pumpkin faces to cut and assemble.

Altogether there are over two hundred free printable Halloween pumpkin coloring pages, cut and paste, crafts, stencils and trick-or-treat activities. Just perfect for any Halloween or harvest festival, party or celebration.