Last updated: August 28, 2024 by the Homemade Gifts Coloring Team
Get ready for a spooktacular selection of monster coloring pages! From werewolves, to creepy vampires, and even aliens – you’ll find them lurking here. I love to color creepy monsters with my kids around the dining table, as we get closer to the spookiest season of them all – Halloween.
Plus, let’s be honest, a cute monster coloring page is far less scary than the prospect of meeting one of these scary characters in real life! Shading in one of our scary monster coloring printables is lots of fun, especially getting creative with your own uniquely colorful monsters.
There are simple cartoon-style monster outlines for preschool kids to easily color in, up to detailed monster images for big kids and adults to enjoy some mindful coloring time. Plus, we have skeletons, godzilla, Frankenstein, and sea monster coloring pages to get you in the mood for trick or treating. We hope that you find a coloring sheet that looks suitably scary.
These Halloween monster coloring pages are perfect for fun and free activities. Whether you’re a teacher looking for an Halloween-themed activity to keep your class engaged, or a parent who needs a little peace on a rainy October day! If you like what you see, be sure to share this page with your friends and family too.
Free Monster Coloring Pages Printable
Our monster coloring pages are great for brave young children to teens and adults. These are high-resolution letter-sized printable PDFs. They’re SO easy to download. Simply click on the image or the text-link underneath the image that you choose. These printables are for personal, non-commercial use only.
Tips for Coloring Scary Monsters
Coloring these printable monster coloring sheets is so much fun! If you’re feeling creative, take your sheets and color a unique design using paints, crayons, markers, pencils, highlighters, and more with our top tips.
Best Colors for a Monster Coloring Page
This depends on the monster and whether you’re creating a dark, scary, & realistic image, or a fun, light, & friendly monster. The color choices you make will set the mood!
If you like the classic look for scary monsters, dark colors like blacks, browns, grays and dark greens work really well.
If you’d like to create your own unique monster, use bright colors, so that they stand out. You could also get fancy and add stripes, polka dots, or even rainbow colors. Be sure to add in the traditional Halloween orange too!
Add Detail and Features to a Scary Monster Coloring Page
Why not add darker tones to your coloring sheet to add shadows for extra creepiness! You can add features like scars, fur, spikes, scales, and more to your monster to make him one of a kind.
Classic monsters like vampires or werewolves, tend to be dark colors – black suits for vampires, dark brown fur for werewolves. You can also add glowing eyes or some red “blood” around their fangs or hands/paws.
For aliens, why not add an extra eye, or three?! The only limit to your monster’s look is your own imagination!
10 Monster Facts
We love a fun fact! Here are ten terrifying things you may not know about monsters:
- Monster stories have been around since the beginning of civilization! They have always been a part of human mythology and folklore, scaring people for thousands of years.
- It’s good to remember monsters are FICTIONAL! They are the subject of many books and movies, but thankfully, they aren’t real.
- Need to get rid of a werewolf? Only silver bullets or arrows can kill them.
- The word “Vampire” originated as the Slavic word “obyri”, which eventually evolved into the Bulgarian “vampir”.
- There have been hundreds of sightings of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland, but whether it is real or not still remains a mystery.
- Zombies began making their way into pop culture way back in the early 20th Century. American soldiers that were stationed in Haiti told tales of sorcerers that brought the dead back to life.
- Stories of werewolves go right back to ancient Greece where Zeus turned Lycaos (the cruel king of Arcadia) into a wolf as a punishment.
- Love Frankenstein? You might be surprised to know that the undead creature is actually called “The Monster”. Frankenstein was the fictional scientist who created it, so “Frankenstein’s Monster” came to be.
- There is a medical explanation for vampire stories appearing in Eastern Europe. Porphyria, a hereditary blood disease, plus rabies, both included vampire-like symptoms including insomnia, delirium, and strange behavior.
- There are many strange myths about people becoming werewolves – you don’t just need to be bitten by one. A Romani curse or drinking water from a werewolf’s footprint are just a couple more. Don’t go drinking out of puddles!
Ghost Coloring Pages
Looking for more spooky scenes to color in? How about some ghosts that are on the cute and cozy side of the spooky spectrum? Catch a glimpse of our ghost coloring sheets for fun printable that you can color a little spooky, a little cozy, and maybe with some bittersweet nostalgic vibes as well.
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