Explore our fantastic collection of 33 free scarecrow coloring pages featuring spooky Jack-o’-Lantern heads, classic autumn cornfields, and adorable friendly faces!
Celebrate the magic of the fall season by coloring these iconic harvest guardians as they watch over pumpkin patches and make friends with local crows. We recommend using a warm, earthy color palette of golden yellows, burnt oranges, and deep browns to perfectly capture the cozy feeling of autumn!
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Pumpkin Heads & Jack-o’-Lanterns
Get ready for Halloween with these spooky and festive pumpkin head scarecrow coloring pages! Grab your brightest orange and yellow markers to bring these glowing Jack-o’-Lantern faces to life against the dark autumn night.
Friendly & Cute Scarecrows
Enjoy the lighter side of autumn with these incredibly cute and friendly scarecrow coloring pages. These adorable characters are perfect for younger artists to color using vibrant, cheerful palettes of reds, greens, and yellows.
Fun Fact: Did you know that the oldest known scarecrows were made by the ancient Egyptians over 3,000 years ago to protect their wheat fields along the Nile River? You can learn more about the fascinating history of scarecrows on Wikipedia!
Cornfields & Harvests
Celebrate the beautiful autumn harvest with these scenic coloring pages featuring scarecrows guarding cornfields and pumpkin patches. Use warm, earthy tones like deep browns, golden yellows, and harvest oranges to capture the feeling of the fall season.
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Scarecrows with Birds & Crows
Even though they are supposed to scare birds away, these friendly scarecrows have made some feathered friends! Practice your shading techniques by coloring the shiny black feathers of the crows perching on the scarecrows’ straw hats.
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Craft Ideas & Creative Activities
Coloring these classic autumn scarecrows is a wonderful way to celebrate the harvest season and practice drawing warm, earthy textures. Because scarecrows are made from a variety of rough materials like burlap, straw, and old denim, you can use these coloring sheets as an excellent creative opportunity to practice drawing diverse fabric textures. Here are some advanced coloring techniques and fun physical craft projects to try out!
Advanced Coloring Techniques
- 🌾 Scratchy Straw Textures: To make the straw poking out of the scarecrows’ sleeves and hats look realistic, avoid coloring it in one solid block of yellow. Instead, use short, quick, flicking strokes with alternating shades of golden yellow, light brown, and pale tan. Keep your colored pencils very sharp to make the individual pieces of straw stand out!
- 🧵 Burlap Fabric Blending: Scarecrow faces are traditionally made from rough burlap sacks. To recreate this texture, start with a solid base of light tan or cream. Then, use a darker brown pencil to lightly cross-hatch (draw intersecting horizontal and vertical lines) over the surface. This creates a woven, bumpy look that perfectly mimics real burlap!
- 🎃 Glowing Jack-o’-Lanterns: For the spooky pumpkin head scarecrows, you want the carved faces to look like they are lit by a candle inside. Color the inside of the eyes and mouth pure white or bright neon yellow. Then, blend a bright orange around the edges of the carved holes to simulate the warm, glowing light of the fire.
Fun Craft Ideas & Activities
- 🎭 Popsicle Stick Scarecrow Puppets: Don’t let the autumn fun stop once the coloring is done! Carefully cut out your fully colored scarecrows. Take a wooden popsicle stick or a craft stick and tape it securely to the back of the cutout. You can now use your scarecrow puppets to put on a fun, harvest-themed puppet show for your family!
- 🍁 Real Straw Collages: Take your coloring pages to the next level by making them 3D! Next time you are outside, gather some real pieces of dried grass, hay, or small twigs. Use a glue stick to attach the real grass directly over the drawn straw on your coloring page to create an amazing, mixed-media autumn collage!
- 🌽 Cardboard Cornfield Diorama: Paint the inside of a shoebox with beautiful orange and purple sunset colors. Cut out some tall stalks of corn from green construction paper and glue them inside the box. Finally, use sticky tack to place your scarecrow cutouts in the middle of your very own 3D miniature cornfield!
