Pumpkin
Toddler · 2–3A round pumpkin with a curly stem. Color the pumpkin orange for autumn! A fun way to talk about fall, harvest, and pumpkin patches. Print it on A4 or US Letter, or color it online with tap-to-fill.
Ribs, not just a circle
A pumpkin looks like a circle until you look at it, and then it is a set of curved ribs bulging out from a centre. Those curves are drawn here, and following them with a crayon rather than colouring straight across is what makes the finished page look round rather than flat.
That is a real drawing technique — letting the direction of your strokes follow the form of the object — and this is the easiest page on the site to learn it on.
A fruit, not a vegetable
Pumpkins have seeds inside, which makes them a fruit botanically, along with tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. Children of six or seven enjoy this enormously because it contradicts something they thought they knew, and the rule — if it has seeds, it is a fruit — is easy to apply to everything in the kitchen.
Frequently asked questions
- Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
- Botanically a fruit, because it grows from a flower and contains seeds. So are tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers — a rule children enjoy applying to the whole fridge.
- How do I make the pumpkin look round?
- Colour along the curve of each rib rather than straight across the whole shape. Letting stroke direction follow the form is a real technique and this is the simplest place to try it.