Bold easy coloring page of apples and maple leaves in a woven basket under fall trees.

Basket of Apples Under Fall Trees

A woven basket brims with round apples and big maple leaves, with rolling hills and chunky fall trees behind it.

🎨 How to color it

Use bright red for the apples, golden yellow for the maple leaves, tan for the woven basket, and soft green for the distant hills. Chunky crayons are perfect for the big apples and basket strips; staying inside every line is optional. Try making the front leaf two colors, orange on one side and yellow on the other, like it just twirled down.

The story behind this coloring page

Why Apple Baskets Whisper — Under the hill trees, Junie tapped one apple, then one leaf. Tap-tap. Read the full story →

Under the hill trees, Junie tapped one apple, then one leaf. Tap-tap. Hush. She had invented the Quiet Basket Game: put in a red apple, tuck in a crisp leaf, then listen for the secret sound.

The basket went creak-creak. The leaves went shhh. Junie leaned close and smelled apple skin and dry grass. “Is this my spot?” she whispered.

The basket gave one tiny wicker whisper: yes. Ever since, apple baskets whisper when they are full of fall and someone is exactly where they belong. Can you find the leaf that heard Junie first?