Minimalist Thanksgiving pumpkin coloring page with a curved stem, oak leaf, and scattered acorns

Big Pumpkin with Oak Leaf and Acorns

A plump Thanksgiving pumpkin sits under a long oak leaf, with a tiny acorn tucked by its tall curved stem.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Thanksgiving collection, made for ages 2–4 and drawn in a Minimalist style. A good pick for Thanksgiving.

🎨 How to color it

Color the pumpkin golden orange, the curved stem warm brown, the big oak leaf rusty red, and the acorns tan with dark brown caps. Use chunky crayons or broad markers for the pumpkin’s large rounded sections, and don’t worry if little hands color over the thick black lines. For a fun twist, make each pumpkin stripe a slightly different orange, like a soft Thanksgiving rainbow.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 26 zones and 5 colors, sized for kids. Tiny unnumbered slivers borrow the color of their neighbors, and the little model above shows the finished page whenever you want to check your work. More grids like this live in our color by number gallery.

Prefer classic line art? Open this drawing as a regular coloring page.

The story behind this coloring page

Why Pumpkin Stems Bend — Psst—under the oak, Vivo the pumpkin made a tiny challenge: count every acorn before lunch. Plip! Read the full story →

Psst—under the oak, Vivo the pumpkin made a tiny challenge: count every acorn before lunch. Plip! One acorn. Plop! Two. The leaves smelled spicy and dry.

Then a wee acorn rolled close and whispered, “Hear me?” Vivo leaned his stem down, down, down. Crackle went the leaf. Hush went the hill.

Vivo heard three more acorns hiding in the grass. Ever since, pumpkin stems bend a little, so pumpkins can listen for plip-plop secrets. Can you spot the acorn that started it?