Intricate stained-glass Halloween arch with a giant jack-o’-lantern, bats, moon, candles, and pumpkin stacks.

Jack-o’-Lantern Gateway in Stained Glass

A towering jack-o’-lantern crowns a gothic doorway, with grinning pumpkins, twisting vines, candles, bats, stars, and a moonlit stained-glass sky.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the October collection, made for teens and adults, drawn in a Stained Glass style. A good pick for Halloween.

🎨 How to color it

Use harvest orange for the giant jack-o’-lantern and the stacked pumpkins, smoky violet for the bat-filled sky panels, and antique gold for the candles and moon. Because the arch ribs, pumpkin faces, vines, and cloud curls create many narrow sections, layer with sharp colored pencils and turn the page often to keep each stained-glass pane clean. Try making the doorway glow from pale yellow at the center into deep amber near the carved pumpkin mouth, as if the whole gate is lit from within.

The story behind this coloring page

Rowan’s Handmade Gate Game — By the last warm hour of October, Rowan had cut twelve paper lantern tiles for a game called Gatekeeper, but the center square stayed dull beneath their fingertips. Read the full story →

By the last warm hour of October, Rowan had cut twelve paper lantern tiles for a game called Gatekeeper, but the center square stayed dull beneath their fingertips. They left the comfort of the workbench and crossed the glass market, where wind clicked charms together and cinnamon smoke clung to every coat. A moon vendor asked one button for a sliver of pale glass; Rowan paid with the cuff button they liked best. Back home, they set the shard into the handmade gate and changed the rule: whoever entered must add one small glow of their own. The missing square shone like the last warm hour of October.