The Halloween season encompasses themes of Harvest and the Day of the Dead, El Día de los Muertos. The mandala symbolizes wholeness. The Sanskrit word, mandala, includes the concepts of "essence," "containing," "circle," "cycle," and "closure." These concepts are relevant to the life-death-life cycle of which Halloween, Harvest, and Day of the Dead are a part.
You can learn more about mandalas on Printable and Online Mandala Coloring Pages and more about El Día de los Muertos on Halloween and Day of the Dead Printables and Activities.
Halloween Mandalas
Aside from the specifically Halloween-themed mandalas listed below, you can color any mandala design in autumn colors to produce a harvest mandala.
- Fantasy Jr. has a page of Halloween Mandala Coloring Pages featuring such spooky fair as skulls, goblins, owls, Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin faces, and scarecrows.
- Fantasy Jr. also has a page of Fall Mandala Coloring Pages with harvest themes such as nuts, squirrels, trees, and leaves.
- Mandala-Bilder.de has a page of Halloween Mandalas with pumpkin faces, witches, the grim reaper, ghosts, skulls, and monsters.
- MorningKids.net has a collection of Fall Mandalas featuring circular designs of grapes, leaves, and mushrooms.
- HelloKids.com has a Fall Elf Mandala and a Flower Elf Mandala for coloring.
Calavera Sugar Skull Coloring Page
Lee Hansen designs provides a printable Day of the Dead Skull Mask Coloring Page (pdf). You can use it to make a mask or to incorporate into a mandala design.
More Activities for the Halloween Season
- Free pumpkin carving patterns.
- Halloween costumes & an October timeline of events.
- Halloween and Dia de los Muertos activities and printables. In my family, we like to mix Halloween and Day of the Dead together. Both celebrations have folksy cultural and mythological roots–Halloween in Celtic traditions and El Día de los Muertos in Aztec traditions.
- How to cast a spell to become a vampire. My 9-year-old daughter transformed last year for Halloween. She had us test her with garlic to make sure it worked. She was repelled.
- How to read Tarot cards. Divination is a timely Halloween practice.
- How to develop your psychic abilities to better traverse the veil between life and beyond.
Many people use the circular designs of mandalas to induce relaxation and aid meditation. Fall Harvest is a time to wind down activity in preparation for winter. Any mandala design colored in autumn harvest or spooky colors such as the browns, reds, oranges, and blacks will result in a Harvest or Halloween mandala to suit a variety of creative purposes.
Sara McGrath - Sara is a veteran homeschool mom of three, Usborne consultant, and the author of Unschooling: A Lifestyle of Learning.
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