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Galaxy Blackout
Color the whole background black or very dark, and use exactly 5 colors from the Galaxy palette for the figures so they stand out like a night-time scene.
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Sorbet Fade
Use 3 to 5 colors from the Sorbet palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from a glowing middle out to dark edges.
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Ember Lantern Glow
Make your page glow like a jack-o'-lantern: lightest colors where the glow is strongest, getting darker as you move away. Use exactly 3 colors from the Ember palette.
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Alien Planet Space Spooks
Send your spooky page into outer space: use exactly 3 colors from the Alien Planet palette, with a starry background and figures glowing like aliens.
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Alien Planet Blast
Go bright: use exactly 6 colors from the Alien Planet palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Strong, saturated color gives the page a haunted-carnival feel.
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Soft Rainbow Spooks
Use exactly 7 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette in rainbow order, moving across the page, and keep the pressure light so everything stays dreamy.
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Jewel Box Light and Shadow
Make the spooky figures light and the background dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 2 colors from the Jewel Box palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Outfit Match Spooks
Color your spooky page with the 4 colors closest to what you're wearing today, even if that's mostly gray.
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Pastel Goth Night Creatures
Find the animals on your spooky page, like cats, bats, owls or spiders, and give them the brightest colors from the Pastel Goth palette, with everything else in calmer ones. Use exactly 5 colors.
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Pastel Goth Sweet Stripes
Color in bands of three, like candy corn: repeat exactly 3 colors from the Pastel Goth palette in the same order across the page.
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Pastel Goth Daydream
Keep everything soft: use exactly 6 colors from the Pastel Goth palette with light, even pressure, and skip heavy shading. Cute first, creepy second.
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Candy Corn Full House
Use all 7 colors in the Candy Corn palette on your spooky page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Moonlit Graveyard Old Photograph
Make your page look like an old haunted photograph: muted, faded colors from the Moonlit Graveyard palette, with no bright spots at all. Use exactly 4 colors.
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Candy Shop Sunny Spooks
Use colors nobody expects on Halloween, like sunny yellow ghosts or bubblegum pumpkins. Use exactly 4 colors from the Candy Shop palette.
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Jewel Box Feeling
Color for a dramatic feeling: use exactly 3 colors from the Jewel Box palette, and for each area of the spooky page choose whichever color feels most dramatic to you.
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Jewel Box Warm-Up
An easy start: use 2 or 3 colors from the Jewel Box palette. Color the largest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest spooky details last.
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Night Forest Parade
Choose exactly 4 colors from the Night Forest palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order across the page, like a beat that never breaks.
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Neon Halloween Calendar
Bring Halloween to your spooky page: use exactly 4 colors from the Neon Halloween palette and color it as if you were seeing it on Halloween night.
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Sorbet Creepy Cute
Make it creepy-cute: use exactly 5 colors from the Sorbet palette, mostly soft pastels with a touch of black for a pastel goth look.
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Night Forest Swap
Use exactly 2 colors from the Night Forest palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring areas ever share a color, from the figures to the shadows behind them.
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Night Forest Double Take
Make the colors on your spooky page symmetrical: use exactly 3 colors from the Night Forest palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin on the other side of the page.
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Haunted Mansion Stopwatch
Set a timer for 5 minutes and color as much of the spooky page as you can with exactly 3 colors from the Haunted Mansion palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Lavender and Butter Spark
Use exactly 2 colors: lavender and butter, two complementary colors that sit opposite each other on the color wheel. Give one of them the larger areas and let the other one pop. One color for the figures and the other for the night around them.
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Northern Lights Short List
Less is more: finish the whole spooky page with exactly 2 colors from the Northern Lights palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Spooks Color Marathon
Use exactly 7 different colors, and don't use the same color twice within one figure. Choose the 7 pencils or markers from your set that you use the least.
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Rainbow Spooks
Use exactly 7 colors from the Rainbow palette in rainbow order across the page, and keep the background black so it feels like a spooky disco.
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Teal Study
Stick to one color family: use exactly 7 colors, all shades of teal, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Candy Shop Lights Out
Color the whole background black or very dark, and use exactly 3 colors from the Candy Shop palette for the figures so they stand out like a night-time scene.
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Pastel Goth Melt
Use exactly 5 colors from the Pastel Goth palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from a glowing middle out to dark edges.
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Alien Planet Lantern Glow
Make your page glow like a jack-o'-lantern: lightest colors where the glow is strongest, getting darker as you move away. Use exactly 5 colors from the Alien Planet palette.
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Galaxy Space Spooks
Send your spooky page into outer space: use exactly 4 colors from the Galaxy palette, with a starry background and figures glowing like aliens.
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Jewel Box Burst
Go bright: use exactly 4 colors from the Jewel Box palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Strong, saturated color gives the page a haunted-carnival feel.
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Neon Halloween Eclipse
Make the spooky figures light and the background dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 3 colors from the Neon Halloween palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Room Raid Spooks
Look around the room and find 2 colors you can see right now. Match them as closely as you can and use only those on your spooky page.
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Autumn Walk Familiars
Find the animals on your spooky page, like cats, bats, owls or spiders, and give them the brightest colors from the Autumn Walk palette, with everything else in calmer ones. Use exactly 4 colors.
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Witch's Brew Candy Corn Bands
Color in bands of three, like candy corn: repeat exactly 3 colors from the Witch's Brew palette in the same order across the page.
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Candy Shop Haze
Keep everything soft: use exactly 5 colors from the Candy Shop palette with light, even pressure, and skip heavy shading. Cute first, creepy second.
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Candy Shop All In
Use all 7 colors in the Candy Shop palette on your spooky page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Northern Lights Old Photograph
Make your page look like an old haunted photograph: muted, faded colors from the Northern Lights palette, with no bright spots at all. Use exactly 3 colors.
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Autumn Walk Wrong Holiday
Use colors nobody expects on Halloween, like sunny yellow ghosts or bubblegum pumpkins. Use exactly 5 colors from the Autumn Walk palette.
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Ember Mood
Color for a dramatic feeling: use exactly 4 colors from the Ember palette, and for each area of the spooky page choose whichever color feels most dramatic to you.
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Pumpkin Patch Easy Start
An easy start: use exactly 3 colors from the Pumpkin Patch palette. Color the largest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest spooky details last.
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Velvet Night Chain
Choose exactly 3 colors from the Velvet Night palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order across the page, like a beat that never breaks.
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Haunted Mansion Postcard
Bring Halloween to your spooky page: use exactly 3 colors from the Haunted Mansion palette and color it as if you were seeing it on Halloween night.
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Pastel Rainbow Sweet Fright
Make it creepy-cute: use exactly 3 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette, mostly soft pastels with a touch of black for a pastel goth look.
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Sorbet Flip-Flop
Use exactly 3 colors from the Sorbet palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring areas ever share a color, from the figures to the shadows behind them.
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Galaxy Fold
Make the colors on your spooky page symmetrical: use 3 or 4 colors from the Galaxy palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin on the other side of the page.
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Sorbet Sprint
Set a timer for 10 minutes and color as much of the spooky page as you can with exactly 3 colors from the Sorbet palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Magenta and Lime Face-Off
Use exactly 4 colors: a light and a dark version of both magenta and lime, so the page has depth as well as contrast. One color for the figures and the other for the night around them.
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Pastel Rainbow Budget
Less is more: finish the whole spooky page with exactly 2 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Rose Depths
Stick to one color family: use exactly 6 colors, all shades of rose, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Jewel Box Lights Out
Color the whole background black or very dark, and use exactly 4 colors from the Jewel Box palette for the figures so they stand out like a night-time scene.
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Autumn Walk Glide
Use exactly 4 colors from the Autumn Walk palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from a glowing middle out to dark edges.
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Sunset Candlelight
Make your page glow like a jack-o'-lantern: lightest colors where the glow is strongest, getting darker as you move away. Use exactly 4 colors from the Sunset palette.
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Neon Halloween Pop
Go bright: use exactly 7 colors from the Neon Halloween palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Strong, saturated color gives the page a haunted-carnival feel.
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Sunset Eclipse
Make the spooky figures light and the background dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 3 colors from the Sunset palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Set Neighbors Spooks
Pick 7 colors that sit right next to each other in your pencil or marker set and use only those for your spooky page.
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Sunset Familiars
Find the animals on your spooky page, like cats, bats, owls or spiders, and give them the brightest colors from the Sunset palette, with everything else in calmer ones. Use exactly 3 colors.
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Neon Halloween Trick-or-Treat Stripes
Color in bands of three, like candy corn: repeat exactly 3 colors from the Neon Halloween palette in the same order across the page.
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Sorbet Grand Tour
Use all 7 colors in the Sorbet palette on your spooky page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Witch's Brew Old Photograph
Make your page look like an old haunted photograph: muted, faded colors from the Witch's Brew palette, with no bright spots at all. Use exactly 4 colors.
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Sunset Wrong Holiday
Use colors nobody expects on Halloween, like sunny yellow ghosts or bubblegum pumpkins. Use exactly 3 colors from the Sunset palette.
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Pastel Goth Mood
Color for a playful feeling: use exactly 5 colors from the Pastel Goth palette, and for each area of the spooky page choose whichever color feels most playful to you.
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Candy Shop Warm-Up
An easy start: use exactly 2 colors from the Candy Shop palette. Color the largest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest spooky details last.
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Witch's Brew Loop
Choose exactly 5 colors from the Witch's Brew palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order across the page, like a beat that never breaks.
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Autumn Walk Season
Bring autumn to your spooky page: use exactly 6 colors from the Autumn Walk palette and color it as if you were seeing it on a crisp autumn afternoon.
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Candy Shop Soft Scare
Make it creepy-cute: use exactly 4 colors from the Candy Shop palette, mostly soft pastels with a touch of black for a pastel goth look.
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Moonlit Graveyard Switch
Use exactly 4 colors from the Moonlit Graveyard palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring areas ever share a color, from the figures to the shadows behind them.
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Moonlit Graveyard Twins
Make the colors on your spooky page symmetrical: use exactly 2 colors from the Moonlit Graveyard palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin on the other side of the page.
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Sunset Dash
Set a timer for 15 minutes and color as much of the spooky page as you can with exactly 4 colors from the Sunset palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Navy and Gold Opposites
Use exactly 3 colors: complementary navy and gold, plus ivory as a calm neutral to give the eye somewhere to rest. One color for the figures and the other for the night around them.
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Pastel Goth Budget
Less is more: finish the whole spooky page with exactly 3 colors from the Pastel Goth palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Olive Study
Stick to one color family: use 3 to 5 colors, all shades of olive, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Pastel Goth Lights Out
Color the whole background black or very dark, and use exactly 5 colors from the Pastel Goth palette for the figures so they stand out like a night-time scene.
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Pastel Rainbow Ombre
Use exactly 3 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from a glowing middle out to dark edges.
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Velvet Night Jack-o'-Lantern
Make your page glow like a jack-o'-lantern: lightest colors where the glow is strongest, getting darker as you move away. Use exactly 3 colors from the Velvet Night palette.
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Sunset Burst
Go bright: use exactly 3 colors from the Sunset palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Strong, saturated color gives the page a haunted-carnival feel.
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Night Forest Flipside
Make the spooky figures light and the background dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 4 colors from the Night Forest palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Dice Roll Spooks
Number your colors, roll a die 3 times (or ask someone to call out 3 numbers) and color your spooky page with only the colors that come up.
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Alien Planet Critter Crawl
Find the animals on your spooky page, like cats, bats, owls or spiders, and give them the brightest colors from the Alien Planet palette, with everything else in calmer ones. Use exactly 5 colors.
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Sorbet Candy Corn Bands
Color in bands of three, like candy corn: repeat exactly 3 colors from the Sorbet palette in the same order across the page.
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Ember Full Set
Use all 7 colors in the Ember palette on your spooky page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Haunted Mansion Faded Haunt
Make your page look like an old haunted photograph: muted, faded colors from the Haunted Mansion palette, with no bright spots at all. Use exactly 3 colors.
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Alien Planet Monster Mash
Use colors nobody expects on Halloween, like sunny yellow ghosts or bubblegum pumpkins. Use exactly 4 colors from the Alien Planet palette.
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Witch's Brew Vibe
Color for a dramatic feeling: use 3 to 5 colors from the Witch's Brew palette, and for each area of the spooky page choose whichever color feels most dramatic to you.
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Candy Corn Starter
An easy start: use 2 or 3 colors from the Candy Corn palette. Color the largest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest spooky details last.
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Northern Lights Encore
Choose exactly 6 colors from the Northern Lights palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order across the page, like a beat that never breaks.
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Pastel Goth Season
Bring Halloween to your spooky page: use 4 or 5 colors from the Pastel Goth palette and color it as if you were seeing it on Halloween night.
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Candy Shop Tag Team
Use exactly 3 colors from the Candy Shop palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring areas ever share a color, from the figures to the shadows behind them.
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Autumn Walk Double Take
Make the colors on your spooky page symmetrical: use exactly 4 colors from the Autumn Walk palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin on the other side of the page.
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Pastel Rainbow Dash
Set a timer for 20 minutes and color as much of the spooky page as you can with exactly 2 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Pink and Mint Standoff
Use exactly 2 colors: pink and mint, two complementary colors that sit opposite each other on the color wheel. Give one of them the larger areas and let the other one pop. One color for the figures and the other for the night around them.
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Autumn Walk Less Is More
Less is more: finish the whole spooky page with exactly 2 colors from the Autumn Walk palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Indigo Tones
Stick to one color family: use exactly 3 colors, all shades of indigo, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Witch's Brew Blackout
Color the whole background black or very dark, and use exactly 3 colors from the Witch's Brew palette for the figures so they stand out like a night-time scene.
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Candy Corn Glide
Use exactly 6 colors from the Candy Corn palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from a glowing middle out to dark edges.
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Haunted Mansion Candlelight
Make your page glow like a jack-o'-lantern: lightest colors where the glow is strongest, getting darker as you move away. Use exactly 5 colors from the Haunted Mansion palette.
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Neon Pop
Go bright: use exactly 5 colors from the Neon palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Strong, saturated color gives the page a haunted-carnival feel.
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Velvet Night Flipside
Make the spooky figures light and the background dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 2 colors from the Velvet Night palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Blind Pick Spooks
Close your eyes and pick 6 colors from your set. Those are your whole palette for your spooky page, no swaps allowed.
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Northern Lights Critter Crawl
Find the animals on your spooky page, like cats, bats, owls or spiders, and give them the brightest colors from the Northern Lights palette, with everything else in calmer ones. Use exactly 4 colors.
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Pumpkin Patch Candy Corn Bands
Color in bands of three, like candy corn: repeat exactly 3 colors from the Pumpkin Patch palette in the same order across the page.
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Sunset All In
Use all 7 colors in the Sunset palette on your spooky page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Neon Halloween Faded Haunt
Make your page look like an old haunted photograph: muted, faded colors from the Neon Halloween palette, with no bright spots at all. Use exactly 4 colors.
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Ember Monster Mash
Use colors nobody expects on Halloween, like sunny yellow ghosts or bubblegum pumpkins. Use exactly 5 colors from the Ember palette.
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Sorbet Vibe
Color for a dreamy feeling: use exactly 3 colors from the Sorbet palette, and for each area of the spooky page choose whichever color feels most dreamy to you.
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Autumn Walk Gentle Start
An easy start: use exactly 3 colors from the Autumn Walk palette. Color the largest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest spooky details last.
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Pastel Rainbow Refrain
Choose exactly 4 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order across the page, like a beat that never breaks.
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Ember Season
Bring autumn to your spooky page: use exactly 5 colors from the Ember palette and color it as if you were seeing it on a crisp autumn afternoon.
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Neon Halloween Checkers
Use exactly 2 colors from the Neon Halloween palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring areas ever share a color, from the figures to the shadows behind them.
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Sunset Reflection
Make the colors on your spooky page symmetrical: use exactly 5 colors from the Sunset palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin on the other side of the page.
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Northern Lights Stopwatch
Set a timer for 5 minutes and color as much of the spooky page as you can with exactly 3 colors from the Northern Lights palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Indigo and Amber Opposites
Use exactly 3 colors: complementary indigo and amber, plus silver as a calm neutral to give the eye somewhere to rest. One color for the figures and the other for the night around them.
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Candy Shop Minimalist
Less is more: finish the whole spooky page with exactly 2 colors from the Candy Shop palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Berry Study
Stick to one color family: use exactly 4 colors, all shades of berry, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Velvet Night Lights Out
Color the whole background black or very dark, and use exactly 4 colors from the Velvet Night palette for the figures so they stand out like a night-time scene.
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Haunted Mansion Slope
Use 3 to 5 colors from the Haunted Mansion palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from a glowing middle out to dark edges.
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Jewel Box Jack-o'-Lantern
Make your page glow like a jack-o'-lantern: lightest colors where the glow is strongest, getting darker as you move away. Use exactly 4 colors from the Jewel Box palette.
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Ember Pop
Go bright: use exactly 6 colors from the Ember palette at full strength, pressing firmly so every area is rich and even. Strong, saturated color gives the page a haunted-carnival feel.
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Neon Spotlight
Make the spooky figures light and the background dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 3 colors from the Neon palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Friend's Choice Spooks
Ask someone else to choose 3 colors for you without seeing your spooky page, then make them work.
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Pumpkin Patch Critter Crawl
Find the animals on your spooky page, like cats, bats, owls or spiders, and give them the brightest colors from the Pumpkin Patch palette, with everything else in calmer ones. Use exactly 3 colors.
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Haunted Mansion Trick-or-Treat Stripes
Color in bands of three, like candy corn: repeat exactly 3 colors from the Haunted Mansion palette in the same order across the page.
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Neon Halloween Full House
Use all 7 colors in the Neon Halloween palette on your spooky page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Night Forest Sepia Ghost
Make your page look like an old haunted photograph: muted, faded colors from the Night Forest palette, with no bright spots at all. Use exactly 3 colors.
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Jewel Box Sunny Spooks
Use colors nobody expects on Halloween, like sunny yellow ghosts or bubblegum pumpkins. Use exactly 3 colors from the Jewel Box palette.
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Alien Planet Vibe
Color for a playful feeling: use exactly 5 colors from the Alien Planet palette, and for each area of the spooky page choose whichever color feels most playful to you.
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Northern Lights Starter
An easy start: use 2 or 3 colors from the Northern Lights palette. Color the largest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest spooky details last.
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Neon Loop
Choose exactly 4 colors from the Neon palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order across the page, like a beat that never breaks.
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Northern Lights Calendar
Bring winter to your spooky page: use exactly 4 colors from the Northern Lights palette and color it as if you were seeing it on a frosty winter day.
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Autumn Walk Checkers
Use exactly 2 colors from the Autumn Walk palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring areas ever share a color, from the figures to the shadows behind them.
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Pastel Rainbow Mirror
Make the colors on your spooky page symmetrical: use exactly 3 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin on the other side of the page.
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Candy Corn Countdown
Set a timer for 10 minutes and color as much of the spooky page as you can with exactly 3 colors from the Candy Corn palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Cyan and Tomato Clash
Use exactly 2 colors: cyan and tomato, two complementary colors that sit opposite each other on the color wheel. Give one of them the larger areas and let the other one pop. One color for the figures and the other for the night around them.
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Haunted Mansion Less Is More
Less is more: finish the whole spooky page with exactly 2 colors from the Haunted Mansion palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Violet Tones
Stick to one color family: use exactly 7 colors, all shades of violet, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Pumpkin Patch Blackout
Color the whole background black or very dark, and use exactly 5 colors from the Pumpkin Patch palette for the figures so they stand out like a night-time scene.
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Northern Lights Slope
Use exactly 5 colors from the Northern Lights palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from a glowing middle out to dark edges.
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Galaxy Lantern Glow
Make your page glow like a jack-o'-lantern: lightest colors where the glow is strongest, getting darker as you move away. Use exactly 3 colors from the Galaxy palette.
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Galaxy Eclipse
Make the spooky figures light and the background dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 3 colors from the Galaxy palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Photo Palette Spooks
Open the last photo you took and pick 4 colors from it to color your spooky page.
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Neon Halloween Familiars
Find the animals on your spooky page, like cats, bats, owls or spiders, and give them the brightest colors from the Neon Halloween palette, with everything else in calmer ones. Use exactly 5 colors.
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Candy Corn Candy Corn Bands
Color in bands of three, like candy corn: repeat exactly 3 colors from the Candy Corn palette in the same order across the page.
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Pumpkin Patch Grand Tour
Use all 7 colors in the Pumpkin Patch palette on your spooky page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Velvet Night Sepia Ghost
Make your page look like an old haunted photograph: muted, faded colors from the Velvet Night palette, with no bright spots at all. Use exactly 4 colors.
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Neon Sunny Spooks
Use colors nobody expects on Halloween, like sunny yellow ghosts or bubblegum pumpkins. Use exactly 4 colors from the Neon palette.
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Galaxy Moment
Color for a dreamy feeling: use 3 to 5 colors from the Galaxy palette, and for each area of the spooky page choose whichever color feels most dreamy to you.
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Alien Planet Easy Start
An easy start: use exactly 3 colors from the Alien Planet palette. Color the largest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest spooky details last.
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Haunted Mansion Encore
Choose exactly 6 colors from the Haunted Mansion palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order across the page, like a beat that never breaks.
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Candy Corn Calendar
Bring Halloween to your spooky page: use exactly 3 colors from the Candy Corn palette and color it as if you were seeing it on Halloween night.
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Jewel Box Tag Team
Use exactly 3 colors from the Jewel Box palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring areas ever share a color, from the figures to the shadows behind them.
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Alien Planet Twins
Make the colors on your spooky page symmetrical: use exactly 5 colors from the Alien Planet palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin on the other side of the page.
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Ember Sprint
Set a timer for 30 minutes and color as much of the spooky page as you can with exactly 5 colors from the Ember palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Red and Green Opposites
Use exactly 3 colors: complementary red and green, plus off-white as a calm neutral to give the eye somewhere to rest. One color for the figures and the other for the night around them.
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Neon Less Is More
Less is more: finish the whole spooky page with exactly 2 colors from the Neon palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Tangerine Study
Stick to one color family: use exactly 5 colors, all shades of tangerine, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Pastel Rainbow Shadow Play
Color the whole background black or very dark, and use exactly 4 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette for the figures so they stand out like a night-time scene.
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Ember Ombre
Use exactly 4 colors from the Ember palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from a glowing middle out to dark edges.
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Moonlit Graveyard Lantern Glow
Make your page glow like a jack-o'-lantern: lightest colors where the glow is strongest, getting darker as you move away. Use exactly 4 colors from the Moonlit Graveyard palette.
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Witch's Brew Silhouette
Make the spooky figures light and the background dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 2 colors from the Witch's Brew palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Forgotten Colors Spooks
Use only 2 colors you almost never pick. Your spooky page is their chance to shine.
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Pastel Rainbow Familiars
Find the animals on your spooky page, like cats, bats, owls or spiders, and give them the brightest colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette, with everything else in calmer ones. Use exactly 4 colors.
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Moonlit Graveyard Candy Corn Bands
Color in bands of three, like candy corn: repeat exactly 3 colors from the Moonlit Graveyard palette in the same order across the page.
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Velvet Night Grand Tour
Use all 7 colors in the Velvet Night palette on your spooky page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Galaxy Old Photograph
Make your page look like an old haunted photograph: muted, faded colors from the Galaxy palette, with no bright spots at all. Use exactly 3 colors.
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Pastel Rainbow Wrong Holiday
Use colors nobody expects on Halloween, like sunny yellow ghosts or bubblegum pumpkins. Use exactly 5 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette.
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Velvet Night Vibe
Color for a dramatic feeling: use exactly 4 colors from the Velvet Night palette, and for each area of the spooky page choose whichever color feels most dramatic to you.
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Pastel Rainbow First Steps
An easy start: use 2 or 3 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette. Color the largest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest spooky details last.
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Sorbet Loop
Choose exactly 3 colors from the Sorbet palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order across the page, like a beat that never breaks.
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Moonlit Graveyard Weather
Bring Halloween to your spooky page: use 4 or 5 colors from the Moonlit Graveyard palette and color it as if you were seeing it on Halloween night.
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Velvet Night Tag Team
Use exactly 3 colors from the Velvet Night palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring areas ever share a color, from the figures to the shadows behind them.
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Pumpkin Patch Twins
Make the colors on your spooky page symmetrical: use 3 or 4 colors from the Pumpkin Patch palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin on the other side of the page.
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Night Forest Lap
Set a timer for 5 minutes and color as much of the spooky page as you can with exactly 3 colors from the Night Forest palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Night Forest Less Is More
Less is more: finish the whole spooky page with exactly 3 colors from the Night Forest palette. If you need extra tones and you're using colored pencils, layer the colors over each other instead of adding new ones.
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Cobalt Ladder
Stick to one color family: use exactly 6 colors, all shades of cobalt, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Night Forest Lights Out
Color the whole background black or very dark, and use exactly 5 colors from the Night Forest palette for the figures so they stand out like a night-time scene.
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Witch's Brew Fade
Use exactly 3 colors from the Witch's Brew palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from a glowing middle out to dark edges.
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Neon Jack-o'-Lantern
Make your page glow like a jack-o'-lantern: lightest colors where the glow is strongest, getting darker as you move away. Use exactly 4 colors from the Neon palette.
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Moonlit Graveyard Silhouette
Make the spooky figures light and the background dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 3 colors from the Moonlit Graveyard palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Window View Spooks
Look out of the nearest window, pick 5 colors you can see outside and bring them into your spooky page.
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Candy Corn Critter Crawl
Find the animals on your spooky page, like cats, bats, owls or spiders, and give them the brightest colors from the Candy Corn palette, with everything else in calmer ones. Use exactly 4 colors.
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Galaxy Full House
Use all 7 colors in the Galaxy palette on your spooky page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Neon Glow
Color for an energetic feeling: use exactly 5 colors from the Neon palette, and for each area of the spooky page choose whichever color feels most energetic to you.
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Neon Gentle Start
An easy start: use exactly 3 colors from the Neon palette. Color the largest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest spooky details last.
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Moonlit Graveyard Refrain
Choose exactly 3 colors from the Moonlit Graveyard palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order across the page, like a beat that never breaks.
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Witch's Brew Weather
Bring Halloween to your spooky page: use exactly 5 colors from the Witch's Brew palette and color it as if you were seeing it on Halloween night.
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Pumpkin Patch Checkers
Use exactly 3 colors from the Pumpkin Patch palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring areas ever share a color, from the figures to the shadows behind them.
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Candy Corn Fold
Make the colors on your spooky page symmetrical: use exactly 4 colors from the Candy Corn palette and give every area exactly the same color as its twin on the other side of the page.
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Pumpkin Patch Sprint
Set a timer for 20 minutes and color as much of the spooky page as you can with exactly 2 colors from the Pumpkin Patch palette. When the timer rings, put your pencils down, finished or not.
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Sunflower Shades
Stick to one color family: use 3 to 5 colors, all shades of sunflower, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Pastel Rainbow Candlelight
Make your page glow like a jack-o'-lantern: lightest colors where the glow is strongest, getting darker as you move away. Use exactly 5 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette.
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Pencil Shuffle Spooks
Put all your colors in a cup, shake it and take out 5 without looking. Those are your palette for your spooky page.
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Pastel Rainbow Full Set
Use all 7 colors in the Pastel Rainbow palette on your spooky page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Pastel Rainbow Mood
Color for a playful feeling: use exactly 4 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette, and for each area of the spooky page choose whichever color feels most playful to you.
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Pastel Rainbow Tag Team
Use exactly 3 colors from the Pastel Rainbow palette and alternate them so that no two neighboring areas ever share a color, from the figures to the shadows behind them.
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Chocolate Ladder
Stick to one color family: use exactly 3 colors, all shades of chocolate, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Leaf Green Tones
Stick to one color family: use exactly 4 colors, all shades of leaf green, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Slate Study
Stick to one color family: use exactly 7 colors, all shades of slate, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Sky Blue Study
Stick to one color family: use exactly 5 colors, all shades of sky blue, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Coral Tones
Stick to one color family: use exactly 6 colors, all shades of coral, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Plum Study
Stick to one color family: use 3 to 5 colors, all shades of plum, from the palest to the deepest, and nothing else. Keep the darkest shade for the background so everything else glows.
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Sunset Shadow Play
Color the whole background black or very dark, and use exactly 3 colors from the Sunset palette for the figures so they stand out like a night-time scene.
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Galaxy Glide
Use exactly 6 colors from the Galaxy palette, sorted from lightest to darkest, and let them shift gradually from a glowing middle out to dark edges.
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Pastel Goth Jack-o'-Lantern
Make your page glow like a jack-o'-lantern: lightest colors where the glow is strongest, getting darker as you move away. Use exactly 5 colors from the Pastel Goth palette.
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Haunted Mansion Flipside
Make the spooky figures light and the background dark, or the other way round. Use exactly 4 colors from the Haunted Mansion palette and push the difference as far as it will go.
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Ember Critter Crawl
Find the animals on your spooky page, like cats, bats, owls or spiders, and give them the brightest colors from the Ember palette, with everything else in calmer ones. Use exactly 3 colors.
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Candy Shop Sweet Stripes
Color in bands of three, like candy corn: repeat exactly 3 colors from the Candy Shop palette in the same order across the page.
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Jewel Box All In
Use all 7 colors in the Jewel Box palette on your spooky page, and don't give two areas that sit next to each other the same color.
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Sorbet Monster Mash
Use colors nobody expects on Halloween, like sunny yellow ghosts or bubblegum pumpkins. Use exactly 3 colors from the Sorbet palette.
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Sunset Feeling
Color for a romantic feeling: use exactly 4 colors from the Sunset palette, and for each area of the spooky page choose whichever color feels most romantic to you.
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Sunset Warm-Up
An easy start: use exactly 2 colors from the Sunset palette. Color the largest shapes first with light, even pressure, then fill in the smallest spooky details last.
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Pastel Goth Parade
Choose exactly 3 colors from the Pastel Goth palette, put them in an order you like and repeat that order across the page, like a beat that never breaks.
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Sorbet Weather
Bring summer to your spooky page: use exactly 6 colors from the Sorbet palette and color it as if you were seeing it in bright summer sunshine.
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Pastel Goth Soft Scare
Make it creepy-cute: use exactly 5 colors from the Pastel Goth palette, mostly soft pastels with a touch of black for a pastel goth look.
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Halloween coloring books to try them in
Spooky but cute Halloween coloring books by Toby Greenhouse, including Animaloween and Pastel Goth.
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Animaloween - Bold and Easy Coloring Book for Kids and Adults: Adorable Animals in Spooky Halloween Scenes: Creepy and Cute Pages to Color and Relax
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Pastel Goth - Simple Coloring Book for Teens and Adults: Big, Bold, Creepy and Cute Designs to Color and Relax
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About Halloween coloring challenges
Halloween coloring doesn't have to be dark: it can be creepy, cute, pastel or glowing. These Halloween coloring challenges give you spooky palettes, pastel goth color ideas, moonlit night scenes and playful rules for pumpkins, ghosts, bats and witchy cats.
They work with colored pencils, markers, gel pens or crayons, and suit kids, teens and adults. Easy challenges are perfect for a relaxing spooky season session, and Hard ones are for when you want a real creative challenge. Use them all year round, not just in October.