Halloween Candy Bucket Full of Treats Coloring Page

Candy corn is one of the oldest Halloween candies, first made in the 1880s. Its three-color design — yellow, orange, and white — was meant to look like a kernel of corn. Each piece is made mostly from sugar, corn syrup, and carnauba wax, which gives it a slight shine. Americans buy roughly 35 million pounds of candy corn every year around Halloween.

Coloring ideas: make each candy type its own color to create a rainbow of sweets. Classic candy corn gets yellow at the bottom, orange in the middle, and white at the tip. Give lollipops swirling stripes of pink and red or blue and purple. The jack-o'-lantern bucket itself can be bright orange with a glowing yellow face. Try using a metallic gold or silver crayon for the pail's handle.

Younger kids can start by coloring the large pumpkin bucket body orange, then tackle the candies one at a time. Older kids can challenge themselves to give every single piece of candy a unique color combination, making this a creative color-inventory activity.