Halloween Coloring Pages

Here are some Halloween Coloring Pages for you.  Some people may wonder about the Fiery Furnace drawing, but it is a scary and true story in the Bible.  .   .  so it seemed appropriate to me. 

Three Hebrew Children in the Fiery Furnace

Wizard Enchanting a Dragon

Halloween Witch

Yes she DOES have 6 fingers on her right hand.

Friendly Frankie

Frankie is a boy monster, not an adult...and his brain was good, not abnormal.   

So he is Friendly Frankie the Frankenstein Monster.  

You might notice a lack of symmetry.  This is because 

Frankie was made by Victor Frankenstein Jr.   His surgery

skills are not as advanced as his father's.   

Halloween Ghosts

Centrosaurus vs Monoclonius

NOTE:  Click on the above:   "Free Printable Downloads" button to see a list of picture titles to print for coloring. The most recent drawing titles are at the bottom of the list. 

Centrosaurus Duel

Centrosaurus probably used its large nose horn for defense and to duel with other males for the right to mate.  .  . much like modern elk and deer do.  Centrosaurus was a medium sized Ceratopsian dinosaur of the mid-late Cretaceous Period.  (75 million years ago)   Monoclonius lived at the same time.  It was determined by a team that included Dr. Scott Sampson (of Dinosaur Train fame) that Monoclonius is a mistake.  He called it a "nomen dubian" or doubtful name.  Dr. Sampson thinks that what was once called Monoclonius is merely juvenile Centrosaurs.  

Monoclonius

Not all paleontologists agree with this but most probably do.  in 1990 Dr. Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania  determined that there was enough evidence for Monoclonius to be a valid Genus.

Monoclonius was one of the dinosaurs discovered and named by Edward D. Cope in 1876.  Some Pygmy tribes in Central Africa tell stories of a large animal in the jungle called Emela-ntouka that sounds like a Monoclonius or a Centrosaurus.  No proof has ever been found of this, but it is a cool thought.

Size of the two Genus are somewhere between 2,200 and 6,600 lbs.  (1,000  and 2,994kg.).  I used to think that the name "Monoclonius" meant "single horn"... but it does not.  It means "singe sprout" and it has to do with the teeth of Monoclonius.   "Centrosaurus" means "Pointed Lizard."  (it must refer to the pointed horn)   I have seen skulls and drawings with the nose horn pointed with a curve towards the front and others with it curved towards the back. 

It does seem very likely that at least some if not all Monoclonius fossils are merely juvenile Centrosaurus.   Because of this I drew the Monoclonius with similar patterns of markings as my drawing of Centrosaurus....after all, Monoclonius probably was just a young Centrosaurus.  It may even be that the horn curved towards the back when the animal was immature and curved towards the front when a full sized adult.  Dr. John Horner thinks a similar thing seems to have happened with Triceratops horns.  The brow horns pointed kind of up in immature animals and full grown Triceratops had horns that curved forward presumably for better defense against T. rex and other Triceratops.    It also appears that on Centrosaurs  the hook-like ornamentation horns at the top of the frill are only seen in full sized adults.

Triceratops Adult with Forward Facing Horns

Triceratops Teen

Notice the way the horns point up not forward.

Jesus in the Americas

This post is LDS Doctrine.  In other words, it is the Gospel of Jesus Christ as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  I am a believing member of this church.  I firmly believe that Jesus visited the Americas and taught the people about His atoning sacrifice for our sins.  In fact, the Book of Mormon teaches that Jesus went to many "other sheep" and taught them His Gospel.   In the book of 3rd Nephi it tells how Jesus visited the Nephites and Lamanites somewhere in the New World or the Americas.  Maybe it was in Central America, or South America, or maybe in the Mississippi River Valley of North America.

Jesus Appears to His People in the Americas

Interestingly enough many tribes and groups tell of a great god who came and taught them peace and love and said that he would one day return.  The Aztecs thought that Cortez was that God.  The Aztecs beleived in a great bearded god who would one day return.  It was their "Feathered Serpent god called Quetzalcoatl.  The crafty Cortez took advantage of that belief and was able to conquer the Aztec Nation of Central Mexico.

My wife and I in front of the Pyramid of Kukulkan 

The Mayan Feathered Serpent god was Kukulkan.  The above pyramid is still in Chichen Itza Mexico.  We went to this magnificent pyramid and it is very impressive at around 100 feet tall.  When you stand in front of it and clap your hands it echos back a chirping sound.  I think it is possible that Kukulkan and Quetzal Coatl are both the same divine being, namely a resurrected Jesus Christ.  .   .  the creator of our world and the Son of God the Father.  I think the Jesus visited many peoples all over the world and maybe even on other planets that He created.  He loves us all and because He paid the price for our sins we can be forgiven and one day live for eternity with our families, our Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ.   We will also all be resurrected and receive incorruptible perfect eternal bodies.  (our spirit will reunite with our bodies but our bodies will be incapable of disease and we will have no mortal flaws...because we will be immortal.

The people's clothes in my drawing are from traditional Mayan cloth.  I lived in a small village called Cunen Guatemala when I was a boy.  I went to much of first grade there.  My father had started a medical mission there.  Later in life in the USA I became an ESL teacher and I could relate to my students very well.  In the elementary school in Cunen Guatemala my brother and I were the only kids who could not speak Spanish.  I have some of this type of traditional Mayan cloth at my home.

By the way, the people in the village of Cunen were so kind to us.  My father set up the first medical and dental clinic that had ever been there in this small isolated community.  My best friend was named Mario.  He and his buddies were so kind to me.   He lived in a bamboo hut in the middle of a corn field.  We went all over that town together.  I went on to serve an LDS mission to New Mexico and I am fluent in Spanish.  I have taught ESL and Bilingual Education as well. 

Now, maybe Jesus did not appear at Chichen Itza, but I like to think that He did.  I also think that He may have appeared to His people at Teotihuacan and Tikal, Machu Pichu, Tula, Monte Alban, the Mound Builders in the Mississippi Valley and to people all over the world.  Many may have been descendants of His lost Ten Tribes of Israel.  Those tribes were scattered throughout all the world.

Ceratosaurus

Ceratosaurus was a fairly large Theropod dinosaur of the Jurassic Period.  The other larger Theropods then living were Allosaurus and Torvosaurus.  Both of these other predators probably out competed Ceratosaurus and drove the species to extinction before the end of the Jurassic Period.

Ceratosaurus by a River

Ceratosaurus had three small horns that most likely were only for display.  That is, for showing off to the females of the species.  The nose horn was probably rather sharp and probably up to 20 cm long ...that would be about 8 inches.  (I should have drawn the nose horn longer... I am used to seeing the base or core on Ceratosaurus skulls, but there probably would have been a much longer keratin sheath.  I might fix this drawing tomorrow.)  The brow horns were kind of stumpy.  Ceratosarus' real weapons were sharp blade-like teeth.  The estimated size is about 17 feet or 5.3 meters long and perhaps up to 1500 lbs or 680 kg.  Notice that the Ceratosaur above had 4 fingers.  One finger was quite small and it's presence indicates a more primitive Theropod because that fourth finger evolved away in later more advanced Theropod dinosaurs of the late Jurassic Period.  Note that Ceratosaurus had a row of small armored plates going down its spine.

Allosaurus by a River

Compared to an Allosaurus with a length of up to 40 feet or about 12.5 meters...and a weight and mass of 8,800 lbs & 3992 kg. 

Torvosaurus and Rhamphorhynchus

Torvosaurus was possibly even larger with a length of possibly 40+ feet and a weight and mass of 9,900+ lbs and 4,4900+ kg.   This would have been even larger than Allosaurus

3 Types of Dinosaurs

These are more of the drawings done for 3 nice little girls who sat behind me in Church on Sunday...when we were on vacation in Colorado.  The drawings have a gray shadow on the because were photographed with my cell phone and then the drawings were sent home with the little girls for them to color. . . so I did not have the original drawings to scan.   And, YES girls can like dinosaurs. . . and Science, and Math!    I am married to a woman who graduated in Geology and worked as a geologist for 7 years! 

T. rex mother at Hatching Time with 4 eggs

Newer theories say that the large adult T. rex were slow but their young were built much more lightly and would have been able to chase prey species into an ambush where the big full grown adults would be waiting to ambush the prey!  

Parasaurolophus Mother with her Chick

Parasaurolophus was a crested Hadrosaur or Duck-Billed dinosaur.  Some paleontologists think that this hollow crest was used as a sounding chamber...kind of like a trombone.  A whole herd of Parasaurolophus might have been able to make a sound so loud that it would stun a Tyrannosaur!  

Triceratops Mother with spots and her spotted chick

The horns on a young Triceratops would have been of little use in defense...on the other hand, the horns on a full grown Triceratops faced forward and were over a meter in length.  This is a more cartoonish drawing.  It is very likely that dinosaurs and pterosaurs never had eyelashes, but in cartoon drawings large eyelashes are what indicate a female.  

More Unicorns

These drawings were done in Colorado on Sunday. The originals went with some polite little girls who sat behind us.  They all said to me, "Thank you for the pictures!"  The shadows are on the drawings because I could not take them home to scan them...so I took a photo of the drawings with my cell phone after the meeting ended.  I am working on figuring out how to put these drawings on the "Free Printable Downloads" section of this blog.  Be aware that they print with a gray shadow everywhere on the drawing.  Sorry about that.  .   .   but I really liked these drawings and I told the little girls that they would be on the blog.   There are also some dino drawings that I did on Sunday for the little girls.   I will post those drawings on another post.   IF you are computer savvy you may know how to click on the below drawings, copy and print these pages.  . . . perhaps with a snipping tool.   Sorry about the inconvenience.   

Unicorn Couple

The unicorn on the right is a female, the unicorn on the left is a male.  You may notice that the male is larger than the female.  In many ungulates...that is, animals with hooves...the males are often larger than the females.  I chose to draw these with a non-traditional unicorn tail.  I drew horses tails, but the traditional tail is like a lion's tail, with a tuft on the end of it.

Unicorn with Squirrel Friend with a daisy

Unicorn with Butterfly Fairy

Jesus with Mary & Martha

Jesus with Mary and Martha

Jesus was teaching Mary and her sister Martha was serving and cleaning up.
Martha started to feel like it wasn’t fair to have to do all the work herself but when
She told Jesus to reprimand Mary Jesus said that basically Mary had chosen the better part... that is
she was choosing to learn the Gospel first.  I think this is a good lesson for us.  True getting
Things done is important but sometimes we need to slow down and read the scriptures, ponder them and pray.

I got the idea for this coloring page drawing from the below picture seen inside a church:  I saw this painting at an LDS ward we attended in Colorado and so I made a coloring page of Jesus with Mary and Martha. Another way to look at the story from the Bible is that it teaches us to not get so busy taking care of needs in the mortal world that we forget to read our scriptures, ponder, pray and take care of our Spiritual and Emotional needs.