Halloween Craft Ideas For Kids

Halloween as we know it is celebrated on 31st October, and it’s a day to remember the dead or the people who have left us. It was originated in Ireland during the early 20th century. It’s a day to celebrate trick or treat. It is a tradition where children dress up in scary Halloween costumes and go to the neighboring houses to collect candies.

Trick or treat concept where, if you do not provide candies to the kids, they’ll trick you by setting up some dangerous trap. It is an extremely fun and exciting tradition. Other things done during Halloween are decorating the house with scary items, pumpkin carvings to jack-o’-lanterns, watching horror movies, performing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, and telling scary stories. The other names for Halloween are All Hallows’ Eve or All Saints’ Eve or sometimes even All Halloween. It is celebrated to fight evil spirits and to keep them away from us. Let this year’s Halloween be eventful by imbibing these following Halloween craft ideas!

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Halloween Craft Ideas for Kids

1. Halloween Pumpkin

Image Source/Tutorial: Nurture Store

Suitable Age Group: 9-14

Supplies You need:

• Orange paper
• Green paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Marker

The Halloween pumpkin carvings have been the most famous Halloween tradition ever. This is a very cute and adorable craft for Halloween decorations. All you require for this is paper. Using an actual pumpkin can be waste a of resources but with this, you can restore it for a very long time and enhance the look of your house during Halloween. The Halloween pumpkin carvings are called jack-o’-lanterns. Once they carve the face on the pumpkin, they keep a small candle inside it so that the face gets lit up. Now get ready to light up your house with these cute pumpkin crafts!

2. Googly Spiders

Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things

Suitable Age Group: 6-12

Supplies You need:

• Paper plates (2 per spider)
• Acrylic paints
• Googly eyes
• Chenille stems (8 per spider)
• Paint brush
• Scissors
• Stapler
• Glue

Spiders are always such a scary insect. Everyone is so weirded out just about the thought of spiders. It is also a symbol of horror to indicate fear. Because of the same, people use fake spiders to decorate their house to give it a Halloween effect. Spiders are usually considered to be endowed with supernatural qualities which are associated with witchcraft. These paper plate spiders are extremely creative and enhances the size and the weirdness of the spiders by adding many eyes. So get started with your creative spider decorations!

3. Halloween Spider Slime

Image Source/Tutorial: The tip toe fairy

Suitable Age Group: 6-15

Supplies You need:

• 2 (5oz) bottles of clear glue
• 10 oz of water
• 8 oz of liquid starch
• 1/4 cup glitter
• 1/4 cup Halloween spider confetti

Slime is a toy that the kids play with. It is a sticky, oozy, squishy, and non-toxic toy mainly made of gum. It is a fun and satisfying thing to play with by turning a solid object into liquid and then back. It comes in different colors with or without glitter. This is an extremely fun way to pass time during Halloween. You can make it with small spider confetti to give it a more scary look. You can make many slimes with different colors and confetti. Get on with your slime craft ASAP!

4. The Mummy Pumpkin

Image Source/Tutorial: Mother’s Niche

Suitable Age Group: 4-8

Supplies You need:

• A pumpkin
• Hot glue
• Gauze
• Googly eyes
• Marker

The mummy is an Egyptian tradition to cover a dead human being or an animal to preserve their bodies. This tradition goes back to 1615AD. Mummies are often considered scary and are used as a Halloween decoration. People also dress up as mummies for Halloween costume parties. This is an excellent way to combine two things in one by covering a pumpkin and making it into a mummy. This can be a very creative way to decorate your homes during Halloween. So start creating your cute mummy pumpkins!

5. The Pumpkin Owl

Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things

Suitable Age Group: 6-14

Supplies You need:

• A small pumpkin
• Black paint
• Colored markers
• Blue and yellow tissue paper
• Google eyes
• Orange cardboard
• Glue

People always associated witches with owls and so owls have always been considered as an omen, bad luck, or sometimes even death. When an owl hoots three continuous times, it’s considered as bad luck. This is why people use owl as one of the symbols for Halloween. Since especially pumpkins are always associated with Halloween, here is a craft which will combine both owls and pumpkins. By doing this craft, it gives a very cute and colorful look to the pumpkin owl. This is an excellent way to decorate your house for Halloween. So get started with your pumpkin owl!

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6. Paper plate Witch

Image Source/Tutorial: Non-toy gifts 

Suitable Age Group: 6-11

Supplies You need:

• Paper plate
• Green acrylic paint
• Googly eyes
• Small wood slice
• Re pipe cleaner
• Glue
• Black and purple cardboard
• Punch hole
• Orange yarn
• Pony beads
• Scissors

Witchcraft is a practice done with spells and magical rituals by people who believe in supernatural skills and abilities. These people are known as witches and wizards. They can appear to be extremely scary and dangerous. They tend to harm innocent people and people are always scared of them. This is why withes are a major part of Halloween. People mostly dress up as witches for Halloween costumes.

Here is creative and fun witchcraft to create out of paper plates. So get ready to place these paper plate witches on your walls for Halloween!

7. The Hanging Monsters

Image Source/Tutorial: Happy Hooligans

Suitable Age Group: 8-15
Supplies You need:

• Cardboard rolls
• Pipe cleaners
• Googly eyes
• Craft foam
• Different colors of paints
• Yarn
• Scissors
• Glue

Monsters are scary creatures that are fictional. These creatures are usually found in horror, fantasy, science fiction, folklore, mythology and religion. They can be of different sizes, colors, might have just one eye or even multiple eyes. They look extremely scary and unnatural. This is why monsters are the perfect symbols of Halloween.

Here are some creative and exciting monster crafts which can be hung in your room. So get started with your hanging monsters!

8. Halloween Ghoul Banner

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafts by Amanda

Suitable Age Group: 6-13

Supplies You need:

• Different colored papers
• Black marker
• White paint pen
• Scissors
• Glue

Halloween is such a special time especially for kids as this is the time when they receive tons of candies. This is a festival where there is so much room for creativity and fun ideas for home Halloween decorations. This Halloween craft is to be hung outside of the door. This is a very unique idea using handprints and ghoul’s faces. Whoever walks past your door would be impressed by this idea. So get started with your Halloween home decoration now!

9. Halloween Monster Sticks

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafts by Amanda

Suitable Age Group: 8-14

Supplies You need:

• 4 jumbo craft/ice-cream sticks
• Toothpick
• Black marker
• Paints
• Paintbrushes

Monsters are always a symbol of Halloween. It’s always so much fun to create monster crafts as you can literary come up with anything and there is no defined structure for a monster. You can design your own monsters with different colors. Here are some creative ideas to create monsters out of a craft/ice-cream sticks. You can also use these as bookmarkers. Get started on creating your monsters now!

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Halloween Bats

Image Source/Tutorial: Hello Wonderful

Suitable Age Group: 7-13

Supplies You need:

• Different colored papers
• Empty paper tubes
• Glue
• Tape
• Scissors
• Googly eyes

Bats are always a symbol of darkness and fright and that’s why we see bats flying around a crooked castle or around witches. They are also associated with vampires and Draculas’. Some bats are said to consume human blood and because of this, they are a major symbol of Halloween. People decorate their houses with bats to give them a spooky look. This bat craft makes the bats look cute with different colors. You can hang this in your bedroom or hall. Get on with your crafty Halloween bats now!

11. The Great Pumpkin Painting

Image Source/Tutorial: Glued to My Crafts

Suitable Age Group: 3-6

Supplies You need:

• Pumpkins
• Paints
• Paintbrushes

Pumpkins have always been a major part of Halloween traditions. Pumpkins are a symbol of rebirth and fertility and that’s why they’re always linked to Halloween. Pumpkin paints are so much fun and a great way to pass time for Halloween. It is an excellent way to engage toddlers. It can also get out the creative side of kids by painting pumpkins. There is a lot to play around with paints, colors, and designs. So get your pumpkins now and start painting!

12.Halloween Print Art

Image Source/Tutorial: Pinkie for Pink

 Suitable Age Group: 3-6

Supplies You need:

• Paints
• Paintbrushes
• Hands
• Feet

Halloween is all about getting creative and mixing it up. The more, the merrier! There is so much you can do with paints and colors. Here is some creative craft ideas using paints with your hands and feet. There is so much a print can do in such decorative and creative ways. You can do witches, white ghosts, zombies, pumpkins, bats, and so on with just a hand or a footprint. So go and grab your paints on your hands and feet and start printing!

13. Halloween Playdough

Image Source/Tutorial: Teaching 2 and 3-Year-Olds

Suitable Age Group: 3-6

Supplies You need:

• 1 Cup flour
• 1/2 cup salt
• 2 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 Cup cold water
• 1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
• Food coloring
• Bat picks
• Plastic spiders
• Orange pony beads
• Pipe cleaners

This is a very different form of craft from the cliché craft ideas. It’s amazing and creative to mix up up food with craft. Here, the kids are getting an opportunity to make a playdough for their Halloween decorations. Making playdough is fun and exciting. It is wonderful to strengthen the hands for writing and to engage kids. It is so easy and out-of-the-box craft. So get on with your playdough craft!

14. Halloween Potato Monsters

Image Source/Tutorial: Artsy Craftsy Mom

Suitable Age Group: 4-10

Supplies You need:

• Potatoes
• Paints
• Paintbrushes
• Googly eyes
• Knife (with adult supervision)
• Glue
• Marker
• Tissue paper

Halloween is all about monsters and scary creatures around. This craft is a little bit different one than the usual ones. In this activity, we will be using potatoes and painting them in different colors. There is a fixed way in which a monster would look like so here, we have plenty of room for our imagination.

We can paint monsters in different colors, designs, and looks. This is an excellent way to get your kid’s imagination and talents. Now get on with your potatoes and start painting!

15. Flying Creepy Bats

Image Source/Tutorial: Darcy and Brian

Suitable Age Group: 4-10

Supplies You need:

• Wooden clothespin
• Round white coffee filters
• Googly eyes of different sizes
• Blue, black and purple washable markers
• Glue
• Black acrylic paint
• Paint brush
• Black cardboard
• Scissors
• White gel pen
• Pencil
• Cardboard scrap

Bats are always a symbol of horror and has always been associated with Halloween. There are so many varieties of bats in this world. Bats are extremely scary and creepy. This is a craft to create hanging bats. This is such a creative way to hang it around the house during Halloween. It gives a very spooky look to the aesthetics of Halloween. The googly eyes give it a cute, but yet a scary look. So get on with your materials and create your hanging bats!

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16. Googly Spider Headband

Image Source/Tutorial: Fantastic Fun and Learning

Suitable Age Group: 6-12

Supplies You need:

• Black paper
• Black paper strips
• Googly eyes in different sizes
• Glue

Spiders have always been one of the scariest insects ever because of the way it looks. Some spiders are very dangerous in that they are extremely poisonous and deadly. They have always been a symbol and a big part of Halloween. Since Halloween is all about creative and fun craft idea, here is a craft idea for a spider headband. This is extremely creative and will add on as an excellent edition to your Halloween costumes. Get started with your spider headband ASAP!

17. The Handprint Witch

Image Source/Tutorial: The Best Ideas for Kids

Suitable Age Group: 5-10

Supplies You need:

• Green, orange, brown, and black paper
• White cardboard
• Gold foam paper or gold glitter paper
• Googly eyes
• Black Sharpie
• Light brown pipe cleaner
• Glue

Witches are always associated with dark magic, spells, and supernatural powers. Witches’ favorite mode of transport is the magic broomstick. Here is a creative way to create a witch with a handprint. This will give the witch a spooky look. This is an excellent way to engage kids to bring out their creative side. This can be a wonderful way to give a gift card to someone for Halloween. This will make it very special and personal. So get on with your handprint witch!

18. Spooky Potato Ghost Stamps

Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things

Suitable Age Group: 4-9

Supplies You need:

• Potato
• Black cardboard
• Black and white paint
• Knife (with adult supervision)
• Paper plate

Ghosts and ghouls have always been a major part of Halloween traditions. Who thought of the idea that ghosts were white? It’s so weird to give a standard color for a ghost. Potatoes are a bit of a different and an untraditional way to create crafts. Here is a way to print scary and spooky ghosts. You can do this craft for making a Halloween card for someone special. So get on with you spooky potato ghost prints!

19. Skeleton Straws

Image Source/Tutorial: Education.com

Suitable Age Group: 4-9

Supplies You need:

• Straws of different colors
• White color pencil/crayon
• Black cardboard
• Scissors

The human body is extremely vast, fun, and interesting to learn about. Ironically, the human skeleton is a metaphor for horror and people get scared. Skeletons are a big symbol of and a reminder of death. It is a symbol of Halloween and people dress up in skeleton costumes during this festival. This a a craft to make a skeleton out of straws. This is a little different and it can used on a card for someone special for Halloween. Now get started with your skeleton with straws!

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20. The Spooky Paper Plate Skull

Image Source/Tutorial: Glued to My Crafts

Suitable Age Group: 4-9

Supplies You need:

• Large Paper Plate {one per skull craft}
• White Tissue Paper
• Black Cardstock Paper
• White Cardstock Paper
• Craft Scissors
• School Glue
• Hand-Held Office Stapler

Did you know that the human skull has 22 bones? Now that’s an interesting fact! Skulls are extremely scary and creepy. We sometimes see skulls in horror movies and we get scared. It looks very scary and is a symbol of danger. That’s why skulls play a major part in the tradition of Halloween. Here is a craft to make a Halloween skull out of a paper plate. It’s simple, fun and creative!

21. The Blow Ghost

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning

Suitable Age Group: 4-9

Supplies You need:

• Black cardboard
• White and black paints
• Straw
• Googly eyes
• Paintbrush

Ghosts and ghouls have always been told to us in the form of horror stories to scare us into the night. But do they actually exist? No one has ever seen a real ghost in their life but, we’re still scared of it. They have always been a part of Halloween traditions and will continue to be. Here is a craft idea to create ghosts out of blowing paint through a straw. Doesn’t that sound exciting!!! This is extremely fun, creative, and exciting. So grab your straw and start blowing out ghosts!

22. Monster Rolls

Image Source/Tutorial: Easy Peasy and Fun

Suitable Age Group: 4-9

Supplies You need:

• Paper rolls
• Different colors of papers
• Googly eyes
• Scissors
• Marker
• Glue

Monsters are extremely fun and interesting to play with and create. We can literally make our own monsters and design them however we want. This way we can showcase our creativity and talents out. Monsters are used as decorations for Halloween. Here is an interesting craft to make monsters out of paper rolls. This can be an amazing way to hang the colorful monsters around the house for the festive Halloween.

23. The Handprint Bat

Image Source/Tutorial: Kids Craft Room

Suitable Age Group: 4-9

Supplies You need:

• Black cardboard
• Googly eyes
• White acrylic paint

Handprint crafts are super fun and exciting. It’s amazing what and all we can do with just a handprint. Here, we’re associating bats with handprints. Bats are an excellent way to decorate for Halloween which is coming up. They are extremely crooked and creepy. This is a fun and very creative way to make bats. It’s very simple and easy to make. So get started with your handprint bats!

24. Popsicle Stick Monsters

Image Source/Tutorial:  I Heart Arts N Crafts

Suitable Age Group: 5-11

Supplies You need:

• Colored popsicle sticks
• Glue
• Googly eyes
• Monster decorations
• Cardboard paper
• Scissors

Monsters, as we know, are extremely fun and interesting. Since they don’t have a definite shape and look, we can literally create our own monsters and showcase our creativity. We can give the monsters whatever color and design we want. The more the better! Here is a perfect Halloween craft to create monsters out of colored popsicle sticks. These are extremely fun and give a whole vibe for Halloween. Get started with your popsicle stick monsters!

25. The Handprint Black Cat

Image Source/Tutorial: Easy Peasy and Fun

Suitable Age Group: 5-12

Supplies You need:

• Black construction paper
• Pencil
• White or silver gel pen
• Googly eyes
• Scissors
• Glue

Black cats have forever been subjected to superstitions. They are considered as bad luck and are claimed to curse human beings. They are also associated with witchcraft. That’s why they are seriously associated with Halloween. There are used with reference to craft to light up Halloween. Here is a craft to create a black cat with a handprint. This sounds super fun and interesting, so do try it out ASAP!

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26. Yarn Wrapped Mummy

Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things

Suitable Age Group: 5-12

Supplies You need:

• Cardboard
• Black paint
• Paintbrush
• White yarn
• Googly eyes
• Scissors
• Glue
• Tape

Mummies are a great part of the Halloween traditions. Mummies have come into existence from the  Egyptian civilization. Their legacy goes back to 1615 AD. People dress-up in Mummy costumes for Halloween parties. They also use to decorate their homes for a spooky look. Here is a great craft to create a mummy out of yarn. This is a good way to engage your kids and bring out their crafty talents. So get started with your yarn mummies now!

27. Spooky Witch Hats

Image Source/Tutorial: 4 Crazy Kings

Suitable Age Group: 5-14

Supplies You need:

• Paper plate
• Paper cone
• Paints
• Paint brush
• Googly eyes
• Stars
• Toothbrush
• Elastic string

Witches are extremely scary and awful. They are the ones who perform weird rituals and spells to curse human beings. They are considered very dangerous and creepy. They also believe in supernatural elements in the world. Its fun to make and wear the witch’s hat for Halloween. They are spooky and an excellent item to wear for Halloween costume parties. They make you look like a witch along with some make-up. So get started with your spooky witch hat!

28. The Crazy Zombie

Image Source/Tutorial: Arty Crafty Kids

Suitable Age Group: 3-8

Supplies You need:

• Cardboard Box
• Acrylic Paint
• Sponge
• Buttons
• Yarn
• String
• Black Sharpie
• Glue

Zombies are fictional creatures where a dead corpse of a human or an animal comes back to life as scary creatures. They appear to look extremely scary and creepy. They are cannibals and are always on the lookout to kill living beings. Here is a fun and spooky craft idea to create scary zombies out of cardboard. You can hand this, or use this as a decoration, or even give this as a card to someone for Halloween. So get started with you crazy zombie!

29. The Jack-O’-Lantern Weave

Image Source/Tutorial: What Can We Do With Paper and Glue?

Suitable Age Group: 5-10

Supplies You need:

• Orange, green and grey paper
• Orange design cloth strips
• Scissors
• Glue
• Pumpkin cut-out

Pumpkins, as we know, are known for its Halloween traditions. People carve spooky faces on the pumpkins called Jack-O’-Lantern and place candles inside the carving to make it stand out. These give a whole spooky vibe to to the perspective of Halloween. People place these pumpkins outside their houses, to scare away spirits and negative energy. Here is a cute craft idea to weave out Jack-O’-Lantern out of cloth. This seems extremely fun and different.

30. The Spooky Halloween Spider

Image Source/Tutorial: My Home Based Life

Suitable Age Group: 5-13

Supplies You need:

• 4 Large Green Wooden Craft Sticks
• 4 Large Purple Wooden Craft Sticks
• 8 Small Orange Wooden Craft Sticks
• 4 Large Googly Eyes
• 4 Small Googly Eyes
• 2 Medium Black Poms
• 2 Large Black Glitter Poms
• Hot Glue Gun

Spiders are considered one of the scariest insects in the world. They have 8 legs with fangs. There are about 49,623 species of spiders. Some of them are even fatally poisonous. Spiders are always involved with darkness and supernatural qualities. They are also associated with witchcraft. They are extremely spooky and creepy. They have been a part of the Halloween traditions and here we have a craft to create such a spooky spider for Halloween with poms. You can hang this around the house to give a nice look for Halloween.

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31. The Googly Apple Stamps

Image Source/Tutorial: Made to Be a Momma

Suitable Age Group: 3-7

Supplies You need:

• Apple (cut at the center)
• Orange paint
• Googly eyes with different sizes
• Brown and green pipe cleaners

It is so wonderful to see pumpkins during Halloween. I mean, what is a Halloween without pumpkins. Pumpkins are the major part of a proper and traditional Halloween. Here is a cute and unique craft to make pumpkins out of apple stamps. It’s super fun to make stamps out of apples. The orange color gives richness to the same. You can use this to give it to someone as a Halloween card. SO get started on your pumpkin apple stamps!

32. The Salty Ghost

Image Source/Tutorial:  Crafty Morning

Suitable Age Group: 4-10

Supplies You need:

• Salt
• Glue
• Black paint
• Paintbrush
• Black cardboard

Ghosts and ghouls are fictional creatures that were created to scare people. All of us have seen ghosts in horror movies and we are frightened by the very though of them. They are always a huge part of our Halloween traditions and people dress up in ghosts costumes for Halloween. People also decorate their homes with these ghosts. So here is a craft idea to create a ghost out of salt. This will give it a 3D effect and a more realistic look.

33. The Paper Plate Bat

Image Source/Tutorial: A Dab of Glue Will Do

Suitable Age Group: 6-14

Supplies You need:

• Paper plate
• Marker
• Black Construction Paper
• Scissors
• Black Paint
• Paint Brush
• Googly Eyes
• Tape
• Glue

Bats have considered are the dark, creepy, and supernatural animals. They are a major part of Halloween traditions to hang around the house. They had a tinge of spookiness to your house during Halloween. Since the bat is a nocturnal animal, they are super scary and seen as extremely suspicious. These bats here, are super creative and fun to make. The fangs and the ears make the bats look very realistic and give a creepy look. Get started with your paper plate bats!

34. The Halloween Handprint Keepsake

Image Source/Tutorial: Non-Toy Gifts

Suitable Age Group: 6-14

Supplies You need:

• Air-dry clay
• Paint
• Drinking straw
• Craft stick
• Green ribbon
• Parchment paper

A keepsake is like a souvenir that is kept by a person to remember someone or something. Keepsakes are an excellent gift to give to someone we love. Here is a keepsake craft idea where you can gift someone for a perfect Halloween. You can print your hand in the keepsake so that they will remember you by your handprint. It is a very thoughtful craft idea and it’s perfect for the festival of Halloween. SO grab your clay and start creating amazing keepsakes!

35. The Marshmallow Ghost

Image Source/Tutorial: Coffee Cups and Crayons

Suitable Age Group: 6-14

Supplies You need:

• White paint
• Bowl or plate to hold the paint
• Black construction paper
• Square marshmallows
• Straw
• Toothpick
• Kitchen Shears

Marshmallows are one of the most loved candies and it fits perfectly for all holidays. They are such a comfortable-looking candy that you lose count just by the number of marshmallows you eat. Here is an amazing, yet unique idea to create ghosts out of marshmallows prints. It gives a very strange and scary vibe on Halloween. This can be a wonderful way to create a card to give to someone special on Halloween. So get started on your Halloween marshmallow ghosts!

Halloween is that one festival every child looks forward to as they get to dress up in the best costumes, decorate their houses, its that time where they can go trick or treat and collect loads of candies. Here were some crazy, fun, and creative craft ideas for kids for the festivity of Halloween.

Every craft idea presented here is extremely unique and different from the cliché ideas that we usually find. They are an excellent way to pass time and for your kids and get prepared for Halloween. These crafts will make your kids stand out from the crowd and everyone will be impressed. We are here to make your child’s Halloween special and wonderful. Do visit our website for more creative and fun craft ideas for different occasions to help your child bring out their talents.

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