Halloween is one of our favorite times of year to get crafty with kids, and this list has 50+ easy Halloween crafts to prove it, from five-minute paper projects to a few free printables you can grab and go.
Whether you’ve got a toddler who just wants to glue pom poms onto anything, a kindergartener ready for their first pair of safety scissors, or an older kid (tweens, we see you) who wants something a little more detailed, you’ll find something here that fits. Most projects use stuff you already have around the house, paper plates, pipe cleaners, construction paper, googly eyes — and a handful come with printable templates to make things even easier.
Perfect for home, the classroom, or a Halloween party craft table. Jump to any section below, or just scroll through and see what catches your eye.
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You’ll find lots of monster crafts, spiders, vampires, witches, ghouls, pumpkins and Jack’O’Lanterns, black cats, spooky ghosts, and all kinds of ghastly creatures to create with your kids. These are the very best ideas for the spooky holiday season.
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Our Most Popular Halloween Crafts for Kids
These printable Halloween puppets certainly are one of the kids’ favorites at the moment.
2. Easiest Halloween Art Idea
You don’t need complicated projects to make cool Halloween art with your kids – you just need an apple and a bit of paint to make these apple-printed Jack-o-lanterns They are so much fun to make!
3. Construction Paper Witch Halloween Craft Idea
With just a bit of construction paper, your kids can create the coolest-looking construction paper witch. This is a fun idea and there are many creative ways your little ones can go about how to decorate their witch.
4. Let the Kids Bite Into Their Books
In this day and age, where digital screens are trying to replace books it’s even more important to encourage reading. Let the kids make these cool Halloween bookmarks and reading will instantly become more fun.
5. Skeleton Anatomy
Why not create a skeleton with Q-tips? It’s easy and it’s fun!
6. Tape Resist Halloween Art
Cobwebs and spiderwebs make a great subject for Halloween arts and crafts. Apply tape in the shape of a spiderweb on a canvas or a sheet of paper and paint over it. Remove the tape and enjoy.
7. Make it Pop!
Pop-up cards are fun and when you make a Halloween set? Oh, even more fun.
Check out our whole set of Halloween pop up cards.
8. Halloween Silhouette Art
Another super easy Halloween craft for kids is this silhouette bat project.
9. Surprise Cards
Surprise! What’s hiding inside the Jack-o-Lanterns? Let your kids find out once they make these insanely fun Halloween surprise cards. This is a great project for all ages.
10. Halloween Clothespin Puppets Craft
Perfect for story time or dramatic play, these Halloween clothespin puppets never disappoint. If you and your kids love simple Halloween crafts, this one is a great pick.
Monster Halloween Crafts for Kids
From scary to silly, you just have to add some of these ideas to your crafting plan!
You can’t have a Halloween crafts party without making a monster or two… Or a whole bunch of them. We love getting silly and creating monsters – wiggle eye stickers or googly eyes are a must here, as they take the silliness to a whole new level.
Pick a project (we’ve spotlighted a few), go through the step by step tutorial and have fun creating your monsters.
11. Monster Corner Bookmarks
You’ll find cool Halloween paper crafts, silly toilet paper roll monsters, rock friends your kids can carry around (perfect craft for pre-k and kindergarten as it’s all about fine motor skills).
Like the corner bookmarks above? See the step by step tutorial on making our DIY monster bookmarks.
12. Paper Cone Monsters
If you love free templates you will love this one. With our Halloween monster free printable template, you can make the cutest little monsters.
13. Halloween Toilet Paper Roll Monsters
Transforming ordinary toilet paper rolls into all kinds of monsters is super fun. Let your kid’s imagination soar.
14. Painted Monster Rocks
When you are out and about with your kids, collect some rocks. With just a little bit of paint, you can turn ordinary rocks into all kinds of cool-looking stone monsters. With painting rocks, your kids can make scary or cute monsters.
15. Monsters Clothespins Puppets
Monsters are just so fun to make they deserve their very own set of monster clothespin puppets.
Black Cat Halloween Arts and Crafts
We do love a good cat craft, and Halloween is a great excuse to make a whole bunch.
One of our favorite Halloween themed cretures to get crafty with is certainly the black cat. Younger kids will love making the handprint cat (such a great Halloween handprint art idea) – either by stamping their hands or by tracing them on black paper and cutting them out.
Spotlighting just a few of our favorites here, you will find simple hand tracing crafts that turn into wonderful cat and are perfect for preschoolers (toddlers even with some help) to 3D paper crafts that will bring a smile on any kids face.
Here they are;
Pumpkin Crafts and Jack o’Lanterns – Must do Halloween Crafts for Kids
Pumpking are an important part of Halloween! No real pumpkins around? Make a pumpkin craft.
One of the more popular themes with Halloween crafts ideas are certainly pumpkins and Jack o’Lanterns, and we have quite a few.
Featured above is the paper rosette Jack o’Lantern.
Bat Craft Ideas and Tutorials
We do love bat crafts and can’t wait to share more with you. One of our all time favorites is the lovely bat origami bookmark.
Vampire Halloween Crafts
Moving on, we have some specific monsters, as you can’t have kids crafts for Halloween without them.
I was always a bit fascinated by vampires, so these bloodsuckers certainly deserve a spot o their own.
Ghosts
Are you afraid of ghost?
We absolutely love making paper plate ghosts, as well as other ghostly creations. The swirly paper plate ghost we made is an excellent decoration, both for classroom or at home as it will twist and twirl in the air. How spookily cool!
While ghost sure cab be scary, we are sure you won’t be afraid of these ghost Halloween craft ideas.
Spiders
Creepy crawly time!
Love them or fear them (some of us most certainly fear them) spiders are a fun crafting project to do with your kids for Halloween.
We can’t wait to share more crafting ideas with you.
Owl Halloween Crafts for Kids
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