Top 15 Halloween Craft Ideas Your Kids Will Love To Do

The Halloween season is here and your kid sure must be excited already for the big day! This is a great holiday because not only it is fun to get “silly” scared, it also gives your kid the opportunity to get creative with spooky arts and crafts. From carved pumpkins to frightful ghost masks, the options are endless.

15 Fun Halloween Crafts For Kids:

You can navigate your kid to choose the best suitable craft for him, in order to do a stellar job. If you are having trouble making a choice, here is a list of the best 15 Halloween crafts for kids.

1. The Mouse Hotel:

Carve small holes in a large pumpkin and stuff them with tiny toy rats. This is to give the impression of a hotel for the rats. Here is how you create it:

• Use a black marker to draw a circle for each hole represented.
• Make use of a keyhole saw to cut these holes out. Your kid need not have to clean the inside of the pumpkin.
• Fill the holes with toy rats and watch as trick-o-treaters scream, when they set their sight on it.

2. Spider From Yarn:

Your kid can make use of black yarn to create these adorable yet creepy spiders. Your kid will definitely want to keep this little creation as his very own furry pet after Halloween is over.

• Wrap black yarn around a plastic ball until it is covered.
• Attach v-shaped sticks to the ball of yarn with glue and allow it to dry. Once they are dry, you can wrap chenille stems around each leg.
• Use felt-to-cut-out face features for the spider and then stick it on with glue.

3. Milk Jug Ghouls:

You can encourage your kid to use empty milk jugs to create cute ghouls and ghosts. These are eco-friendly and quite easy to achieve. These jugs can be placed on your front lawn on Halloween Day once they are completed.

• Allow your kid to clean the inside of the milk jug with water.
• You can help him place string lights inside the jug to make it light up.
• Your kid can use a black marker to create the facial features for the ghouls on the milk jug.

4. Mobile Monsters:

For this craft, your kid will need to make use of toilet paper rolls.

• He can create cute and zany monsters which can be strung together as a mobile decorative item for the front porch.
• Paint toilet paper rolls in funk colors like blue, purple, orange and red.
• Cut out facial features for the monsters from colored paper.
• String them all together with sturdy rope painted black.

5. Cotton Ball Ghosts:

This craft will be relatively easy for your kid to make. It requires the use of a minimal number of supplies which can be found at home.

• You can help your kid cut out a tombstone-like structure from white chart paper.
• Use cotton balls and glue them on to the paper.
• Your kid can cut out facial features for the ghost from black marble paper. Attach them all to the mask.
• Attach colored string at the back of the mask and hang them as a wall or door decoration.

6. Tin Black Cat:

Your kid can make use of old tins at home to create a few adorable tin black cats.

• Your kid will need to paint the tin using a shade of charcoal black.
• Attach cut out flaps for ears and use colored construction paper for facial features like eyes and whiskers.
• There! You now have Mr. Tin Black Cat!

7. Mummies:

These cute little toilet roll mummies are not as scary as their Egyptian counterparts. However, they sure make for a cute table decoration.

• Your kid will need to wrap individual toilet paper rolls with a double layer of white cake paper.
• White yarn is required to wrap the mummy. This is just to ensure that the paper does not come undone.
• Your kid can use black and white construction paper to cut out facial features for the mummy.

8. Paint Pumpkin Stamps:

Your kid will need to use the openings of a toilet paper roll and some paint for the next one. He can create these cute stamps for cards or a party banner on Halloween Day.

• Bend the edge of the toilet roll to give it the shape of a pumpkin.
• Your kid will need to dip the roll in orange paint. He can then make small pumpkin impressions on white paper.
• Your kid will need to use felt pens to draw the stalk and vines by hand.

9. Pumpkin In Stitches:

These cute pumpkins with stitches on them are adorable and easy to make.

• Your kid will need to carve out facial features for the pumpkin with a cork screw.
• Cut out strips of white paper.
• Attach the strips of paper to the pumpkin horizontally and vertically to give the impression of stitches.

10. Stamped Pumpkin:

This craft will be a cakewalk for your kid to create. It also makes use of Lego blocks to create impressions.

• Cut out a large pumpkin shape from white construction paper.
• Your kid can use his large Lego blocks to dab in paint and then stamp all across the paper.
• Colors required – orange for the main body, brown for the stalk and green for the tiny leaf.

11. Ghost Greeting Cards:

If you intend on sending out greeting cards for Halloween, the next craft might help. Ask your kid to help you create these adorable footprint cards.

• Your kid will need to make foot impressions by dabbing his feet in white paint.
• After that help your kid make a footprint on a black construction paper.
• He will need to use white paint to create facial features and decorate more the greeting cards.

12. Halloween Garland:

Who said that garlands are only meant for Christmas? Your kid can create a Halloween garland with minimal fuss.

• Make cut outs of cats, pumpkins and candy corn with colored construction paper.
• Your kid can then decorate these cut outs with markers.
• Attach them to a string and hang them on the front porch railing.

13. Skeleton From Paper Plates:

This cute craft idea of making a whole skeleton from paper plates will definitely keep your kid busy creatively.

• Trace and then cut out various body parts of the skeleton on paper plates.
• Your kid will need to draw facial features on the skeleton.
• Punch holes at the edge of the face and then attach to other parts of the body with jute.

14. Trick-O-Treat Bags:

These cool treat bags will definitely get your kid interested in using glow-in-the-dark paint.

• Your kid will need to use a black bag for this project.
• Personalize the bag with glow-in-the-dark paint.
• Let it dry before filling it with candy.

15. Monster Paws:

Your kid can scare his neighborhood friends with this pair of easy-to-make radical monster paws.

• Cut rectangular pieces from black felt paper and place them atop each glove finger.
• Your kid will need to invert each glove finger and add hot glue to attach each rectangle.

While some of these Halloween crafts will be quite challenging for your kid, there are others which are quite simple. Each craft provides your kid with the opportunity to think outside the box. Your kid is sure to come up with new ways to celebrate Halloween with these crafts.

Let us know which Halloween craft appealed to your kid the most. Also share a picture of his craft with us later. Hope your kid has a fun-filled Halloween!

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