Simple Halloween crafts for kids.

Here is a list of simple crafts to do during the spooky Autumn season. These are easy, fun, cheap, and they don’t take all your valuable time to set up or clean up. What is the point of an activity for your kids meant to keep them busy when it just gives you more work to do.

Jack-o-Lantern Faces:

Take Orange paper for the pumpkin (for the younger kids you may want to cut a quick pumpkin shape for them.) Yellow or black paper for the faces. Let your kids cut the eyes, nose, and mouth. Great way for the little ones to practice their hand coordination. They can glue the faces and make many jack-o-lanterns or just mix and match their shapes without glue to see all the funny and scary expressions they can make.

Witchy Faces:

Green paper for her head. (For the younger kids they may need help cutting the head to get the right shape.) Let them be creative in how they assemble her face. After the face is complete with eyes, brows, big noses, and of course a mouth full of crooked teeth you add the hair. Cut strips of paper to make her hair, she can have straight hair or if you wrap the paper gently over a pencil you get curls. Finish off with a pointed hat and you have a fun witchy face.

Franken Face:

Very much like the idea above. Cut out the head shape from green paper. Then allow your child to create the face as they like adding stitches and bolts on the neck.

Scarecrow Face:

You will need to swap the green paper for some brown or yellow. Now add the face with some stitches and use the hair idea from the witchy face to make straight or curly scarecrow hair. Top with a hat.

Haunted House:

There are many templates you can find online for a haunted house. Trace your template or draw your own on black paper. Any windows you cut out before you glue it on your choice of colored paper. Now let your child design their house with as many ghosts or ghouls they choose to place in the yard or peeking out of the windows. Glue shutters so they can open and close them for added fun.

Spooky Décor Banner:

Simple yarn, and craft paper, and glue or tape are really all you need for this project. It’s a great way for the little ones to practice patterns. The possibilities are endless. Some ideas are candy corn, pumpkins, ghosts, black cats, bats, skulls, fall leaves, potions, witch hats, and spiders. If you wish to have something less spooky you can focus on the pumpkins and leaves in various autumn colors. When you paper creations are done, tape yard to the back of each in the pattern of your choosing and you have a fun banner to hang in your home.

Skeletons and ghosts:

This is perhaps one of the simplest ones. It’s way to use that poor, unused white coloring pencil. Black construction paper and a white coloring pencil and that’s it. Let your child draw dancing skeletons and ghosts and you’d be surprised how long your kids will draw.

Masks:

All you need is a good masks template, construction paper, and your imagination. Kids will probably need help cutting out the template, especially the eye holes. After that the sky is the limit when it comes to what their mask will be. Include other craft items like glitter, pom poms, sequins etc. It will make your masks even more fantastic.

Tear pictures:

Great thing about this craft is you don’t need scissors. Just construction paper and glue. Just tear and glue until you have the desired spooky picture.

Mummy:

You will need white yarn, black construction paper, and googly eyes, and some cardboard. Cut out a basic gingerbread man type silhouette. First trace the silhouette over the cardboard. This can be cardboard from your package deliver box or cereal box. You will probably need to help your kids cut this out. Trace the same shape on the black paper and cut out. Glue the black paper cut out on the cardboard. Glue the eyes on the head. Now wrap the white yard around the form like spooky mummy wrappings. I find that taping the end down works the best.

Halloween Chain:

This is a great way to get your little ones to practice their cutting and patterns. Have them cut strips out of Halloween colors. Then loop the strips into circles treading them through one another until a chain is formed using a pattern. I’ve found that glue does not work as well, taping them or using a stapler is much easier.

Hanging bats:

Draw a simple outline of a bat and trace it several times on black construction paper. Tape invisible thread or fishing line if you have it on the back of each bat. Tape to ceiling at varying lengths to give the effect of flying bats everywhere. If you like you can glue little yellow circles on each bat for little eyes.