Easy Halloween Crafts and Activities for Kids
The spooky season is approaching! These easy Halloween crafts and activities for kids can be made quickly with materials you have around the house. Spend some quality time with your children and get into the spirit of the season with these easy Halloween crafts and activities. Remember, craft-making provides many benefits for kids, helping them to:
- Develop fine motor skills
- Increase dexterity
- Improve hand-eye coordination
- Boost self-esteem and creativity
Halloween Toilet Roll Characters
These cute, easy Halloween crafts use only simple materials and are fast to create. Children will love decorating their Halloween characters! Click here for a Youtube instructional video.
For this activity:
- For the jack-o-lantern you will need: glue, a toilet roll, orange, green, black, brown and green paper.
- Cover the roll by gluing on the orange paper.
- Cut out the black paper to make eyes, nose and a mouth. Cut out leaves from the green paper and a stem from the brown. Glue onto the roll.
- For the monster, you will need: a toilet roll, green paper, googly eyes, black maker and glue.
- Cover the toilet roll with green paper.
- Glue on the eyes and use a black marker to draw the mouth, hair and scar.
- For the ghost, you will need: a toilet roll, white and black paper, white tissue paper, googly eyes and glue.
- Cover the toilet roll by gluing on the white paper. Stick on the mouth and googly eyes.
Halloween Bat Bookmark
Make a spooky bookmark this Halloween with this easy craft using simple materials that is a great challenge for children’s fine motor skills. Click here for a Youtube instructional video.
For this activity:
- You will need: square black paper, googly eyes, white teeth, black wings, scissors and glue.
- Fold the square into a triangle.
- Fold both side corners of the triangle to meet the top point.
- Unfold back into a large triangle. Take the top corner of the triangle (only the top layer) and fold down to meet the bottom of the triangle.
- Take one side corner, fold it back in tuck behind the front flap.
- Fold the other side corner and tuck behind the front flap.
- Attach the bat wings with glue to the back of the bookmark.
- Glue on the googly eyes and teeth.
- Enjoy using your Halloween bat bookmark on your favourite book!
Jack-o-Lantern Stick Puzzle
A fun and easy to make Halloween activity for your kids, improving concentration and fine motor skills while enjoying the Halloween spirit. Click here for a Youtube instructional video.
For this activity:
- You will need: lolly sticks, orange marker or paint, black marker, cellotape.
- Colour the lolly sticks orange.
- Line up the sticks side-by-side and tape them together.
- Flip over the sticks and draw a jack-o-lantern pattern covering all of the lolly sticks. Add numbers on the top for counting practice. You can also spell out the word “Halloween” at the top as well.
- Take off the tape and muddle up the sticks.
- Have fun putting the jack-o-lantern back together!
Ghost Handprint Decoration
This Halloween handprint ghost is a fun and easy-to-make decoration. Make it each year and see how the ghost grows!
For this activity:
- You will need: black paper, white paint, paint brush and scissors.
- Using a paint brush, spread white paint over your child’s palm.
- Press palm firmly down onto black paper.
- Let the handprint dry.
- Cut around the handprint and add black dots for eyes.
- Hang up your handprint ghost as part of your Halloween decorations!
Halloween Shape Witch
This is a fun and easy shape recognition activity for early learners, creating a witch’s face that can be used as a Halloween decoration. Click here for a Youtube instructional video.
For this activity:
- You will need: coloured paper – black, orange, red, green and yellow, glue and markers.
- On slips of paper, write out the names of the shapes you will focus on: semi-circle, triangle, rectangle, circle and oval.
- Cut out these shapes needed using the coloured paper .
- Spread out the papers and group them together based on shape. Look at each shape and point out how many sides, how many corners, how many curved edges? Name each shape.
- Match the name with the shape and create the witch’s face.
Apple Stamp Halloween Decoration
Early learners love stamping so this Halloween, use an apple stamp to create a beautiful bat decoration using only simple materials. Click here for a Youtube instructional video.
For this activity:
- You will need: half an apple, black and yellow paint, paint brush, black marker and white paper.
- Cover the cut side of the apple in black paint.
- Stamp the apple half onto white paper. Fill in any gaps with black paint and brush.
- Draw bat wings using black marker.
- Paint the wings black.
- Add eyes using yellow paint. Cut out and hang up your bat.
DIY Halloween Garland
Creating beautiful homemade Halloween decorations for your home is fun and easy with these printable Halloween shapes.
For this activity:
- Print as many copies as you need of the Halloween shapes.
- Colour in the bat, witch’s hat, jack-o-lantern and ghost.
- Attach to strips of black paper or string and hang up to create a ghoulish decoration that will get you in the spirit of Halloween!
Halloween Ghost Cookie Recipe
Get baking this Halloween using this simple-to-make recipe for sugar cookies and icing to create gorgeous ghost creations. Download our free PDF recipe card for instructions.
For this activity you will need:
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 2 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- M&Ms
Halloween Rice Krispie Pumpkins
These no-cook Rice Krispie pumpkins are a great addition to your Halloween table. They are tasty and make for great decorations as well! Click here for a Youtube instructional video.
For this activity:
- You will need: 6 cups Rice Krispies cereal, 3 tbsp salted butter, 1 (10 oz) pkg. mini marshmallow, orange gel food colouring, 3 straight pretzels (break off 2 cm of each end piece), mini green M&Ms, chocolate icing or melted chocolate, non-stick cooking spray
- Click on the image for a Youtube instructional video.
Halloween Doughnut Spiders
These super simple doughnut spiders are easy for kids to assemble and make delicious decorations for your Halloween table. Click here for a Youtube instructional video.
For this activity:
- You will need: 6 small round doughnuts, curved pretzels, Reese Pieces or M&Ms, melted chocolate (to attach eyes).
- Cut each doughnut in half.
- Break off each curved side of the pretzels, 8 for each spider. Carefully press the pretzel curves into the top of the doughnut halves to create legs for the spider.
- Melt the chocolate and dap a small circle on the back of the Reese Pieces or M&Ms and attach to the spider’s eyes.
Enjoy Family Time with Easy Halloween Crafts and Activities
This is the perfect holiday to get hands-on and use easy Halloween crafts and activities to decorate your home. Kids can definitely join in on the fun of making easy Halloween crafts and activities with supplies you have around the house and straightforward instructions. Encourage your little ones to participate in the celebration by putting their own stamp on their Halloween crafts and decorations.
