Halloween Crafts for Kids

Pumpkins, candy, hayrides, and costumes! Halloween is such a great holiday to share with your children and we have yet to meet one that didn't love to do Halloween themed crafts to prepare for the big night! We have great ideas for decorations for your home, pumpkins made out of a variety of materials and even a haunted house made out of popsicle sticks! These Halloween crafts for kids will appeal to kids of all ages and, as always, we have made every one of them in our own home to ensure that they are child friendly and fun! We hope you enjoy them as much as we do! Trick-or-treat!

Kids Halloween Crafts Footprint Ghost Every now and then we do a craft that our daughter asks to do over and over again and this footprint ghost craft is one of them. This is a fantastic preschool Halloween craft for kids and it makes a wonderful way to capture how small your child's footprint is this year. This cute ghost craft makes a great homemade Halloween decoration as well! Bat Sock Puppet Your child will love this fun Halloween sock puppet bat craft. It is easy to make with a little felt, glue and a child-sized black sock. They will have lots of Halloween fun "flying" their sock puppet bat around the house! Lacing Spider Web This spider web craft is a great Halloween craft and also makes a good toddler craft because its a lacing activity. It is a fun way to encourage them to practice their fine motor skills and concentration and it makes a great Halloween decoration as well. Peek-a-BOO Craft We got this idea from our daughter! She was reading a book where a happy ghost popped out from behind a tree and said "boo". She told us the ghost was playing peek-a-boo, which led to this fun halloween craft for kids. The ghost (on a popsicle stick) pops up out of his decorated cup to say "boo!". This is a simple ghost craft made with fun, easy to use materials and is a perfect kids craft for Halloween. Popsicle Stick Haunted House Craft This is a cool kids Halloween craft. It will require some popsicle sticks, glue, paint and some creativity. Kids can use their imagination when they make their very own haunted house! This craft is aimed at somewhat older children. Homemade Trick-or-Treat Bags Have your kids make their own paper trick-or-treat bags! They can pick their favorite design and our provided template makes the rest of the craft that much easier. This is a great Halloween craft for kids and is sure to get them excited about the big Trick-or-Treat night coming up! Handprint Ghost Trick-or-Treat Bag Have your child make their very own canvas bag for Trick-or-Treating with our handprint ghost trick-or-treat bag craft! They can turn their own handprint into a happy ghost and the addition of glow-in-the-dark paint makes this bag even more fun! Shape Monsters Monsters don't have to be spooky for Halloween - they can be funny, silly creatures (that are educational too)! Use our printable templates to make these fun paper crafts for Halloween even easier to do. Make just one shape monster craft to focus on a specific shape for your preschooler, or make all of them! We included a variety of shapes from simple circles to more complex octagons. Handprint Spider Trick-or-Treat Bag Turn a plain canvas bag into a fun trick-or-treat bag using your child's handprints and a little paint. Your child's handprints turn into a cute spider, perfect for a halloween craft for kids. Paper Plate Pumpkin Here is a simple, but classic craft for kids during the Halloween season. This one is a good one for smaller children since its pretty simple, but its a fun one that allows kids to play with paint and take pride in their personally created paper plate pumpkin. Styrofoam Spider Our styrofoam spider craft is a great bug craft for kids! With all the great textures involved in this Styrofoam Spider your kids are sure to want to make one for themselves.  It makes a unique Halloween decoration and looks great set on a table or hung from a tree limb! Lift Flap Haunted House Make a lift-the-flap haunted house using paper and glue. Our printable template makes this cute Halloween craft even easier to do. Your kids will love finding all the Halloween creatures that are hiding in the haunted house. Pom-Pom Bat Craft Turn a giant pom-pom into a bat with some felt, glue and our printable template. Pom-pom animals always go over well with our daughter, so we decided to make one with a little Halloween flair! This pom-pom bat makes a great kids Halloween craft. Pick-a-face Jack-o-lantern If you are looking for a great Halloween craft for a toddler or young preschooler, this jack-o-lantern craft is it! It is a simple paper craft with lots of choices to let kids create their very own jack-o-lantern with none of the mess of carving a real pumpkin. Halloween Wreath We love holiday wreath crafts for the amount of creativity kids can use when they create them.  Ghost with bow ties, pumpkins with hair -- the possibilities are endless! This Halloween craft is a simple one that kids will have fun creating. Egg Carton Spider Turn an egg carton cup into a spooky spider with this classic egg carton spider craft. This cute Halloween craft for preschoolers is easy to do and kids love it. Make a whole dozen of them to hang around the house to make cute Halloween decorations! Halloween Pumpkin Pot This cute Halloween pumpkin pot craft is a great family craft and a fun Halloween decoration! The materials are simple and it can easily be adapted to be personalized for each member in your family. This cute Halloween craft lets your kids create the best part of the jack-o-lantern (the face!) without creating all the pumpkin mess! Spider Sock Puppet Turn a black sock into a spider craft that your child can play with using black felt and glue. This cute spider craft is perfect for Halloween and it makes a great puppet to use when singing the itsy bitsy spider. Handprint Bat Craft As parents of a little girl who is growing up far too quickly, we love to find ways to incorporate handprints into our crafts so in a few years we can look back at them and the crafts will mean that much more to us. This handprint bat craft turns out very cute and makes a great Halloween decoration! Paper Bag Jack-o-Lantern As parents of a little girl who is growing up far too quickly, we love to find ways to incorporate handprints into our crafts so in a few years we can look back at them and the crafts will mean that much more to us. This handprint bat craft turns out very cute and makes a great Halloween decoration! Ghost Neighborhood Game This is a fun game to play with everyone in your neighborhood. Start it early in October and see how many people you can "ghost" by Halloween! Our daughter was finally old enough this year to help us ghost our neighbors and she loved every minute of it. This game is a fantastic way to share this fun holiday with your neighbors and a great way to bring your neighborhood together.

Kids Halloween Worksheets Check out our collection of kids halloween themed worksheets. We have a variety of different halloween worksheets that are perfect for kids and include educational activities like matching, counting, spelling and more! Halloween Worksheets Printable Halloween Coloring Pages Below are some of our Halloween coloring pages. Click on any of the images below to view larger printable version. View All Halloween Coloring Pages Printable Halloween Mazes Spider Web Halloween Maze Trick or Treat Halloween Maze View All Printable Mazes

We'd love to hear your suggestions on Halloween crafts for kids.  We'll soon be adding a place for you to submit craft and project ideas directly to us so we can display directly on the site.   For now, please send us any ideas for kids Halloween crafts or comments at contact@allkidsnetwork.com.