Halloween Crafts

Halloween Crafts are great for children of all ages. These craft projects are for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school children. The crafts use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue, yarn, etc.

Eyeball Yo-Yo
Pipe Cleaner Spider
Yarn Pumpkin
Spooky Bushes
Creepy Spiders
Cat Goblet
Macaroni Skeleton

Eyeball Yo-Yo

For this yo-yo you'll need a wooden yo-yo, white, green, dark green, and black paint, paint brush, and a fine point red and black marker. First, paint a 1 inch green circle in the middle of the yo-yo. Paint white all around the green. Let dry. Paint a black pupil in the middle with radiating dark green lines. Draw a line around the pupil with a black marker. Draw irregular red lines to make eyeball look bloodshot.
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Pipe Cleaner Spider

You'll need 4 black pipe cleaners, wiggly eyes, and some glue. Twist together four pipe cleaners in their middle. Make the twisted section about 1" long. Separate the legs and bend them up. Bend each leg down and up and the ends to shape legs. Glue on two wiggle eyes.
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Yarn Pumpkin

White bed sheet (size appropriate to cover your bush), black craft paint (or fabric paint), paint brush, clothes pins, newspapers. Lay the sheet out flat over some old newspapers. Paint the face of the ghost on the lower half of the sheet, let it dry. Lay the sheet over the bush and use clothes pins to gather the sheet behind the bush and hold it on to the bush.

Print any patterns. Staple all around patterns onto craft foam. Cut out pieces. Glue the bottom of the Styrofoam ball on to the foam feet. Glue on eyes. For optional arms, cut the pipe cleaner in half. Glue on hands. Poke the pipe cleaners into the bug for arms. Bend at the elbows. Glue on the wiggle eyes. Print faces and stem on card stock. Cut out. Glue onto yarn bug.
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Spooky Bushes

You'll need orange yarn, 3.5 inch floppy disk, tacky glue, scissors, pumpkin face, pumpkin stem, and bug feet. Make a pompom by wrapping yarn around floppy disk at least 100 times. Mix colors or use all one color. Cut a 6 inch piece of yarn and slide it under wrapped yarn. Tie tightly into a double knot. Turn floppy over and cut completely through yarn on this side. Turn yarn blob sideways and smooth down strands. Press Styrofoam ball onto a hard surface to flatten bottom. (You can also use an egg carton section.) Cover the top and sides of the ball with tacky glue. Separate the strands of the pompom to fit the Styrofoam ball up inside. Press pompon into place. Arrange yarn.

Print any patterns. Staple all around patterns onto craft foam. Cut out pieces. Glue the bottom of the Styrofoam ball on to the foam feet. Glue on eyes. For optional arms, cut the pipe cleaner in half. Glue on hands. Poke the pipe cleaners into the bug for arms. Bend at the elbows. Glue on the wiggle eyes. Print faces and stem on card stock. Cut out. Glue onto yarn bug.
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Creepy Spiders

Fold black construction paper in half. Along folded edge, lay child's hand palm down (midway through palm) and trace fingers with white crayon. Cut out the outline of the fingers. Unfold and you have a complete image of a spider with eight legs. Now turn the spider over and with the pencil, roll the legs around the pencil, this makes the legs curl under and gives a more creepy, crawly effect.

Cut a 1" strip of black paper from the remaining scraps, and form it into a circle for the bracelet part. At the appropriate length, staple the ends together. Attach the bracelet to the underside center of the spider using the paper fastener. Glue on the wiggle eyes and the "fangs" that you design and cut from the white paper to the spider's head.

The child puts his/her fingers or wrist through the bracelet, the kids can make their spiders creep and crawl with a back & forth rocking motion of their wrists. The paper fastener allows the spider to turn back and forth or 360 degrees, too! Parental supervision is recommended.
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Cat Goblet

This is what you’ll need a black Dixie cup, Two black Chenille stems, black craft foam, scissors, tacky glue, wire cutters, pink pony bead, two wiggle eyes, pink "Painters" paint pen.

Cut chenille stems into three pieces each using the wire cutters. Set aside 2 pieces for another craft. Thread three chenille stems through the pink pony bead. Set the cup upright. Glue the pink pony bead on the cup for the nose. Cut two small triangle shapes out of the black craft foam for the ears. Glue the ears to the inside (front) of the cup and glue the wiggle eyes above the nose and whiskers. Glue the last piece of chenille stem to the top (side) of the cup. Let dry. Twist the pipe cleaner to create the tail. Use the paint pen to draw on the mouth, fill with treats.
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Macaroni Skeleton

This macaroni skeleton is not only fun to make and cute, but can be a real educational project at the same time.

Black construction paper (approximately 6" x 11.5"), glue that will dry clear, lima beans (head, thorax, hips), short, small macaroni in a tube (spine), thin twisted macaroni (arms, legs), elbow noodles (ribs), small shells (joints), spaghetti (fingers, toes), black permanent marker, white crayon to write their name on the paper.

As preparation for this project, study the human skeleton. Talk about symmetry between the two sides of the body, how many ribs, fingers, and toes we have.

Make a sample skeleton for the children to copy from. Review the key features with them.

Let them build their skeleton, starting with the head, then the neck/trunk, working down, gluing the macaroni and beans to the paper. When they are done, they can draw a smile and eyes on the 'head'. Back to Top