10 spooky ideas for Halloween crafts

19 September, 2020 | DIY – for adults and children, Halloween, Halloween crafts, Paper and card

10 craft ideas for Halloween – for children and adults

Check out our top 10 Halloween craft ideas. Whether you’re having a Halloween party, awaiting trick-or-treaters or just wanting to brighten up the autumn, Halloween is a great opportunity for crafting with the kids. Who doesn’t like spooky Halloween crafts?

We’ve put together lots of ghoulish ideas for children of all ages. Set a day for doing Halloween crafts right now. Get some snacks and get cutting and glueing and creating together!

Halloween crafts monster pumpkin ghost bunting

1. MAKE MONSTROUS HALLOWEEN BUNTING

If you’re having a Halloween party, this monster bunting is great fun, and fun to make too.

Halloween crafts for children toilet roll crafts

2. HALLOWEEN CRAFTS FROM TOILET ROLLS

Toilet rolls are a cheap material to use for crafts and you’ll always have some in the recycling at home. Save all your spare toilet rolls and you’ll never be short of craft materials. For Halloween, you could use them to make bats, ghosts, witches and monsters.

Halloween crafts for children toilet roll crafts
Halloween crafts for children toilet roll crafts

You could make lots of bats and hang them upside down on a branch or on a piece of string like a bat garland. Turn your bat upside down and glue a piece of ribbon or a strip of paper to the inside of the roll to hang them up.

Halloween crafts for children painted stones

3. DECORATE WITH SPOOKY STONES FOR HALLOWEEN

Painting stones to look like pumpkins, ghosts and monsters is one of many fun and easy Halloween crafts that even small children can enjoy. They make great Halloween table decorations.

Besides some stones, all you need is some good hobby paint with good coverage, and a brush.

 

Halloween crafts ghosts from jam jars

4. BOO! MAKE GHOSTS OUT OF JAM JARS

You can use jam jars to make really scary Halloween ghosts. Paint the jars white and draw on a mouth and eyes with black felt tip (make sure the ink is waterproof if you’re going to hang them outside).

Tear long strips of white fabric, e.g. from a sheet or a pillowcase. Tape them onto the inside of the jar.

Halloween crafts glass jar lanterns
Halloween crafts glass jar lanterns

    5. MAKE GLASS JAR HALLOWEEN LANTERNS

    Another fun Halloween craft is making your own lanterns. Not out of pumpkins but using jam jars to make ghosts and monsters. Cut ghost faces out of paper and glue them onto the jar. The lanterns will look really spooky when it gets dark.

    You will need:

    • Jam jars with lids
    • Hobby paint
    • Strong paper
    • Hobby glue

    Instructions:

    • Wash the jars and leave to dry.
    • Paint the outside. You may need two coats of paint.
    • Paint the lids black.
    • Cut eyes, noses and mouths out of paper and glue them onto the jars.
    • Use battery-powered tea lights
    Halloween crafts ghost and bat hanging

    6. GHOSTLY WALL HANGING

    Wall hangings are fun and simple Halloween crafts. You’ll need string, strong paper, glue and a stick.

     Cut out bats, ghosts and skulls, etc. and glue to a piece of string. Make lots of strings of different lengths and hang them from the stick.

    Halloween crafts yarn ghosts

    7. GHOSTLY WALL HANGING

    Wall hangings are fun and simple Halloween crafts. You’ll need string, strong paper, glue and a stick.

    Cut out bats, ghosts and skulls, etc. and glue to a piece of string. Make lots of strings of different lengths and hang them from the stick.

    make your own Halloween masks

    8. MAKE YOUR OWN HALLOWEEN MASKS

    Make your own masks for trick or treating at Halloween.

    What do you want to be? A mysterious cat, a pumpkin, a bat or Frankenstein’s monster? You will find the templates for the masks here.

    If you have a hole punch at home, you can punch out little circles of paper, like we used for the bat.

    Halloween craft ideas pipe cleaner spiders

    9. PIPE CLEANER SPIDERS

    Use black pipe cleaners to make scary Halloween spiders.

    Halloween ideas clothes peg wreath

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    10. HALLOWEEN WREATH MADE OF CLOTHES PEGS

    Make a scary Halloween wreath from clothes pegs and hang it on your door or on a wall.

    • You will need:
    • Wooden clothes pegs
    • Cardboard
    • Hobby paint
    • Strong paper
    • Felt
    • Glue
    • Decorations

    Instructions:

    1. Cut a circle out of card. You could use a paper plate.
    2. Paint the reverse orange.
    3. Cut eyes and nose out of black card or paint them with black paint. Draw on a mouth with a black pen.
    4. Paint the clothes pegs and clip them around the circle of card.
    5. Cut bats and ghosts out of paper and glue them onto the wreath.
    6. Cut strips of black and white felt about 1.5 cm wide and roll them up.
    7. Hang the wreath on a piece of string.

    Tip! If you want, you can print out the skull face from here and glue it onto the card.

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