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31+ Easy Halloween Crafts for Preschoolers

Polly Conner
By: Polly ConnerPosted: 8/15/21Updated: 10/22/24

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You’ve found it! You’ve found the BEST list of Halloween crafts on the internet. This round-up of Halloween Crafts for Preschoolers has loads of ideas that you can do at home or in a school setting. Great craft ideas for Halloween class parties too!

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Table of Contents
  • Preschool Halloween Crafts
  • 5 Easy Halloween Crafts
  • Halloween Games for Kids
  • Halloween Snack Ideas
  • More Fun Kid Activity Ideas

Preschool Halloween Crafts

To make these Halloween craft ideas even more user-friendly for you, we’ve included a list of materials you’ll need for each one.

If you have kids, I highly recommend creating a craft bin for them. I’ve found that using clear bins like these are best. That way all of your supplies stay organized and not all over the house!

P.S. When you’re done crafting, make some Mummy Hot Dogs and and play Halloween Bingo!

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Scrap Paper Candy Corn from Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • Candy Corn Template
  • White, orange, & yellow construction paper
  • Glue stick
  • Scissors
Candy corn craft with torn pieces of construction paper glued onto a candy corn template.

Easy Pumpkin Craft from Thriving Home

Materials Needed: 

  • Marshmallows
  • Construction paper (or use our free printable template)
  • Markers
  • Googly eyes
Easy Pumpkin Craft - pumpkin templte printed on orange paper with marshmallows and googly eyes glued on.

Puffy Ghost from Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • White card stock paper
  • Puffy Ghost Template
  • Scissors
  • School glue
  • Cotton Balls
  • Black construction paper
  • Yarn or string (optional)
Puffy Ghost craft - cotton balls glued on a ghost shaped white piece of paper with black construction paper eyes and mouth glued on.

Halloween Bingo by Thriving Home

OK, OK. It’s not really a Halloween craft per se but it’s a hands-on Halloween activity that kids absolutely love!

Materials Needed:

  • Bingo Sheets (free)
  • Markers for the Bingo game (candy corn, torn-up paper, buttons, etc.)
  • Prizes for winner!
Halloween Bingo Card with M&Ms being used as markers.

Monster Cups from The Simple Parent

Materials Needed:

  • Plastic cups
  • Black, white, orange, & lime green paint
  • Paint brushes
  • Googly eyes
  • Black and green pipe cleaners
  • School glue
  • Black permanent marker
Collage of four different monster cups Halloween craft - black spider, green monster, orange pumpkin, white ghost.

Handprint Spiders from Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • Black cardstock, or construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Black felt for the spider’s body. You could use thick paper for this if you don’t have any felt on hand.
  • Googly eyes
  • School glue (not glue sticks)
Handprint Spiders Halloween Craft - preschool hands cut out of black construction paper with a black circle glued between them and googly eyes on top.

Styrofoam Cup Spiders from One Little Project

Materials Needed:

  • Styrofoam Cups
  • Googly eyes
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Paint & paint brush
  • School glue
Styrofoam cup spider craft - black, orange and white painted cups with pipe cleaner legs and mouths and googly eyes.

Pipe Cleaner Spider by Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • Pipe Cleaners
  • Googly eyes
  • Pom poms
  • Glue (hot glue or craft glue works best)
  • Scissors
Pipe cleaner spider craft - black pom poms glued atop white pipe cleaner legs bent to look like spider legs and googly eyes as well.

Masking Tape Mummy from Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • Black construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Masking tape
  • Googly eyes
  • School glue
Masking tape mummy craft - people shaped cutouts from black construction paper with masking tape on them to make them look like mummies with googly eyes added.

Q-Tip Skeletons from Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • Black marker
  • White paper
  • Black construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Q-tips
  • School glue
  • Skeleton head & bow printable
Q-Tip Skeleton craft.

 Fabric Scrap Candy Corn from Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • Candy Corn Template
  • White, orange, & yellow pieces of scrap fabric
  • Glue stick
  • Scissors
Fabric scrap candy corn craft completed.

Transparent Pumpkins from Here Comes the Girls

Materials Needed:

  • Contact Paper
  • Craft foam or card (orange and green)
  • Orange tissue paper
  • Googly eyes
Transparent pumpkin Halloween crafts being displayed on a window.

Spider Lollipops from Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • Pipe Cleaners
  • Googly eyes
  • Scissors
  • Suckers (I used Tootsie Roll Suckers)
Lollipop spider Halloween craft - black pipe cleaners wrapped around a lollipop to look like spider legs and then googly eyes on top.

Paper Plate Pumpkin from Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • White paper plate
  • Orange Paint
  • Scissors
  • Black construction paper
  • Glitter (optional)
  • Paint brush
Paper Plate Pumpkin Halloween craft for preschoolers completed and displayed on a window.

Paper Plate Spiders from I Heart Crafty Things

Materials Needed:

  • Small (6 inch) paper plates (2 per spider)
  • Paint & paint brush
  • Googly eyes (we used varying sizes, 8 per spider)
  • pipe cleaners (8 per spider)
  • School glue
  • Scissors
  • Stapler
Paper Plate Spiders Halloween Craft for preschoolers completed in different colors.

Paper Jack O’Lantern by Easy Peasy and Fun

Materials Needed:

  • Orange letter or A4 sized papers
  • Black paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • String
Orange paper folded into fans and attached to make a circle with black construction paper eyes and smile.

Hanging Foam Bat Craft by Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • Black Foam Paper
  • Googly Eyes – I like the self-adhesive ones linked here
  • Scissors
  • Bat Template
  • Hole punch (for hanging)
  • Fishing Line (for hanging)
Hanging foam bat with googly eyes hanging outside from a tree.

Footprint Ghosts from Crafty Morning

Materials Needed:

  • White paint
  • White crayon
  • Black sharpie
Footprint ghost craft for kids completed - black construction paper with white paint footprints on it.

Monster Suncatchers by I Heart Arts n Crafts

  • Contact Paper
  • Card Stock Paper
  • Tape
  • Tissue Paper
  • Googly Eyes
  • Scissors
Monster sun catcher halloween craft completed in two different color themes - orange/yellow/green and teal/purple/pink.

Halloween Coloring Pages from Design Eat Repeat

Materials Needed:

  • Coloring page Templates (Download is free on her site!)
  • Crayons or markers
Halloween color pages laid out on a table partially colored with crayons lying around as well.

Halloween Hand Banner from Crafts by Amanda

Materials Needed:

  • Construction paper: white, black, yellow, green, red, purple, black and orange
  • Black marker (or crayon)
  • White paint pen (or crayon)
  • Scissors
  • Glue stick
Happy Halloween hand banner craft - different color hands cut out and made into monsters and ghosts on the bottom of a sign.

Handprint Bat Craft from Simple Everyday Mom

Materials Needed:

  • Colored card stock (we used purple and black)
  • White card stock
  • Googly eyes (we used .75″ and 1″)
  • Pencil
  • Glue stick
  • Scissors
  • Bat craft template
Completed Hand Print Bat Craft completed in purple.

Spider Headband from Fantastic Fun and Learning

Materials Needed:

  • Construction paper
  • School glue
  • Googly eyes
Spider headband craft for kids made of black construction paper and googly eyes.

Handprint Black Cat by Easy Peasy and Fun

Materials Needed:

  • Black construction paper
  • Pencil
  • White or silver gel pen
  • Wiggle eyes stickers
  • Scissors
  • Glue
Black cats made out of construction paper hand print cutouts.

Pumpkin Beaded Pipe Cleaner from Creative Child

Materials Needed:

  • Orange and green pipe cleaners
  • Orange and green pony beads
  • Scissors
Pumpkins made by stringing orange beads beads on a pipe cleaner with green beads to make the stem.

Pencil Eraser Stamp Ghosts from Crafty Morning

Materials Needed:

  • Purple and black paint
  • Pencil with a flat eraser
  • Printable ghost sheet (or make your own cutouts)
  • Black marker
  • Painters tape
Ghost outlines made by using a pencil eraser in paint to stamp around cutouts.

Paper Cup Ghosts from She Knows

Materials Needed:

  • White paper cups
  • White streamers
  • Clear tape
  • Black marker
  • Scissors
  • White string
A ghost made out of a white paper cup and white streamers hanging from the bottom.


Coffee Filter Ghost Lollipop from Happiness Is Homemade

Materials Needed:

  • Rounded Lollipops (we used Tootsie Pops, but Original Gourmet lollipops would be great, too.)
  • Coffee Filters
  • Small Rubber Bands
  • Thin Ribbon or Baker’s Twine
  • Black Sharpie Marker
Coffee Filter Ghost Lollipops lined up on a pyramid for the picture.

Halloween Spider Slime from The Tiptoe Fairy

Materials Needed:

  • Clear school glue
  • Water
  • Liquid starch
  • Glitter
  • Halloween spider confetti
Purple slime with glitter and plastic spiders in it being pulled up and stretched out of a pumpkin pail.

Tissue Paper Black Cat from Glued to My Crafts

Materials Needed:

  • Large Paper Plate {one per craft}
  • School glue
  • Black Tissue Paper
  • Gray pipe cleaners
  • Black/White/Pink Cardstock
  • Scissors
  • Stapler
A cat made by gluing black tissue paper to a paper plate with gray pipe cleaner whiskers, with a pink construction nose.

Clothespin Button Bats from I Heart Crafty Things

Materials Needed:

  • Clothespins
  • Black buttons
  • Black cardstock
  • Tacky glue
  • Scissors
Clothespin Button Bats craft for kids made by gluing black buttons to a clothespin and black construction paper cut in the shape of a bat wings.

Collage of photos from Halloween party games for kids.

Halloween Games for Kids

If you’re planning games and activities for a Halloween party, we’ve rounded up a fabulous collection of game ideas.

SEE HALLOWEEN GAMES
Mummy hot dogs being served on a white plate.

Halloween Snack Ideas

Try serving up one of these fun 15+ Halloween Snack Ideas for your fall crafternoon or next Halloween party, too.

Halloween Snack Ideas

More Fun Kid Activity Ideas

We have a collection of other fun games (with free printables included!) your family might like or that you can use for parties. Be sure to Pin these!

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As co-founder of Thriving Home, Polly’s passionate about helping busy parents get dinner on the table. With a house full of kids, dogs, and (usually) a DIY project in the works, she knows firsthand how every minute (and every dollar) counts. As a business owner, she enjoys wearing multiple hats and serves best as a project manager for Thriving Home.

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  1. Arlene says

    Posted on 10/22/24 at 10:34 am

    We abosulutely love these! Makes Tuesday Crafty day so much fun! Homeschool mom of 7 years.The spider pompom one is ADORABLE!!!

    Reply
    • Carla from Thriving HomeCarla from Thriving Home says

      Posted on 10/22/24 at 11:12 am

      Love to hear this Arlene! Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We’re so glad you found us!

      Reply
  2. Candy says

    Posted on 9/27/22 at 11:48 am

    Hi, I love your craft projects, however, when I scroll to the bottom to get a template, it won’t let me put my email in to get the template.

    Reply
    • Carla FletcherCarla Fletcher says

      Posted on 9/27/22 at 1:24 pm

      Hi Candy. Sorry to hear that. Could you send us an email at thrivinghome (at) gmail (dot) com? That way we can send it to you!

      Reply
  3. Sylvia Mayer says

    Posted on 10/15/21 at 9:54 pm

    Wow! I am so glad I found this sight! I will have hours of fun forming memories with my granddaughter ! The awesome thing about it is that the crafts are both simple and affordable! I already have a lot of these supplies at home! I homeschool my granddaughter so these are perfectly wonderful activities! God bless you!

    Sylvia Mayer, grandmother!
    Eagle Pass, Texas

    Reply
    • Rachel Tiemeyer says

      Posted on 10/18/21 at 11:00 am

      Hi Sylvia. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a comment. We are so happy that you used our crafts for special time with your granddaughter! That’s exactly why we created these. Take care!

      Reply
  4. Tara says

    Posted on 10/21/15 at 8:42 am

    Love all the crafts! Thanks. I will be doing them with the children.

    Reply
    • Rachel says

      Posted on 10/21/15 at 10:25 am

      We’re so happy you can use them. Have fun!

      Reply
  5. Elise says

    Posted on 10/12/14 at 7:12 pm

    Just a note: Spiders have 8 legs…and while its a preschool craft, really there should be no confusion that they have 10 legs….Sorry – a science stickler!!
    Other ideas are super cute! I especially loved tearing the cotton apart for the ghosts! 🙂

    Reply
    • Gretchen says

      Posted on 9/24/15 at 7:25 pm

      Lol! How about that for passive aggressive! J/K! Lol! Seriously too funny!

      Reply
    • Jennifer says

      Posted on 10/18/18 at 10:07 am

      I had the same idea, but I still like it and when I think of all my Little ones handprint crafts, it is so often that one finger doesn’t show up well- you could do the craft just keep one finger clean!

      Reply
  6. Jill says

    Posted on 10/1/14 at 10:19 am

    These are great! Halloween crafts are so much fun, thanks for sharing!

    Reply

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