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Home Halloween

31+ Easy Halloween Crafts for Preschoolers

Updated: 6/20/22

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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!

Halloween crafts

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. I bet you can make quite a few at home right now!

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!

5 Easy Halloween Crafts

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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

Easy Pumpkin Craft from Thriving Home

Materials Needed: 

  • Marshmallows
  • Construction paper (or use our free printable template)
  • Markers
  • Googly eyes


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)

Halloween Bingo by Thriving Home

OK, OK. It’s not really a Halloween craft per-say 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

Monster Cups from Formula Mom

Materials Needed:

  • 4 plastic cups
  • Black, white, orange, & lime green paint
  • Paint brushes
  • Googly eyes
  • Black and green pipe cleaners
  • school glue
  • Black permanent marker
monster cups Halloween craft


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

Styrofoam Cup Spiders from One Little Project

Materials Needed:

  • Googly eyes
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Paint & paint brush
  • School glue
styrofoam cup spider craft

Pipe Cleaner Spider by Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • Pipe Cleaners
  • Googly eyes
  • A pom pom
  • Glue (hot glue or craft glue works best)
  • Scissors

Masking Tape Mummy from Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • Black construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Masking tape
  • Googly eyes
  • School glue
masking tape mummy craft

Q-Tip Skeletons from Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • black marker
  • white paper
  • black construction paper
  • scissors
  • Q-tips
  • School glue
  • Skeleton head & bow printable

 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

Transparent Pumpkins from Here Comes the Girls

Materials Needed:

  • Contact Paper
  • Craft foam or card (orange and green)
  • Orange tissue paper
  • Googly eyes

Spider Lollipops from Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • Pipe Cleaners
  • Googly eyes
  • Scissors
  • Suckers (I used Tootsie Roll Suckers)

Paper Plate Pumpkin from Thriving Home

Materials Needed:

  • White paper plate
  • Orange Paint
  • Scissors
  • Black construction paper
  • Glitter (optional)
  • Paint brush
Paper Plate Pumpkins halloween craft for preschooler

Paper Plate Spiders from I Heart Crafty Things

Materials Needed:

  • small 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

Paper Jack O’Latern

Materials Needed:

  • 2 sheets of orange letter or A4 sized papers
  • black paper
  • Scissors
  • glue
  • string
pumpkin halloween craft

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)

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Footprint Ghosts from Crafty Morning

Materials Needed:

  • White paint
  • White crayon
  • Black sharpie
Footprint ghost Halloween craft for kids

Monster Suncatchers by I Heart Arts and Crafts

  • Contact Paper
  • Card Stock Paper
  • Tape
  • Tissue Paper
  • Googly Eyes – I like the self adhesive ones linked here
  • Scissors


Halloween Coloring Pages from Design Eat Repeat

Materials Needed:

  • Coloring page Templates (Download is free on her site!)
  • Crayons or markers
Halloween color pages

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

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
handprint bat craft for Halloween

Spider Headband from Fantastic Fun and Learning

Materials Needed:

  • Construction paper
  • School glue
  • Googly eyes
spider headband craft for kids

Handprint Black Cat

Materials Needed:

  • black construction paper
  • pencil
  • white or silver gel pen
  • wiggle eyes stickers
  • scissors
  • glue
Handprint cat halloween craft

Pumpkin Beaded Pipe Cleaner from Creative Child

Materials Needed:

  • Orange and green pipe cleaners
  • Orange and green pony beads
  • Scissors
pumpkin beaded piper cleaner Halloween craft for kids

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
pencil eraser stamp ghosts

Paper Cup Ghosts from She Knows

Materials Needed:

  • white paper cups
  • white streamers
  • clear tape
  • black marker
  • scissors
  • white string
paper cup hanging ghost craft for kids

Printable Ghost Straw Toppers by Design Eat Repeat

Materials Needed:

  • White Paper 
  • Scissors
  • Download the Printable Ghost Toppers
  • Paper Straws 
  • Hole Punch
  • Double Sided Adhesive Tape
Ghost straw topper

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 Halloween craft for kids

Halloween Spider Slime from The Tiptoe Fairy

Materials Needed:

  • 2 (5 oz) bottles of clear school glue
  • water
  • 8 oz liquid starch
  • glitter
  • Halloween spider confetti
spider slime craft for kids

Tissue Paper Black Cat from Glued to My Crafts

Materials Needed:

  • Large Paper Plate {one per craft}
  • school glue
  • Black Tissue Paper
  • 2 Gray pipe cleaners
  • Black/White/Pink Cardstock
  • Kid Friendly Craft Scissors
  • Hand-Held Office Stapler
tissue paper black cat Halloween craft for kids

Clothespin Button Bats from I Heart Crafty Things

Materials Needed:

  • clothespins
  • black buttons
  • black cardstock
  • tacky glue
  • scissors
Clothespin Button Bats craft for kids

Snacks to Serve for Halloween

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

A great collection of Halloween Snack Ideas. These would be perfect for a Halloween school party as well. #Halloween #Snack

Halloween Party Ideas for Preschoolers

If you’re planning games and activities for a Halloween party, we’ve rounded up the perfect Preschool Halloween Ideas here.

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  1. AvatarCandy 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
  2. AvatarSylvia 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

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    • Rachel TiemeyerRachel 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
  3. AvatarTara says

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

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

    Reply
    • RachelRachel says

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

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

      Reply
  4. AvatarElise 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
    • AvatarGretchen says

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

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

      Reply
    • AvatarJennifer 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
  5. AvatarJill 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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