31+ Easy Halloween Crafts for Preschoolers
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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!
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
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!
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
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)
Styrofoam Cup Spiders from One Little Project
Materials Needed:
- Googly eyes
- Pipe cleaners
- Paint & paint brush
- School glue
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
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
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 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 Jack O’Latern
Materials Needed:
- 2 sheets of orange letter or A4 sized papers
- black paper
- Scissors
- glue
- string
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)
Footprint Ghosts from Crafty Morning
Materials Needed:
- White paint
- White crayon
- Black sharpie
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 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
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
Spider Headband from Fantastic Fun and Learning
Materials Needed:
Handprint Black Cat
Materials Needed:
- black construction paper
- pencil
- white or silver gel pen
- wiggle eyes stickers
- scissors
- glue
Pumpkin Beaded Pipe Cleaner from Creative Child
Materials Needed:
- Orange and green pipe cleaners
- Orange and green pony beads
- Scissors
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
Paper Cup Ghosts from She Knows
Materials Needed:
- white paper cups
- white streamers
- clear tape
- black marker
- scissors
- white string
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
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
Halloween Spider Slime from The Tiptoe Fairy
Materials Needed:
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
Clothespin Button Bats from I Heart Crafty Things
Materials Needed:
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Halloween Party Ideas for Preschoolers
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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.
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!
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
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!
Love all the crafts! Thanks. I will be doing them with the children.
We’re so happy you can use them. Have fun!
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! 🙂
Lol! How about that for passive aggressive! J/K! Lol! Seriously too funny!
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!
These are great! Halloween crafts are so much fun, thanks for sharing!