31+ Easy Halloween Crafts for Preschoolers {2023 Edition} (2024)

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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.

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! We give you everything you need in the pdf download.

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 Ghostfrom 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 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!

Monster Cups from Formula Mom

Materials Needed:

• 4plastic cups
• Black, white, orange, & lime green paint
• Paint brushes
• Googly eyes
• Black and greenpipe 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

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(orcrayon)
• White paint pen(orcrayon)
• 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:

• Construction paper
• School glue
• Googly eyes

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 usedTootsie Pops, butOriginal Gourmet lollipopswould be great, too.)
• Coffee Filters
• Small Rubber Bands
• Thin RibbonorBaker’s Twine
• Black Sharpie Marker

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

Tissue Paper Black Cat from Glued to My Crafts

Materials Needed:

• Large Paper Plate {one per craft}
• school glue
• BlackTissue 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:

• clothespins
• black buttons
• black cardstock
• tacky glue
• scissors

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!

• Halloween Games
• DIY Apples to Apples Game
• Easy Thanksgiving Crafts
• Easy Christmas Crafts for Kids
• Easter Scavenger Hunt
• Homemade Playdough Recipe