Halloween is here! As with any other important holiday, your kids like to feel the spirit and get involved with anything that gets them to have fun.

Asides from trick or treating, you can plan some fun Halloween crafts for them to do.

You don't need to spend a lot of money and the kids will have a blast using their imagination to create some crazy creations. If you don't know where to start check out our post.

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Halloween is a time when kids can let their imaginations run wild. From costumes to crafts, the possibilities are endless. So if you're looking for fun and spooky crafts with your little ones, look no further. Here is a collection of some of our favorite Halloween crafts for kids.

These projects are perfect for toddlers and school-age children, and most of them can be made with materials you have lying around the house. So get ready to have some fun this Halloween season! Your kids will love showing off their creative skills with these unique crafts.

Craft Stick Halloween Puppets

Once again, the time of year when the leaves turn colors, the air turns crisp, and tiny tots everywhere start planning their costumes. There is just one conclusion to draw: Halloween is rapidly approaching!

One of the unique parts of the holiday is watching tiny tots show off their creativity and imagination with Halloween arts and crafts. So why not make some fun and easy Craft Stick Halloween Puppets this year?

How to make it?

It would help if you had craft sticks, googly eyes, a hot glue gun, and colorful felt. First, glue two craft sticks together to make a "puppet frame," then cut out different shapes for the body, head, and limbs. Next, glue on the googly eyes and felt, and your puppet is ready to be displayed with pride!

Mummy Fruit

What could be cuter than a bit of mummy fruit for Halloween? It is an easy and entertaining Halloween craft for children of all ages. 

To make a mummy fruit, you'll need a few simple supplies: some fresh fruit or berries, white edible glue, and black food coloring.

How to make it?

Dip your fruit or berries in the white edible glue, then shake off the excess. Then, add a few drops of black food coloring to give them a threatening black tone. Allow them to dry.

Your little ones will love showing off their handiwork at your next Halloween party!

Homemade Haunted House

It's not Halloween without some spooky decorations, and making your own haunted house is the perfect way to get into the Halloween mood. It is a simple craft that even the littlest ones can do (with help from mom or dad, of course).

How to make it?

All you need is a cardboard box, construction paper, and imagination. Cut the construction paper into strips and shapes to create a haunted house facade. Glue it onto the cardboard box, and you're good to go! If you're feeling more innovative, you can make cobwebs, spiders, and ghosts out of construction paper to take your haunted house to a new exciting level.

Pumpkin Crafts for Kids

You can't go wrong with pumpkin crafts for Halloween! They're ideal for kids of all ages, and you can make them differently.

How to make it?

A straightforward way is to have your child paint a pumpkin with their favorite colors. You can also cut out shapes from construction paper and glue them onto the pumpkin. Next, try using yarn or pipe cleaners to create spider webs on your pumpkin for a more three-dimensional effect. Get creative and have fun! There's no wrong way to make a pumpkin craft, so let your child's imagination run wild.

Spider Web Art

This next craft is perfect for older kids looking for a challenge. Spider web art is an enhancing way to get into the Halloween spirit, and it's also a lot of fun!

How to make it?

All you need is some black construction paper, scissors, and glue. First, cut the construction paper into small strips. Next, glue the strips onto the paper in a spider web pattern. Once the glue is dry, your spider web art is complete! This craft is perfect for older kids who are looking for a challenge.

Candy Corn Bunting

This sweet corn bunting is the ideal craft to get your kids in the Halloween mood! The best part is that it's so simple to make. Construction paper, scissors, and glue are all you need.

How to make it?

First, have your child cut out different-sized triangles from the construction paper. These will be the candy corn pieces. Next, have them glue the triangles onto a string or ribbon, spacing them out evenly. That's it! This bunting is fun and will add a highlighted festive touch to any Halloween party or gathering. So get those little ones crafting, and enjoy the results!

Bat Crafts for Kids

You'll need black construction paper, scissors, glue, and googly eyes.

1. Cut two bat wing shapes out of the black paper.
2. Glue the wings onto the back of the paper plate.
3. Cut a small triangle out of the black paper for the nose, and glue it in place.
4. Add two googly eyes to the front of the bat's head.

Your bat craft is now complete!

Black Cat Crafts for Kids

These black cat crafts for kids are enhancing way to get your child into the Halloween spirit! With just a few supplies, you can help them create a spooky black cat puppet, bat decorations, and more.

How to make it?

To make the black cat puppet, you'll need black craft foam, wiggle eyes, a pipe cleaner, and glue:

1. Cut two triangle shapes out of the craft foam for the ears, and attach them with Glue to the top of the puppet.

1. Add two wiggle eyes and a pipe cleaner mouth.

1. You'll need black construction paper, scissors, and tape for the bat decorations. Halve a sheet of construction paper, then cut out bat wing shapes. Tape them to the other side of the paper to create 3D wings.

1. For the black cat mask, you'll need black cardstock, an elastic string, scissors, and a hole punch.

Cut out eyeholes and a nose shape from the cardstock, punch two holes on the other side of the mask, and thread the elastic through to secure it on your child's head. With these easy crafts, your child will be ready to celebrate Halloween in style!

Edible Eyeballs

These eyeballs are very feasible to make and only require a few ingredients you already have in your kitchen! These edible eyeballs are sure to be a success with the little ones because they appeal to the intelligent and the hungry.

You'll need the following:

One can of white frosting

One package of blueberries

One package of mini marshmallows

Instructions:

1. Cover the blueberries in frosting.

2. Stick two mini marshmallows onto the blueberries for the pupils.

3. Put them in the fridge to set for an hour or so, and then serve!

Haunted Halloween Hands

These Haunted Halloween Hands are a simple and fun craft for kids! All you need is some construction paper, scissors, and glue.

How to make it?

First, cut out two hand shapes from the paper. Then, on one of the hands, cut out five fingers. On the other hand, cut out four fingers. Next, glue the two hands together at the wrist, ensuring that the hand with five fingers is in front.

Finally, add some details to make your hands look spooky! For example, glue some googly eyes or draw on creepy features with a black marker. If you want to get innovative, you could add some fake blood!

Construction Paper Monster Montage

You will need the following:

-Construction paper

-Scissors

-Glue

-Markers or crayons

Instructions:

1. Start by drawing a simple shape on your construction paper. It could be a circle, square, rectangle, or any other shape you want 

1. Once you have your shape, start cutting it into pieces. You can make your monster as easy or complex as you want. Remember that the more pieces you have, the more difficult it will be to assemble.

1. Once you have all your pieces cut out, it's time to start gluing them together! You can create any monster you want, so be creative!

1. Once your monster is complete, you can add some final details with markers or crayons. Finally, give your monster a name and give it a personality!

Humorous ghost balloons

This adorable and simple Halloween craft for children from Balloon Time will brighten anyone's day. These silly ghosts are simple to make and provide some fun absurdity to any party that isn't particularly spooky.

What you need White balloons, ribbon, white tissue paper, scissors, double-sided tape, black pen, and pink vinyl are optional.

How to make :

Tape white inflated balloons into sheets of tissue, then draw faces on them. Cut and attach a tongue and other features if you're using vinyl.

Halloween is a fun and exciting time for kids of all ages, and what's a more exciting way to celebrate than with some fun and creative crafts?

These projects are easy to follow and perfect for showing off your child's creative side. So get ready to have some spooky fun this Halloween!

Halloween crafts to keep them busy: hand monsters

One of the main purposes of Halloween crafts is to (let’s be honest) keep the kids occupied, but the best way to do that is to make them fun and involve their imagination.

That is why cute and colorful handprint monsters are a great choice. With this activity you can involve them in every part of the process so that they won't be waiting around for you to get everything ready.

First, take foam or carton sheets in several colors, and get the kids to choose the one they want. Mark up their little hands and cut them to get the hand shape ready.

From that point it's all up to the kid to make the most original monster they can imagine! Get some googly eyes, small stickers, magic markers, stamps, buttons... you name it!

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Their first pumpkin carving

A very important step in any kids life is when they finally get the chance to make their first pumpkin carving.

This is a classic activity than can't be missed during your favorite holiday, it would be like Thanksgiving without turkey or Easter without an egg hunt!

So,  if you're trying to make cool Halloween crafts for your kids look no further! It's time for them to get in on this tradition.

There is a whole process involved in pumpkin carving (if you'd like to know more about this read this article), but the first step is to have the perfect tools.

You can get your first pumpkin carving kit here. Then make sure to choose a small and firm pumpkin so that your kid can work on it well, but it's very important that you supervise your child every step of the way because, after all, they'll be working with sharp tools.

Plastic cup spiders

Who said Halloween crafts need to be over-the-top and involve a lot of fancy material?

With this super fun idea of making plastic cup spiders as Halloween crafts you'll realize just how easy it is to keep kids busy and entertained, while celebrating the spirit of Halloween.

Get a pack of the classic red plastic cup (you can actually buy the cups in different colors and even sizes! Try shot cups and bigger cups) and as many small items as you'd think look cool.

Glue pipe cleaners in different colors to the rim of the cup to recreate a spider's legs and a couple of googly eyes.

From that point your kid can choose anything they like to decorate the spider cup: buttons, stickers, ribbons, beads... let their imagination fly!

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Edible Halloween crafts: Jell-O brain

Some people think Halloween crafts are a bunch of paper and other materials that will inevitably end up in the trash in a couple of weeks,

if you are one of those people or you consider yourself a sustainable person who tries to avoid making trash, we have good news for you.

You can keep your kids busy and entertained, and make something cool by making (or rather baking) edible Halloween crafts!

First of all you'll need a super useful gelatin brain mold like this one. Buy a pack of Jell-O and make it like you usually would.

You don't even need to get pink or red mix, get creative and buy different flavors and colors. For more ideas for Halloween crafts as treats read this article.

So as you see, there are many cool ideas for Halloween crafts that don't necessarily require a lot of expensive material or great craft abilities.

Find some cool activities to involve your kids as much as they can and think of things that won't be dangerous for them so they are actually making the Halloween crafts on their own or almost completely on their own.

Let Halloween fun begin!

Halloween is one of America's most beloved holidays, and Halloween crafts for the little ones are plentiful in celebration. Halloween also gives parents an opportunity to teach their kids about Halloween traditions around the world.

Be creative by using everyday objects found around the house (glue stick, tape, paper plates, pencils) with Halloween shapes or Halloween characters you find online or at your local craft store.

Also, don't be discouraged if you see a Halloween craft idea that looks too difficult; there are plenty of Halloween crafts for the little ones that can be created with everyday household items when time is short