25 Easy Halloween Crafts for Kids

Paint or cover a paper plate in white paper, add a face, then tape strips of tissue paper underneath so the ghost has a fluttery tail.

Fold a coffee filter several times and snip small shapes from the edges. Open it carefully to reveal a lacy web; add a paper spider if you like.

Paint an empty cardboard tube black, fold the top edges inward for ears, and glue on paper wings and big goofy eyes.

Cut orange paper strips, write one favorite Halloween activity on each strip, then link them into a countdown chain.

Draw a ghost shape on cardstock, cover it with glue and cotton balls, then add paper eyes and a mouth.

Wrap cardboard people or craft sticks with white yarn, leaving a little gap for eyes.

Glue craft sticks into a house shape, paint it dark colors, then add paper windows, ghosts and crooked doors.

Collect dry leaves, paint them bright monster colors, and add eyes, teeth, horns or tiny paper hats.

Cut individual cups from a clean egg carton, paint them, poke in pipe-cleaner legs and add eyes.

Turn lunch bags into vampires, witches, pumpkins or silly original monsters. The bag flap becomes the mouth.

Cut black paper silhouettes and tape them around a clear jar. Place a battery tea light inside for a reusable decoration.

Trace both hands on black paper for wings, then connect them with a simple bat body.

Dip a plastic fork in orange paint and stamp overlapping strokes into a round pumpkin shape. Add a stem and face after it dries.

Place strips of masking tape across dark paper to build a mummy, then add two bright eyes peeking through.

Paint paper cups green and add black paper hair, a mouth and neck bolts. Stack them for a party game afterward.

Cut a row of folded white paper into connected ghost shapes, then give every ghost a different expression.

Wash and dry pumpkin seeds, tint or paint them, and glue them into simple mosaic pictures.

Cut cardstock into strips and decorate them with monster faces, teeth and googly eyes. Great for pairing with a Halloween book.

Accordion-fold black paper into a fan, pinch it into a circle, and add triangle ears, whiskers and eyes.

Cut bats, cats, moons and ghosts from black paper and tape them to a window for an instant Halloween scene.

Twist white pipe cleaners into a tiny skeleton and add a bead or paper circle for the skull.

Wrap an empty tissue box in colored paper, turn the opening into a mouth, and fill it with paper teeth.

Wash smooth rocks, paint them as tiny monsters, and hide them around the yard for a mini scavenger hunt.

Arrange cotton swabs as bones on black cardstock and glue them down around a paper skull.

Put out scraps of paper, yarn, foil, buttons and stickers and let kids invent a monster with no example to copy.