20 Homemade Halloween Decorations Kids Can Make

Cut bats in several sizes from black paper and tape them in a swooping trail across a wall.

Draw ghost faces on clean translucent jugs and place battery lights inside.

Cut old boxes into tombstone shapes, paint them gray and add funny names or epitaphs.

Cut giant eyes from paper and tape them inside dark windows so the house looks awake.

Cut orange pumpkins, add faces, and string them along yarn or ribbon.

Fold a clean black trash bag like a paper snowflake, cut web shapes, then unfold carefully.

Adults punch simple patterns into clean cans; kids can paint them and use battery lights inside.

Wrap white yarn around cardboard, tie at the top, cut the bottom loops and add felt faces.

Make thirty-one orange, black and purple links and remove one each day in October.

Turn the front door into a giant monster face using removable paper eyes, teeth and eyebrows.

Draw jack-o’-lantern faces on orange balloons and group them like a floating pumpkin patch.

Tape black paper shapes around jars and add battery tea lights.

Paint egg-carton cups as giant eyes and hide pairs in plants, shelves and windows.

Stuff pillowcases or old white fabric lightly and hang or stake them to create simple ghosts.

Cut and paint old foam noodles, then arrange them as monster tentacles coming from a planter or box.

Paint plates yellow or gray and add bats, clouds or silly moon expressions.

Build crooked houses from cereal boxes and small cartons, then cut windows and add battery lights.

Paint fallen leaves white and add tiny black ghost faces.

Make a cardboard sign that says “Witch Parking” and lean a broom beside it.

Cut giant footprints from removable paper or sidewalk-safe material and make a trail toward the door.