Halloween is the perfect time to get creative with spooky, cute, and festive crafts! Whether you’re decorating your home, making party favors, or keeping kids entertained, DIY Halloween crafts are fun for all ages. Best of all, most of these ideas use simple supplies you may already have at home. Here are some easy and budget-friendly Halloween craft ideas you can try this season.
👻 Easy Halloween Crafts
Paper Plate Pumpkins
Supplies: Paper plates, orange paint, markers, black construction paper, and glue.
Instructions: Paint the paper plates orange. Once dry, cut out eyes, noses, and mouths from black paper (or draw them with markers) to create jack-o’-lantern faces.
Mason Jar Lanterns
Supplies: Mason jars, acrylic paint (orange, white, green), paintbrush, LED tea lights.
Instructions: Paint jars to look like pumpkins, ghosts, or Frankenstein. Once dry, place LED tea lights inside for glowing Halloween lanterns.
Ghost Lollipops
Supplies: Lollipops, white tissues or fabric, ribbon, black marker.
Instructions: Wrap a tissue over the lollipop, tie a ribbon around the “neck,” and draw a ghost face on the tissue. Cute for handing out at parties or trick-or-treat night!
Toilet Paper Roll Bats
Supplies: Empty toilet paper rolls, black paint, googly eyes, and construction paper.
Instructions: Paint the rolls black. Cut bat wings from construction paper and glue them onto the sides. Add googly eyes for a fun finishing touch.
🧛 Spooky Halloween Decorations
Spider Web Windows
Supplies: Yarn or black tape, scissors.
Instructions: Stretch yarn or tape into crisscrossing lines on your windows to make a giant spider web effect. Add a paper or plastic spider for extra spookiness.
DIY Haunted House Silhouettes
Supplies: Black cardstock, scissors, tape.
Instructions: Cut haunted house shapes, bats, and witches from cardstock. Tape them to the inside of windows for a spooky nighttime silhouette.
Floating Ghosts
Supplies: Balloons, cheesecloth, glow sticks, tape.
Instructions: Insert glow sticks into balloons and inflate. Drape cheesecloth over the balloon and tape it in place. When the lights go out, you’ll have glowing floating ghosts!
🍬 Treat & Gift Crafts
Pumpkin Treat Bags
Supplies: Orange tissue paper, green ribbon, and candy.
Instructions: Place candy inside orange tissue paper, twist the top, and tie with green ribbon to look like little pumpkins.
Witch Hat Party Favors
Supplies: Black cardstock, scissors, glue, and candy.
Instructions: Roll cardstock into a cone and glue it onto a flat cardstock circle. Fill with candy and decorate with glitter or ribbon.
Monster Candy Holders
Supplies: Small paper cups, markers, googly eyes, and candy.
Instructions: Decorate the cups with silly or scary monster faces, add googly eyes, and fill with treats.
Halloween crafts are a fun way to decorate, celebrate, and share spooky cheer with friends and family. Whether you want something kid-friendly, budget-friendly, or party-ready, these ideas will help you bring the Halloween spirit to life!
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