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Most children love Halloween, and the annual event offers kids and parents the opportunity to sit down together and bond while getting creative.<\/p>\n
Halloween is synonymous with costumes and trick-or-treating, so you may like to create a costume together, or instead, you could dive into one of the Halloween craft ideas for kids that we\u2019ve outlined below.<\/p>\n
Make them just because, as a spooky activity to get your children in the Halloween mood, or use the crafty creations to decorate your home for a Halloween party.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re hosting a party for kids this spooky season, your Halloween activities for children could include some arts and crafts at a decorated table \u2014 you might be surprised at how long it will keep them entertained!<\/p>\n
Please supervise children at all times when they are crafting and help them with things such as cutting and painting, as required.<\/p>\n
With that being said, let\u2019s jump into the fun!<\/p>\n
Choose one of the below Halloween crafts for kids… or why not make all of them?<\/p>\n
Much like the chains of people you made a child, you can quickly and easily create a ghost garland with your kids by folding a long piece of white paper like an accordion into 3\u201d sections.<\/p>\n
Next, you draw a ghost shape on the top section, ensuring that its arms reach the edges of the paper \u2014 otherwise, the ghosts won\u2019t be connected when you unfold the paper.<\/p>\n
Cut around your ghost shape and unfold the paper to reveal your ghoulish ghost bunting.<\/p>\n
For a longer garland, make several and attach them using sticky tape.<\/p>\n
Mix it up by using black paper to make a bat or spider garland, white paper to make a skull or skeleton garland, or orange paper to make a pumpkin garland. Perhaps your little ones can come up with some ideas of their own, too.<\/p>\n
These garlands make easy Halloween decorations that can be reused or recycled.<\/p>\n
Kids will never tire of painting rocks, so why not gather some stones and ask your children to create the scariest monsters they can imagine?<\/p>\n
All you need is paint and a pack of googly eyes, and once the monsters are made, you can make a game out of it \u2014 hiding the rocks around the house for a scary scavenger hunt!<\/p>\n
To get the best results, wash and dry your rocks before use. You might also want to add a base layer\/primer to help the paint adhere and look its best.<\/p>\n
When it comes to painting, you can use acrylic paint with paintbrushes or paint pens.<\/p>\n
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Have your kids gather some leaves up from the ground outside, then bring them indoors to paint.<\/p>\n
The leaves may need a quick wash and dry before you get started.<\/p>\n
For ghosts, paint the leaves white, and for bats or vampires, paint the leaves black.<\/p>\n
Then, add features such as eyes and a mouth in a contrasting colour, leave to dry, and use the leaves to make a garland, scatter to decorate a table, or use them to add a creepy element to your table settings.<\/p>\n
All children love bubble painting, so why not use it as a base for some Halloween monsters?<\/p>\n
If your children are very young, then you might want to blow the bubbles for them.<\/p>\n
To create monsters, you\u2019ll need card stock, acrylic paint, washing-up liquid, water, straws, googly eyes, and pens.<\/p>\n
Mix equal amounts of acrylic paint and washing-up liquid (try 2 tbsps of each) in a cup and add some water almost to the top of the cup, then mix again.<\/p>\n
Next, place a straw into the cup and blow bubbles. Once you have plenty of bubbles on top of the cup, take your card stock and place it on top.<\/p>\n
Repeat this method with various colours and sizes of cups, then leave them to dry before adding googly eyes and other features with a pen.<\/p>\n
If your kids are keen readers \u2014 or you\u2019d like them to be \u2014 then let them get stuck into this cute and fun Halloween craft idea.<\/p>\n
All you\u2019ll need for this quick tutorial is coloured paper (origami paper would be ideal, but any will do), coloured pens, craft glue, and embellishments.<\/p>\n
To begin, take a piece of coloured paper (at least A5 in size). Fold it in half lengthways and open it out again.<\/p>\n
Next, fold the left corner to the centre point, then do the right corner.<\/p>\n
Cut underneath the large triangle shape and remove the excess, then cut down the centre line to create two separate triangles.<\/p>\n
Open out each triangle to reveal a square.<\/p>\n
Take one square, fold it in half to create a rectangle, and then fold it in half again to create a smaller square.<\/p>\n
Fully unfold the piece of paper, then cut out one of the four squares you can now see and half of the two adjacent squares (corner to corner).<\/p>\n
Glue the two flaps together, and you have created a corner bookmark ready for decoration.<\/p>\n
Repeat with the second square.<\/p>\n
The fun can now begin, so get your kids to add eyes, teeth, tongues, arms, legs, wings, or whatever comes to mind!<\/p>\n
If these bookmarks don\u2019t get your kids to pick up their books, I don\u2019t know what will!<\/p>\n