Beach Ghost Craft for Kids [Free Printable Template]
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Summer and Halloween come together in the cutest way with this beach ghost craft! This project for preschool through early elementary aged children has them create a paper scene featuring a happy ghost building a sandcastle by the shore. It’ll take about 20 to 25 minutes to complete and gives kids an opportunity to strengthen fine motor skills and get creative.
Summerween crafts for kids are a fun mix of sunshine and spooky fun! A smiling ghost, sandy beach, and colorful seaside details bring together favorite elements of two beloved seasons.
Cute Summer Halloween Craft
Sunshine meets spooky season in this adorable beach ghost craft that puts a Summerween twist on traditional Halloween projects. Children will create a friendly ghost relaxing at the beach while building a sandcastle. They’ll enjoy bringing this cute character to life with bright colors and imaginative details.
A long summer afternoon feels a little more exciting when kids have a hands-on project to make. It’ll help develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, scissor practice, and creative thinking. This activity also encourages children to follow directions while making design choices of their own.
Our printable template makes creating this Summerween project easy. Just grab a few basic supplies like colored paper, scissors, and glue to start building a fun beach scene. Children will love seeing their ghost and sandcastle come together.
Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Crayola Bold & Bright Markers
- Beach Ghost Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
Directions
Start by printing the template, then gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this beach ghost to life!
Glue the sand piece along the bottom of the blue paper to create your beach background. This simple step instantly transforms the page into a sunny seaside setting.
Take the ghost piece and glue it just above the sand. Position it so the bottom of the ghost overlaps the beach slightly.
Use a black marker to trace or color in the ghost’s mouth.
Grab a red marker and color in the ghost’s tongue. This tiny detail adds a bright pop of color and makes the ghost look extra cheerful.
Use a light pink marker or crayon to color the ghost’s cheeks. Kids always love this step because it makes their ghost look cute and friendly instead of spooky.
Take the sandcastle piece and glue it in front of the ghost. Place it near the center of the beach so it looks like the ghost has been hard at work building the perfect sandcastle.
Grab the bucket piece and let your child color it however they’d like before gluing it next to the sandcastle. A bright blue or pink bucket looks especially fun in this beach scene.
To make the beach look more realistic, use a brown marker to add tiny dots and speckles across the sand and sandcastle.
Draw a bright sun in the sky above the ghost. Encourage your child to make long rays, short rays, or even wiggly rays. This is a great opportunity to talk about sunny beach days and favorite summer activities.
Finish the craft by drawing fluffy clouds around the sun. Add one cloud or several, depending on how creative your child feels. Once the clouds are in place, your Beach Ghost Craft is complete and ready to display for a fun Summerween celebration!
This adorable beach ghost craft is a fun way to combine summer fun with a little Halloween magic. It encourages creative expression while helping strengthen cutting, coloring, and assembly skills.
Don’t forget to check out the related activities and crafts below the post. You’ll find plenty of themed ideas that work well for summer learning, classroom units, homeschool lessons, and seasonal celebrations.
Summer Books for Children
How To Catch A Mermaid is the summer version of the classic “How To Catch” series! It’s perfect for mermaid fans and summer lovers alike!
Gorilla Loves Vanilla is all about, you guessed it – ice cream! This silly book will have kids laughing and asking for you to read it again and again.
Goodnight Pirate is a fun bedtime book to read to kids all summer long! They’ll love the illustrations, story, and rhyming words.
Halloween Theme Paper Crafts
Halloween Bat Name Craft – Kids will have a batty good time making this personalized scene. They’ll create a bat soaring through a starry sky that spells out their name. This hands-on activity has kids work on letter recognition and spelling their name.
Candy Corn Torn Paper Craft – Have kids tear paper pieces and glue them onto our free template to create a festive candy corn masterpiece. This hands-on activity helps strengthen fine motor control and bilateral coordination while giving little hands an opportunity to practice important developmental skills through creative play.
Haunted House Craft – Add a little spooky fun to the day with this colorful haunted house! Kids will use our free template to create a spooky house scene with bright colors and a friendly ghost floating nearby. This creative activity encourages imagination, fine motor practice, and artistic expression.
Black Cat Puppet Craft – This activity will have kids create a cat puppet using a paper bag and our free template that they can play with again and again. Once the puppet is complete, the real fun begins through storytelling, role playing, and imaginative adventures starring their new feline friend.
Printables To Use for Summerween
Bring this silly story to life with these There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Ghost activities! Kids will label the old lady, play with character flashcards, finish patterns, trace lines, and complete a G is for Ghost dot marker page.
They’ll build fine motor skills, letter recognition, patterning abilities, vocabulary, sequencing, hand-eye coordination, and early reading skills with each task. These engaging worksheets make storytime a fun way to learn.
Add some spooky fun to learning time with these Halloween pattern worksheets! Your little monsters will study rows of pumpkins, spiders, mummies, zombies, and other Halloween characters, then cut and paste the correct picture to finish each pattern.
Solving these Halloween puzzles will strengthen pattern recognition, critical thinking, problem solving, visual discrimination, and fine motor skills. These engaging printables will keep little brains busy learning early math concepts.
Spooky fun meets math time in these Halloween math worksheets! Kids will finish patterns, spot which pictures are the same or different, count and graph spooky characters, and compare objects to decide which are big or small.
They’ll strengthen pattern recognition, counting skills, critical thinking, observation skills, data analysis, and early math concepts. These engaging activities make learning fun and approachable for your little ones, so grab the pages and the crayons to get started.
Make learning fun with these Halloween theme printables for kids! Children will hunt for letters in mazes, complete patterns, practice handwriting, solve color-by-number pages, explore emotions with Frankenstein, read a printable book, count on candy corn play dough mats, and learn new vocabulary with flashcards.
These engaging activities build fine motor skills, letter recognition, early math concepts, emotional awareness, reading confidence, and critical thinking. Parents and teachers can use them during Summerween, literacy centers, quiet time, or homeschool lessons.
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Free Beach Ghost Template
Beach Ghost Craft
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Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Regular Markers
- Crayola Bold & Bright Markers
- Beach Ghost Template
Instructions
- Print the template and gather the materials for this fun activity.
- Begin by gluing the sand piece along the bottom of the background paper.
- Glue the ghost piece slightly above the sand.
- Use the markers to color in the mouth, tongue and cheeks.
- Glue the sandcastle piece in front of the ghost.
- Color in the bucket piece and glue it beside the sandcastle.
- Use a marker to add sand texture details to the sandcastle and sand.
- Draw a sun in the sky above the beach ghost scene, using a yellow Crayola Bold & Bright marker.
- Finally, draw clouds in the sky with a white Crayola Bold & Bright marker to complete the beach ghost craft.
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