Candy Corn Name Craft [Free Printable Template]
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Halloween is the perfect time to mix learning and creativity, and this candy corn name craft checks both of those boxes. Kids will create a jack-o-lantern candy bucket filled with candy corn pieces that spell out their name. This doubles as both festive decor and a keepsake that will brighten any classroom or home!
Children will enjoy making this personalized Halloween activity to celebrate the season in a hands-on way. After they finish creating their candy-filled pumpkins, be sure to check out more candy corn activities that blend early learning and holiday fun!
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Halloween Candy Name Activity
Your little pumpkins will enjoy decorating this cute Halloween keepsake with pieces of candy corn that show off the letters in their name. This project will be a fun addition to any fall activity station and a nice addition to any bulletin board or even the fridge at home.
Besides just being a fun project, this DIY Halloween name craft helps preschoolers and early learners build essential skills. They’ll practice letter recognition, spelling their name, scissor skills, and fine motor control as they cut, glue, and place each piece just right.
Take advantage of our editable template by entering your child’s name into the pdf before printing. Gather a few simple supplies like scissors, glue, and construction paper for a not-too-spooky project your kids will love to complete and show off!
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Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers, if using the color in version
- Candy Corn Name Craft Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
Directions
Start by downloading and printing the template. Once the template is printed, gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this Halloween craft to life!
Take your first candy corn piece and place it on the back and top of the Halloween bowl. Line it up so it looks like it’s peeking out of the top. Glue it in place.
Glue each candy corn piece in order to spell your child’s name, talking about the letters and sounds as you go.
Once all pieces are in place, attach the back-of-the-bowl piece behind the pumpkin to hold the letters securely and give it a finished look. That’s it! It’s so easy.
This craft is such a cute way to get kids excited about spelling their names while celebrating Halloween. Be sure to check out some of our other favorite name crafts for your kiddos while you’re here!
Halloween Books For Children
Room On The Broom: This has to be one of our favorite Halloween books of all time! The story follows a witch and her cat as they happen upon some animals who help the witch. There’s danger, mystery, and friendship in this adorable children’s story.
5 Minute Spooky Stories: We love Disney’s 5-minute storybooks and this one is perfect for Halloween! See how all your favorite Disney characters celebrate this spooky holiday.
Ten Timid Ghosts: This is a fun countdown book about a witch who moves into a haunted house where 10 ghosts already live. The witch scares the ghosts out one by one until they devise a scheme to get her out of their house. This Halloween children’s book is good for kids who love rhyming stories!
Easy Halloween Crafts
Vampire Gnome Craft – This little gnome is all set to go trick or treating dressed up in his vampire costume. He’s sure to bring lots of smiles, so grab our free template for a fang-tastic Halloween activity for kids to do.
Black Cat Torn Paper Craft – Celebrate Halloween’s favorite black cat with this one made out of torn paper. Kids will tear pieces of black paper to create their feline with glowing eyes. This hand-on activity is a purr-fect way to mix creativity with honing skills like fine motor control and bilateral hand coordination.
Candy Corn Mummy Craft – Kids will love wrapping up their mummy in the classic yellow, orange, and white of candy corn. It’s more on the cute side than spooky, so it’s perfect for your little ones. It’s a sweet way to celebrate the season, so be sure to download the mummy template!
Halloween Bat Name Craft – Fly into Halloween fun with this batty project. Kids will create a night sky filled with stars, a bat, and their own name. They’ll practice letter recognition as they identify the letters on the stars or circles and put them in order to spell out their name.
Halloween Activities For Kids
These free printable bat tracing worksheets are a frightfully fun way for kids to learn essential skills this Halloween! On the first of 4 pages, they’ll trace a bat and then once it’s complete, show off their artistic skills by coloring it in.
There’s two pages filled with wavy and zigzagging lines where kids can really hone their fine motor skills by carefully tracing each path. And finally, there’s a letter Bb handwriting practice page where kids will use the help of the dashed lines to learn to perfectly form the letter Bb.
Spooky fun and skill building are ahead in these Halloween matching worksheets. Kids will boost visual discrimination and attention to detail with picture matching and shadow matching pages.
Then strengthen number recognition and counting skills when they count and match to the correct number. On the last page, they’ll sharpen their color recognition, matching the potion in cauldrons to the same colored bat. Grab these pages for kids to join the matching fun.
Pumpkin Activity Sheets For Kids
For an all in one activity that offers fun and learning skills, grab these Halloween cutting practice worksheets. Your little learners will count and match Halloween images, cut along wiggly paths, and match monster heads to their bodies.
Each activity will hone important skills like number recognition, fine motor control, hand-eye coordination, and problem solving. These worksheets will keep little hands busy and brains engaged, so find some scissors!
Add some spooky fun to your October lesson plans with these Halloween kindergarten worksheets. This no prep printable pack includes math and literacy activities that will help kids practice counting, reading, and more! You can easily review important skills with these festive worksheets.
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Candy Corn Name Craft
Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers optional, if using the color in version
- Candy Corn Name Craft Template
Instructions
- Download the template, edit it with Adobe Reader to add your child's name, print it, and cut out the pieces you need.
- Glue the first candy corn letter of your child’s name to the top and back of the pumpkin bowl.
- Next glue the remaining candy corn letters in order along the top opening of the bowl to spell the name.
- Then glue the back piece behind the bowl to secure the letters.
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Free Candy Corn Name Craft Template
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