Clown Ghost Disguise Craft for Kids [Free Printable Template]
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Who says ghosts have to stick to white sheets? This little ghost is heading to the Halloween costume party dressed as a colorful clown! This clown ghost disguise craft is a fun Halloween craft for kids in kindergarten through early elementary.
Kids will create a ghost in a colorful clown disguise, and choose bright colors for its costume. The project takes about 30 minutes and gives children a chance to practice fine motor skills, color recognition, and creative thinking when making this fun Halloween ghost craft.
Teachers and parents looking for disguise a ghost project ideas will love this easy activity. It gives kids a fun way to turn an ordinary ghost into a silly circus character.
Good To Know
- Themes: Halloween, disguise a ghost project
- Activity: Kids hide a ghost as a colorful clown by cutting, coloring, and gluing together the costume pieces.
- Template: Includes a free printable clown ghost disguise craft template with the ghost body, clown hat, hair, bow tie, sleeves, suspenders, buttons, and hands.
- Ages: Preschool through early elementary
- Time: 20–30 minutes
- Skills: Fine motor skills, scissor skills, coloring, hand-eye coordination, creativity, and gluing
Colorful Hide the Ghost Idea
This ghost disguise craft turns a plain ghost into a colorful clown ready for a Halloween celebration! Kids will create a fun clown costume for their ghost and pick out the colors and fun details for its very colorful outfit.
Making choices about the costume encourages creative expression and decision making, plus this fun project is a chance to practice important skills like cutting, gluing, and coloring. Placing the small decorations will also help build fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
Grab our printable template and a few common supplies for your kiddos to bring this cute ghost to life. They’ll add pom poms for the clown’s nose and the top of the hat along with other colorful decorations. Soon, their little ghost clown will be ready to join the Halloween fun!
Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Pompoms
- Clown ghost disguise 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 ghost clown to life!
Grab the ghost piece and let your child color in the cheeks with a pink marker. This is a fun way to add a little personality to their ghost while practicing coloring skills.
Take the shirt piece and glue it onto the ghost’s body, just below the face. Line up the sleeves with the ghost’s arms so the white hands peek out from the sides.
Glue the suspenders vertically onto the front of the shirt, one on each side.
Glue the suspender buttons to the bottom of each suspender for a colorful clown outfit.
Look for the bowtie piece and glue it to the top center of the shirt, just below the ghost’s smiling face. Your little ghost is already starting to look like a cheerful clown!
Take two buttons and glue them down the center of the shirt, below the bowtie. Let your child arrange them in a straight line while practicing their hand-eye coordination.
Now it’s time to give our clown some funny hair! Grab the two hair pieces and glue one behind each side of the ghost’s head so the fluffy edges peek out.
Take the hat piece and glue it to the top center of the ghost’s head, between the two hair pieces. Make sure the pointed end faces up to give your clown a playful party hat.
Glue the hat base piece across the bottom of the hat, overlapping the lower edge. Line it up so it sits just above the ghost’s eyes.
Finally, glue a large pom-pom to the pointed top of the hat for a fun finishing touch. You can also glue a medium red pom-pom between the eyes and above the smile to give your clown its signature nose!
Your little ones will have so much fun giving their ghost a playful clown makeover! From adding the colorful outfit to decorating the party hat, every step helps build fine motor skills, coordination, and creativity.
Need more ideas for your Halloween lesson plans? Explore the related crafts and activities below for more hands-on learning and not-so-spooky fun!
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.
The Good, The Bad, And The Spooky: Halloween is the Bad Seed’s favorite holiday, but when he can’t come up with the perfect costume, he decides trick-or-treating should be postponed for everyone! Kids will love following his funny quest to find a show-stopping costume before the big night. With plenty of humor and Halloween fun, this is a great seasonal read for fans of The Bad Seed and the Food Group series.
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!
Playful Halloween Crafts
Skeleton Halloween Craft – Little bones come together for a spooky Halloween activity! Preschoolers can build their own skeleton by cutting and gluing the pieces onto colorful paper. This simple Halloween skeleton gives little ones practice with scissors, fine motor skills, and following directions.
Easy Ghost Puppet Craft – Kids can turn a simple paper bag into an adorable ghost puppet by adding the pieces from our free template. This easy Halloween project gives little ones a chance to bring their new puppet to life with a spooky story or during imaginative play!
Candy Corn Craft – Turn a sweet Halloween treat into a festive decoration or story prop! Kids can piece together their own little candy corn character using colorful paper, then add pipe cleaner arms and feet for extra fun and movement.
Snowman Ghost Disguise Project – Turn a spooky ghost into a frosty snowman! Kids can disguise their ghost with a top hat, carrot nose, cozy scarf, and stick arms. This fun snowman ghost brings a little winter magic to Halloween and keeps him from being too scary.
Halloween Activity Pages
Bring some spooky STEM fun to learning time with these Halloween pattern block mats! Kids will use their colorful shape blocks to build Halloween pictures like ghosts, pumpkins, witches, and mummies. This hands-on activity helps little ones practice shape recognition, patterning, fine motor skills, problem solving, and spatial awareness while they piece together their spooky designs. It’s a fun activity they’ll want to do over and over again this October!
Send a little ghost undercover this Halloween with these disguise a ghost printables! Kids will transform a plain ghost into a superhero, princess, silly animal, or anything their imagination dreams up. They’ll draw and color their disguise on the free printable, then write in the prompt what the ghost is dressing up as. This activity combines Halloween creativity with developing important skills like fine motor control, vocabulary, storytelling, and handwriting.
Wrap up some Halloween learning with these mummy worksheets! Kids will hunt for uppercase and lowercase ‘Mm’s through a spooky maze to work on letter recognition. On the next page, they’ll cut and paste labels onto the mummy to build vocabulary and learn about body parts. The final page has kids tracing uppercase and lowercase ‘Mm’s and the word “mummy,” to strengthen handwriting, letter formation, and the connection between letters and sounds.
These bat activity sheets will lead the way to some spooky learning fun! Kids will match bats to their shadows to practice observation and visual discrimination, guide a bat through a maze to build problem solving and hand-eye coordination, match bat pairs to strengthen concentration, then count bats and complete a graph to practice counting and early math skills. These Halloween activity sheets turn learning into a batty good time for preschoolers!
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Clown Ghost Disguise Craft
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Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Pom poms
- Clown ghost disguise template
Instructions
- Print the template and gather the materials for this fun activity.
- Begin by coloring the ghost’s cheeks with a marker.
- Glue the shirt onto the ghost’s body, just below the face.
- Glue the two suspenders vertically onto the front of the shirt, one on each side.
- Look for the suspender buttons and glue them to the bottom of each suspender.
- Take the bowtie and glue it to the top center of the shirt, just below the face.
- Glue two buttons down the center of the shirt, below the bowtie.
- Look for the hair pieces and glue them behind each side of the ghost’s head.
- Glue the hat to the top center of the head, between the hair pieces.
- Glue the hat base across the bottom of the hat, just above the eyes.
- Take a large pom pom and glue it to the top of the hat.
- Finish by gluing a medium sized red pom pom above the mouth to act as the red clown nose.
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Free Clown Ghost Disguise Template
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