Our little ghost doesn’t want to be recognized, so she wants to dress up in a costume to blend in this Halloween. This disguise a ghost princess craft will help preschoolers through first graders turn her into royalty!

They’ll create a princess dress and add a crown to this fun Halloween craft that comes together in about 20 minutes. It’s a good way for them to practice cutting, gluing, and making creative choices. Once their little ghosts are ready to attend a royal ball, check out our other disguise a ghost project ideas that encourage creativity and hands-on learning.

Collage of the Princess Ghost Disguise Craft featuring two completed princess ghost designs and close up views of the finished printable craft.

Good To Know

Themes: Halloween, ghost disguise project
Activity: Disguise a ghost as a princess with a crown, layered pink gown, puff sleeves, and bow
Template: Includes a free printable ghost and princess costume pieces
Ages: Preschool through early elementary
Time: 20–30 minutes
Skills: Scissors skills, gluing, and fine motor practice

Hide the Ghost Disguise Idea for Girls

Turn an ordinary ghost into Halloween royalty with this ghost costume craft. Children will have fun designing a lovely princess outfit by choosing the colors for her dress and decorating a princess crown for her to wear.

This easy activity encourages creativity and helps children strengthen important developmental skills when they cut, glue, and plan the design. Planning colors and placing decorations builds problem solving skills, focus, and confidence as children complete their princess creation.

Our printable ghost template makes preparations easy for parents and teachers. Grab some colored paper, scissors, and glue, then invite your kiddos to build this royal ghost together. They’ll end up with an adorable princess ghost that’s ready to rule the Halloween season!

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Supplies

Colored cardstock or construction paper
Scissors
Glue
Markers
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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 princess to life!

Hands holding the Princess Ghost Disguise Craft template with the ghost body, arms, bow, layered dress, and crown pieces ready to cut out.

Color in the ghost’s cheeks using a marker. This is a great time to let kids personalize their ghost while chatting about how different facial expressions can make a character look happy, excited, or surprised.

Hands coloring the Princess Ghost Disguise Craft face on the ghost body template before assembling the princess costume pieces.

Look for the dress piece and glue it across the ghost’s body.

Hands holding the princess dress piece in place on the ghost body for the Princess Ghost Disguise Craft before gluing it down.

Take the two upper layer dress pieces and glue one to the left side and the other to the right side of the dress, meeting them in the middle. This layered detail gives the princess outfit extra dimension and really brings the costume to life.

Hands positioning the top layer of the princess dress onto the ghost body, lining it up above the bottom dress layer.

Grab the bow and glue it to the center of the upper layer of the dress.

Hands placing the bow at the center of the princess dress on the Princess Ghost Disguise Craft.

Take the two sleeve pieces and glue one onto each side of the dress where the ghost’s arms meet the outfit.

Hands placing the sleeve piece onto the right side of the princess dress, lining it up with the ghost's arm.

Pick up the crown and let your child color in the jewel. They can choose any favorite color to make their princess ghost feel extra royal.

Hands coloring the jewel on the Princess Ghost Disguise Craft crown before attaching it above the ghost's head.

Finish the craft by gluing the completed crown to the top of the ghost’s head.

Hands coloring the jewel on the crown piece for the Princess Ghost Disguise Craft before attaching it above the ghost's head.

Your princess ghost is all dressed up and ready for pretend play, classroom displays, or Halloween decorating. This fun craft helps kids strengthen fine motor skills while encouraging creativity, storytelling, and imaginative play.

Scroll down for more Halloween crafts and printable activities that pair perfectly with this project.

Hands holding the completed Princess Ghost Disguise Craft with a layered princess dress, bow, sleeves, and crown.

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!

A completed craft of the Princess Ghost Disguise Craft featuring a layered princess dress, bow, sleeves, and crown displayed with colorful paper, scissors, and a glue stick.

Hide The Ghost Ideas

Gumball Disguise A Ghost Project – Help kids transform a friendly ghost into a bright red gumball machine filled with colorful candy by cutting and arranging the pieces in our free template. It’s a fun hands-on activity that encourages creativity and makes an eye catching Halloween decoration kids will be excited to show off.

Ballerina Ghost Disguise Project – Help a friendly ghost trade spooky scares for graceful pirouettes with this ballerina disguise project! Your little ballerinas will design a colorful tutu, add a sweet hair bow, and create a ghost that’s ready for center stage. Parents and teachers can use this fun activity during Halloween for classroom art time or a festive afternoon of creative fun at home.

Crayon Ghost Disguise Project – Brighten up Halloween with this colorful crayon ghost disguise! Kids will transform their ghost into a giant crayon by decorating with their favorite colors. This fun activity encourages creativity and imagination and gives little artists a chance to create a costume that’s sure to help the little ghost blend in on Halloween.

Mermaid Ghost Disguise Project – Make a splash this Halloween with this mermaid ghost costume! Kids will dress their friendly ghost in a shimmering mermaid tail, flowing hair, and fun ocean inspired details. This imaginative project has little ones mix their love of mermaids with Halloween to design an under the sea costume that’s sure to keep their ghost disguised.

Ghost Printables for Halloween

These ghost connect the dots pages turn Halloween learning into a fun counting and letter recognition activity! Kids will connect numbers or letters to reveal cute ghost pictures, then color their finished creations.

Completing the pages helps strengthen number sequencing, pencil control, and fine motor skills. They’re a fun choice for classroom centers, homeschool lessons, or extra practice during the Halloween season.

collage image of Ghost Printables for Halloween

Friendly ghosts make tracing practice extra fun with these ghost tracing worksheets! There are straight, curved, zigzag, and wavy lines for kids to trace along with the letter Gg and a ghost coloring page.

These engaging activities strengthen pencil control, hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and the pre-writing skills children need for handwriting. They’re a fun addition to learning during the Halloween season.

Bring the story to life with these fun There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Ghost activities! Kids will label the Old Lady, practice story recall with book character flashcards, complete the finish the pattern page, build pre-writing skills on the line tracing printable, and fill the G is for Ghost dot marker page with colorful dots.

These engaging printables strengthen vocabulary, pattern recognition, fine motor skills, and early literacy while keeping the fun going after storytime.

A completed craft of the Princess Ghost Disguise Craft featuring a layered princess dress, bow, sleeves, and crown displayed with craft supplies.

These disguise a ghost free printables encourage kids to help a friendly ghost hide in plain sight with imaginative costumes and fun writing activities.

Children can decorate their ghost as anything they dream up, then complete the writing prompt and a wanted poster to tell its story. They’ll be able to strengthen creativity, fine motor skills, handwriting, vocabulary, and storytelling while getting into the Halloween spirit!

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