Sometimes ghosts would rather trade their white sheet for a fun costume instead! This disguise a ghost vampire craft has 4-8 year olds make a vampire costume for their friendly ghost. It’ll take about 20 to 25 minutes to complete and gives children the chance to practice cutting, gluing, and following directions.

Disguise a ghost project ideas like this vampire ghost are a fun choice for classrooms, Halloween parties, or creating at home. They’re an easy way to encourage imagination and practice important early learning skills.

Collage of the Vampire Ghost Disguise Craft template, assembly steps, and two completed vampire ghost crafts wearing capes, vests, and bow ties.

Good To Know

Themes: Hide the ghost project ideas
Activity: Disguise a ghost as a vampire with a cape, red vest, bow tie, fangs, and slick black hair
Template: Includes a free printable ghost and vampire costume pieces
Ages: Preschool through early elementary
Time: 20–30 minutes
Skills: Cutting, gluing, and fine motor practice

Dress Up The Ghost With A Vampire Costume

The disguise a ghost project is a fun way for kids to imagine a ghost as a brand new character through costumes. For this version, kids will dress their ghost in a vampire disguise by adding a cape, pointy fangs, and slick hair.

Creating this ghost disguise activity helps strengthen fine motor control and planning where to place the pieces also supports problem solving, attention to detail, and creative thinking. Kids can even tell a story about their vampire ghost, so language and storytelling skills also have a chance to grow.

Grab a few basic supplies, print our free template, and let your kiddos make this ghost in disguise. They’ll be excited to hang their cute ghost vampire on a bulletin board, decorate the classroom, or add to your Halloween display.

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Supplies

Colored cardstock or construction paper
Scissors
Glue
Markers
Disguise a Ghost Vampire 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 vampire to life!

Use a pink marker or crayon to add the cheeks. This is a great time to talk about how different facial expressions can make the vampire look silly instead of spooky.

Hands drawing the left eye detail on the ghost template before assembling the Vampire Ghost Disguise Craft.

Find the vest piece and glue it onto the lower center of the ghost’s body. Help your child line up both sides so the middle edges meet neatly.

Hands gluing the vampire vest onto the center of the ghost body for the Vampire Ghost Disguise Craft.

Grab the left and right cape pieces. Glue one cape piece to each side of the ghost’s body so they frame the vest. Kids will love watching their ghost begin to look like it’s wearing a flowing vampire cape.

Hands gluing the left and right cape pieces behind the ghost body for the Vampire Ghost Disguise Craft.

Take the bowtie piece and glue it to the top center of the vest, just below the ghost’s smile. This small detail really brings the vampire costume together.

Hands gluing the bow tie to the top center of the vampire vest on the Vampire Ghost Disguise Craft.

Finally, glue the back of cape behind the top of the ghost’s head so the pointed ends peek out on both sides.

Hands gluing the vampire collar behind the top of the ghost head for the Vampire Ghost Disguise Craft.

Your little crafter now has an adorable vampire ghost that’s ready for Halloween fun! Along the way, kids practice hand eye coordination, following directions, and creative expression while making something they’re excited to display.

Be sure to scroll down for more Halloween crafts and printable activities. They’re perfect for creating themed lesson plans, seasonal units, and hands on learning throughout the week.

Hands holding the completed Vampire Ghost Disguise Craft featuring a vampire cape, collar, bow tie, and vest.

For younger kids, use the simplified full-color or color-in template to reduce the number of pieces they need to cut and assemble.
Literacy Connection: After finishing the vampire disguise, have kids give their ghost a spooky name and write one sentence about it.

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!

Hands holding the completed Vampire Ghost Disguise Craft featuring a cape, collar, bow tie, and vampire vest.

Cute October Crafts

Ninja Disguise A Ghost Project – Your young ninjas will love giving a ghost a stealthy new look in this fun disguise project! Kids will create a ghost dressed in a ninja headband and belt, and can personalize it with their favorite colors before sending it on a secret Halloween mission.

Skeleton Craft – Have your little ones bring a friendly bag of bones to life with this easy Halloween activity! Kids will cut, assemble, and glue the printable pieces to create a skeleton to make a spooky decoration. They’ll strengthen fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, and following directions making a bony buddy.

Halloween Paper Bag Puppet – Turn an ordinary paper bag into a jack-o’-lantern puppet! Kids will be excited to bring their pumpkin friend to life through imaginative play. Parents and teachers can use this activity during Halloween units, fall classroom parties, or storytime to help build fine motor skills and encourage creative storytelling.

Candy Corn Name Craft – This sweet activity combines Halloween fun with early literacy practice. Kids will arrange the letters of their name in the correct order on candy corn that’s filling up the candy bowl. It’s a fun learning activity for preschool and kindergarten students to improve name recognition, letter identification, and hand eye coordination.

Fun Halloween Literacy and Fine Motor Activities

Flip over a little fun with this printable Halloween matching game! Children take turns finding pairs of classic spooky pictures like pumpkins, black cats, and witch hats while enjoying friendly competition.

The game will help strengthen memory, concentration, visual discrimination, problem solving, and taking turns. It’s a wonderful screen-free activity for kids or family game night during the Halloween season.

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Sweeten up Halloween with these candy corn coloring pages! These pages are a fun choice for classroom Halloween celebrations, fall centers, or family craft time.

Kids will color cute candy corn designs to practice fine motor skills, pencil control, hand eye coordination, and creativity. Display the finished artwork on bulletin boards, refrigerators, or around the house to decorate for spooky season.

A completed craft of the Vampire Ghost Disguise Craft featuring a vampire cape, collar, bow tie, and vest.

Bring a favorite Halloween story to life with these There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Ghost activities! These fun book companion activities feature pages where kids will label the old lady, match book characters with flashcards, complete a Halloween pattern, trace lines, and dot the letter Gg.

These engaging pages help strengthen fine motor skills, critical thinking, and early literacy while also extending the fun after storytime ends.

Wrap up some Halloween learning with these mummy worksheets! Your little monsters will trace the letter Mm to strengthen handwriting skills, solve a letter maze to work on letter recognition, and label a mummy to improve scissor skills and vocabulary.

This set is a fun addition to classroom centers, homeschool lessons, morning work, or Halloween themed units. Kids will build fine motor skills, problem solving skills, and early academic confidence with these engaging mummy themed pages.

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A completed craft of the Vampire Ghost Disguise Craft displayed with colorful paper, scissors, and a glue stick.

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