There’s something extra fun about turning a kid’s name into a science experiment. With this Frankenstein name craft, preschoolers and kindergarteners get to build their own friendly monster while spelling their name across a row of test tubes. Plan on about 30-45 minutes for the full craft version, especially if kids are doing the cutting and coloring themselves.

Frankenstein manages to be spooky and goofy at the same time, which is exactly what makes him so much fun for younger kids. Our Halloween crafts for kids have plenty more not-too-scary characters and projects for October.

Collage showing completed Halloween Frankenstein name crafts and steps for assembling and personalizing the craft with lettered test tubes.

Good To Know

Themes: Frankenstein & Halloween
Activity: Build Frankenstein’s monster and spell the child’s name across individual test tube letter pieces
Template: Includes a free printable Frankenstein name craft with customizable test tube letters
Ages: Preschool through first grade
Time: 30-45 minutes
Skills: Name recognition, letter sequencing, spelling, cutting, coloring, and gluing

Personalized Name Practice for Halloween

The test tubes are what make this one GOOD. Frankenstein holds one in each hand while the rest line up across his lab table, with a letter of the child’s name on every tube. Kids can color the liquid however they want, so each finished monster can look a little different.

While kids are busy putting Frankenstein together, they’re also working with the letters in their own name. Lining up the test tubes in the correct order gives them some name-spelling practice, while cutting and gluing all those pieces keeps their hands busy too.

The printable template keeps Frankenstein and all of those test tubes manageable without asking kids to draw everything from scratch. They can work from the printed pieces, choose their colors, and concentrate on assembling a monster that’s unmistakably theirs.

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Supplies

Colored cardstock or construction paper
Scissors
Glue
Markers
Frankenstein name 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 Frankenstein to life!

Hands holding a Frankenstein name craft printable template with the character and craft pieces ready to cut out.

Glue the eyes onto the head, below the eyebrows.

Hands gluing an eye onto the Frankenstein head for the name craft.

Grab the hair piece and glue it along the top of the head. Line up the top edges so the pointed bottom of the hair overlaps the forehead.

Hands placing the hair piece along the top of the Frankenstein head.

Take the two bolts and glue one to each side of the head so they peek out from behind it.

Hands attaching the bolts to both sides of the Frankenstein head.

Glue the shirt onto the center of the body.

Hands gluing the middle piece onto the center of the Frankenstein body.

Glue the finished Frankenstein head to the top and center of the body. Your Frankenstein is really starting to come together!

Hands placing the finished Frankenstein head onto the top of the body.

Look for the table piece and glue it across the bottom of the body. Position it so the bottom portion of the body is tucked behind the table.

Hands placing the name sign along the bottom of the Frankenstein body.

Grab one test tube for each letter in your child’s name. Let them color the liquid inside each test tube, then write one letter of their name on each one. This is a fun way to sneak in fine motor skills, letter recognition, and name practice.

Hands coloring a letter piece for the Frankenstein name craft with a marker.

Help your child arrange the test tubes across the table to spell their name from left to right. Encourage them to say each letter aloud as they put the test tubes in order, then glue each one in place. This adds a little sequencing and name recognition practice to craft time.

Hands placing the lettered test tubes across the name sign to spell the child’s name.

Finally, glue the hands near the top of the table so they overlap the outer test tubes. It will look like Frankenstein is proudly holding up his name experiment!

Hands gluing the Frankenstein hands above the lettered test tubes spelling the child’s name.

This spooky-cute Frankenstein craft makes name practice feel like play while kids work on spelling, letter order, and fine motor skills. Pair it with the Halloween activities and crafts below for even more hands-on learning at home or in the classroom.

A completed craft showing a Frankenstein holding lettered test tubes that spell a child’s name.

Color the test tubes before cutting them out; they’re easier for little hands to hold on the full sheet.
Count the test tubes, then compare names to see which has more letters.

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!

Side by side completed Frankenstein name crafts with lettered test tubes spelling each child’s name.

Creepy-Cute Halloween Crafts

Frankenstein Photo Craft -Putting a child’s photo right where Frankenstein’s face would be completely changes the craft. Kids can turn themselves into Frankenstein or the Bride of Frankenstein, and really, the photo is what makes the whole thing.

Haunted House Name Craft – name spelled by ghosts floating around a haunted house is pretty hard to beat. The editable template puts one letter on each ghost, then kids get to build the house around their personalized ghost crew.

collage image of Creepy-Cute Halloween Crafts

Candy Corn Torn Paper Craft – Uneven paper pieces are actually a good thing with this one. Kids tear white, orange, and yellow paper to fill in the candy corn before adding its cute face, so there’s no need for everything to look perfectly neat.

Ghost Tissue Paper Craft – Scrunching up all those tissue paper squares gives this ghost such a fun texture. Kids fill the ghost outline with the crumpled pieces, then add the face once their fluffy-looking ghost is covered.

Halloween Worksheets & Learning Activities

The story is already wonderfully ridiculous, so the There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Ghost activities fit right in after reading. One page has kids cut out labels and figure out where they belong on the Old Lady, then they can color her when they’re finished.

Shadow matching at Halloween just makes sense. With the Halloween matching worksheets, kids study the Halloween characters and figure out which silhouette belongs to each one. There are other matching challenges in the set too, but the shadow page feels especially right for October.

Following a witch’s broomstick with scissors is much more interesting than cutting another plain practice line. The Halloween cutting practice worksheets include a curvy broomstick path along with pages that give kids different types of lines to follow.

The missing-character patterns in the Halloween math worksheets feel more like a puzzle than a regular math page. Kids figure out which Halloween character should come next, and the set also gives preschoolers practice with early concepts like counting and comparing sizes.

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A completed craft showing a Frankenstein holding blue lettered test tubes that spell a child’s name.

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