Ghost Name Craft for Kids [Free Printable Template]
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A friendly ghost floating through a spooky graveyard with a child’s name written across the tombstones? That’s a Halloween craft I can get behind! This ghost name craft gives preschoolers and kindergarteners a fun way to make their own personalized Halloween scene in about 25-35 minutes.
And if cute ghosts are more your style than scary Halloween decorations, you’ll want to check out our Halloween crafts for kids. There are lots of friendly monsters and Halloween characters for kids to make throughout October.
Good To Know
- Themes: Halloween, ghosts, name practice, literacy
- Activity: Cut and paste a ghost, moon, tree, and gravestones to create a Halloween scene while spelling their name
- Template: Includes a free printable ghost name craft template with ghost, moon, tree, and gravestone pieces
- Ages: Preschool through first grade
- Time: 25–35 minutes
- Skills: Name recognition, letter recognition, name spelling, cutting, gluing, and fine motor skills
Name Practice for Halloween
The ghost’s big eyes and rosy cheeks make it look much too happy to haunt anyone! Kids can put together the nighttime scene with a crescent moon, spooky tree, and grassy hill. Then they add the tombstones along the bottom, with each one displaying a letter of their name. I especially like how the tombstones turn a regular Halloween picture into something personal.
Those little tombstones are doing more than decorating the graveyard, too. Kids get to recognize the letters in their name and arrange them in the correct order while making their scene. Cutting out the curved shapes also gives them some good scissor practice, and they can have fun deciding exactly where everything belongs.
The printable template helps make all those pieces manageable, so kids don’t have to draw a ghost or figure out how to make a spooky tree from scratch. With some colored paper, scissors, and glue, they’re ready to create a Halloween graveyard that’s a lot more cute than creepy!
Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Ghost 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 friendly ghost to life!
Glue the grass onto the bottom of the background, lining up the bottom and side edges. Help your child position it so it overlaps the bottom of the printed tree, creating a little hill for the scene.
Grab the moon and glue it near the top left corner of the background, with the curved opening facing right.
Glue the ghost onto the center of the background, above the grass. Position it so it overlaps a little of the moon’s lower right edge and part of the tree, making it look like your friendly ghost is floating through the scene.
Let your child use a marker to color the two circles on the ghost’s cheeks. Talk about the ghost’s happy expression and ask your child what might be making it smile!
It’s time for some name practice! Help your child arrange the gravestone letters from left to right to spell their name, then glue them onto the grass side by side, saying each letter aloud as they go.
Finally, use a marker to draw small tufts of grass in the open spaces around the gravestone letters. Let your child add these finishing touches, then admire their personalized Halloween creation together!
Your child now has a friendly ghost scene featuring their very own name! This fun name activity gives kids a playful way to practice letter recognition, spelling, and fine motor skills.
Explore the related crafts and activities below for more hands-on fun with your little ones. They’re easy to mix and match when building Halloween lesson plans or themed activities for home or the classroom.
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!
Easy Halloween Paper Crafts:
Haunted House Shape Craft: A haunted house is supposed to look a little crooked, right? Kids build this spooky house using simple shapes for the towers, pointed roofs, and windows. The uneven rooflines actually make it look better, so there’s no need to worry about getting everything perfectly straight.
Dinosaur Pumpkin Disguise Craft: Pumpkins can dress up for Halloween too! Kids turn an ordinary pumpkin into a friendly triceratops with three horns and a big, spiky frill. I like that the pumpkin shape becomes part of the dinosaur’s face, so the disguise really changes how the whole pumpkin looks.
Frankenstein Name Craft: Frankenstein has a science experiment to show off, and it happens to spell the child’s name! Each letter goes onto a test tube that kids arrange across his laboratory table. They can even color the liquid inside the tubes, which makes the whole experiment look a little more interesting.
Witch Candy Corn Craft: Who decided witches always have to wear black? This friendly witch wears a dress inspired by candy corn, complete with the familiar orange, yellow, and white colors. Add her pointy hat and colorful hair, and she’s ready for Halloween. Purple or pink hair? Both look pretty great with that outfit!
Free Learning Printables for October:
Candy corn is already a Halloween favorite, but giving two candy corn characters a maze to find each other makes it even better. These candy corn activity pages have kids work their way through the maze, avoiding dead ends as they help one candy corn reach its friend. There are some fun picture-matching challenges in the set, too.
Following a wiggly line to reach a piece of Halloween candy sounds much better than ordinary scissor practice! These Halloween candy cutting practice worksheets have kids cut along different paths leading to sweet treats. They can also cut and paste missing pieces onto candy pictures, which makes using scissors feel more like solving a little puzzle.
You’d think matching pictures of ghosts would be easy, but some of these ghosts look awfully similar! With our ghost activity pages, kids have to pay attention to the small details to find identical pairs. It’s a cute challenge for preschoolers, especially when they’re convinced they’ve found the right ghost and need to take another look.
I think the funniest part of learning about skeletons is discovering how many bones are hiding underneath our skin. These skeleton worksheets let kids get acquainted with a friendly skeleton by cutting out body-part labels and matching them to the correct places. There’s also a letter S maze, so they can practice recognizing the letter while working through a Halloween-themed puzzle.
More Halloween Ideas For Kids
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Ghost Name Craft
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Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Ghost name template
Instructions
- Open the PDF in Adobe Reader and edit the template to add your child’s name. Alternatively, you or your child can write them on the gravestone letters.
- Print the template and gather the materials for this fun activity.
- Begin by gluing the grass onto the bottom of the background.
- Glue the moon near the top left corner, with the curved opening facing right.
- Glue the ghost above the grass, overlapping part of the moon and tree.
- Use a marker to color in the ghost’s cheeks.
- Arrange the gravestone letters side by side to spell your child’s name and glue them onto the grass.
- Finally, draw small tufts of grass around the gravestone letters with a marker.
Notes
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Free Ghost Name Template
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