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Kids have been tasked with helping their ghostly friends find a costume for Halloween so they don’t spook anyone too much! This gumball disguise a ghost project will transform a plain ghost into a bright red gumball machine filled with colorful candy gumballs! The little ghosts can join in on the tricks and treats now!

This Halloween season, a simple project and a few supplies can lead to hours of imaginative fun. Check out our other disguises and Halloween crafts for kids to keep the creativity going!

Collage showing a gumball machine ghost craft, a fun and creative kids' activity.

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Gumball Disguise A Ghost Idea

Creating this cute costume for their little ghost friend will be a big hit with kids. They’ll help him go from spooky to sweet with this fun paper project.

This hide the ghost activity is a great way to stretch your little ghosts’ and ghouls’ imaginations. It’ll also help improve their fine motor control while cutting and gluing, and then use creative thinking to imagine their ghost in their costume. Activities like this also help them build up their confidence when they see the finished product come together.

You can help your little ones bring this idea to life by downloading our free printable template. Grab easy to find supplies like cardstock, scissors, and glue for children to happily dress up their ghosts with colorful gum balls.

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Supplies

Colored cardstock or construction paper
Scissors
Glue
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Directions

Start by downloading and printing the template. Once the template is printed, gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this gumball ghost to life!

Hands holding a printed gumball ghost craft template for a kids' activity.

Have your child put the red base on the white ghost body and glue it in the middle.

Hands assembling the paper body onto a ghost craft.

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Grab the blue glass piece and glue it to the top of the red base.

Hands assembling the paper head onto a gumball machine ghost craft.

Take the ghost’s head and glue it onto the glass piece.

Hands putting the head onto a gumball machine ghost craft.

Then, glue the red top piece above the glass. Look at that, the ghost is starting to look just like a gumball machine!

Hands assembling a paper gumball machine ghost craft.

Now for the fun part! Gather the gumballs and let your child place them below the ghost’s face, gluing them so they look like they’re inside the glass dome.

Hands gluing colorful paper gumballs onto a ghost craft.

Look at that cute gumball ghost! Your little one just made a one-of-a-kind gumball ghost, perfect for trick-or-treat fun! Love this Halloween craft? Check out some of our other favorite Halloween Art ideas for kids while you’re here!

Hands holding a finished gumball machine ghost craft with a cheerful expression.

Torn Paper Ghost Craft

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 a completed gumball machine ghost craft with colorful details.

Crafts For Halloween

Halloween Bat Name Craft – Turn Halloween night into a piece to show off with this personalized bat art! Kids will design their bat flying through a starry sky, then spell out their names with letters printed on stars or circles.

Candy Corn Torn Paper Craft – Kids will love getting to tear paper then see it all come together to make a cute candy corn! They’ll tear yellow, orange, and white pieces to glue on our free template to create this textured Halloween project. It encourages creativity, fine motor control, and getting festive!

Easy Skeleton Halloween Craft

Zombie Paper Plate Craft – A simple paper plate can become a spooky zombie masterpiece with paint, paper, and hand drawn details! Kids can create a ghoulish face with its brain showing! This hands-on Halloween activity gets kids’ imaginations going with lots of laughs!

Witch Puppet Craft – Grab a paper bag and have kids turn it into this cute witch puppet ready for Halloween storytelling! Our free template will help bring all the details together to make the witch complete. It’s a fun way to encourage kids to use their imaginations, creativity, and hone essential skills in the process.

Fun Printable Halloween Activities

These Halloween matching worksheets turn learning into spooktacular fun! Kids will love these matching activities connecting ghosts, spiders, bats, and more to secretly sharpen their focus and memory skills.

The four pages are filled with festive fun where little ones will scan, compare, and recall where each picture belongs. They’ll work on developing observation skills, solving problems, and concentration when they match shadows, numbers, colors, and pictures.

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Learning feels like a treat with these Halloween math worksheets! Preschoolers will love counting pumpkins, spotting ghosts, and finishing festive patterns to work on their early math skills.

The activities turn tricky concepts into games that will keep kids engaged and excited to learn. They’ll compare sizes, identify the different pictures, complete patterns, and fill in a simple graph to strengthen their critical thinking and problem solving skills.

Halloween Dot to Dot Printables

It’s time for some sweet and spooky fun with these candy corn coloring pages! This set includes 3 pages of candy corn dressed up for Halloween like a mummy, vampire, and a witch!

They’ll keep little ones busy having fun while also honing their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and creativity. These pages offer a festive outlet for them to express themselves artistically and enjoy some quiet time. Print them out, grab the crayons and enjoy a fun Halloween coloring session!

A completed gumball machine ghost craft on a table with craft supplies.

This Halloween printable book is a great way to blend reading, counting, and coloring into one fun activity! Kids will complete the book by tracing number words, practicing simple sentences, and coloring spooky illustrations to build number recognition and early literacy skills.

When kids create their own personalized counting book, they’ll work on fine motor skills and gain confidence while learning. Download, print, and grab the crayons for kids to enjoy this interactive Halloween book for a mix of learning and creativity.

Did you make this activity with your kids or students? We’d love to feature them on our social media!

For a chance to have your child’s project featured, simply snap a picture of the completed project and post it to our Facebook page, email it to us directly by clicking here, or use #simpleeverydaymom on your social media!

A completed craft of a gumball machine ghost next to craft supplies.

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