20+ Haunted House Craft Ideas for Kids to Make This Halloween

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Ready to get spooky with the kids this season? These haunted house craft ideas are perfect for creating just the right amount of Halloween fun without being too scary. Whether your little ones like painting, gluing, or using recycled bits, there’s something here for every style and skill level.

Want more ways to celebrate? Head over to our full collection of Halloween crafts for even more hands-on ways to enjoy October with your little ghouls.

Collage of over 20 spooky haunted house crafts for children, featuring colorful paper houses, ghost decorations, cardboard tube castles, and Halloween-themed art projects.

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Haunted House Craft Ideas

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Paper Haunted House

Kids use a free printable template to cut and piece together their haunted house scene. They can add spooky details like a friendly ghost peeking from a window, making the art feel delightfully personal. This simple Halloween project sparks creativity without being too complicated for kids.

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Popsicle Stick Haunted House

Using sticks of different sizes, kids can build a haunted house and even add tiny tombstones and a fence out front. They'll love painting and gluing the sticks together to create a spooky mini graveyard scene.

The finished project makes a fun Halloween decoration and a cool backdrop for imaginative play with toy ghosts or skeletons.

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Oil Pastel Haunted House

Kids can use oil pastels to draw a haunted house silhouette and a glowing moon, then blend the colors to create an eerie night sky. They'll have fun smudging and mixing the oil pastel hues (even using a tiny bit of baby oil) to make the sky look extra spooky and vibrant.

This art project lets kids experiment with blending colors and textures while creating a vivid haunted house scene to display.

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Oil Pastel Haunted House

Kids can blend oil pastels with a touch of baby oil to create a glowing Halloween background before adding cut-out paper shapes. Using the printable template, they piece together ghosts, pumpkins, bats, and a haunted house for a colorful, layered scene.

The mix of smudgy pastels and paper cutouts makes it feel more like an art project than a basic project.

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Popsicle Stick Haunted House

Kids can create a cute little haunted house to celebrate Halloween with a handful of popsicle sticks and some paint. They glue the sticks together into a house shape and then decorate it with fun details – think googly eyes in the windows, paper ghosts, or a splash of glitter for a not-too-scary touch.

It's an easy activity that younger kids can handle, and they'll enjoy customizing their haunted house with their spooky ideas.

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Popsicle Stick Haunted House

Kids can create a haunted house from popsicle sticks by gluing different sizes together and painting it in spooky colors. It's a simple project perfect for a Halloween party activity, and children especially love adding decorations like little “Keep Out” signs or stickers.

With some adult help for the hot glue, each child can personalize their haunted house and create a unique Halloween decoration to play with or display.

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Cardboard Haunted House

Kids can construct their own haunted house for Halloween using recycled cardboard. They can paint the cardboard pieces, cut out a door and windows (with help for safety), and add spooky touches like drawn-on bats, paper ghosts, or cotton ball cobwebs.

This DIY project is a great way to recycle materials and let kids' imaginations run wild as they design a haunted house from scratch.

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3D Spooky Paper Haunted House

Turn flat paper into a mini 3D haunted house that kids can build and decorate. With printable templates as a guide, children cut out the house pieces, fold them, and glue them together, then add creepy-cute details like ghosts or tiny pumpkins drawn on.

The result is a lovely little haunted house that stands up on its own – a fun Halloween decoration kids will be proud they made themselves.

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Shape Haunted House

Little ones practice their shapes by using cut-out squares, triangles, circles, and rectangles to build a haunted house picture. Toddlers and preschoolers glue these colorful foam or paper shapes onto a background to create a spooky house scene.

It's a simple Halloween project that doubles as a fun way to learn shapes and build fine motor skills.

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Haunted House Paper Plate

A plain paper plate becomes the base for a fun haunted house scene with colorful paper cutouts. Kids can paint the plate like a night sky, glue on a paper house, little windows, and Halloween characters like ghosts or bats.

This activity uses easy-to-find materials, and the sturdy paper plate base makes the finished haunted house scene easy to display or hang up.

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Bobble Ghost

A friendly ghost comes to life in this art by bobbling above a haunted house scene. Kids assemble a paper haunted house and then attach a cute paper ghost on a spring or folded paper strip so it wiggles and bounces with motion.

Using a printable template keeps everything simple, and the playful wobbling ghost makes this Halloween project extra engaging and fun for kids.

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Haunted Birdhouse

Turn a plain wooden birdhouse into a spooky-cute haunted house decoration by painting and embellishing it for Halloween. Kids will have a blast coating the little birdhouse in eerie colors, adding details like tiny bats, ghosts, or stretchy cotton spiderwebs.

It's just the right mix of spooky and fun, and the finished haunted birdhouse makes a great decoration to set out on Halloween night.

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Mixed Media Haunted Houses

Kids get to use a bit of everything in this mixed-media haunted house project. They might paint a spooky nighttime sky as a backdrop, create a haunted house silhouette using paper cutouts or sticks, and add fun textures like cotton ball ghosts or yarn cobwebs.

The blend of painting, collage, and different materials makes this Halloween art project extra creative and engaging for young artists.

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Cardboard Box Haunted House

A large cardboard box becomes an epic haunted house when kids cut, paint, and decorate it with spooky touches like bats and drawn-on windows. With some help from an adult, they bring the structure to life using recyclable materials.

The finished hideaway offers a hands-on way to encourage creativity and Halloween excitement.

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Cardboard Tube Haunted House

Kids can recycle empty toilet paper rolls into haunted house creations. They might paint or wrap the tubes in paper and arrange them as spooky towers, then add paper roofs, drawn windows, and a tiny ghost peeking out.

It's an evergreen Halloween art that uses recyclables and lets kids build their own little haunted house in a fun, hands-on way.

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Milk Carton Haunted House

Save an empty milk carton to make your own haunted house with some paint and a few scraps from the recycling bin. Kids can paint the carton, cut out spooky windows (with an adult's help), and decorate it with bits of paper or foam – even adding colored tissue behind the window cutouts for a ghostly glow.

It's easy enough for kids of all ages, and you can make one or a whole neighborhood of little haunted houses to light up Halloween night.

www.artycraftykids.com

Paper Roll Haunted House

Empty paper rolls (like toilet paper tubes) can quickly become a spooktacular haunted house art. Kids cover the rolls with construction paper, draw or glue on windows and doors, and cap them with a paper roof to create their haunted tower.

It's a fun and simple Halloween project that uses basic supplies and lets kids build a mini haunted house to display.

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3D Haunted House

Kids can build a three-dimensional haunted house using free printable templates. They color or paint the template pieces, cut them out, and then fold and glue everything together to form a standing paper house with walls and a roof.

It's an easy Halloween art that gives kids a cool 3D haunted house to play with or put on display.

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Interactive Haunted House

Kids can make a haunted house picture with open windows to reveal spooky surprises. This printable activity includes a house template and little paper windows that kids cut out and glue on as flaps, hiding drawings or stickers (like ghosts or monsters) behind each one.

It turns into an interactive Halloween project where children love peeking behind the flaps to see the fun surprises they created.

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Recycled Box Haunted House Luminary

Don't toss that old cardboard box – turn it into a glowing haunted house luminary for Halloween! Kids can paint the box to look like a spooky old house, cut out some windows (with an adult doing the tricky cutting), and tape colored tissue paper inside the openings.

Finally, place a little LED tea light inside to make the house glow, creating a perfect not-too-spooky decoration for Halloween night.

www.notimeforflashcards.com

Pre-K Halloween Haunted House

Pre-K kids can participate in a creative Halloween art project by making their own haunted houses out of cardboard. Using simple materials like recycled cardboard pieces, paint, and glue, each child designs a spooky house and can tell a little story about the ghosts or creatures living inside.

It's not just crafting—a fun, imaginative activity encouraging young kids to use their storytelling skills and art.

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Haunted House Halloween

Kids will love making a haunted house with peek-a-boo windows and doors using the free template from this project. They color and assemble the paper house, then place cute drawings or photos behind each window and door so opening them reveals a surprise character inside.

It's a playful Halloween project that combines creativity with a fun hide-and-seek element, and the interactive windows make it extra exciting for little ones.

www.craftsonsea.co.uk

3D Haunted House Template

You can download a free template to create this 3D paper haunted house from just a few sheets of cardstock. The template even comes with a couple of different house designs (including a black-and-white one to color), so kids can pick their favorite style or try them all.

Print, cut, and fold the pieces to assemble each house – it's easy for kids to make a cool standing haunted house for Halloween.

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Halloween Paper Bag Haunted House

With just a paper lunch bag and some basic supplies, kids can make a spooky haunted house in no time. They can draw or paint a haunted house façade on the bag (or glue on paper cut-out windows and doors) and then add fun finishing touches like ghost stickers or cotton ball cobwebs.

It's a simple, low-prep Halloween art that little and big kids will enjoy, and each paper bag house looks unique.

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Paper Bag Haunted House

A humble paper bag can become a fantastical haunted house when kids add their imaginative touches. They might paint or color the bag like a creepy old mansion and then glue on spooky details like paper ghosts, foam pumpkins, or yarn spiderwebs.

This Halloween art invites kids to get creative and silly with their haunted house design, and no two paper bag houses will ever look the same.

www.thebestideasforkids.com

3D Haunted House Templates

Grab these free printable templates to make your 3D paper haunted houses – there are even a few different designs. Kids can pick their favorite haunted house template, decorate it (or color it in if it's a black-and-white version), and then cut and fold it into shape.

It's a fun Halloween project that gives you multiple style options, so every child can create a unique haunted house they love.

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