Haunted House Craft For Kids (Free PDF Template)

Haunted houses are full of mystery and thrills, whether they are towering mansions at the end of a dark street or tiny cottages in the woods. But don’t worry, our haunted house is more cute than scary and just the right amount of spooky for little ones!

With this fun activity, kids can create their own haunted house craft! They’ll design a spooky house scene complete with a ghost floating by! 

When you’re ready for more Halloween fun, check out our other Halloween crafts for kids.

Halloween Haunted House Craft

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It’s a fun and festive way to keep kids entertained during the Halloween season, and they’ll love showing off their haunted house decor to family and friends. 

Grab the free template and a few supplies so your little ghosts and ghouls can make their own haunted house. It’s perfect for a little holiday decoration that’s not too spooky!

Supplies

• Colored cardstock or construction paper
• Glue stick
• Scissors
• Haunted house template (unlock the free template at the end of the post)

Directions

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

First, encourage your child to glue the roof to the top of the house.

Place the door in the center of the house and glue it in place.

Next, help your child to glue the windows on both sides of the door.

Glue the middle part of house piece to the roof for the middle part of the house.

Now, glue the completed piece to the center of the house, above the door.

Position the arched window to the center of the previous piece and glue it in place.

Attach and glue the chimney to the back and center of the house.

Next, glue the top of house roof piece to the top of the chimney.

Place the ghost on the house and glue it in place.

Finally, guide your child in gluing the moon to the back and side of the haunted house.

Be sure to check out our Halloween Activities while you’re here! There are so many fun ideas!

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Halloween Ideas For Kindergarten

Looking for some Halloween fun that’s perfect for your kindergarteners? You’re in the right place! We have plenty of spooktacular projects and educational activities to keep them busy learning and having a blast this October.

Start with some new Halloween themed stories to share with them. Then read below for fun ideas for hands-on activities that will make your classroom or home buzz with Halloween excitement! 

Halloween Books For Kids

Below are some of the top-rated Halloween books for kids. Add them to your home collection or borrow them from your local library.

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!

Cute Halloween Crafts

Handprint Crow Craft – Let’s get creative this Halloween by turning little hands into spooky crows! Kids will love tracing their own handprints to create these feathered friends, and they make the perfect Halloween decor. It’s a fun, hands-on way to bring a little Halloween magic by seeing their handprints turn into something new.

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Candy Corn Puppet Craft – This candy corn puppet will be the perfect companion for kids to tell sweet or spooky stories this Halloween. Grab our free template and a paper bag to bring this fall treat to life.

Bat Paper Plate Craft – Kids can have some bat-tastic fun when they transform a simple paper plate into a spooky bat masterpiece! This fun and inexpensive craft is sure to spark creativity. Just grab our free template, some paint, and a paper plate to get started on the fun!

Witch Popsicle Stick Craft – You can brew up some Halloween fun by having your little ones make a witch out of popsicle sticks. Once they’re complete, they can play with their magical creation for even more fun.

Preschool Halloween Activities

Kids can enjoy some festive fun with these Halloween do a dot printables! This Halloween themed bundle is packed with spooky pages, featuring everything from haunted houses to vampires.

They’ll practice number recognition with a number hunt, explore letters like “W is for witch,” and even have some fun learning to graph. These engaging printables are perfect for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten, and offer a playful way to learn while celebrating the season!

Get your little ones in the Halloween spirit with these fun and festive candy corn worksheets! They’re great to use with preschoolers to help them practice handwriting, fine motor skills, and letter recognition.

Try this Candy Corn Halloween Craft

Activities include a letter C maze to traceable handwriting pages with challenges of following lines, spotting letters, and mastering their dot markers. These engaging worksheets will help your kids learn and have fun through Halloween. Download and print them out for a sweet and educational activity!

Your little ghosts and ghouls will have spooky, hands-on fun with this Halloween sensory bin! It’s filled with colorful, squishy spaghetti that kids will love digging through to find hidden bouncy eyeballs. It’s perfect for little adventurers who enjoy creepy crawly textures and spooky surprises!

Watch their excitement as they giggle and squeal, exploring the bin’s slimy treasures. This sensory bin is sure to add spine-tingling fun to their Halloween season, and it offers a festive way to play and learn!

Kids will have a bat-tastic time learning to count, number recognition, and number names with this bat printable counting book! This resource introduces young children to counting in an exciting and interactive way.

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Kids will be eager to learn as they color each page and write the numerical words for each group of bats, like “I see six bats.” They’ll count up to ten as they make their way through the book.

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