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This haunted house name craft is a fun way for kids to get into the Halloween spirit and practice spelling their names! They’ll design a haunted house and decorate it with little ghosts that each feature a letter of their name. After they’re done, they’ll have a piece of personalized Halloween art that they’ll be excited to show off.

Once your little ones have finished their spooky house, they can try out any of our other Halloween crafts for kids to keep the seasonal fun going.

Collage showing a completed haunted house name craft and hands adding the last pieces to the craft.

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Haunted House Craft For Kindergarten

This haunted house activity will be a hit with your kids. It’ll also make a great Halloween classroom decoration or display for your fridge at home. Children will love seeing their names floating on the ghosts haunting the house!

Preschoolers and kindergarteners can practice letter recognition when they identify the letters in their names, gain confidence spelling their names, and improve their fine motor coordination as they cut, paste, and line up their ghost letters. It’s a simple activity that delivers big fun and learning at the same time.

Our editable template makes this Halloween name craft even easier. Simply type your child’s name into the PDF, and the ghosts will print with each letter ready to go. Gather up some supplies, and kids can enjoy creating this haunted house filled with friendly ghosts!

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Supplies

Colored cardstock or construction paper
Scissors
Glue
Marker
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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 haunted house to life!

Hands holding a black and white printable template for a haunted house craft.

Take the house and roof pieces. Have your child glue the house on top of the roof, leaving a small gap at the top edge to make the roof visible.

Hands gluing a purple roof piece to a black house shape on a white surface.

Next, take the yellow moon with the black bat silhouette. Glue it behind the roof to make it look like a spooky night.

Hands adding a yellow paper moon with a black bat silhouette to the top of a black and purple paper house craft.

Now, let’s add the chimney. Glue the black chimney piece to the back of the roof on other side. This simple addition really makes the haunted house feel complete.

Hands attaching a black paper chimney to the roof of a black paper house craft.

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Grab the window piece with the little ghost peeking out. Have your child glue this window onto the top section of the house. It’s so cute, isn’t it?

Hands placing a paper window with a ghost shape onto a black paper house craft.

Look for the door outline piece and glue it onto the bottom of the house.

Hands placing a purple arched doorway on a black paper haunted house craft.

Next, take the black door and glue it above the purple door outline.

Hands attaching a black doorway to a haunted house craft.

Then, grab a gel marker and draw a small circle for a doorknob.

Hands drawing a dot for a doorknob on a black paper haunted house craft.

Every haunted house needs a graveyard! Glue the gray tombstone piece with “RIP” on it next to the door.

Hands attaching a paper tombstone with "RIP" written on it to a paper haunted house craft.

For the best part, grab the paper ghosts that spell your child’s name! Glue them in a line across the front of the house. It’s so fun to see their name come to life!

This is a great way to celebrate Halloween with your little ones while also working on name recognition. We think your kids will have a blast creating it! Check out some of our fun Halloween Art Ideas for your kiddos while you’re here.

Hands holding a completed paper haunted house craft with the name "Luca" on it.

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Halloween Books for Kids

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!

Two Halloween haunted house name crafts, one with a red roof and the name "Luca," and the other with a purple roof and the name "Amelia."

Halloween Craft Ideas

Frankenstein Photo Craft – Kids can be mad scientists and use their photos to turn into a Frankenstein or Bride of Frankenstein monster! Using their own photo makes it extra fun and adds a personalized touch they’ll be excited to display.

Mummy Gnome Craft – The gnomes even want to get in on the Halloween fun by dressing up like a mummy! Kids can wrap the gnome up using our free template and give him a piece of candy. It’s a cute project that will get them in the spirit while also refining developmental skills!

Halloween Bat Name Craft

Witches Brew Handprint Craft – Brew up some fun with this fun activity! This hands-on Halloween project has kids use their own handprints to make the magical potion inside the cauldron. Add some colorful pom poms and paper bones and their brew will be complete!

Bat Shape Craft – This Halloween is shaping up to be lots of fun with this batty project. Kids will use basic shapes like circles, rectangles, and triangles to put together a bat that’s ready to fly around the night sky. Use our free template for kids to easily cut out all the pieces needed.

Halloween Printables

A fun Halloween story gets an interactive companion with these Room on the Broom worksheets. This set of themed worksheets have little learners trace lines, label the witch, finish patterns, practice recognizing the letter Dd and play with character flashcards.

These activities help kids strengthen fine motor skills, increase their vocabulary, and boost early literacy with characters from the book. It’s a magical way to mix learning with this beloved story!

These bat worksheets are fun way to mix Halloween excitement with early learning skills. Kids can start by labeling the parts of a bat from its wings to its tiny feet. Then they’ll tackle the B is for bat letter maze.

They’ll make their way through the maze searching for upper and lowercase Bb to work on letter recognition and problem solving. And to finish up, they can practice their handwriting by tracing and writing the word “bat” along with the letter Bb.

Halloween Activity Pages

Bring some sweetness into Halloween season with these candy corn worksheets. Kids will enjoy their time working through the 5 festive activities that sneak in learning while having fun.

They’ll trace along different paths to work on fine motor control and practice writing and recognizing the letter Cc. Grab the dot markers and crayons for a candy coated way to practice letters, handwriting, and coordination!

A paper haunted house craft with a ghost family with the name "Amelia" written on them.

Use the excitement for the upcoming holiday to make learning fun and engaging with these Halloween math activities for preschool. Kids will practice counting candy, matching pumpkins, and comparing spooky decorations while strengthening number recognition and basic operations.

These fun pages include patterns, size comparisons, matching games, and more! The bright illustrations will keep your little learners engaged while showing them how math connects to everyday Halloween fun.

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 Halloween haunted house craft with a ghost family on a blue background.

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