Paper Plate Witch House Craft For Kids [Free PDF Template]
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You can use a paper plate for more than just easy clean up after a meal! Turn it into a paper plate witch house craft this Halloween with your kiddos. They’ll add fun details to bring the house to life and the little witch flying by on her broom!
After the kids have finished and displayed their witch’s house in a place of honor, check out these other Halloween crafts for kids. These activities are an easy and engaging way to celebrate all October long!
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Witch’s House Craft Idea
Painting a paper plate haunted house will be a hit with the kids during spooky season! They can choose bright colors or dark, moody colors to paint the house in, then add paper windows, doors, and even a chimney. Each detail will give your kids’ witch house decoration lots of personality!
This Halloween art project has kids cut, glue, and paint to build up their fine motor skills, practice focusing, and express their imaginations. It’s also a way for them to explore shapes, colors, and storytelling as they bring their witch’s home to life.
Gather up a few supplies like a paper plate, colorful paper, scissors, and glue to use along with our free printable template to add the finishing touches to the witch house!
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Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Paper Plate
- Paint
- Paintbrush
- Witch House Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
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 witch house to life!
First, take a paper plate and have your child paint it a vibrant light blue. This will be the base of our haunted house. Alternatively, if you don’t want to paint you can use a party plate and skip this step.
Once the paint on the paper plate is dry, place the house outline on the plate and trace it. Then cut out the house shape with scissors.
Place the cut side of the paper plate down, then take the larger purple door outline and glue it to the bottom and center of the paper plate. This is the main entrance to your child’s spooky abode!
Now, take the smaller yellow door and glue it right on top of the purple door outline.
Time to put the “haunted” in haunted house! Grab the windows with the creepy cat and spider silhouettes and glue one on each side of the door.
Before adding the roof, carefully cut small slits at the top of the paper plate. This helps the plate flatten slightly, making it easier to attach the roof and other pieces.
Glue the purple roof to the top of the paper plate. Make sure the scalloped edge is facing down over the windows.
Every house needs a chimney! Glue the blue chimney with the brick pattern behind the roof on one side.
Optionally, let’s bring our friendly witch to life! Take the orange hair piece and trim the ends to create a cute fringe.
Glue the hair piece onto the left side of the witch’s face.
Place the witch’s hat on her head and glue it down. Make sure it sits nicely on top of the hair for a magical look.
Next, grab the witch’s dress and glue it to the back and bottom of her head.
Then, glue the leg to the back and bottom of the dress.
Look for the hand piece and glue it to the right side of the dress. This will allow her to hold the broom, ready for action.
Cut the ends of the broom piece to create a textured, realistic look.
Glue the broom piece to the ends of the broomstick.
Now it’s time for the witch to fly! Take your finished witch and glue her over the broom, overlapping slightly so she looks like she’s riding it.
Finally, take your completed paper plate and paste the witch on the roof part. Step back and admire your flying witch masterpiece!
Isn’t it amazing how our witch is flying right off the paper plate? Your kids will love seeing their haunted house come to life! While you’re here, check out some of our other paper plate crafts for even more hands-on fun.
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!
Kids Halloween Crafts
Witch Paper Cup Craft – Turn an ordinary cup into a cute little witch this Halloween! Kids can easily bring her to life with the help of our free template and a leftover party cup. This simple project creates a charming decoration that can also be use as a prop for imaginative play.
Cat Mummy Craft – Kids will love turning an adorable cat into a spooky mummy. It’ll be all wrapped up in bandages with just the eyes peeking out to be both cute and spooky for Halloween! It’s a playful, hands-on project to celebrate the season with and encourage kids to get creative.
Frankenstein Gnome Craft – Give your gnome a monstrously fun makeover this Halloween by dressing him up as Frankenstein! Kids will add bolts, stitches, and spooky green details to transform their little friend. Grab our free template and a few common supplies to get started!
Witches Brew Handprint Craft – Magic is brewing up in this witch’s cauldron! Kids will use their own handprints to create the bubbling concoction and mix in some other “ingredients” like colorful pom poms and even a paper bone. This fun project will stir up some Halloween fun with creativity!
Halloween Activity Pages
Bring some festive fun to learning with these candy corn pattern worksheets! This set includes two hands-on pages featuring candy corn dressed as a witch, vampire, ghost, mummy, and more!
Kids will spot the patterns then practice scissor skills and strengthen their tiny hand muscles as they cut out the next picture to complete the pattern. After that, they’ll practice using how much glue they need to place each square in the right spot. It’s a sweet way to hone fine motor skills while celebrating Halloween!
These free Halloween coloring pages are a great way to keep kids entertained while waiting for the big night of trick-or-treating! The set includes four cute instead of spooky designs: a happy ghost, a jack-o-lantern bucket filled with candy, a cute Frankenstein, and a happy vampire.
Each page has big, open spaces that are just right for little hands to color in easily. Grab some crayons or markers, print them out, and let the Halloween fun begin!
Scissor practice gets a festive upgrade with these Halloween cutting practice worksheets! Kids will snip along straight, zig zag, and curved lines to complete these Halloween themed pages.
Each page encourages your young learners to build confidence with scissors while staying engaged with the cute seasonal designs.
This free printable pack includes number matching, cut along the path challenges, and image matching activities. It’s a fun way to strengthen fine motor control while celebrating Halloween in the classroom or at home.
These Halloween literacy preschool printables bring festive learning to the home or classroom with seasonal fun! Kids will explore lowercase letters, practice vowels and consonants, beginning sounds, and more to make learning language skills fun and exciting. Each page is designed to keep little learners engaged while adding a fun Halloween twist!
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Paper Plate Witch House Craft
Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Paper Plate
- Paint
- Paintbrush
- Witch House Template
Instructions
- Download the template, print it, and cut out the pieces you need.
- Start by painting the paper plate for the haunted house base. Alternatively, you can use a party plate and skip this step.
- Once dry, trace the house outline on the plate and cut it out.
- Position the paper plate with the cut side down and glue the larger door in the center, then layer the smaller door on top.
- Add the windows with silhouettes on each side of the door and glue in place.
- Cut a couple of small slits at the top of the plate to help it flatten.
- Glue the roof on top of the paper plate, then attach the chimney on the side.
- Optionally, cut small pieces into the bottom of the witch’s hair piece to give it dimension.
- Glue the hair on the left side of the witch's face.
- Place the hat on her head and glue it down.
- Glue the dress to the back and bottom of the head.
- Now grab the leg and glue it to the back and middle of the dress.
- Position the hand behind the dress sleeve and glue in place.
- Cut snips into the broom piece then glue it to the broomstick to finish the broom.
- Finish up the witch by gluing the broomstick to the back of the witch, so it looks like she's riding it.
- Finally, paste the witch onto the roof of the paper plate.
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Sam is the crafter and founder of Simple Everyday Mom. She has been featured in Oprah Mag, Good Housekeeping, The Spruce Crafts, Country Living, The Bump, and more.
