What’s hiding behind those windows? That’s the whole fun of this peekaboo haunted house craft. Early elementary kids get to build a bright, not-too-spooky haunted house with doors that actually open, and the 30-45 minute project gives them plenty of time to work on all those fun details.

The opening windows make this feel more like something kids can play with than a craft they finish and forget. For more projects with that same Halloween feel, check out our Halloween crafts for kids.

Collage of completed Peekaboo Haunted House Crafts with colorful roofs, opening windows, Halloween characters, doors, and pumpkins.

Good To Know

Themes: Haunted houses, Halloween, ghosts, peekaboo crafts
Activity: Build a haunted house with opening windows that reveal hidden Halloween characters inside
Template: Includes a free printable haunted house with windows, doors, roof pieces, pumpkin, and hidden character images
Ages: Early elementary
Time: 25–30 minutes
Skills: Cutting, coloring, gluing, folding window flaps, and fine motor practice

Interactive Halloween House Craft With Opening Windows

Once the house is assembled, opening those windows is easily the best part. A friendly ghost is hiding behind one while a werewolf waits behind another, so the finished craft has a little bit of a reveal every time kids open them up.

There’s plenty of cutting, coloring, and gluing along the way, but it doesn’t feel like fine motor practice when kids are busy building a haunted house. They’re much more interested in getting those windows ready so they can see the characters peeking out.

This one has a few more pieces than a super-quick cut-and-glue project, which makes it a good fit for early elementary kids. Let them take their time with the smaller details, and they’ll end up with a Halloween craft they can actually open and close when they’re done.

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Supplies

Colored cardstock or construction paper
Scissors
Glue
Markers
Crayola Bold & Bright marker
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Directions

Start by printing the template, then 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 the Peekaboo Haunted House Craft printable template featuring roof, door, window, and pumpkin pieces.

Fold the Halloween character pieces along the dashed lines, then cut around each folded piece so the character and its window flap stay connected. Once they’re cut out, unfold them and let your child use markers or crayons to color in the ghost, werewolf, and cat.

Hands coloring the Halloween character pieces from the Peekaboo Haunted House Craft template with markers.

Glue the house onto the main roof piece, carefully lining up the top edges so the roof sits evenly behind the house.

Hands placing the main roof piece behind the top of the haunted house base.

Take the left side roof and right side roof pieces. Glue them onto the flat sections on either side of the pointed roof.

Hands attaching the left and right side roof pieces across the top of the haunted house base.

Grab the round window and glue it in the top center of the house, right below the main roof.

Hands attaching the round window below the main roof on the haunted house base.

Take the door and glue it near the bottom left of the house.

Hands attaching the door to the bottom left of the haunted house base.

Use a bold & bright marker to draw a small rectangular step below the door.

Hands gluing the steps below the door on the bottom left of the haunted house base.

Add a few horizontal lines inside the rectangle to create the look of individual steps.

Hands gluing the door and steps to the bottom left of the haunted house base.

Grab the folded window pieces and use a marker to color the front flap.

Hands coloring the round window piece for the Peekaboo Haunted House Craft with a marker.

Use a ruler and marker to draw the window lines across the flap.

Hands using a ruler and marker to draw window lines on a piece for the Peekaboo Haunted House Craft.

Glue the folded windows onto the haunted house. Let your child choose where each one should go, making the house their own while leaving the flaps free to open and reveal the characters hiding inside.

Hands attaching a window to the bottom right of the haunted house base.

Finally, grab the pumpkin and glue it to the bottom right of the house. Give all those little window flaps a try, and your peekaboo haunted house craft is ready for some Halloween fun!

Hands attaching the pumpkin to the bottom right of the Peekaboo Haunted House Craft.

Look at that spooky little haunted house! All that coloring, cutting, folding, and creating gave kids some great fine motor practice, and now they get to have fun discovering the characters behind each window. Keep the Halloween excitement going with more crafts and activities below!

Hands holding a completed Peekaboo Haunted House Craft with opening windows revealing Halloween characters, a door, and a pumpkin.

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!

A completed craft display featuring two Peekaboo Haunted House Crafts with opening windows, Halloween characters, pumpkins, and craft supplies.

Halloween Character Crafts

Vampire Photo Craft – Kids get to be the vampire with this one! Their photo becomes the character’s face, and brads give the finished vampire movable arms and legs. That combination makes it part Halloween craft, part silly keepsake.

Halloween Mummy Craft – Wrapping a mummy in masking tape is exactly the kind of Halloween crafting kids can get into. They layer the tape across the body, then add the face to finish off their bandaged character.

collage image of Halloween Character Crafts

Witches Brew Paper Plate Craft – A bubbling witch’s potion should look a little weird, right? Kids turn a paper plate into a cauldron, then add dripping green brew and creepy ingredients like a skull and googly eyes.

Fairy Ghost Disguise Craft – Give this little ghost a magical makeover with a sprinkle of fairy dust! Kids can transform their spooky ghost into an enchanting fairy by adding wings, a colorful skirt, and a flower crown. This hands-on activity has children use their imagination to create a ghostly fairy with the help of our free template.

Spooky Season Printables

Labeling a witch is much more interesting than labeling an ordinary picture. These witch worksheets include a cut-and-paste page where kids match words such as hat, wand, and cape to the witch, along with letter W activities.

Help these little ghosts take shape with this fun ghost connect the dots activity! Kids will connect the numbered dots in order to reveal these not-so-spooky Halloween characters to improve counting skills, number recognition, pencil control, and hand-eye coordination. Once the ghostly pictures appear, children can color them in and give their fine motor skills another boo-tiful workout.

Hands holding a completed Peekaboo Haunted House Craft with open windows revealing Halloween characters, a door, and a pumpkin.

Make learning fun with these bat activity pages this Halloween season! This set of worksheets will have kids matching bats to their shadows to build observation and visual discrimination skills, then navigating a spooky maze to practice problem solving and hand-eye coordination.

Matching the bat pairs strengthens concentration, and the count-and-graph page builds counting, one-to-one correspondence, and early data skills.

The book is already wonderfully ridiculous, so the There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat activities have plenty to work with. One page has kids figure out which spooky character comes next in a pattern, then cut and paste the answer into place. It fits the silliness of the story perfectly.

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A completed craft featuring a Peekaboo Haunted House with opening windows, a colorful roof, door, and jack-o'-lantern.

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