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Instead of haunting this Halloween, our little ghost wants to join in on the holiday fun by dressing up. This popcorn disguise a ghost project gives kids a chance to design a cute popcorn costume with fluffy kernels and stripes to turn the ghost into everyone’s favorite movie snack.

Keep the creativity going this season with more of our Halloween crafts for kids. They’ll encourage them to use their imaginations, stay engaged, and celebrate the season in a hands-on way.

Collage of a cute ghost disguise craft made from paper. The ghost is holding a red and white striped popcorn box with "popcorn" written on it and has popcorn kernels on its head.

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Hide The Ghost As Popcorn

This popcorn ghost disguise is a fun and easy paper project your little ghosts and ghouls will eat up! Instead of sporting its usual spooky look, the ghost will transform into a striped bucket overflowing with popcorn.

While kids may think they’re just having fun making something cute for Halloween, they’re secretly working on developmental skills. They’ll strengthen their fine motor skills, cutting, gluing, and arranging the pieces, and build confidence when they make creative choices to see their ideas come to life.

Parents and teachers can grab our free printable template to get things started. You’ll just need some simple supplies like construction paper, scissors, and glue for kids to create this cute ghost disguise. It’s an easy way to blend creativity, learning, and festive fun this Halloween season.

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Supplies

Colored cardstock or construction paper
Scissors
Glue
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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 popcorn ghost to life!

Hands holding a ghost popcorn craft template. The template shows a smiling ghost with a popcorn box body and popcorn pieces on its head and chest.

Take the red bucket paper and the white paper bucket stripes. Glue the white stripes onto the red bucket paper to create a popcorn bucket design.

Hands gluing white paper stripes onto a red bucket piece to create a popcorn box design.

Next, glue the striped bucket onto the ghost, making sure the edges line up neatly. Look at your ghost all dressed up in its popcorn disguise!

Hands holding a ghost craft. The ghost is white with a red and white striped body and a smiling face with large eyes.

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Now, grab the popcorn label and glue it onto the center of the red and white striped bucket.

Hands holding a ghost craft and gluing a popcorn label onto it. The ghost is white with a red and white striped body and a smiling face with large eyes.

It’s time for the popcorn! Glue the paper popcorn pieces onto the ghost’s head and neck, arranging them like a fun Hawaiian-style lei.

Hands gluing popcorn pieces onto a ghost craft. The ghost is white with a red and white striped body and a smiling face with large eyes.

Isn’t it fun to see the ghost all disguised with popcorn? Your kids will love creating this playful Halloween craft! While you’re here, check out some fun Halloween art ideas for more creative kid-friendly activities.

Hands holding a completed ghost craft. The ghost is white with a red and white striped body, a smiling face, and popcorn pieces on its head and body.

Witch Ghost Craft

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!

A collage of two completed ghost crafts. The ghosts are white with smiling faces, red and white striped bodies, and popcorn kernels on their heads and bodies.

Kids Halloween Crafts

Ghost Paper Bag Craft – Turn an ordinary paper bag into this fun ghost puppet! Kids can put this little ghost together using simple supplies and our free template. Once they complete their puppet, they can tell spooky stories or use it as a holiday decoration.

Candy Corn Craft – Your little ones will love creating this cheerful candy corn character with bendy arms and legs. This easy Halloween project will bring lots of smiles when kids pose their candy corn during storytelling, imaginative play, or as a festive decoration.

Vampire Paper Bag Puppet Craft

Halloween Mummy Craft – Get wrapped up in fun, making this cute mummy. Kids can customize colors and make it their own to create this fun Halloween decoration they’ll be proud to display. Grab our free template and a few simple supplies to get kids started on this fun activity!

Black Cat Puppet Craft – This black cat is ready to prowl into craft time this Halloween. Kids will love making and using their imaginations with this mysterious feline. They can tell their own spooky stories with their puppet or use it as a book companion to bring a story to life.

Printable Halloween Activities

These Halloween coloring pages are a great way to get kids excited for the upcoming holiday. In this set, you’ll get four adorable designs including a happy ghost, a bucket filled with candy, a cute Frankenstein and a cute vampire.

Each illustration has big, easy to color spaces that are perfect for small hands. These not-so-spooky coloring sheets are a fun holiday activity that will also help kids build fine motor skills, focus, and creativity. Grab the crayons or markers, print the pages, and enjoy some festive fun together!

collage image of 4 Printable Halloween Activities

Bring some spooky learning fun to your holiday with these Halloween do a dot printables! Kids will love dotting away on pumpkins, ghosts, and more to practice numbers and letters in a hands-on way.

There are options to print in full color or in black and white for extra coloring fun. This 23-page set includes dot coloring pages, number hunts, and alphabet activities that will keep preschool through kindergarten learners engaged.

They’ll work on number recognition, letter skills, and creativity while celebrating Halloween!

Halloween Activity Pages

Add a little Halloween excitement to learning with these free bat activity sheets! Kids will enjoy activities like matching bat shadows, solving a maze, pairing matching bats, and counting and graphing.

Preschoolers through first graders can use these worksheets to practice critical thinking, counting, and visual discrimination skills. They’re easy to prep and a great way to bring engaging themed learning to your home or classroom.

A completed craft of a ghost dressed as a popcorn box. The ghost is white with a smiling face and has popcorn kernels on its head and body.

Make learning extra fun this spooky season with these Halloween literacy preschool printables. Your little ones will explore lowercase letters, vowels, consonants, and more throughout these engaging Halloween themed activities.

Each worksheet is designed to help kids improve skills like letter recognition, word building, and early reading comprehension while also being entertaining. Print them out and let kids enjoy learning with ghosts, pumpkins, and Halloween fun!

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