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Kids love having a chance to show off their imaginations, and this popsicle stick haunted house craft is a great way to make something spooky to decorate with for Halloween.

They’ll build a haunted house filled with spooky ghosts and creepy crawlies out of popsicle sticks, paint, colorful paper, and lots of imagination!

Be sure to check out these other Halloween crafts for kids to keep the spooky season full of creative fun making DIY Halloween decorations!

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Halloween Haunted House Craft

Break out the paint and popsicle sticks for kids to start working on building a haunted house decoration! They’ll love adding spooky details like ghosts floating around, spiders hanging down, and a boarded up door that would scare most curious guests away!

As little hands paint, cut, and paste, they’ll not only build a haunted house, but lots of important skills! This Halloween activity will strengthen fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination and give kids a fun way to practice patience and focus.

Kids can make their DIY haunted house craft stand out with the colors and features they choose! Grab some paint, markers, scissors, and glue to turn popsicle sticks and our free printable template into a spooky house that kids will be excited to show off!

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Supplies

Colored cardstock or construction paper
Scissors
Glue
Glue Dots
Popsicle Sticks
Paint
Paintbrush
Marker
Paper Plate
Spider webs (Optional)
Popsicle Stick Haunted House Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)

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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 popsicle stick haunted house to life!

Hands are holding a printable template for a Halloween haunted house craft, which includes designs for ghosts, gravestones, windows, a door, and a chimney, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

First, grab your popsicle sticks. These will be the walls of our haunted house. Lay out six sticks side by side, standing tall like fence posts. Then take two sticks and glue them across the top and bottom to hold everything together. I like to use glue dots for this, but you can also use hot glue.

Hands are gluing a horizontal popsicle stick to the top of vertical popsicle sticks to create the base for a haunted house craft, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

Next, paint the popsicle sticks that form the body of the house. Then paint two sticks black for the roof. Let all the pieces dry before moving on.

Hands are painting green paint onto popsicle sticks arranged on a paper plate, preparing them for a Halloween haunted house craft, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

Time for the spooky roof! Take the two black popsicle sticks and position them to form a peak at the top of your green house base.

Hands are holding and arranging two black popsicle sticks to form a roof on a green popsicle stick haunted house craft, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

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Glue them securely in place, overlapping slightly to create a classic haunted house roofline.

Hands are placing two black popsicle sticks together to form a V-shape roof on a green popsicle stick haunted house craft, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

Take the chimney piece and attach the chimney top to it with glue. This will complete the haunted house chimney.

Hands are holding a black and orange brick chimney craft piece, ready to be attached to a green popsicle stick Halloween haunted house, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

Then, glue it on the back of the popsicle roof, slightly to one side, and glue it down.

Hands are attaching an orange and black brick chimney to the roof of a green popsicle stick haunted house craft, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

Let’s add some eerie windows! Glue the spider window and the ghost window onto the top middle of the green house, spaced evenly.

Hands are attaching a black construction paper window with a ghost on it to a green popsicle stick haunted house craft, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

Take the orange door piece and glue it at the bottom center of the haunted house, right below the windows.

Hands are assembling a completed Halloween haunted house craft made from green popsicle sticks, black construction paper windows with a spider and ghost, an orange construction paper door, and a black and orange brick chimney, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

Glue the door board pieces across the orange door to make it look sealed shut, giving the house a spooky abandoned feel.

Hands are gluing a black handle on the orange construction paper door of a green popsicle stick Halloween haunted house craft, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

Grab the gray gravestone pieces with “RIP” on them. Glue one on each side of the haunted house to make a spooky yard.

Hands are gluing a gray tombstone with "RIP" on it to the front of a green popsicle stick haunted house craft, which also has a black and orange striped door and windows with a spider and ghost. It is set on a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

Take a marker and draw spooky details on the popsicle house base. Add cracks, spider webs, or lines to make it look old and haunted. Encourage your kids to come up with their own spooky designs, too.

Hands are drawing a spiderweb on the roof of a green popsicle stick haunted house craft with a black marker, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

Finally, add the ghost pieces. Let the kids decide where to place them so the haunted house feels alive with spooky spirits.

Optionally, add some fake spider webs to the house to make it truly haunted!

Hands are gluing a smiling ghost to the roof of a green popsicle stick haunted house craft, which also has a spider, a brick chimney, and a gravestone, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

That’s it! This haunted house activity is so fun and can be completely customized to your child’s preferences. For more spookiness, check out these fun Halloween art ideas for kids!

Hands are holding a completed Halloween haunted house craft made from green popsicle sticks, featuring a black roof, two ghosts, a spider, a brick chimney, and two gravestones that say RIP, set against a white marble background with a black and orange star patterned fabric border.

Paper Plate 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 completed craft is a spooky Halloween haunted house made from purple popsicle sticks with two ghosts, a spider, a brick chimney, and two gravestones that say RIP. It is set on a white marble background with black and orange patterned fabric.

Halloween Kids Crafts

Vampire Gnome Craft – This little gnome is ready for Halloween in his vampire costume! Kids will enjoy the process of making this cute little guy and be excited to display it for a fun piece of Halloween decor. This paper craft is easy to put together with the help of our free template.

Torn Paper Ghost Craft – Kids will have a spooky good time making this ghost by tearing and gluing pieces of paper onto our free template. This Halloween project turns scraps into a boo-tiful decoration, and little hands can explore textures while honing their bilateral hand coordination.

Witches Brew Name Craft

Bat Headband Craft – Little ones can become a bat this Halloween with the help of our easy and fun headband! It’s a great project to use in the classroom or at home for a last minute costume. They’ll love to swoop around pretending to be spooky little bats once they’re done!

Haunted House Paper Craft – Your little ghosts and ghouls will love designing their own paper haunted house that’s a little spooky but mostly cute. They’ll enjoy adding all the little details that make it come to life. It’s an easy, hands-on project that brings festive fun while making a decoration they’ll be proud to display.

Halloween Printable Activities

Bring story time to life with these There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat activities. Kids will label the goblin, solve patterns, and trace twisty lines with their favorite characters.

They’ll boost their letter recognition with ghostly hunts for the letter Gg, then grow their vocabulary with the flashcards.

Each page mixes this Halloween book with learning, so this pack is great for strengthening reading, writing, and fine motor skills while keeping the fun of the story going.

collage image of 4 Halloween Printable Activities

These Halloween activity pages are filled with learning and spooky fun! Your little ones will sharpen their fine motor skills with coloring and line tracing, boost problem solving skills through solving mazes, matching shadows, and puzzles.

They’ll build early math and critical thinking skills when they count the creatures and match candy corn. These pages are designed to keep preschoolers entertained, engaged, and learning in a spookily fun way!

Halloween Dot to Dot Printables

Mix spooky fun with building skills with these Halloween tracing worksheets! Kids can trace along the upper and lowercase Cc to strengthen their letter recognition and handwriting.

Then they can help a friendly witch by tracing and coloring her magical hat. Finally, wiggly lines, zig zags, and lines connect Halloween characters for kids to have practice with pencil control, hand-eye coordination, and focus.

Kids will feel like they’re completing fun games and challenges, but really they’re just secretly building early writing skills!

A completed craft is a Halloween haunted house made from purple popsicle sticks with a black popsicle stick roof, two smiling ghosts, a spider, two gravestones, and a black and blue brick chimney. Craft supplies like scissors, glue sticks, and colored paper are also visible on a wooden background.

Make math magical this Halloween with these Halloween number worksheets! These pages will have your kiddos tracing, writing, and spotting numbers on a number line.

They’ll also color in haunted houses and jars of candy corn after drawing ghosts, adding tally marks, and filling in ten frames. Each page has all these fun sections for kids to master each number.

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Free Popsicle Stick Haunted House Craft Template

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