Summerween Ghost Craft for Kids [Free Printable Template]
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Summer sunshine and spooky fun come together in this cute Summerween ghost craft that kids will love! Preschoolers through 2nd graders can get creative this summer and imagine a ghost lounging in a flamingo pool float. It’ll take about 25 minutes for them to cut and assemble their project and give them practice using fine motor skills and following directions.
Summerween crafts for kids are a great way to mix summer fun with the cute side of Halloween. It’ll encourage them to use their imaginations with two themes they already love!
Halloween Craft with a Summer Twist
This Halloween summer craft has children create a friendly ghost relaxing in a flamingo pool floaty. The finished project will look adorable displayed on both classroom bulletin boards or refrigerators!
A summer afternoon is the ideal time to sit down and make this fun Summerween activity with kids. They’ll be able to strengthen fine motor skills through cutting and gluing the pieces while also practicing hand-eye coordination, focus, and creative thinking.
Our printable template helps make this printable ghost craft easy to prepare and fun to create. Grab a few basic supplies like colored paper, scissors, and glue to have children bring their spooky summer scene to life. Before long, they’ll have a happy ghost soaking up the sunshine!
Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- White cardstock
- Googly eyes
- Scissors
- Glue
- Summerween Ghost Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
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 summerween ghost to life!
Take the flamingo float piece and glue the orange beak onto the flamingo’s head. Kids will love seeing the bright pink flamingo start to take shape as the colorful pieces come together.
Glue the eye to the flamingo’s head, just above the beak.
Grab the ghost piece and glue it onto the center of the flamingo float. Position it so it looks like the ghost is relaxing inside the float, ready for a Summerween pool party.
Glue the light pink wing piece onto the center of the flamingo float, overlapping the bottom portion of the ghost.
Glue the entire flamingo float onto the blue water piece. Press it down firmly and watch the scene come together as the ghost starts floating on the water.
This cute craft is the perfect boredom buster for summer vacation. Kids will have fun creating their ghost pool float and showing off the finished project when they’re done.
Ready for more creative fun? Check out the related crafts and activities below to help build themed lessons, family activity time, or a full day of Summerween inspired fun.
Summer Books for Children
How To Catch A Mermaid is the summer version of the classic “How To Catch” series! It’s perfect for mermaid fans and summer lovers alike!
Gorilla Loves Vanilla is all about, you guessed it – ice cream! This silly book will have kids laughing and asking for you to read it again and again.
Goodnight Pirate is a fun bedtime book to read to kids all summer long! They’ll love the illustrations, story, and rhyming words.
Spooky Summer Character Crafts
Mummy Paper Cup Craft – Get wrapped up in some Summerween fun with this cute mummy made out of a paper cup! Kids will love transforming an ordinary item into a decoration with just a few simple supplies. They’ll work on fine motor skills while cutting, wrapping, and gluing.
Frankenstein Photo Craft – Bring some monstrously good fun to Summerween celebrations with these Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein characters! Kids will love seeing their own faces transformed into famous monsters and create a funny keepsake. This hands-on activity encourages creativity, strengthens fine motor skills, and adds a personal touch to spooky summer celebrations!
Zombie Cat Puppet Craft – Pounce on the chance to make this spooky cute cat using a paper bag and our free template. Kids can bring it to life once they’re done through imaginative play. This fun project encourages storytelling, creative thinking, and self-expression by turning simple supplies into a paw-sitively fun puppet.
Tissue Paper Ghost Craft – This hauntingly fun activity is so easy even your littlest ghouls can make it. Kids will scrunch and glue pieces of tissue paper on our template to create a ghost full of texture and personality! It’ll strengthen their fine motor control and hand-eye coordination with each piece placed.
Spooky Summer Learning Printables
Hop aboard the witch’s broom for some magical learning fun! These Room on the Broom worksheets will keep the story going as kids trace lines, label the witch, complete patterns, practice recognizing the letter D, and play with character flashcards.
With each activity, they’ll strengthen fine motor skills, vocabulary, and critical thinking. Parents and teachers can use these book companion printables during literacy centers or learning time at home.
These bat worksheets are sure to have little ones swooping in on some learning fun. Kids will label the parts of a bat, navigate a letter B maze, and practice handwriting with a bat tracing page.
They’ll be able to strengthen fine motor skills, letter recognition, handwriting, problem solving skills, and early science knowledge with these pages. These not-so-spooky activities will make learning feel totally bat-tastic!
Use these candy corn worksheets for a sweet way to add Summerween learning to the day! Your little sweeties will hunt through a letter C maze, trace and write “candy corn,” complete fine motor line mazes, dot the letter C, and practice letter recognition activities.
Parents and teachers will love how these printables build handwriting, hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and early literacy concepts while keeping kids engaged with festive candy corn fun.
Celebrate Summerween with these Halloween coloring pages where kids will color friendly ghosts, pumpkins, bats, and witches. Children can choose colors, practice staying in the lines, and explore festive scenes full of cute details.
Parents and teachers will appreciate how these pages build fine motor skills, focus, creativity, and early writing readiness while offering calm screen-free activity for classrooms, parties, or quiet time at home. Print the pages and grab the crayons for some good fun!
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Free Summerween Ghost Template
Summerween Pool Float Ghost Craft
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Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Googly eye
- Scissors
- Glue
- Summerween Ghost Template
Instructions
- Print the template and gather the materials for this fun activity.
- Begin by gluing the beak onto the flamingo’s head.
- Glue the googly eye onto the flamingo’s head, above the beak.
- Look for the ghost piece and glue it onto the center of the flamingo float.
- Glue the wing piece onto the flamingo float so it overlaps the lower part of the ghost.
- Finally, glue the completed flamingo float onto the water piece.
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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.
