We love to embrace the cute and whimsical side of Halloween! Get into the festive spirit with a craft project that’s a little spooky yet oh-so-adorable!

Your little ghosts and ghouls will love making this tissue paper ghost! These friendly phantoms will be a blast to create and make a fabulous addition to your Halloween decor.

Kids will have so much fun making this easy ghost craft, and it’s the best way to get them into the Halloween spirit!

For more Halloween fun, check out more of our Halloween crafts for kids. We have lots of craft ideas that will keep the spooky festivities alive.

Halloween Ghost Craft

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This fun activity will keep little ones entertained while they make charming Halloween decorations for the spooky season. Fun isn’t the only thing they’ll gain from this craft! They’ll work on fine motor skills as they scrunch and glue the tissue paper to create the ghost.

You’ll need a few materials on hand, then your little ones will be all set to create a ghostly gang that’s bound to enchant everyone who lays eyes on them!

Supplies

• Colored cardstock or construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Tissue paper squares
• Ghost template (unlock the free template at the end of this post)

Directions

Start by downloading the template and printing it out. Once you have the template printed, gather the materials needed for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this ghost to life!

First, guide your child to spread glue over a portion of the ghost.

Take the tissue paper squares, scrunch them up, then glue them around the ghost outline.

Repeat spreading glue and placing tissue paper squares along the ghost outline until the entire ghost is completely filled.

Next, help your child take the eyes and glue them in the middle of the ghost.

Glue the mouth just below the eyes.

Finally, encourage your child to glue the cheeks on both sides of the mouth.

For more fun crafts, check out our collection of these tissue paper crafts that your kids will love to make!

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Halloween Kids’ Ideas

We have a whole cauldron bubbling with exciting Halloween ideas for kids! Make this holiday season extra special for your kiddos with some spooky yet fun Halloween crafts, fun and engaging educational activities, and some Halloween themed books.

We’re excited to share some ways to ignite your child’s creativity, foster learning, and ensure they have an unforgettable Halloween season. Read on below to uncover the Halloween inspired fun that awaits your family!

Halloween Books For Kids

Below are some of the top-rated Halloween books for kids. Add them to your home collection or borrow them from your local library.

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!

Easy Halloween Crafts For Kids

Handprint Bat Craft – This batty project takes a simple piece of paper and a few crafting supplies to magically transform your child’s handprints into an adorable bat keepsake. Gather your supplies along with our free template to take flight into a world of spooky creativity!

Easy Zombie Halloween Painted Rocks

Skeleton Halloween Craft – Looking for something fun and easy for your kids to do this Halloween? This skeleton craft is a fun way for kids of all ages to make something for the spooky season. You only need our free template, some black construction paper, and other simple supplies to get started! It would also be a great activity for a Halloween party.

Sugar Skull Craft – Encourage children to embrace diverse cultures and traditions by decorating a sugar skull. This is a great craft for both younger and older kids, and they can decorate their skulls however they like. With a little bit of creativity and some colorful supplies, your child will have a beautiful sugar skull to display on Halloween night!

Paper Plate Frankenstein Craft – Get ready for a monstrously fun craft with this paper plate craft. Kids will bring this famous Halloween character to life on a readily available art supply – the paper plate! This simple Halloween craft couldn’t be any easier, and it makes a fun decoration once complete!

Children’s Halloween Activities

Ready for some fun Halloween inspired learning? Our Halloween do a dot printables offer a great way for younger kids to boost their skills, whether they’re at home or in the classroom.

Tailored for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten children, these engaging activities span 23 colorful pages filled with dot coloring, number hunts, letter recognition, and more. These printables are a great addition to your fun Halloween activities and are an easy way to get into the creative spirit!

This Halloween sensory bin will be the perfect activity for those who love a little creepy fun! Digging into this bin filled with colorful spaghetti and eyeball bouncy balls will have them giggling and exclaiming with excitement as they experience the slimy, squishy sensation.

Try this Candy Corn Halloween Craft

This activity is sure to be the highlight of your kids’ spooky season, so be sure to check out ways to use this sensory bin with your kids!

For a no prep and fun activity for your kids to do this Halloween, be sure to download and print these candy corn coloring pages.

The candy corn is dressed as a mummy, vampire, and witch in these pages that have large spaces that are easy for little hands to color in. They’ll practice fine motor skills and express their creativity with a festive activity!

Get your little sleuths ready to decode hidden Halloween words and secret sayings with these Halloween decoding worksheets! Kids will love this fun activity that works on critical thinking skills.

These worksheets will leave kids wanting more, so once they get done with one, they can move on to solving the next! In case you need a little help, an answer key is provided for deciphering all the secret messages. Get ready for a Halloween adventure of mystery and learning!

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