Vampire Pumpkin Disguise Craft for Kids [Free Printable Template]
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A pumpkin dressed up as a vampire is exactly the kind of Halloween silliness kids can get behind. This vampire pumpkin disguise craft gives 5-8 year olds about 15-25 minutes to turn a plain paper pumpkin into a fanged Dracula, complete with a dramatic cape and bow tie.
If you’re looking for more ways to decorate pumpkins this fall, then check out our collection of pumpkin crafts for kids for even more creative projects featuring pumpkins and Halloween fun.
Good To Know
- Themes: Halloween, hide the pumpkin
- Activity: Cut out and assemble the pumpkin vampire with hair, ears, eyes, fangs, and a bow tie
- Templates: Includes a free printable vampire pumpkin craft template
- Ages: Preschool through first grade
- Time: 15-25 minutes
- Skills: Cutting, gluing, shape placement, scissor control, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor practice
Hide The Pumpkin Idea for Halloween
Kids can choose a pumpkin color, then add the vampire details that really make this one work. Those oversized eyes are cute, but the tiny fangs poking out over the red mouth? That’s the part that sells the whole vampire look.
There’s plenty of cutting and gluing along the way, so kids get practice controlling their scissors and lining up smaller paper pieces as they assemble the face. Figuring out where the eyes, fangs, cape, and bow tie belong also gives them a chance to work from the finished example without expecting every vampire to look identical.
Once all the pieces are ready, the project is pretty straightforward to assemble with basic paper-crafting supplies. And since the vampire is supposed to look a little goofy, a crooked bow tie or slightly uneven fang only adds to the personality.
Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Vampire pumpkin 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 vampire pumpkin to life!
Take the hair piece and glue it onto the top of the pumpkin head, lining up the cut hairline over the forehead. Once it’s in place, trim away the excess black paper around the pumpkin head to reveal the finished hair shape.
Grab the two eyes and glue them side by side on the pumpkin head, just below the eyebrows.
Look for the mouth piece, and let your child color it in with markers. Once they’re finished, glue the mouth below the nose, then add the bowtie to the bottom center of the pumpkin head, just below the mouth.
Take the stem and glue it to the back and top of the pumpkin head so it sticks up above the hair.
It’s time to give the vampire its cape! Glue one cape piece behind each side of the pumpkin head so the pointed ends stick out on the left and right. Let your child line up both sides and see how the cape transforms an ordinary pumpkin into a Halloween vampire.
Your vampire pumpkin disguise is complete! Kids can make another one using different paper colors for a fun Halloween activity that encourages creativity while giving them hands-on practice with arranging and gluing the pieces.
Want to keep kids busy with more seasonal learning and creativity? Browse the related crafts and activities below to find more ideas for Halloween lesson plans, centers, and themed activities.
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.
The Good, The Bad, And The Spooky: Halloween is the Bad Seed’s favorite holiday, but when he can’t come up with the perfect costume, he decides trick-or-treating should be postponed for everyone! Kids will love following his funny quest to find a show-stopping costume before the big night. With plenty of humor and Halloween fun, this is a great seasonal read for fans of The Bad Seed and the Food Group series.
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!
Halloween Make & Create Projects
Frankenstein Puppet Craft – Frankenstein is even better when kids can make him talk. This paper bag puppet has his classic black hair, neck bolts, jacket, and teeth, then the finished monster is ready for Halloween stories and puppet play.
Witch Ghost Craft – Why choose between a witch and a ghost when they can apparently be both? Kids dress up the ghost with a witch or wizard hat and add a bubbling cauldron, which makes the whole character much more fun than an ordinary white ghost.
Candy Corn Torn Paper Craft – Tearing paper on purpose is half the fun here. Kids fill the candy corn shape with ripped pieces of white, orange, and yellow paper before adding its face, so neat little squares definitely aren’t required.
Haunted House Craft – This haunted house lands nicely in the cute-spooky category. Kids assemble their own Halloween house scene and add a floating ghost, giving them a haunted house without making the finished project scary.
Halloween Classroom Printables
Patterns are so much more interesting when pumpkins and spooky characters are involved. These Halloween math worksheets include a finish-the-pattern activity where kids figure out which Halloween picture comes next, along with other early math practice such as counting and comparing.
The shadow matching page in these Halloween activity pages is the kind of worksheet that feels more like a puzzle. Kids match Halloween characters such as pumpkins, black cats, and candy corn to the correct silhouettes, then there are more activities to work through after that.
Reading Room on the Broom and then getting to label the witch just makes sense. These Room on the Broom worksheets include a cut-and-paste labeling page, plus activities featuring familiar characters and pictures from the story.
Candy corn dressed as a vampire is funny enough on its own, but there’s also a mummy and witch in these candy corn coloring pages. The designs have plenty of open coloring space, so kids can concentrate on giving each Halloween candy character its own look.
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Vampire Pumpkin Craft
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Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Vampire pumpkin template
Instructions
- Print the template and gather the materials for this fun activity.
- Begin by gluing the hair piece onto the top of the pumpkin head, lining up the cut hairline with the forehead.
- Trim away the excess paper around the top and sides of the hair piece.
- Glue the eye pieces side by side below the eyebrows.
- Color in the mouth piece with markers and glue it below the nose.
- Glue the bowtie to the bottom center of the pumpkin head, below the mouth.
- Glue the stem to the back and top center of the pumpkin head so it sticks up above the hair.
- Finally, glue one cape piece behind each side of the pumpkin head so the pointed ends extend out from the left and right sides.
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Free Vampire Pumpkin Template
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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.
