Easy Halloween Crafts for Kids

Whether you’re looking for a craft for the classroom or a Halloween craft you can do at home even if you’re not crafty, these easy Halloween crafts for kids offer some great options.

If you want to keep it super simple, print out and color these Halloween masks from It’s Always Autumn. Options include a cat, pumpkin, Frankenstein’s monster and a dia de los muertos style sugar skull. Just print, color, cut out and you’re ready for a Halloween parade.

Or do some cute color by number printables like these from Tot Schooling. Color a pumpkin, witch, Frankenstein’s monster or bats and use them to decorate the classroom.

Crafts by Amanda has this cute and classic paper plate black cat project, which comes with a printable template. Older kids can be shown the shape you’re going for and cut out their own if you’d rather.

Also in the category of crafts you can make with things you probably already have in the house are these cute paper bag monsters from I Heart Crafty Things. If you give kids paint, paper and eyes they are sure to come up with fun versions of these all on their own, which would make a great classroom display.

Easy Peasy and Fun has another take on Halloween puppets with these printable puppets for a skeleton, witch, pumpkin and vampire. Print, color and cut out for some easy fun.

If you want a slightly more involved but still pretty easy fall or Halloween craft, check out these Popsicle stick creations from Life Beyond Laundry. Her post shows a witch, scarecrow and pumpkin, but you could make other things like a cat, Frankenstein’s monster or whatever characters the kids like.

Speaking of Frankenstein’s monster, I love these monster luminaries from Crafts by Amanda. They’re so easy to make and a little creepy cute. This one, too, could be remixed a bunch of different ways to make a pumpkin, witch or something else cute. These could also be used as vases or for storage if you don’t want to light them up.

Or try painting rocks to look like monsters or other Halloween creatures with this craft idea from The Inspiration Edit. All you need is rocks, paint, googly eyes and glue to make a bunch of fun and funny monsters.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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