Easy Halloween Crafts for Kids

These easy Halloween crafts are great for decorating the classroom or using around the house in the fall.

Ghosts are a fun and easy shape to make in lots of different ways, but I like the way this one allows kids to make unique ghost shapes with blow painting. Learn how with this tutorial from Crafty Morning.

Finger-painted monsters are another fun craft for younger kiddos, which can turn into a mixed-media project with the addition of googly eyes, yarn, paper hair, whatever your kids want to add. See how to do this at Toddler Approved.

Or how about a shape monster? Live Well Play Together has this cute idea that helps kids learn shapes while making funny monsters to decorate for Halloween.

Little kids might need help with the cutting on this paper plate jack o’lantern project, but even little ones can do most of the work of painting and drawing the face. I love the idea of adding an LED candle; you could have a whole jack o’lantern display right in your classroom! This DIY is from Easy Peasy and Fun.

It doesn’t get any easier that these paper plate wreaths kids help make by adding holiday stickers. This idea would work for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, or really any time of year with any theme of stickers you have handy. Check it out at My Bored Toddler.

Paper snowflakes are a classic winter craft, but why not make paper spider webs, too? The method is similar, you’re just cutting out chunks in lines instead of making other shapes. Get the instructions from One Little Project.

Speaking of spiderwebs, you can also make them with craft sticks and yarn. This might be easier for little kids without the scissors skills, and it’s a great fine motor activity. Find this one at Buggy and Buddy.

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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