Easy Pumpkin Crafts for Kids

Pumpkins are such a fun and easy shape to use for all sorts of craft projects. Even little kids can make super cute crafts with pumpkins like these.

For the littlest kids, this mess-free pumpkin painting project from Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds is a great one. The post includes a printable pumpkin shape you can use to make the project.

This paper strip pumpkin is one of the easiest for little kids to make and gives them a chance to practice their gluing skills. Get the DIY from Color the Moon.

A suncatcher is another easy one for little kids because it looks great almost no matter how you do it. Get the instructions from Fantastic Fun and Learning.

Painting with baking soda is a fun STEAM craft that makes a cool effect. You can find all the details at Inspiration Laboratories.

Using paper strips to make a pumpkin (or an apple if you make it with red paper) is a classic quick and easy craft. You can make this a Thanksgiving craft instead of a Halloween craft by adding things the kids are thankful for to the strips. This idea is from One Little Project. They’ve also got a good post about making yarn pumpkins, which also could be apples if you use red yarn, or you can just make yarn balls in any color you like (add an LED candle to make a super cute lantern).

Speaking of paper pumpkins, another fun three-dimensional paper pumpkin project is this one from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls. Use plain orange paper, Halloween themed scrapbook paper, or let kids draw on whatever paper you use to make these fun little pumpkins.

Get out your felt and make these little jack o’lantern softies, which can be made no sew as Sunny Day Family shows them, or you can let kids practice their sewing skills on this simple shape.

Ghost crafts are a lot of fun for kids to make and they’re a way to get into Halloween crafting that’s not really scary. Here are some easy ghost crafts for you to make with kids, whether it’s your kiddo at home or a class full.

I love this simple ghost made with a pompom or cotton ball covered in paint and used as a stamp. This one is from Crafts on Sea and you can have kids just hold the pompom or hold it with a clothespin to make it a little less messy.

Use cotton balls and printable facial expressions to make these silly ghosts from Housing a Forest. The post includes the printable templates or you can just add googly eyes.

Little fabric ghosts are a classic, whether you make them with white fabric or fall or Halloween fabric. Buggy and Buddy shows you how to make these little ghosts with a few cute embellishments. Just make one or two or make a garland or Halloween tree full of them.

There always seem to be paper plates lying around, and this paper plate ghost from Crafts by Amanda is a fun one. There’s a printable in the post for the facial features and arms, or kids can draw their own faces (and leave off the arms if you want to keep it simple).

What kid doesn’t love peeling dried glue? Turn that impulse into a craft with these glue ghosts from Friends Art Lab, and don’t miss the tip in the post that helps you turn these into window clings.

This handprint ghost in the window craft from Glued to My Crafts is so cute and easy for kids to make alone or with help. The post shows lots of variations so it would be fun to make these in a classroom and let each kiddo design their own “window” or add embellishments.

These sweet little tissue paper ghosts from Red Ted Art are actually mini pinatas, but you can just make it as a ghost without anything inside if you’d rather.

And you know I love a good kids’ sewing project so I can’t resist sharing these little felt ghost puppets from The Craft Train. Kids can sew them by hand or you can make them out of paper if you don’t want to try sewing them. The template for the ghosts is free to download, and you can also just make little softies instead of puppets if you like.

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