Easy Halloween Crafts for Kids: Cute Paper Plate, Popsicle Stick and Handprint Ideas
Planning Halloween crafts for the classroom or kitchen table? Here are easy Halloween crafts for kids, more cute than scary, sorted by what you have on hand: paper plates, popsicle sticks, a traced hand and more. Every one links to the full step-by-step post, and most have a printable template.
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Paper Plate Halloween Crafts
1Friendly Paper Plate Ghost Craft
A large and a small plate make a friendly ghost with pink cheeks and an orange gingham bow.
2Black Cat Paper Plate Craft
A black painted plate with pink ears, pipe cleaner whiskers and an orange collar with a green star.
3Paper Plate Bat Craft
A black painted bat with pink cheeks, googly eyes and white paper fangs.
4Paper Plate Jack-o-Lantern Craft
Orange painted plates with a black paper face, green leaves and pipe cleaner vines.
5Paper Plate Pumpkin Craft
An orange painted plate pumpkin with a green stem and a smiling face.
6Mummy Paper Plate Craft
Strips of white and cream paper wrapped over a black plate, with big googly eyes popped up on foam tape.
7Frankenstein Paper Plate Craft
A green painted face with black paper hair, gray bolts and googly eyes.
8Dracula Paper Plate Craft
A purple painted face with black, red and purple paper details and googly eyes.
9Monster Eyes Paper Plate Craft
A green paper monster with big white eyes and red marker details.
10Candy Corn Paper Plate Craft
A plate painted in orange, yellow and white stripes, with googly eyes, pink cheeks and a ribbon bow.
11Spider and Web Paper Plate Craft
A painted plate web with a black spider made from pipe cleaner legs and googly eyes.
12Paper Plate Skull Craft
A white plate folded and cut into a skull, with black paper eyes and a nose.
13Witch Moon Paper Plate Craft
A yellow moon on a blue painted plate, with a black paper witch flying across it.
14Witch Legs Paper Plate Craft
A black cauldron with striped witch legs sticking out and green pom-pom bubbles.
15Witch Hat Paper Plate Craft
A black witch hat with a colorful paper band on an orange painted plate.
16Folded Paper Plate Owl Craft
A paper plate folded into an owl and covered in accordion-folded orange paper feathers.
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17Witch Popsicle Stick Craft for Halloween
Three green sticks in a triangle, with a black paper hat and yellow paper hair.
18Witch Craft Stick Project
Seven green sticks make the face, with orange yarn hair and a black paper hat.
19Ghost Popsicle Stick Craft for Halloween
White painted sticks with a white paper ghost and a marker face.
20Frankenstein Popsicle Stick Craft for Halloween
Green painted sticks with black paper hair and white paper details.
21Bat Popsicle Stick Craft
Black jumbo sticks with black paper wings and yellow eyes.
22Spider Craft Stick Project
Four black jumbo sticks with paper legs, eyes and fangs.
23Pumpkin Craft Stick Project
Orange painted sticks with a small twig stem and pipe cleaner vines.
24Pumpkin Popsicle Stick Craft
Three orange craft sticks become a jack-o-lantern with a stem and a leaf.
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Handprint Halloween Crafts
28Monster Handprint Craft
An orange paper handprint monster with white paper eyes and teeth.
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30Paper Spider Craft
A simple paper spider made with things you have around the house.
Halloween Sensory Play and Printables
34Spider Web Slime
Instant snow makes this slime lumpy like a web. Add plastic spiders to finish.
35Halloween Costume Lacing Cards
Lacing cards with kids dressed up in Halloween costumes.
Want more? See our paper plate Halloween crafts and Halloween preschool printables.
