Halloween K-3 Theme Pages
Halloween falls on the last day of October — October 31.
These craft projects are for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school children.
The crafts use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue, etc. See a page about color mixing to see how to combine paint to make all the colors of the rainbow.
Crafts for Halloween
This ghost is easy to make from a balloon and two plastic grocery bags.
A simple skeleton made by gluing dried pasta on black paper.
A skeleton you can print and put together for a great Halloween decoration.
This scary ghost card is easily made from white hole punch paper glued to a piece of black construction paper. It makes a great card or Halloween decoration.
This scary jack-o’lantern card is easily made from white hole punch paper glued to a piece of black construction paper. It makes a great card or Halloween decoration.
A simple jack-o’-lantern mask you can make from a paper plate.
Print out and decorate many masks: lion, cat, dog, pig, koala, and robot.
Make a scary ghost necklace from white glue!
Make a jack-o’-lantern from a balloon, newspaper, and flour glue.
A scary ghost made from a balloon, newspaper, and flour glue.
A scary spider made from a balloon, aluminum foil, newspaper, and flour glue.
This easy-to-make scarecrow makes a nice autumn decoration.
These great bat decorations are made from paper and a clothespin.
Make a string of Jack-o’-lanterns or ghosts to hang around a room. These simple-to-make strings make great Halloween decorations.
Make bats from egg cartons.
An easy-to-make ladybug costume that is made from a large paper grocery bag.
Make bat crafts and bat letterhead.
A creepy wreath made from construction paper.
Make spiders from egg cartons.
A cute spider made from a yarn pompom and pipe cleaners.
Make a dazzling, glittery spider web for a Halloween decoration.
This huge spider is made from a balloon and pipe cleaners (can be tricky to make).
Horrible Hats (great hats for costumes)
A scary black cat hat made from construction paper.
Make papier-mâché dinosaur hats using balloons, newspaper, flour-water paste, and paint.
Make an incredibly huge hat from a large brown paper grocery bag. This is a nice, simple craft that works well at children’s parties.
A wearable Samurai warrior hat.
Make a great graduation hat from poster board and yarn.
Creepy Cards and Stationery
Print out spooky stationery/letterhead for Halloween with bats, jack-o’-lanterns, and/or skeletons.
Make an eerie ghost pop-up card for Halloween.
Make a dazzling, glittery spider web Halloween card.
Make a Halloween card from a brown paper grocery bag and ribbon.
Make a spider pop-up Halloween card that will scare everyone!
A black cat card for Halloween.
Make a pop-up Halloween card that a friend will always remember!
Eerie Edibles
A very yucky treat made of chocolate pudding and gummy worms! Great at children’s Halloween parties.
Make an edible aquarium – use gummy sharks for a scary Halloween treat.