12 Halloween Crafts for Preschoolers
Halloween is a very exciting time in a preschool classroom. After all, when you’re a preschooler, it doesn’t get much better than special costumes, tasty treats, and spooky craft projects. Check out these 12 Halloween crafts for preschoolers that will have them channeling that candy-hunting energy into creative fun!
DIY Halloween Trick-or-Treat Bag
The most important item for Halloween night next to a costume? A treat bag! Preschoolers will be so proud to tote about this DIY Halloween trick-or-treat bag that they made all by themselves. All that’s needed is orange washcloths, yarn, a large-eye needle, and a few other crafting staples to get these adorable bags ready for their big candy-collecting debut.
Easy-To-Make No-Brush Halloween Pumpkin Painting
While preschool students may not be ready to carve a jack-o’-lantern, they can totally create this easy-to-make no-brush Halloween pumpkin. Just gather some small pumpkins, acrylic paint, water squeeze bottles, and a few items to help prevent a mess, and your preschoolers will be on their way to making a pumpkin they can proudly display on their front porches.
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Felt and Paper Pumpkin Craft
This simple felt and paper pumpkin craft will help preschoolers hone their fine-motor skills while creating felt pumpkins. Adhesive-backed felt, scissors, cotton balls, pencils, and paper will help little ones trace, cut out, and stuff their own little pumpkins. Consider using the class collection of felt pumpkins to add to a “farm stand” dramatic play area. These would also make handy and seasonally perfect place cards for a fall classroom party!
Glow-in-the-Dark Slime
Swap out the glue in a regular slime recipe for glow-in-the-dark glue and you’ll have preschoolers super excited to play with their glow-in-the-dark slime. You could up the Halloween vibes even more by adding a few extra ingredients to create bright-green bubbling slime!
Handprint Spider Craft
No preschool craft idea list is complete without a handprint craft or two, and this one is a creepy-crawly cutie. Let students make their own handprint spider craft with construction paper, paint, glue, and wiggle eyes. Spiders never looked so adorable.
Mummy Halloween Paper Plate Craft
Promote fine-motor skills and have festive Halloween fun with this mummy Halloween paper plate craft. Preschoolers will watch their mummy magically appear as they lace white yarn through holes in the paper plate. Don’t forget the wiggle eyes in the middle!
Cotton Ball Ghosts
Not all ghosts are scary, as this sweet cotton ball ghost craft proves. Preschoolers can create their ghost shape with glue on a piece of construction paper and then fill it in with cotton balls. Cut out eyes and a mouth to glue on top of the cotton balls, and BOO. A friendly (and fluffy) ghost.
Spooky Bat Photo Craft
Here’s a Halloween craft that caregivers will love to see and preschoolers will love to make. Students can show off their tracing and cutting skills to get their spooky bat photo craft to come together. Once the bat is assembled, preschoolers glue on a photo of their own face. Teachers can add an adhesive-backed piece of magnet to create a keepsake parents will want on the refrigerator all year.
Beaded Fuzzy Stick Pumpkin
Looking for a low-mess Halloween craft that doesn’t involve any glue or paint? Grab your fuzzy sticks and beads, because this beaded fuzzy stick pumpkin is exactly what you need. Instruct little learners to thread beads onto several fuzzy sticks. Leave some room at the end of each fuzzy stick to twist them and to make the “stem” for the pumpkin. Shape it like a pumpkin and the end result is a cute Halloween decoration.
Candy Corn Craft
Requiring only a simple print-out and some paper scraps, this candy corn craft helps preschoolers practice sorting pieces of paper by color as they create a huge piece of candy corn. Because what’s Halloween without some delicious candy?
Paper Bag Monsters
If you’re searching for a Halloween craft that will be as unique as the little one creating it, look no further. These silly and sweet paper bag monsters are a chance for preschoolers to get super creative as they cut out shapes and bring their monster buddies to life. All you need are brown paper lunch bags, cardstock, paint, and a few other crafting basics to make fun monster hand puppets students can enjoy long after Halloween is over.
Cardboard Roll Fuzzy Stick Spiders
This low-mess cardboard roll fuzzy stick spider comes together quickly and will delight preschoolers with its wiggle eyes and bendy legs. Cardboard paper towel rolls, wiggle eyes, pre-cut strips of construction paper, a hole punch, and fuzzy sticks are the materials needed to make these cute little guys.
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