Simple Halloween Crafts for Toddlers

Halloween is just around the corner, and it’s the perfect time to get crafty with your toddler! With these simple Halloween crafts, you’ll be able to turn everyday items like paper plates, cotton balls, and glue into spooky decorations that your little one will be proud to show off.

From cute ghosts to pumpkin prints, these activities are designed to be easy enough for tiny hands while still offering plenty of fun.

Why You’ll Love These Crafts

You’ll love these Halloween crafts because they make holiday prep a little more fun and stress-free. These activities are simple enough for toddlers to do with minimal help, meaning they can feel independent while creating something festive. Plus, crafting together gives you that extra bonding time, all while working on their fine motor skills and creativity.

These crafts are also perfect for introducing the themes of Halloween—like pumpkins, bats, and ghosts—in a light, playful way. You get all the fun of the season without the need for complex or time-consuming projects.

Simple Halloween Crafts for Toddlers

Want to try out these Halloween crafts? Click on the title of each craft below to get a full, easy-to-follow tutorial.

Ghost Sticky Wall

What You’ll Need:

• Contact paper
• Black sharpie
• Cotton balls

How to Make:
Stick contact paper on the wall, sticky side out, draw ghost shape and let your toddler attach cotton balls to form a ghost.

Hanging Toilet Paper Roll Bat

What You’ll Need:

• Toilet paper roll
• Black construction paper
• Googly eyes
• Glue
• Pipe cleaner
• Black paint stick

How to Make:
Color toilet roll with the black paint stick. Cut out and add wings, googly eyes, and glue everything together. Add pipe cleaners as leg.

Halloween Handprint Sign

What You’ll Need:

• Construction paper
• Paint Pens
• Scissors
• Glue
• String

How to Make:
Trace and cut out your toddler’s handprint. Let them decorate them and then glue on to a Happy Halloween sign.

Paper Plate Ghost

What You’ll Need:

• Paper plate
• White crepe paper
• Black and white paper

How to Make:
Cut out ghost face from black paper. Glue on to the plate. Glue on streamers at bottom of the plate. Trace arm and hands of your toddler, cut and glue them to the sides of the paper plate.

Drip Painted Pumpkins

What You’ll Need:

• Mini pumpkins
• Acrylic paint
• Water
• Cups

How to Make:
Mix paint with a little bit of water in a cup. Let your toddler drip paint down the sides of the pumpkin for a colorful effect.

Halloween Suncatchers

What You’ll Need:

• Clear contact paper
• Colored tissue paper
• Halloween shapes (find the templates here)

How to Make:
Stick tissue paper pieces onto contact paper to form Halloween-themed suncatchers.

Foil Colored Halloween Prints

What You’ll Need:

• Aluminum foil
• Washable Markers
• Black sharpie
• White paper
• Spray bottle and water

How to Make:
Draw Halloween shapes on paper. Color foil with washable markers. Spray with water, and press them onto foil to create a colorful print.

Cotton Ball Painted Ghost

What You’ll Need:

• Cotton balls
• Clothespins
• Paint
• Paper
• Ghost outline

How to Make:
Cut out and tape ghost outline in middle page. Dip cotton balls in paint and press them onto paper to form a negative space ghost shaps.

Cotton Ball Ghost

What You’ll Need:

• Cotton balls
• Black and green construction paper
• Glue

How to Make:
Trace shape of ghost. Glue cotton balls together in the shape of a ghost and add black paper eyes and a mouth.

Bean Ghost

What You’ll Need:

• White and black beans
• Cardboard
• Glue

How to Make:
Trace the outline of a ghost on cardboard.Glue white beans in the shape of a ghost.

DIY Five Little Pumpkin Blow-Up

What You’ll Need:

• Plastic glove
• Pumpkin stickers
• Paper cup
• Straw
• Tape
• Scissors

How to Make:
Find the full step by step tutorial of how to make the cute craft here.

Hot Glue Gun Pumpkin

What You’ll Need:

• Hot glue gun
• Water colors and paint brush
• Water color paper

How to Make:
Draw pumpkin shape with hot glue on watercolor paper, let them dry, and paint it using watercolors.

Pumpkin Leaf

What You’ll Need:

• Fall leaves
• Glue
• Paper

How to Make:
Arrange and glue leaves into the shape of a pumpkin on paper. Add jack-o-lantern face.

Secret Spider Web

What You’ll Need:

• White paint pen
• Paper towel
• Bowls with water
• Food coloring

How to Make:
Draw a spider web with a white paint pen on paper towel, then paint over it with colored water to reveal the design.

Tape Resist Spider Web

What You’ll Need:

• Masking tape
• Watercolors paint an brush
• Paper plate

How to Make:
Place tape in a web shape, paint over it, and remove the tape to reveal the web.

Stick Spider Web

What You’ll Need:

• Sticks
• Yarn

How to Make:
Tie sticks together and weave yarn around them to create a spider web. Step by step tutorial here.

Cotton Ball Painted Pumpkin

What You’ll Need:

• Cotton balls
• Clothespins
• Orange and green paint
• Pumpkin template

How to Make:
Dip cotton balls in orange and green paint and press them onto paper to color a pumpkin.

Blow Painted Ghost

What You’ll Need:

• White paint
• Water and cup
• Straw
• Black paper
• Scissors

How to Make:
Mix a small amount of water with the white paint in a cup. Pour on black paper. Blow white paint across the paper using a straw to create ghostly shapes.

Hot Glue Spider Web

What You’ll Need:

• Hot glue gun
• Watercolor paper
• Watercolor paint and brush

How to Make:
Draw spider webs with hot glue gun on watercolor paper, let dry, and paint in-between web.

Bubble Wrap Pumpkin

What You’ll Need:

• Bubble wrap
• Black Construction paper
• Pumpkin template
• Orange and green paint

How to Make:
Dip bubble wrap in orange and then green paint and press it onto pumpkin template to create a pumpkin texture.

Torn Paper Witch Hat

What You’ll Need:

• Witch Hat template
• Black and purple construction paper
• Glue

How to Make:
Tear black, purple and yellow paper and glue on to the witch hat template.

Salt Painted Witch Hat

What You’ll Need:

• Witch hat template
• Salt
• Glue
• Watercolor paints

How to Make:
Trace the witch hat with glue, sprinkle salt on top, and paint over it with watercolors.

Puffy Paint Pumpkin

What You’ll Need:

• Paper plate
• Shaving cream
• Orange food coloring
• White Glue
• Bowl
• Black and green paper

How to Make:
Mix shaving cream and glue in equal parts in bowl and add a drop of two of orange food coloring, and spread it onto paper plate to form a puffy pumpkin.

Rolling Painted Pumpkin

What You’ll Need:

• Pumpkin template
• Orange and green paint
• Mini pumpkin
• Paper

How to Make:
Pour orange and green paint on pumpkin template. place in tray and place mini pumpkin on top and and roll it across paper to create pumpkin-like prints.

Popsicle Stick Halloween Puppets

What You’ll Need:

• Popsicle sticks
• Paint
• Construction paper

How to Make:
Decorate popsicle sticks with paper cutouts and markers to create Halloween characters.

Paint Splat Pumpkin

What You’ll Need:

• Orange paint
• Paper plate
• Black and green paper

How to Make:
Fold paper plate in half, add orange paint, fold again and press, then open to reveal a pumpkin shape. Add pumpkin face.

Yarn Lacing Pumpkin

What You’ll Need:

• Orange yarn
• Paper plate
• Orange paint
• Hole punch
• Black and green paper

How to Make:
Cut the center of a paper plate out. Paint orange. Punch holes around the middle and let your toddler lace orange yarn through the holes. Decorate with a pumpkin face.

Leaf Spider

What You’ll Need:

• Fall leaves
• Black construction paper
• Googly eyes

How to Make:
Glue leaf to paper and add googly eyes and eight spider legs to turn it into a spider.

Leaf Witch

What You’ll Need:

• Fall leaf
• Construction paper
• Glue

How to Make:
Glue leaf to paper and cut out with hat, hair and nose for a witch’s face and glue to leaf.

Paper Strip Skeleton

What You’ll Need:

• White paper strips
• Black paper
• Glue

How to Make:
Arrange and glue paper strips in the shape of a skeleton on black paper.

Scrunched Paper Black Cat

What You’ll Need:

• Black tissue paper
• Glue
• Tissue paper
• pipe cleaner

How to Make:
Scrunch up tissue paper and glue it onto the black paper to form a cat shape. Add pipe cleaner whiskers.

Leaf Pumpkin

What You’ll Need:

• Fall leaves
• Glue
• Paper

How to Make:
Glue leaves in the color of a pumpkin onto paper. Add green stem.

Spider Web Suncatcher

What You’ll Need:

• Black construction paper
• Clear contact paper
• Colorful tissue paper

How to Make:
Cut a spider web from black construction paper. Lay in on to contact paper and then stick colorful tissue paper to fill in the web. Lay another sheet on top and cut around the web. Display on a window with double sided tape.

Toilet Paper Tube Halloween Crafts

What You’ll Need:

• Toilet paper rolls
• Paint
• Markers

How to Make:
Decorate toilet paper tubes as Halloween characters with paint and markers.

Pom Pom Skeleton

What You’ll Need:

• Colorful pom-poms
• Black paper
• Glue
• Craft sticks
• White paper and brush

How to Make:
Paint craft sticks white. Arrange on paper in shape of skeleton. Decorate with colorful Pom Poms.

Witch’s Broomstick

What You’ll Need:

• Brown pipe cleaner
• Yellow paper
• Pony Beads
• Stick
• Twine

How to Make:
Cut yellow paper to create the bristols of the broom. Wrap the pipe cleaner around it. Then decorate with pony beads. Full step by step tutorial here.

Scrunched Paper Pumpkin

What You’ll Need:

• Orange and green tissue paper
• Glue
• Paper

How to Make:
Scrunch tissue paper and glue it onto paper to form a pumpkin shape.

Cardboard Box Jack-O-Lantern

What You’ll Need:

• Cardboard box
• Orange and green paint
• Toilet paper toll
• Scissors or box cutters
• LED candle

How to Make:
Paint the box orange and title paper roll roll. Cut out jack-O-Lantern face on box. Cut hole for title paper roll on top of box for the stem. Place a LED candle inside.

Pumpkin Sensory Bottle

What You’ll Need:

• Clear bottle
• Orange glitter
• Pumpkin stickers
• Water
• Clear glue

How to Make:
Fill the bottle with water and orange glitter and glue for a fun pumpkin-themed sensory bottle. Decorate the outside with pumpkin stickers.

Cardboard Box Haunted House

What You’ll Need:

• Large Cardboard box
• Black paint
• White paper
• Spider web
• Halloween themed stickers

How to Make:
Paint the box black and cut out windows, adding white paper ghosts inside.

Witch Hat Decorating

What You’ll Need:

• Paper witch hat
• Markers
• Stickers
• Large sheet of paper

How to Make:
Let your toddler decorate a paper witch hat with markers and stickers.

Shape Haunted House Craft

What You’ll Need:

• Foam paper shapes
• Glue

How to Make:
Arrange and glue different shapes to create a haunted house scene.