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13 Spooktacular Crafts for Halloween

As the autumn chill blows in, it’s time to find indoor activities every ghoul and goblin will love! Get ready for Halloween with the season’s spookiest characters, from pumpkins to ghosts, bats, and monsters. Grab your favorite supplies and a Halloween party pack to create 13 scary fun crafts!

Jack-O-Lanterns

Paint Your Own Ceramic Pumpkin

Light up the spirit of the season with your own paintable jack-o-lantern. This Creative RootsÒ kit comes with the paints, mini brush, and tea light you need to spice up your Halloween décor season after season. Display your masterpiece on the mantel or kitchen table for everyone to see!

Bead A Smiling Jack Keychain

Cozy up at the craft table to design a jack-o-lantern keychain. String together orange, black, and green pony beads into the shape of a smiling pumpkin with satin cording. Then, loop it around a backpack, lunch box, or even a trick-or-treat bag!

Stick & Spook Wooden Magnets

With 10 creepy cool designs to choose from, including a jack-o-lantern, skeletons, and one-eyed monsters, these Made By Me Wooden Halloween Magnets are perfect for a creepy little crafter-noon! Add paint, glitter, and gemstones to each design and place them on the fridge, chalkboard, or inside a locker!

Ghosts

Put on a Boo-tiful Puppet Show

Keep everyone entertained on those chilly fall days by crafting foam ghost puppets and practicing your storytelling skills. Use wooden dowels to make your puppets float as you tell ghost stories in your living room or classroom!

Say Boo & Be Scary

This is your sign to spook up your space! All you need to do to make this D.I.Y. wall hanger is embellish the craft stick sign with gemstones, glitter, and even wiggly eyes to make it sparkle all through fright night! Hang the spooky sign up just in time for trick-or-treaters to knock at your door.

One For Our Littlest Ghosts

Get haunting with this is sponge paint project that strengthens fine motor skills and gets everyone in the spooky spirit — even our tiny crafters!  Dip a sponge brush (or make your own with clothespins and poms) into white paint and fill in a ghost shape on cardstock.     

Bats

Create a Fang-tastic Canvas

There’s no better animal to learn about during Halloween than the vampire bat! Explore fun facts about these flying creatures while crafting your own bat flying against an ominous canvas background… And get a little lesson on the letter ‘V’ too! Then, add the finished canvas to any wall or metal surface with magnetic tape.

Go Batty with this Birdhouse

What’s black and white and batty all over? This Made By MeÒ birdhouse with a Halloween makeover! Complete with flying bats and a roof that can see your every move, this birdhouse fits in perfectly with all your other seasonal decorations. Not into bats? Try painting a haunted house instead!

Wing It with an Upcycled Craft

Transform empty cardboard tubes into flying bats to soar around your doorways, decks, and trees! Cover the entire tube in black construction paper (or paint it black), then add some wings and wiggly eyes. Thread cording through the backs and tie paperclips to the end to make them hover anywhere you’d like!

Vampires, Witches & Monsters Galore!  

Shine on Mons-terrific Window Art

Jack-o-lanterns won’t be the only things shining bright this Halloween! Give your windows an upgrade with your favorite seasonal characters, including bats, vampires, Frankenstein, and more. Stick colorful icons to the window (or any other glass surface) and watch them all come to life in the sunlight (and most importantly the moonlight of the witching hour)!

Stay Warm with Melty Bead Characters

Orange for pumpkin, black for cats, we definitely have melty beads for that! Choose between 10 classic Halloween characters to start your arts and crafts session to teach colors, numbers, and shapes, too. Heat up the iron and get ready for some spooktacularly fun learning!

Paint By Number this Halloween

Crafting like an expert is as easy as 1, 2, 3 with this Halloween paint-by-number set! Pick between a witch, vampire, or jack-o-lantern canvas and dip your mini brushes into any of the included 12 acrylic paints. It’s frightfully fun for any crafting party or group activity this season!

Feel the Thrill with Fuzzy Halloween Character

Prepare your home or classroom with the fuzzy festive décor! Learn how to make witches, pumpkins, skeletons, and black cats out of fuzzy sticks with our step-by-step tutorial. Line up the characters and string them around any room to add a chilling thrill!