Halloween Crafts for kids

Creating Halloween Bunting

I've always loved the fun side of Halloween and now with Max being a little bit older, he has been able to make some of the choices with regard to what we decorate, where it's placed and the use of scissors!


Last year we created some wands and bats, so this year it was all about bunting and ghosts.

Materials used to create our Halloween Bunting

Materials used for Bunting

* Gold Jaguarita paper from MX Wholesale
* Black Card
* Plastic Mice, Spiders and Bats
* Ribbon
* Hole Punch
* Letters

The idea behind the bunting was to get Max to draw spider webs and patterns on each of the triangles - but he got bored, so maybe next year....

Getting the little ones to join in with creating the bunting...

The gold paper is beautifully bold in colour and because it's A4 in size I managed to get 3 equal-sized triangles from one sheet.  I originally was going to have happy_halloween as one piece of bunting so would need 15 triangles, but for some reason, I changed my mind and had 2 rows - which I personally feel works better as it's not so long and doubles up to save space.

Once the card and the paper were cut I then trimmed the gold around half an inch to give a nice black card border for the bunting.  Once glued onto the card this is a good time to get the kids to colour in, draw or even paint.

I used letters that we purchased from Sainsbury's but that was on a whim, I had planned to use purple and black paper to cut out the letters.  I used my good old faithful Mod Podge to glue the letters on but once Max decided where the bats, rats and spiders were to be placed I used my glue gun when he was distracted with Scooby-Doo.... .He's 4, so the attention span lasted quite some time!

Adding decoration pieces to the bunting

I put the holes through the top of each letter and threaded the letters with a ribbon.  This is a lovely quick and easy craft to do with the kids and gives it their own personal stamp on it by decorating the paper.

Happy Halloween Bunting

We also used some of our corrugated strips to make some pumpkins, a spider and a lion.  These were a bit fiddly but rather satisfying when complete!

Creating pumpkins and spiders with Jaguarita corrugated strips  

And finally, as I mentioned above, our craft projects this year were bunting and ghost-related.  The ghosts we made were loosely based on the craft I mentioned from my Fandom Friday post.  After we created the ghost lights I had some ghosts left over so I made larger holes in the bottoms and placed them over LED tea lights - these I love!

Ghost lights made from Ping-Pong balls and LED lights

Ping Pong balls, netting, glue and LED tea lights

So have you made any Halloween Crafts this year?