Easy Halloween Crafts for Toddlers That Will Unleash Your Little One's Creativity (2024)

Set the littles loose with tubes of decorating icing and watch them have so much fun decorating these yummy holiday cookies. They might just eat them all, though!

Get the recipe for Halloween Voodoo Gingerbread Men.

Kids will love helping set the table when you put them in charge of crafting these super simple ghost napkins.

To make: Lay the napkin flat on the table. Place a bunched up tissue or small piece of tissue paper in the center. Gather the napkin up around the tissue (this will be the head) and tie a piece of ribbon just below the tissue.

Related: More Halloween Napkin Ideas

The little will giggle while helping craft this silly and sweet cat wreath. And parents will love it because it is just puuurfect for decorating the front door this season. And the bow tie makes him extra sweet so trick-or-treaters won't get scared away!

To make: Have the littles wrap a 14-inch foam wreath form with wide black ribbon, helping them secure it with floral pins as they go, until completely covered. Adults can cut two 10-inch lengths of 18-gauge craft wire and bend into ear shapes. Poke holes into the top of wreath and insert ears. Wrap wire ears with ribbon, using hot glue to secure. Have toddlers attach an orange burlap bow.

Toddlers can practice sorting with this fun, no-mess idea shared by preschool teacher and Instagrammer Elizabeth at @preschoolforyou. "This super simple upcycle play kept my students busy all week long!" she said. "Sometimes simplicity is the way to go."

To make: Draw ghost and jack-o'lantern faces on empty plastic water bottles using a permanent marker. Place white, orange, and green pom-poms in a divided tray, and let your tot fill each ghost and jack-o'lantern bottle with the correct color. Finish each jack-o'lantern bottle with green pom-poms for a stem.

This nature-inspired craft will be extra easy for you to set up for your tot thanks to the printable ghost template from crafty blogger mom Ashley.

Get the tutorial at Woodlark Blog.

Make a batch of homemade playdough and set out an array of crafty decorations… then wait to see what other-worldly creatures emerge from your child's imagination.

Get the tutorial at The Artful Parent.

Kids love exploring, and they'll have so much fun roaming outside to collect leaves, acorn caps, grasses, and pine cones for this project. Afterward, they can help place their treasures on stacked gourds as this cool owl takes shape. (You should man the hot-glue gun.)

To make the owl: Gather small and medium-size leaves, acorn caps, grasses, and pine cones. Glue small leaves on the front of a small oblong pumpkin, overlapping slightly, to create feathers. Glue four larger leaves on either side, overlapping them, to create wings. Attach a thin leather string with hot-glue to a small acorn squash to create the outline of the face. Pull apart a pine cone and use the individual scales to create the nose, attaching with hot-glue. Attach acorn caps to create eyes and feather reed grass to create ears and whiskers. Stack squash on pumpkin.

So simple and so impactful. Little hands will make quick work of covering tiny pumpkins with washi tape.

To make the pumpkin: Fully cover a small or medium pumpkin vertically with lengths of washi tape. Once covered, attach a piece of twine around the base of the stem, holding it in place with hot glue.

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The little one will enjoy drawing on the pumpkin face and helping create the pumpkin lollipop "hair."

To make the pumpkin: Hollow out a medium pumpkin from the bottom. Carve a half-circle mouth with a tooth, two half-circle eyes with pupils, and triangle nose. For eyes, push in inner piece (don't remove!). Then, etch away skin on pupils and tooth with linoleum cutter. Use an awl to poke holes about 1 1/2" apart across top and sides of pumpkin. Push lollipops into holes to create hair.

No need to wait for gingerbread season to craft this spooky cookie house.

Get the tutorial at Super Make It.

The options are endless when it comes to molding cotton candy into funny-looking monsters. They make the perfect cupcake topper.

Get the tutorial at Super Make It.

Young toddlers will enjoy poking the lights through the eye holes. If they're beginning to learn how to use scissors, they can practice their skills by fringing the sides of the paper cat faces.

To make Cat String Lights: Download our printable cat face template. Print and cut out the template; then use a white pencil to trace it onto black card stock and cut out desired number of faces. Fringe the sides of the cat's face and the top of its head with scissors.For each cat, cut three pieces of black waxed twine, about 4" long. Knot them together in the center of the twine, and glue to the cat's face as whiskers.Use a standard single-hole punch to create holes for eyes about 2 1/2" apart.Hang string lights and attach cat faces by pushing a light through each eye hole, spacing the faces apart at regular intervals.

Now, this one is going to take a bit of help from an adult, but that doesn't mean that toddlers won't love helping arrange the candy on a wreath form (and maybe sneaking a few pieces along the way!).

To make Halloween Candy Wreath: Gather an assortment of old-fashioned candies in autumnal shades such as yellow, orange, and magenta. Wrap a 14" foam wreath form in white ribbon. Attach candy with hot-glue, layering and overlapping as you go. Finish with a yellow burlap bow.

Forget a stamp and ink pad—this craft is much more creative. Simply cut a potato and have your little one apply white and black paint. Then, let them stamp to their heart's content.

Get the tutorial at My Mommy Style.

You're probably not too keen on the itsy-bitsy spider hanging out in your home, but you'll likely make an exception for this cute critter. Offer children different colored popsicle sticks and different size googly eyes to let their imaginations run wild.

Get the tutorial at My Home-Based Life.

Don't toss your toilet paper rolls! Use them to make these festive critters instead.

Get the tutorial at The Best Ideas for Kids.

After you've put together this interactive craft, turn off the lights to really wow your child. The eyeballs glow in the dark!

Get the tutorial at Simple Everyday Mom.

The options are endless with this idea. This blogger writes that you could color the plates red and add a brown pipe cleaner to turn them into apples too.

Get the tutorial at The Simple Parent.