🎃 Halloween Crafts: What You’ll Need & How To Guide
Written by Stephanie Barratt, Owner & Director
🥛 Milk Bottle Lanterns
What you’ll need:
Empty, clean plastic milk bottles
Paints
Paintbrushes or sponges
Black marker pen
Scissors (adult use)
Glue
Tissue paper, coloured paper or stickers
Battery-operated tea lights / fairy lights or glow sticks
How to make them:
Clean and dry your milk bottle and remove the label.
Paint your bottle in your chosen spooky colour — orange, white, green or whatever you fancy!
Once dry, add faces, patterns or spooky details with paint or a black marker.
Get creative with paper, tissue paper, stickers or anything else you have lying around.
Pop your lights inside and watch your spooky lantern glow! 👻
👹 Toilet Roll Monsters
What you’ll need:
Empty toilet rolls
Paints
Paintbrushes
Googly eyes
Coloured paper or card
Glue
Scissors
Pens/markers
Any other craft bits you have!
How to make them:
Paint your toilet roll in any colour you like.
Leave it to dry.
Add googly eyes, teeth, ears, horns, hair or anything else your monster needs.
Finish with pens, paint or paper to add all the little details.
Give your monster a name and see what you can come up with! 👀
🍎 Spooky Paint Stamping
What you’ll need:
Apples
Potatoes
Paint
Paper or card
Paintbrushes
Black marker pen
Other fruit/veg for stamping — whatever you have!
How to make them:
Cut an apple in half and dip the flat side into orange paint.
Stamp it onto paper to make pumpkins.
Add stalks and spooky faces once the paint has dried.
Cut a potato in half and use it to stamp ghost shapes in white paint.
Try different shapes and see what spooky pictures you can create!
Add faces, details and backgrounds with paint or pens. 🎨
Other fun shapes to try:
🥔 Potato bats or pumpkins • 🫑 Pepper monsters • 🌽 Corn-cob stamping • 🧅 Onion stamping • 🍐 Pear ghosts • 🍋 Lemon/lime patterns
🥄 Halloween Spoon Puppets
What you’ll need:
Wooden spoons or clean plastic spoons
Paints
Paintbrushes
Googly eyes
Coloured paper/card
Glue
Pens/markers
Wool, pipe cleaners or other craft bits
How to make them:
Choose your spooky character — witch, ghost, pumpkin, vampire, monster… whatever you fancy!
Paint your spoon and leave it to dry.
Add eyes, hair, hats, ears, teeth and other details using your craft supplies.
Draw on faces with a marker or paint.
Once finished, put on a spooky puppet show! 👻🧙♀️
🎃 Pumpkin Painting & Decorating
What you’ll need:
Small pumpkins
Paints
Paintbrushes or sponges
Pens/markers
Stickers
Googly eyes
Glue
Glitter, pom-poms, pipe cleaners or anything else you fancy!
How to make them:
Pick your pumpkin and decide what you're going to create.
Paint it any colour you like — it doesn't have to be orange!
Once dry, add faces, patterns, spots or spooky designs.
Stick on googly eyes, pom-poms, stickers or anything else you can find.
Display your masterpiece somewhere spooky! 🎃
🍽️ Paper Plate Halloween Crafts
What you’ll need:
Paper plates
Paints
Paintbrushes or sponges
Coloured paper/card
Googly eyes
Glue
Scissors
Pens/markers
Any other craft supplies you have
How to make them:
Choose your character — pumpkin, monster, ghost, spider, bat… the possibilities are endless!
Paint your paper plate and let it dry.
Add paper shapes for ears, wings, teeth, legs or whatever your creation needs.
Add googly eyes and draw on the details.
Hang them up, turn them into masks or simply admire your spooky creations!
A few easy ideas: 🎃 Pumpkin faces • 👻 Ghosts • 👹 Monsters • 🕷️ Spiders • 🦇 Bats • 🧙♀️ Witches
The main rule? There aren't really any rules! Get the paint out, make a mess and let the kids see what they can create. 🖌️🎃👻
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