These Halloween crafts are easy to make with just a few materials you may already have! These adorable activities are fun and spooky. The perfect Halloween crafts for toddlers.
I am always looking for an easy activity to do with my toddler, and since I love the Fall and everything spooky and scary, the ideas flow a lot easier than trying to think of something to do with my toddler in the summer. Mostly, I’m just trying to find something to do by water because it’s too hot outside in the summer in PA. The Fall brings cooler weather and it always feels like there’s a little magic in the air.
When I feel a chill and know Halloween is around the corner, I brew up some fun, simple activities that will keep my toddler entertained. Let your toddler explore and create using Halloween-themed activities centered around all things spooky! Even preschoolers and older kids will enjoy them too!
RELATED: If you’re not feeling the Halloween vibe just yet, check out my post on Fall Activities for Toddlers with items you can grab outside!
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Witch’s Brew Craft
Supplies
Construction Paper (black for cauldron)
Pom Poms in Halloween colors
Googly Eyes
Glitter or Sequins
Glue
Leaves you found outside
Instructions:
1. The night before, leave out the leaves so they can dry and are easier to crunch. Then place them in a sandwich bag and let your little one crunch the leaves into tiny confetti. You can then put them in an empty shaker (I save my empty spice containers), or just put them in a bowl.
2. Start by cutting out the cauldron shape from the black construction paper then glue it onto any other piece of construction paper (preferably Halloween colors!).
3. Let your toddler squeeze glue all over the cauldron (or you can do this part).
4. Let them make their own witch’s brew by gluing on the pom poms, sprinkling glitter, and shaking out some leaf confetti.
Toilet Paper Ghost Craft
Supplies
Toilet Paper Roll
White craft paint
Paint brushes
Black marker
White tissue paper
White mesh ribbon, fishing wire, or anything to hang the ghost
Scissors
Instructions:
1. Have your toddler paint the toilet paper roll white. While they’re doing this, you can cut or rip the white tissue paper. I like how it looks ripped but you’re going to have to cut it too because tissue paper doesn’t rip well.
2. Put some glue inside of the bottom of the toilet paper roll only about an inch around.
3. Have your toddler start attaching the tissue paper to the glue. It’s going to get messy but all the fun crafts are!
4. Next you can let your toddler use a glue stick on the outside of the toilet paper roll at the bottom, or liquid glue again if you don’t have a glue stick. I have to remind myself this is my kid’s craft and not mine. I try not to step in, even if it looks nothing like what I wanted. It’s not about us!
5. My toddler is constantly drawing circles, so I let her draw the eyes and mouth of her ghost herself and fill the circles in. It may look nothing like a ghost at this point, but this builds their confidence and this is Halloween, not Christmas. Things can get weird.
Spider Alphabet Activity
Supplies
Paper towel roll
Dot labels from Dollar Tree
Permanent Marker
This Halloween activity is super easy to create and the great part is, that you can quickly create several spider rolls to keep your toddler occupied for a while. Anything with stickers is a hit with our 2-1/2 year old.
Instructions:
1. Draw a bunch of circles all over the paper towel roll then add legs to create spiders.
2. Write different letters in each spider then write those same letters on the sticker dot labels.
3. Then let your toddler match the stickers with the letters to the letters on the spiders. It was that SIMPLE and she LOVED IT!
Playdough Ghost Activity
SUPPLIES
Black beans
Empty Danimals Yogurt
Playdough
Black Marker
All you need to do is cut a hole for the ghost’s mouth and draw two circles with a black marker for the eyes. THAT’S IT!
Spread the black beans out on a plate or surface. Press the playdough on top of the ghost to cover the hole (we used green for ghost slime), and have your toddler pick up as many black beans as they can with the ghost slime.
Depending on the age, have your toddler pick off the beans and count the beans as they put them in the ghost’s mouth. You could even give your 2-3 year old kid tweezers to pick off the black beans instead. This is a great way to work on their fine motor skills with those tiny fingers.
I love this Halloween activity because it was so simple to make and kept my 2-1/2 year old occupied for awhile as she picked the beans off and placed them into the ghost’s mouth.
However, if your toddler is still putting things in their mouth, wait until they’re older or DO NOT WALK AWAY.
Pumpkin Stamp
Supplies
Medium or small-sized pumpkin with a stem
Paint
Paper
Knife
Spoon
Another EASY Halloween Activity! Notice I have a pattern here? Just like you would use an apple, you can take the top off a pumpkin and let your toddler go WILD. I like to do this activity on the night we carve pumpkins. I’ll let our 2-year-old paint pumpkins or do this pumpkin stamp activity while her dad finishes his Jack o Lantern within 15 minutes, and I’m attempting to carve a werewolf silhouette I’ll still be working on after our daughter goes to bed.
Cut the top of the pumpkin off. Now you can have your toddler spoon out the guts and seeds of the pumpkin (which my daughter hated last year), or jump right into the pumpkin stamp activity.
You can paint a good bit of paint onto the underside of the pumpkin top or let your toddler give it a try. I always try and let my toddler do the steps of an activity first. Although it may not be the way I wanted it (I’ve learned to let go of some control), allowing her to try new things on her own instills confidence.
Then once a good bit of paint is on the pumpkin top, let your toddler use it as a stamp. When I do this activity this year, I’m going to use a posterboard to allow her more space and hopefully, keep her occupied longer.