Simple and Fun DIY Halloween Decorations: Easy-To-Do Crafts that Kids Would Love
As Halloween magic and mystery fill the air, it is time to transform your home into a fun and spooky place, and the best way to do so is by crafting some DIY Halloween decorations with your kids.
Creating these fun and easy DIY Halloween decorations together is going to account for a great family bonding time, a lot of creativity, addition of some personal touch in your decor, and of course a much more budget-friendly option.
From craving jack-o-lanterns to making scarecrows, creating floating ghosts to bat garlands, making pom-pom spiders to monster scary mask, etc., there are many Halloween decoration ideas that you could work on together to add an adorable spooky touch to your home.
In this guide, we have listed down easy-to-do, fun, and entertaining DIY Halloween decoration ideas that kids can do with some supervision. All you would need is some creativity and budget-friendly supplies to transform your home for the festive spirit. Also, make sure to keep an eye out for some Halloween deals on craft supplies, and other decoration items that you would need to complete your DIY project.
Table of Contents
• Fun and Easy DIY Halloween Decorations to Create with Kids
• Floating Ghosts: For a Spooktacular Halloween
• Jack-O-Lanterns: For a Lit Up Night
• Bat Garlands: For Some Creepy Impact
• Pom-Pom Spiders: For a Crawly Feel
• Yarn Wrapped Mummy: For a Spooky Effect
Fun and Easy DIY Halloween Decorations to Create with Kids
Here are some really easy and fun DIY Halloween decorations that you and your kids can do together.
Floating Ghosts: For a Spooktacular Halloween
Floating ghosts are a fun and classic Halloween decoration and perfect to embrace that spooky feeling of Halloween. Besides, these decorations are very easy to make. These floating ghosts can be hung anywhere in the house – indoors or outdoors – from the ceiling, doors, windows, trees, etc.
Materials Required:
• Cheesecloth (preferably) or any lightweight white cloth
• Yarn or string
• Balloons
• Balloon hand pump
• Child safe scissors
• Black marker
Instructions:
• Blow up all the balloons - use white balloons preferably. Make sure you are supervising your kids when inflating these balloons. These balloons will be the head of the ghost. Secure them well with a long piece of strong yarn or string. This string will be used to hang the balloons.
• Next, take a cheesecloth or any white cloth, and cut them uniformly, enough to cover up the balloon all over. Now, take a black marker and create ghost faces on the cloth or on the balloons (this depends on how translucent your cloth is). You can create cute ghost faces since you will be doing this with kids.
• Cut a tiny hole if needed at the top of the cheesecloth or the white cloth you will be using for pulling out the string.
• Now throw the cheesecloth over the balloon, pull the string out and hang your balloon floating ghosts wherever you wish like.
• You can also attach some battery-powered LED fairy lights to make them look even more fun and attractive.
These floating ghosts are cute and spooky DIY Halloween decorations that are very easy to create with just a few materials.
Jack-O-Lanterns: For a Lit Up Night
Jack-o-lanterns are a must DIY scary Halloween decoration project to take up with your kids. These jack-o-lanterns can be created using construction paper, hence, that means no messy pumpkins to deal with; besides, these are kid-friendly too.
Materials Required:
• Orange construction paper
• Green pipe cleaners
• Black marker (to create the jack-o-lantern faces)
• Child safe scissors
• Glue or tape
• Battery-powered tea lights or fairy lights
Instructions:
• Take the orange construction paper and draw a jack-o-lantern-face - cute, spooky, scary, whichever face you wish to make – in the center of the paper with a black marker. Once done, fold the paper into half and make a nice sharp crisp crease. (You will need to do this with as many papers depending on the number of jack-o-lanterns you decide to create.)
• Now cut slits, at least around an inch or two – depending on the size of the paper – from the folded section and leave about 2 inches from the sides and the top.
• Now unfold the paper and roll the paper into a tube and stick the ends with glue. With this, the construction of the jack-o-lantern’s body is complete.
• For the handle, stick green pipe cleaners on top where you have made the eyes. Secure the handle with tape or glue.
• Now for the best part, light battery-powered tea lights inside or you can use fairy lights for decorating the lanterns.
This is a fun and easy Halloween decoration to create with kids without having to spend too much. Besides, it turns out to be such an enjoyable and creative family time together.
Bat Garlands: For Some Creepy Impact
Another fun Halloween decoration idea is to make bat garlands. This simple-to-make garland will have that bats fluttering around your home effect.
Materials Required:
• Black construction paper or felt sheets
• Child safe scissors
• String or yarn
• Pencil
• Glue or tape
• Googly eyes (optional)
Instructions:
• First, you would need to create a bat template. You could either draw a bat shape on a thick piece of paper or cardboard or you could use a bat printout. Now, cut out the drawing or the picture to use as a template.
• Go on to use this bat template and trace out as many bats as you want on black construction paper.
• Once you are done drawing the bats on the construction paper, carefully cut them out. Now, if you want, you can decorate it by adding some googly eyes for a spookier effect.
• Once you have all the bats cut and decorated, attach each one to a piece of yarn or string using glue or tape. You can hang this bat garland on your windows, doors, on your mantle, etc.
This bat garland is an easy and cost-effective DIY decoration that adds just the right kind of spookiness for a kids-friendly Halloween party.
Pom-Pom Spiders: For a Crawly Feel
Pompom spiders are a quick and easy-to-do DIY Halloween decoration that requires few materials, and minimum effort, and creates that perfect creepy crawly impact.
Materials Required:
• Black pom-pom (You can choose different sizes)
• Craft sticks
• Black paint and paint brush (optional, for painting the craft sticks)
• Glue
• Googly eyes
Instructions:
• Glue four craft sticks together like an asterisk and stick them together, stick as many as you need, depending on the number of spiders you will be creating. This becomes the legs of your spider. You can paint them black or leave as is.
• Once your sticks are ready, place four stuck craft sticks side by side and then stick a black pom-pom on top. Then, stick googly eyes to finish this pom-pom spider project.
There you have it, a simple, fun, and easy DIY Halloween decoration idea that you can place anywhere in your home.
Yarn Wrapped Mummy: For a Spooky Effect
This yarn wrapped mummy is a great way to bring out that deadly and spooktacular Halloween effect. It’s an easy-to-do craft with kids for some fine motor skill training along with some fun family time.
Materials Required:
• Mummy template
• Cardboard
• Pencil
• Black paint
• Paintbrush
• White yarn
• Googly eyes
• Child safe scissors
• Glue and tape
Instructions:
• Paint your cardboard sheet black and then let it dry out completely.
• Then get a printout of a mummy template and draw the outline of the mummy with the help of the template on the cardboard. Once you have drawn as many as you need, carefully cut the mummies.
• Now, take one end of the white yarn and tape it to the back of the board. Once done, start wrapping the yarn around, starting from the head, and leave space to add the eyes. Then wrap the body, and the legs, and finally when wrapped completely, tape the other end of the yarn at the back.
• Glue the googly eyes and your yarn wrapped mummy is ready. You can tie or glue them like a garland on the yarn or just decorate it individually wherever you would like to.
Not only have you spent some creative time together making these yarn wrapped mummies with your kids, but also have helped in the development of their fine motor skills.
In conclusion, these kid-friendly, easy Halloween decorations are a nice way to spend some time with your kids. It’s a great way for parents and children to bond, get creative, and celebrate Halloween together. The best part, your home is going to be filled with some adorable and cute DIY Halloween decorations that have a personal touch, bringing out that warm and homely feeling. Besides, it is also an effective way to help develop your kid’s fine motor skills, bilateral coordination, critical thinking skills, etc.
Additionally, this is the time for some great Halloween deals that you would find online or even in your local stores, so keep an eye out for them. So, get ready to grab some craft supplies and start creating these easy and fun DIY Halloween decorations and some good memories with your kids.
Happy Halloween!
