🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

• ♻️ Environmental Thinking — Using natural or recycled materials in crafts begins to develop awareness that materials have a life beyond their original use — an early foundation for environmental stewardship and sustainable thinking.
• 👁️ Hand-Eye Coordination — Guiding scissors along a line, placing stickers exactly, and painting within a space all require the visual-motor integration that handwriting, sports, and detailed work depend on.
• 📋 Planning & Sequencing — Multi-step craft projects require children to think about what comes first, next, and last — building the procedural sequencing skills that underlie reading comprehension, mathematics, and everyday problem solving.
• 💪 Persistence & Resilience — Working through a craft that doesn't go as planned, fixing mistakes, and persisting to completion teaches children that effort — not talent — produces results, a mindset that predicts lifelong learning.

Halloween preschool crafts can be fun for the entire family. Gather around your family craft table and make some Halloween preschool craft memories with your preschooler. Your family can use Halloween preschool crafts to decorate your home for Halloween and make trick-or-treating more entertaining for the neighborhood children.

Featured Halloween Crafts

Paper Plate Preschool Halloween Pumpkin Mask
This Halloween mask is safer than those masks that attach to your preschooler's face. Use the basic pattern and your preschooler's imagination to create other masks s/he might enjoy.

Pillowcase Trick-or-Treat Bag Preschool Halloween Craft
Make a drawstring trick-or-treat bag from an old pillow case and half-inch cord. Use glow-in-the-dark fabric paint for extra Halloween fun.

Preschool Halloween Paper Bag Pinata
Your preschooler can make this simple pinata with nothing more than a paper grocery sack, orange paint, a marker, and some rope. Since it's easy to break this Preschool Paper bag pinata, it breaks quickly so preshoolers do not get bored.

Preschool Felt Ghost Hand Puppet
A simple basic hand puppet that is easy for your preschooler to make. No sewing involved. The puppet is put together with fabric glue.

Preschool Halloween Black Cat Hand Puppet
If you like the ghost hand puppet, you will love the Black Cat Hand Puppet. A fluffy chenille stick tail and green button eyes make this puppet a cute special friend for your perschooler long after Halloween is gone.

Five Little Pumpkins Preschool Finger Puppets
Your preschooler will love acting out this classic fingerplay with his/her very own finger puppets.

Intermediate Preschool Halloween Decoration Crafts

Uncarved Jack-O-Lantern Preschool Halloween Craft
Your preschooler can make his/her own Jack-o-lantern without a knife the big mess. Just use stickers to make a face and tape on yarn or raffia hair. No stickers for facial features? Make your own.

Veggie Jack-O-Lantern Preschool Halloween Craft
Broccoli for hair, a long green pepper for a nose, these and other vegetables can dress up a carved or uncarved pumpkin to make a fun and funny Halloween.

Preschool Mini Ghost Halloween Craft 
Make little ghosts from tissue paper and hang them around the house or in the Mini Ghost Mobile. These ghosts are very easy and inexpensive to make. Follow the instructions to make tissue paper or cloth ghosts of any size your material will allow.

Mini Ghost Mobile Halloween Preschool Craft
Help your preschooler make a mobile from his/her mini ghosts. Have fun deciding where to hang it. Will you hang it over your door to greet trick-or-treaters?

Black Pompom Spider Halloween Preschool Craft
A simple spider made of three sizes of black pompoms and chenille sticks. Tiny green pompoms make bugged out eyes and toothpick tips serve as fangs.

Friendly Black Spider Halloween Preschool Craft
Make a friendlier spider with two black paper plates and black chenille sticks. Hang her over a door, from a tree, or in your window.

Plastic Jar Jack-O-Lantern Halloween Preschool Craft
Your preschooler will love making this craft that is so very simple to do. All you need is a clean, dry plastic jar, glue, tissue paper, scissors and a light stick.

Paper Sack Luminaria Halloween Preschool Craft
Your preschooler with love this very simple Halloween preschool craft, but you may like to enlist your entire family to create a welcoming walkway to your front door with these glowing luminarias.

Advanced Preschool Halloween Decoration Crafts

Black Crow Halloween Preschool Craft
Make this easy black crow from a plastic foam ball glued to a plastic foam egg. Paint it black with tempera paint. Add a black poster board beak and chenille stick feet. You can even glue on black feathers if you like.

Floating Ghost Halloween Preschool Craft
Make a floating ghost for your yard or as window dressing. Shimmery fabric and round a balloon create a haunting effect when hung by fishing line.

Black Tissue Paper Roses Halloween Preschool Craft
Make a batch of black roses as a family craft and use them to enhance your Halloween decore.

Scarecrow Halloween Preschool Craft
Your preschooler can participate in this family project. Let everyone help decide how the Scarecrow will look and help put it together.

Preschool Family Halloween Display

Scarecrow and Company Preschool Halloween Display
Make your family scarecrow as friendly or scary as you like. A carved or decorated Jack-O-Lantern forms the head. Stuff old clothes from family closets or second hand stores with newspaper. Add straw or yellow raffia for a finishing touch. Add as many or as few items to the display as you like. One suggestion would be an artificial crow purchased from a craft store or you can make the Preschool Black Crow.

Around PreschoolRock.com

Halloween Witch Hat Ring Toss Game
Use an old witch costume to create a great Halloween party game for your preschooler party guests.

Bowling for Ghosts Halloween Game
With just a few supplies from around your house, you can entertain your Halloween party guests with a silly game of Bowling for Ghosts.

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I'm Margaret Studer, the Preschool Crafts writer for PreschoolRock.com. In addition to crafts, I enjoy writing, children, cooking, and cats. I love to hear from my readers, so please share your preschool craft ideas with me. If you have any suggestions, ideas, or questions about this site, please contact me.

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