🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

• 📐 Spatial Reasoning — Three-dimensional crafts — paper folding, cardboard construction, clay sculpting — develop the spatial intelligence children need for geometry, engineering, and understanding how physical objects relate in space.
• 💬 Vocabulary Expansion — Craft activities introduce rich domain-specific vocabulary: fold, crease, overlap, layer, press, symmetrical, transparent. Children who acquire craft vocabulary develop stronger descriptive language across all contexts.
• 🧠 Pre-Writing Skills — Drawing, tracing, and mark-making with a variety of tools develops the grip strength, pencil control, and visual-motor precision that handwriting requires — making craft time genuine writing preparation.
• 🖐️ Fine Motor Skills — Cutting, gluing, folding, and manipulating craft materials directly exercises the small hand muscles and finger precision required for handwriting and other fine-detail tasks.

The Mini Ghost Preschool Halloween Craft is very easy and inexpensive to make. Make little ghosts from tissue paper and hang them around the house or hang them on the Mini Ghost Mobile for a charming decoration. Follow the basic instructions for the Mini Ghost Preschool Halloween Craft to make tissue paper or cloth ghosts of any size your material will allow.

Materials You Will Need

White tissue paper cut into squares (any size you would like the ghosts to be)
White tissue paper scraps for stuffing the head
Rubber band or twist tie
Fine point marker
Fishing line or strong thread for hanging
Paper clip, opened to look like an “S”

How You Make it

Step 1:
If your tissue paper is rectangular, lay it out with the short sides at the top and bottom. Fold down the top left corner, bringing the side down diagonally until what was the top is aligned with the right side of the sheet of tissue paper. Make sure it is lined up exactly. Smooth the fold. 

Step 2:
Cut along the bottom edge of the folded section, removing the part of the tissue paper that is not folded double. Use these scraps to stuff the head of the ghost. What you have left should look like a triangle. Open it up and it will be a square.

Step 3:
Gather the center of the square into a circle with one hand to make a pocket.

Step 4:
Stuff the pocket with tissue paper scraps forming a ball with tissue paper all around.

Step 5:
Close this ball with a rubber band or twist tie.

Step 6:
Draw a face with on the ghost with a fine tipped marker.

Step 7: 
Wrap the fishing line or thread around the “neck” of the ghost. Tie the other end to an opened paper clip. Hang your ghost from a lamp shade, a curtain rod, or any other place you would like.

Helpful Tips for Parents

Tip 1:
These ghosts may also be made of white light-weight fabric. Use ghosts made of fabric outdoors.

Tip 2:
Fishing line might be difficult for some preschoolers to handle. If that is the case, they can use string or yarn or whatever they can handle.

Tip 3:
Your preschooler can make theses ghosts any size that the paper will accommodate. Try making some mini ghosts from 4-inch squares.

Tip 4:
Facial tissues are the perfect size for small ghosts if you want to save the trouble of cutting.

Suggested Uses for Halloween Ghosts

1. Hang them anywhere you feel your home needs a little extra haunting -- from mirrors, head boards, or the window sills.

2: Hang them in your windows, so neighbors can see them from the street.

3. Use them as part of Scarecrow and Company Preschool Halloween Porch Display on the Preschool Family Crafts Page.

4. Make a Mini Ghost Mobile from a coat hanger, black thread, and ghosts made from  8-inch tissue squares

5. Mount them on the blunt end of wooden skewers and stick the pointed end of the skewers into the top of your jack-o-lantern to look as if they are haunting your pumpkin.

6. Make Halloween lapel pins by gluing fabric mini ghosts onto pin backs.

Have Any Suggestions About These Ghosts?

Do you have a suggestion about how to use these ghosts? Please send it in using the submission form. If your idea is used, you will receive credit for it on the website.

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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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