[For 4-Year-Olds] Fun to Make! A Collection of Halloween Craft Ideas
It’s the Halloween season that 4-year-olds love! Here, we’ll introduce Halloween craft ideas you can enjoy together with 4-year-olds.
We’ve gathered only projects you can move and play with, like spiders and ghosts.
They’re made with familiar materials and include lots of engaging tricks—blowing air to make them move or using the power of rubber bands—to really grab children’s interest.
Through making these, kids can grow their creativity and expressive skills, while the excitement and thrills spread as they work with friends.
It’s sure to be a special time where everyone can share the fun of Halloween.
Because the children’s creations are treated as works (artworks), we use the term “seisaku” (制作) in the text.
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[For 4-Year-Olds] Fun to Make! A Collection of Halloween Craft Ideas (31–40)
Halloween ghost
Speaking of autumn, kids just love Halloween, don’t they? How about a ghost craft that 1-year-olds can enjoy making? Prepare the parts like the ghost’s eyes, mouth, and hands in advance, and put double-sided tape on the back.
First, attach a sponge to the end of a chopstick and secure it with a rubber band.
Dip the sponge in white paint and use it to draw a big ghost on black construction paper.
Next, peel the backing off the tape on the parts and let the children stick them on.
Let them freely enjoy both drawing the ghost and placing the parts! You’ll end up with very unique and adorable ghosts.
Halloween pumpkin and bats
Let’s try making pumpkins and bats using toilet paper rolls.
Following the guidelines, cut the main body pieces and the bat wings out of construction paper.
Attach the pre-made facial parts to the main body piece, wrap it around the toilet paper roll, and you’re done.
For the bat, don’t forget to attach the wings.
If the children are around four years old, they might enjoy trying to cut out the smaller facial parts themselves.
Some materials or shapes can be hard to cut, so please support the children to make the activity easier for them when needed.
Halloween ghost decoration
This is a perfect craft for Halloween wall decorations or hanging ornaments! First, stick the eyes and tongue of a ghost, along with a hat folded from origami, onto a paper cup.
Next, attach yarn to Halloween motifs made from construction paper and connect and secure them to the paper cup.
The origami hat might be a bit complicated for three-year-olds, so teachers can prepare them in advance.
You can also have fun customizing the motifs—pumpkins, ghosts, witches, and more.
Through this activity, why not make Halloween even more exciting together with the children?
Halloween candy box
Here’s an idea for a candy box to make before Halloween.
Prepare a milk carton cut 10–12 cm up from the bottom, orange felt to cover the bottom and sides of the carton, and cut out facial features from black felt in advance.
Have the kids glue the felt pieces onto the carton.
Once all the felt is attached, trim any excess with scissors, then tape on a string so it can be worn around the neck to finish.
Since it can come off easily as is, tie a knot at the ends of the string before attaching it.
Halloween Puppet
https://www.tiktok.com/@hoikushi_bank/video/7008469176218094850Here’s an introduction to chatty puppets: a ghost mummy and a ghost pumpkin.
First, fold construction paper and round off the four corners with scissors.
Use a felt-tip pen to draw a mummy pattern and add eyes.
Attach a red paper mouth, make the puppet’s handle, and in no time your chatty puppet is ready! Make the pumpkin ghost puppet the same way.
Be sure to try making them and play pretend conversations! Even kids who are scared of Halloween ghosts will feel at ease with such cute, talkative ghosts!
[For 4-year-olds] Fun to Make! A Collection of Halloween Craft Ideas (41–50)
Finger painting
Finger painting, which lets you create wonderfully original artworks using just your fingertips, is a great Halloween craft because even very young children can do it.
Trace shapes like ghosts and pumpkins on construction paper, then dab paint onto them with your fingertips at random to make colorful art.
It’s so easy that you can adapt it not only for Halloween, but also for occasions like Tanabata and Christmas.
It’s a craft we highly recommend trying—your child’s freely colored creations will brighten any event.
Halloween bag made from a plastic bottle
When it comes to Halloween, treats are an absolute must for kids! Here, we’ll introduce a simple “Halloween candy bucket made from a plastic bottle” that you can make with a 2-year-old.
The prep is easy: first, cut off the bottom part of a plastic bottle.
Next, punch holes to thread a ribbon through.
Wrap the cut edge with vinyl tape or similar so children don’t hurt their hands.
Then just put double-sided tape on the Halloween decorations you’ve made from origami or construction paper! After that, thread the ribbon together with the kids and let them add any decorations they like, and it’s done!
