Lots of cute ghosts! Halloween ghost paper cup craft
Halloween features many different characters, but among them, ghosts really stand out—and they’re also easy to incorporate into crafts.
Many children may find ghosts scary, but the ones you make as crafts are all charming and cute.
In this article, we’ll introduce craft ideas for making ghosts using paper cups.
We’ve gathered ideas you can start on a whim, so be sure to try making them and have fun!
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[Lots of cute ghosts!] Halloween Ghost Paper Cup Crafts (11–20)
Monster bucket made of yarn
These are Halloween cups made with paper cups and yarn.
The method is simple: just wrap your favorite color of yarn around a paper cup with double-sided tape on it! Then add a pipe cleaner as a handle and attach face parts like eyes and a mouth to finish.
If you use white yarn, it becomes a mummy-style ghost; if you use purple or yellow-green yarn, it turns into a cute, colorful monster.
And in true Halloween fashion, they’re practical too—you can use them to hold candy!
A ghost popping out of a paper cup
Let’s make a ghost toy that’s perfect for Halloween! First, poke a hole in a paper cup big enough for a straw to pass through.
Next, cut off the handles of a plastic grocery bag and draw a ghost face on it with a pen.
After drawing the face, insert a straw about halfway into the bag and seal the bag’s opening tightly.
Thread the other end of the straw (the side not inside the bag) through the hole in the paper cup, then tuck the bag portion into the cup—done! When you blow into the straw, the ghost pops out of the paper cup.
Ghost Candy Bag
Let’s make a candy bag that looks great despite the simple steps.
First, cut off the rim of a paper cup and mark the drinking side so it’s divided into 16 sections.
Then draw straight lines from each mark down to the bottom of the cup, and make cuts along those lines with scissors.
Finally, take each strip that forms and tuck it into the neighboring slit, folding as you go—repeat this for all the strips.
That completes the main body of the candy bag.
To finish, use tape to attach the rim you cut off at the beginning to make a handle, and draw a ghost face on the body.
Done! It’s a practical craft you can use to hold candy or as a small container.
Chochin Obake
When you think of Halloween, foreign ghosts usually take center stage, but why not try making a Japanese-style paper lantern ghost (chōchin-obake)? First, attach ghost eyes to one paper cup, and a red origami tongue to another paper cup.
Then tape the two paper cups together.
Finally, connect the cups to a pair of chopsticks using twine, and you’re done.
When you hold the chopsticks and shake them, the lantern ghost will sway back and forth.
Since there aren’t many steps and the tasks are simple, small children can join in too.
Paper Cup Monster
Paper cup monsters, made by decorating a paper cup base, have no complicated steps, so kids can enjoy making them.
The process is simple: just decorate the cup with a ghostly face.
You can stick on googly-eye stickers from a dollar store, or use pipe cleaners and washi tape to make facial and body parts and attach them—simple tasks that make it easy to keep trying new craft ideas.
Display the finished monsters somewhere they can be seen every day!
Halloween Jack-in-the-box
It sounds so fun and exciting that you can make a jack-in-the-box using a paper cup! This jack-in-the-box consists of three parts: an outer cover made by decorating a paper cup, a pop-up pumpkin toy, and a paper cup with a mechanism that makes the pumpkin pop out.
The mechanism part, in particular, has quite a few steps, so it’s best for an adult to help with that section.
Once it’s finished, have an adult demonstrate the pop-up, and then let the children make the pumpkin pop out and play with it themselves.
[Lots of cute ghosts!] Halloween ghost paper cup crafts (21–30)
Easy: Paper Cup Headband
A headband made by arranging a paper cup.
Paint the paper cup and attach an elastic band around the rim.
For example, paint it orange for a jack-o’-lantern or black for a bat.
Use origami or construction paper to finish the piece.
Just imagining the headband perched cutely on the head feels heartwarming.
Since paper cups are easy to find, it seems simple to make.
It’s a headband that even small children can enjoy making, whether painting with paints or using construction paper and origami.
