Halloween crafts made easy! A collection of cute ideas you can make with everyday materials
“This year, I want to try making my own Halloween decorations…” If that’s how you feel, this article introduces craft ideas perfect for Halloween! We’ve focused on simple projects that you can easily start with everyday materials and enjoy making with your children.
Why not transform your room into a special space with Halloween-themed decorations like jack-o’-lanterns, bats, and ghosts? Most of the materials are easy to find, so you can give it a try with ease!
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Halloween crafts made easy! A collection of cute ideas you can make with everyday materials (41–50)
Black Cat of Halloween
This is a cute, shaggy black cat made with yarn and a toilet paper roll.
Toilet paper rolls are handy because you can use their round tube shape while easily cutting and gluing them.
Once the roll base is ready, wrap black yarn all around it.
Use glue to adjust and attach the head, body, and tail.
After forming the black cat’s body, attach felt ears and a hat with double-sided tape.
Finally, add a cute ribbon and bell, and stick on round-label eyes.
Your charming, fluffy black cats are complete!
A moving ghost toy
This is a handmade, cute ghost toy that you can move around freely.
It’s very easy to make.
First, decorate a paper cup to create the stage where the ghost will move.
Color it, draw illustrations, and finish it off with stickers if you like.
Next, cut out a ghost from construction paper.
Attach magnets to both a wooden spatula and the ghost.
Make sure to check the orientation of the magnets’ north and south poles so they don’t repel each other.
Once the ghost and the spatula stick together with the paper cup in between, your ghost is ready to fly freely around the world of the paper cup.
It’s also safe to make since it doesn’t involve any cutting with blades.
Moving wobbly ghost
A cute little ghost whose tongue moves up and down and is totally addictive.
You can make it easily with everyday materials.
First, draw the ghost’s face on a paper cup and cut out the mouth with a craft knife.
Prepare some red construction paper, cut a strip slightly narrower than the mouth, and round off one end to make the tongue.
Take another paper cup, tape the tongue to it, and fold the tongue upward.
Place the cup with the cutout mouth over the top, then thread the tongue through the mouth, and you’re done.
When you raise and lower the cups, the ghost’s tongue moves up and down, giving it an adorably lifelike expression.
A tongue-wagging ghost you can press and play with
A push-and-play “tongue-out ghost” that’s perfect for a Halloween craft.
It comes together in no time using everyday materials you can find at 100-yen shops.
The steps are simple: cut a mouth-shaped slit in a paper cup, then make the tongue by trimming a strip of red paper slightly narrower than the slit and adjusting the length as you shape it.
Use double-sided tape to attach it inside the cup, and add sticker eyes to finish.
When you gently press the cheek area of the cup, the red paper pops out like a lolling tongue, making it look as if the ghost is sticking its tongue out.
Give it a try!
Halloween Cup Wrapped with Yarn
Make Jack-o’-lantern, monster, and Frankenstein cups using yarn and paper cups.
First, apply double-sided tape to the paper cup and punch two holes near the rim.
Peel off the backing paper, then wrap the yarn around and around the cup.
Create facial features from construction paper or use stickers to add expressions.
Choose two pipe cleaners, twist them together into a bundle, and thread them through the holes you made in the cup.
Shape them like a handle, and you’re all set.
You can hang them from the ceiling or fill them with treats to give as gifts—perfect for livening up Halloween in all sorts of settings.
Ghost Halloween decoration
When you look at the finished piece, you’d never guess it was made from a toilet paper roll, right? This is a Halloween ghost decoration made using a toilet paper roll and felt.
The basic process is to make the body from the roll, attach felt to it, and then add wings and a tail made of felt—that sort of thing.
You can make a jack-o’-lantern ghost, a bat, a black cat, a skeleton, and more.
Toilet paper rolls are basically scrap, and you can buy felt at the dollar store, so it’s great that it doesn’t cost much!
Spiderweb Darts
How many balls can you get to stick? This is a spiderweb dart game made with a paper plate and masking tape.
Stretch masking tape across the paper plate to create a spiderweb pattern.
The key is to attach the tape with the sticky side facing out.
Once the target is ready, it’s time to make the balls.
Crumple up some tissues and wrap them with vinyl tape in your favorite color.
Then just throw the balls at the spiderweb.
For a Halloween touch, draw faces on the balls to make them look like jack-o’-lanterns, or have fun creating original balls by drawing faces together with your child.
