Fun Halloween Kids Games & Craft Ideas

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Halloween Kids’ Games & Craft Ideas

Pumpkin carving

This one is an obvious choice for most Halloween parties. While kids should not be given the knife, they can be a part of pumpkin carving. Adults can remove the top of the pumpkin and children can take out the flesh. Let them design their own frightening pumpkin face using a marker pen and adults can carve the face. Don’t forget to award the spookiest face.

Don’t like to carve pumpkins? Take a look at our no-carving pumpkin ideas here.

Scarecrow or fun ghosts decorations

If you have lots of children coming over for the party, scarecrow building contest can be fun. Make two teams and handover each a bag filled with fake straws, cornstalks, old shoes, jeans, old shirts, patches and straw hats. Each team can designate one person to become a scarecrow. They can use the items in the bag to make their scarecrow. The winning team can be awarded a prize.

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Halloween Kids’ Games & Craft Ideas

Glitter Pumpkins

Spread newspapers on the ground and handover each child a mini pumpkin. Provide them with craft glue, paintbrushes, and glitters in different colors. Let them use the paintbrushes to coat their pumpkins with glue. Finally, ask them to sprinkle the glitter over their pumpkins. After it dries out, they can take their decorative piece back home as a Halloween party memento.

Halloween is certainly one of the most exciting times of the year for kids. So, don’t forget to make it more fun and memorable with these simple and affordable game ideas.

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How to Make Halloween Specimen Jars and Candles

Halloween is just around the corner and if you still have Halloween décor shopping left to do, you will love this DIY. Create spooky candles at half the price right in the comfort of your home. Creating spooky candles and fun apothecary jars or specimen jars is a fun activity for the kids to keep them busy over the weekend.

Watch a Halloween Specimen Jars Video from Martha Stewart:

Visit the video link: How to Make Halloween Candles  & Halloween Specimen Jars

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Spooky Halloween Candles Materials:

White pillar candles

White tissue paper

Spray glue

Printer

Hair dryer

Halloween Candles Directions:

1. Search the internet for some spooky Halloween graphics and clip art. Choose images like bats, skulls, spiders and ghosts. Resize the images on your computer according to the size of your candles. You can play around with images and even use your creativity to create a collage of these graphics on your candles.

2. Next, stick your tissue paper onto some printer paper with the help of spray glue and trim the edges. Remember to use a very light spray of glue, this is to ensure that the tissue paper does not crumple in the printer if printed on its own. Set the paper in the printer such that that the graphics are printed on the tissue paper.

3. Once the graphics are printed, carefully peel off the tissue from the printer paper. Cut the graphics as close as possible.

4. Place the cut images on your candle. The tissue paper will stick easily because of the leftover glue. Finally, pull out your hair dryer and turn it on the hot setting. Hold the hairdryer close to the image for a few minutes. The candle wax will start melting slowly with the heat and the image will easily set in with the wax. Smooth the melted edges and let it solidify again.

5. The edges will disappear and the picture will appear as though it is a part of the candle.

Set the candles on your mantel and decorate around it with other spooky Halloween decorating ideas. Once you have mastered the final step you can experiment with old vintage photographs, much more intricate graphics and on different colored candles.

Thinking about making a Haunted House for your Halloween party? Take a look at these tips!

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5 Simple Halloween Decorating Ideas for your Home

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1. Halloween Spiderwebs

Purchase artificial spiderwebs from party supply stores and drape them across your porch. Place miniature strobe lights or flickering candles behind the webs. The flashing of the lights or candles together with the webs will lend an eerie affect to the outer area of your home.

2. Halloween Decorating Ideas – Ghostly Furniture

Cover your furniture with white sheets as if you have left for the season. You can also remove a few pieces of furniture to give a complete moved out effect. Add a spider web and other creepy items to make your house look haunted or abandoned.

3. Unique Halloween Pumpkin Decorating Tips:

You can never go wrong with traditional Halloween decoration. Simply carve a frightening or scary looking face on a pumpkin and put either a glow stick or a candle inside for a spooky effect. You can place jack-o-lantern either outside of the home or as a centerpiece for your dinner table.

Image via – Etsy – Sara Luke Creative – Halloween Pumpkin Decals

4. Halloween Decorating Ideas for your Home

Dig out your dusty photos from the past or print 19^th century portraits online. Make a collage or put them in different frames to create a display. Don’t forget to light white taper candles in front of the gallery for ghostly effect. In your front yard, hang plastic skeletons from the tree for a spooky, macabre effect. You can also use this decorating idea indoors by hanging mini skeletons from a chandelier.

Image via – Etsy – Banner Cheer JR – Halloween Mantel Banner

 5. Use Halloween Colors in your Interiors

If you prefer a more minimalist Halloween consider using Halloween decorations such as a banner, sign, balloons and simple orange, black and white decor. From black cats and bats to Halloween wreaths hung over your fireplace, transform your Halloween home this season!

Image via: Etsy – Stef’s Simple Splendors– Halloween Burlap Witch Wreath

You don’t have to spend a fortune for fabulous Halloween decorations. Whether you want to keep it simple or plan to turn your house into a creepy castle, use these budget-decorating tips to create a praise-worthy Halloween display.

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Simple Halloween Ideas with No Pumpkin Carving

Gather Craft Items to Avoid Pumpkin Carving :

Look around your home; your craft room; or in your sewing basket. Gather items such as buttons, yarn, string, elastic, pom poms, glitter, fabric, left over paint, duct tape….get the idea? Essentially, grab anything you have and pile it all in front of you and your purchased pumpkin. You will also want to gather some glue, or short pushpins. Here are some inspiring ideas for all the items you may have collected:

By gluing buttons on your pumpkin for eyes, nose, and mouth, you have a simple, yet creative pumpkin.  Buttons can also be used to spell out scary words across your pumpkin. Take a look at this photo where buttons spell out ‘Boo!’ Use your imagination to spell scary messages across your pumpkin.

We love these pom pom pumpkin decorating ideas from BHG.

For a cute and cuddly pumpkin, cover it with colorful pom poms! Simply glue pom poms all over the pumpkin – voila! Your pumpkin is turned into a cuddly creature.

Pumpkin Decorating Ideas: Use Duct Tape

There are so many styles of duct tape on the market right now. In fact, decorating with duct tape is a big trend. Browse through your local craft store for a variety of duct tape styles. If you don’t want to purchase new duct tape, try using solid white tape and paste it Kris-cross all over your pumpkin in a random pattern, draw some small black eyes, or use black buttons for the eyes ; step back and admire your mummified pumpkin!

These duct tape pumpkin decorating ideas are a great no pumpkin carving idea from Home Talk!

Pumpkin Painting Ideas for your Halloween Pumpkin

What better way to make your pumpkins match your homes décor then by painting it with left over wall color? Grab that paint can from the garage ̶ you know the one that has that perfect color that you found for your kitchen or den ̶ then slather this color all over your pumpkin, allow to dry and presto – you have a pumpkin customized to your home.

Style Caster features pretty and cute pumpkin painting ideas here.

Try Pumpkin Stencils using Pumpkin Painting Ideas:

The great thing about these last minute décor ideas is that you only have to spend the few dollars on your pumpkin, the rest of the items can all be found in your very own home. Have fun searching your home for ideas to create your own creative pumpkin masterpiece.

For more Halloween Ideas for your home take a look at these.

Tips for Throwing a Creative Halloween Party for Kids

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Go for Selective Halloween Invitations

If you do not keep the invitation list short, you will have to spend more time cleaning the mess than enjoying the party. Hosting a large number of young party revelers can be a real pain in the back. So, cut the guest list to a convenient number and arrange for something creative to keep the kids busy. It will be a win-win situation for both of you.

Halloween Party Kids: Homemade Invitation Cards

Allow your kids to make the halloween invitation cards. It will keep them busy and they will be happy too to help you in arranging the party. Tell them to use their creative skill to come up with ideas about the party and the invitations. The invitations can be made and sent days before the party. Kids can make owl-, candy-, or any bird-shaped invitation cards. They can also draw pictures of bats, spiders, skulls, or jack-o’-lanterns on the cards.

Halloween Party for Kids Decorations Ideas

Think from your kids’ perspective while it comes to decorating the home for the party. Take their advices too if needed. You have to consider their age too because a party for 4-5 year olds will be different from the one arranged for 8-11 year olds.

A life-size singing zombie can stand at the front porch to welcome the guests. Combine some handmade goodies with some spooky displays like bubbling cauldrons, big spider webs, flying bats, etc. Be careful about using real burning candles, especially you are going to host a houseful of children. It will be safe to use battery-operated candles.

A themed party can also be a perfect option to celebrate Halloween. It can be a scary-themed party full with zombies, ghosts, and ghouls or a friendly jack-o’-lantern party. However, do not stuff the house with scary things if your guests are very young.

Halloween Party for Kids and Food Items

The food items should be delicious and attractive enough to please the eye and tongue of the kids. With a little bit extra effort, you can make Halloween-themed sweet and baked items. Pirate-themed cakes, cupcakes with spider-shaped topping, and drinks served on bat-imprinted glasses can make the little revelers interested about the foods. Add some fruits and veggies to the menu too so that your little guests do not have to go home on a sugar high. Add spook appeal to them to tempt the kids. Keep the healthy items on the outermost edges of the dining table so that the kids have to pass them to get access to the sugary snacks at the center of the table.

Try our favorite Halloween party recipe ideas

Use these children Halloween party tips will help your kids enjoy the holiday ahead! Looking for more Halloween ideas? Look to Stagetecture for treats, party ideas, decorations and more in our Halloween Ideas section of Stagetecture.

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Halloween Recipes:

Need some ghoulish recipes and treats for your guests or trick-or-treaters that drop by? Look to these Halloween recipes for fun treats for all.

Halloween Party Ideas & Decorations:

Decorate your front porch, door, party and more with these fun ideas for Halloween. Whether you like to make a haunted house or just want to add some festive colors… look to Stagetecture for Halloween decorating ideas!

Halloween Costumes:

From pets to last minute Halloween children’s costumes – look here for creative ideas they will love to wear!

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Today we continue Stagetecture’s feature ‘Olioboard Inspiration‘. Last week you enjoyed – ‘Festive Kids’ Halloween Costume Party‘ from Adele Baumann Healey. This week I feature Connie Parker who is a member of the Facebook Olioboard Fan Room group and if your front porch still needs some spooky ideas for Halloween, take a look at these creative ideas to greet trick-or-treaters!

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Olioboard Inspiration #43

‘Spooky Halloween Porch Ideas’    Connie Parker

Planning a Halloween Party? Make sure your guests don’t arrive at the wrong house by welcoming them up the path to the front door with style! Halloween décor has changed greatly over the years with many new and exciting props. But lets think about that party after the little goblins have gone home to bed. Why not decorate your yard and entrance to please the adults too? Pick a theme and have fun with it.

Pumpkins are a universal symbol for Halloween so why not use them! If you don’t like the mess of carving them up, try embellishing them with sequins and paint. You won’t need a lot of paint if you keep them simple. Sequins, glitter and other gems can be purchased almost anywhere. A little dab of glue and you’ve created a designer masterpiece! You don’t have to be an artist with these little lovelies, just try to keep your focus on the over all appeal of the end result. Too much is just plain too much! If you focus on the walkway up to your door and keep the rest of the yard in darkness you manage to create a focal area. Easy on the eye and welcoming!

Decorating your Halloween porch

Hunt for large gourds to help with your design and place them along the path amongst the others. These too can be decorated if you choose, but the colours and textures of gourds are pretty wonderful sometimes and won’t need a thing added.

For those who like a lighted pumpkin, use an apple corer to punch holes in a pretty pattern and place candles inside. No struggling to create a face needed! The flickering flame will add to a ghostly atmosphere. You will have to carve out the inside of Mr Pumpkin for this one.

Non flammable candle paper bags can be purchased many places to help with your lighting. One small tea candle placed inside and voilà! Use caution though, and place them away from any flammable items.

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The ghostly presence of cheesecloth soaked in watered down glue (like Elmers) can be hung to greet your guests. Place a craft ball inside for the head and a bent hanger to create the arms and let dry. You might like to add some glow in the dark paint for an added spooky effect. Remove when stiff and hang from your porch or a tree.

Lighting and scary pathway ideas

Lanterns made from painted mason jars with a candle inside and placed in the windows are all you need to create a glowing presence. Make sure your interior is dimly lit to enhance the features on your path and to create an air of mystery about your home itself.

These days automated spooks and mannequins can be found and what great fun for little trick or treaters too! If that isn’t in your budget, dress to impress!

If you dread the clean up after the party, send each of your guests home with one of your fabulously decorated pumpkins!

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Now we all like to see the Jack-O-Lanterns during this time of the season.  For some amazing reason those carved and lit pumpkins bring joy and warmth along with a little nervousness to all of our hearts.  Halloween Kids’ DIY Crafts are a great ideas for this time of year. But have you ever thought about changing up the common style of the traditional Jack-O-Lantern?  Well, here are some subtly scary ideas for you to give your Jack-O-Lanterns this Halloween.  Just take a look below and see how they work out for you and your children…Happy Haunting!

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Wall Mounted Halloween Jack-o-Lantern

The kids are usually encouraged not to use the walls for their arts and crafts but this craft isn’t permanent and the pieces come off just as quick as they went on.  All you will need for the supplies are: self-adhesive sheet, orange construction paper, scissors, and black construction paper.  Cut out the shape of a pumpkin in the orange construction paper.  Then stick some of the self-adhesive paper to the orange shape.  Next, cut a stem and some crazy facial features from the black construction paper and again stick the adhesive paper to each piece.  When everything has been cut and stuck together then start piecing your crazy wall mounted Jack-O-Lantern.

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Halloween Kids’ DIY Crafts

The kids are usually encouraged not to use the walls for their arts and crafts but this craft isn’t permanent and the pieces come off just as quick as they went on.  All you will need for the supplies are: self-adhesive sheet, orange construction paper, scissors, and black construction paper.  Cut out the shape of a pumpkin in the orange construction paper.  Then stick some of the self-adhesive paper to the orange shape.  Next, cut a stem and some crazy facial features from the black construction paper and again stick the adhesive paper to each piece.  When everything has been cut and stuck together then start piecing your crazy wall mounted Jack-O-Lantern.

House O Lantern

Make your entire home a Jack-O-Lantern.  All you need are corrugate cardboard, pencils (or markers), craft knife, glue stick, orange tissue paper, painter’s (or masking tape), and lamp.  First, take the measurements of the windows that you intend on using and cut the corrugated cardboard to fit tightly in them.  Then draw a face on the cardboard then cut the pieces of the face out with the craft knife (parent’s job).  Use a glue stick for the interior sides of the cardboard and cover the openings with orange tissue paper.  Set the cardboard in the window and use the painters’ or masking tape to hold it in place then place a lamp near the window to light your house-o-lantern.

Image via: Spoonful

Jar-O-Lanterns

Create a use out of left over jars; Jar-O-Lanterns.  The supplies you will need are jars, orange or red orange paint, yellow glossy paper, glue, and votive candles.  Take some jars of different sizes and paint the outside of them with a deep orange color (or red orange to get a darker color of the hue).  Then let the jars sit to dry, take the yellow gloss paper and cut out 3 triangular shapes and 1 half circular shape for each jar that you are going to use.  When the paint has dried take the cut pieces and glue a face on each jar.  Then put one votive candle in each jar and let the parent light them on Halloween night.

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Chair-O-Lanterns

Turn your chair into a Jack-O-Lantern for the Halloween treat.  You will need a pillow case, black construction paper (or felt), a pair of scissors, and glue.  Take the black construction paper or felt and cut out a pair of eyes and half circle for the smile.  Then take the pillow case (if possible purchase an orange pillow case or you can dye it orange) and begin to glue the eyes and smile on the pillow case.  After the pieces have dried put the pillow case on the chair with the face set on the back of the chair.

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 Jack-O-Lanterns are fun and exciting.  But sometimes they can get a little mundane and ordinary so here are some ways to invite that excitement and happiness back into this craft.  So have fun exploring and creating your own “O-Lanterns” and Happy Halloween!

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Today we continue Stagetecture’s feature ‘Olioboard Inspiration‘. Last week you enjoyed – ‘Kitchen Creativity: Cooking with Kids‘ from Lisa Ketz. This week I feature Adele Baumann Healey who is a member of the Facebook Olioboard Fan Room group and she is getting you ready for Halloween! See how her festive kids’ halloween costume party gives creative ideas for you and your family! Whether they enjoy trick-or-treating or just dressing up with friends, her board will truly inspire.

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Olioboard Inspiration #42

‘Festive Kids’ Halloween Costume Party’    Adele Baumann Healey

It’s that time of year again – Halloween, where excited children (young and old) prepare to pretend to be something they aren’t, from heroes to Tinker Bell, monsters to butterflies.  Let your own inner child take hold and plan a costume party for your children and their friends – don’t forget to invite their parents or a few of your own friends as well.  Costumes highly encouraged of course!

Kids’ Costume Party decorating 

While decorating for a Halloween party, always consider the age of the children that will be attending.  The worst scenario imaginable would be to have a young child run screaming from the house in pure terror.  Remember, the long nights of nightmares will be shared with you in great detail from the sleepless parents for years to come.

For a children’s party, I would highly suggest you forgo using the tempting candles offered this time of year.  Excited kids high on sugar will not be as concerned about open flames as their adult counterparts. Instead, opt for enough light in the house or venue to illuminate all the fun Halloween lanterns, wall plaques, spider webs, and of course the tables loaded with treats.

Halloween costume party treat ideas

Treats for the kids need not be the normal chips and hotdogs.  Why not have your own family help prepare for the party by having a group cooking evening where even the littlest child can help drop sprinkles on cupcakes or veggies on individual pizzas.  Search the web.  Everywhere you look there are clever and tasty ideas for children’s Halloween finger food, from pretzel and chocolate spiders to mummy pigs in a blanket, to ghost banana pops.  Most are simple to make, and depending on the age of your children or grandchildren, easy for the kids to be included.

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Kids’ Halloween party activities

A great idea (although potentially messy, so have plenty of paper towels handy) is to stock up on small pumpkins and let the kids paint their own special party favor jack-o-lantern.

Have the kids put stickers on their pumpkins and then use washable paint and paint brushes, or finger paints and let the little ones smear it all over the pumpkins covering the stickers. Let the paint dry some and then remove stickers.  Add Glow in the Dark Sparkly glue to the spots not painted and let dry.  During the day, they’ll have colorful, sparkly pumpkins and at night, the pumpkins will glow!  The older the group of kids, the more detailed the painting can become and even teens would like to create a ghoulish pumpkin face.

Have fun, enjoy the noise and forget about real life for a short time, and start planning that Halloween costume party now!

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The way of celebration and decoration on Halloween decorating has changed a lot. Apart from traditional items, Halloween decoration also embrace glitter, mirrors, candelabras, and more. New colors have been added to the typical orange and black color schemes. Check out these ideas to see what you can try in your home on Halloween this year.

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Pumpkins

Pumpkins are an integral part of autumn and Halloween decorations. The great thing is that you can place them anywhere – inside or outside your home. Place two long, ascending rows of pumpkins on your staircase. White pumpkins will look great if the stairs are black. Make the decoration more attractive by painting images of creepy insects on a few pumpkins.

Paint chalkboard circles on a few pumpkins and draw some images on them with a fresh piece of chalk. You can draw the faces of cats, witches, or even Mr. Jack-o’-Lantern. After that, make decorative pieces with them. For example, hang a Halloween banner and make a craft piece under it by filling a pitcher with fall branches and arranging mini pumpkins on a bed of leaves at the base. You can also place candy corn vases and mini pumpkins on the fireplace mantel and hang a string of colorful maple leaves above them.

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Spooky Decorations

Wire a faux crow onto an old candlestick and set it on a bed made of pumpkins and colorful fall leaves. Add a Halloween card or place a skull-like showpiece on the set-up. You can also make a spooky set-up by surrounding birdcages with small-eyed blackbirds. Create a chilling effect by decorating it with fake spider webs, bats, bugs, gourds, and dried moss. Decorate a chandelier with faux spider webs and plastic spiders.

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Bring in Halloween Traditional Colors

Bringing the traditional Halloween colors to the home will allow you to celebrate this holiday without spending much. Buy laces of multiple colors, attach them to the walls, and write Halloween messages on a framed chalkboard.

Decorate your dining table by placing red and white cupcakes on black candelabras. Add sparkle with small green and orange pumpkins; small bags filled with bright candies; red apples on a black ‘poison’ pot; spider wine glasses; and a couple of hard resin books. Give final touch to such an arrangement by embellishing with plastic spiders, stickers, and laces.

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Hallowen Decorating – Add a Candelabra

Candelabras are inexpensive, easy to find, and can be added to any Halloween decoration scheme. Buy multiple candelabras and paint them with multiple colors. Pair them with tall candles and candy jars. Put your lollipops and gumdrops on the jars. In fact, the combination of tall candelabras and colorful candy jars will give your place a glamorous vibe.

The holiday décor and design should harmonize with the style of your home. These thoughtful and creative decorations will definitely add style and appeal to your home.

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