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3 Preschool Halloween Crafts

October 12, 2013 by OneMommy

 

If you have young children, or you work with preschoolers, the start of fall probably makes you think of fall crafts and activities you can do with the kids.  Pumpkins, ghosts, and spider crafts are perfect for the season.   When it comes to preschool Halloween crafts, these are three of our favorites.

3 Preschool Halloween Crafts: simple pumpkin crafts and Purple People Eater Craft

3 Preschool Halloween Crafts

Skip the scary crafts.  These Halloween crafts are perfect for preschoolers.

Funny Faced Pumpkinspreschooler Halloween craft

Materials Needed:

  • Orange Construction Paper
  • Old Magazines
  • Scissors and Gluesticks

This one is so simple.   Cut a variety of pumpkin shapes from orange construction paper.  Then add eyes, noses, and mouths that you’ve cut out from magazines.  For toddlers and preschoolers I recommend cutting out eyes, noses, and mouths ahead of time so they have a selection to choose from.  Older kids can flip through magazine pages and cut out their own items.

Related Post:  Jack O’ Lantern Collages at Reading Confetti

 

 

Pop Up Pumpkinpreschooler Halloween craft

Materials Needed:

  • Craft Sticks
  • Orange Construction Paper
  • Paper Cups
  • Halloween Stickers
  • Scissors and Gluesticks

This preschool Halloween craft is one of our favorites.  

To begin with, cut a small slit (large enough to slide the craft stick through) at the bottom of your paper cup.  This is a step for the adult to do.

Cut out a small pumpkin shape from the orange construction paper.  This can be decorated with a Jack’O Lantern face if desired.  Glue the pumpkin to one end of the craft stick.

Use stickers to decorate the paper cup.  Stick the end of the craft stick into the paper cup’s slit, and pull the pumpkin down into the cup.  Your child can pull the pumpkin up and down with the stick so it hides in the cup and then pops up.  So fun!

 

Purple People Eater Puppetkids Halloween craft

Materials Needed:

  • Craft Sticks
  • Purple Construction Paper
  • Other Colors of Construction Paper
  • Wiggly Eyes
  • Markers
  • Scissors and Gluestick

After listening to the Kidz Bop Halloween CD (affiliate link) for the 100th time, we just had to make a Purple People Eater Puppet!

Just like in the song, you need one eye, one horn and wings (from construction paper) for your flying purple people eater.  Cut simple monster shapes from purple construction paper.  Have your child glue on wings, horn, wiggly eye and use the markers to add a face to their monster.

To turn it into a puppet, glue it onto a craft stick.  It’s perfect for acting out the classic song.

 

We had so much fun with these preschool Halloween crafts.  I hope you will, too.

 

More Halloween Fun:

  • Paper Plate Monsters 
  • Playdough Monsters
  • 30 Kids Halloween Party Ideas
  • Halloween Crafts and Activities 

 

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Kids Crafts Tagged With: Halloween, Halloween craft, preschool craft

Comments

  1. Jaimi@The Stay-at-Home-Mom Survival Guide says

    October 14, 2013 at 11:24 am

    Those pumpkin faces are so funny! What a nice and simple but fun activity!

  2. K. Elizabeth @ YUMMommy says

    October 14, 2013 at 3:57 pm

    Definitely, like the pumpkin face craft. We haven’t gotten into the Halloween spirit too much around here and this will be a great way to do something before it’s come and gone. Plus, my daughter loves any craft that involves scissors and glue! LOL

    • OneMommy says

      October 16, 2013 at 1:13 pm

      I bet she’d love picking her own facial features out of the magazine to use!

  3. Natalie F says

    October 15, 2013 at 4:04 pm

    This is a great series of party crafts for kindergarteners. I hope you party was a success. Thanks for sharing with Afterschool – I will be adding this post to my host round up next Monday

    • OneMommy says

      October 16, 2013 at 1:13 pm

      Thank you!
      Hope it inspires a few fun crafts at other kindergarten parties this year!

  4. Anna@The Measured Mom says

    October 18, 2013 at 3:34 pm

    Love those pumpkin faces!! Thanks for sharing with the After School crowd. 🙂

  5. Ginny Marie says

    October 25, 2013 at 1:52 pm

    Cute! The pop-up pumpkin reminds me of a groundhog project we do. And I love those jack-o-lanterns!

    • OneMommy says

      October 26, 2013 at 10:50 am

      Love the idea of a ground hog one for Ground Hog’s Day! I’ll have to remember that!

  6. Pinkoddy says

    October 2, 2014 at 8:48 am

    It’s great having an October baby isn’t it – some great creations there.

    • OneMommy says

      October 4, 2014 at 8:09 pm

      Love my October girl! 🙂

  7. Karen @ Raising Little Superheroes says

    October 30, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    Those pumpkin faces are so funny! I would have never thought about cutting faces out of old magazines but that is such a great idea. Thank you for sharing at the #Made4Kids Link Party!

  8. Kim says

    October 31, 2015 at 12:57 am

    Love the idea of using old magazines to make faces! It makes for some interesting faces 🙂 Thanks for sharing at Made for Kids!

    • OneMommy says

      October 31, 2015 at 10:25 am

      So simple and the kids love how they turn out!

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