Pumpkins, ghosts, and other Halloween crafts are perfect for the season.  

When it comes to preschool Halloween crafts, these simple paper crafts are three of our favorites.

When it comes to Halloween crafts for preschoolers, skip the scary stuff.  

Young children will have fun with these cute ideas. 

You may also want to check out these Paper Plate Monsters for another non-scary Halloween craft idea.  

Preschool Halloween Crafts

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Materials Needed:

• Construction Paper
• Craft Sticks
• Paper Cups
• Halloween Stickers
• Googly Eyes
• Markers
• Scissors 
• Gluestick
• Old Magazines

Funny Faced Pumpkin Craft

This silly pumpkin craft is super simple.  

Cut a variety of pumpkin shapes from orange construction paper. 

For very young children you can do this ahead of time.  For older kids you may want to draw out the pumpkin shapes ahead of time and let them do the cutting.  Craft time is perfect for working on fine motor skills!  

Then add eyes, noses, and mouths that you’ve cut out from magazines.  

For toddlers and early 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 try cutting out their own items.

Pop Up Pumpkin Craft

This preschool Halloween craft was my son’s favorite when he was little.  

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 orange construction paper.  

Have your child decorate the pumpkin with a Jack’O Lantern face.  

Glue the paper pumpkin to one end of the craft stick.

Use stickers to decorate the outside of the paper cup.  

Finally, 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 much fun!

Purple People Eater Craft

After listening to the song on Kidz Bop Halloween CD for the 100th time, we just had to create our own Purple People Eater craft.  

To make your own Purple People Eater puppet, start by cutting simple monster shapes from purple construction paper.   We opted to just cut 4 inch tall oval shapes, but you can get as creative as you’d like with this.

Just like in the song, you’ll need one eye, one horn and wings for your flying Purple People Eater.  

Let your child design wings from construction paper to glue onto their monster.  

Make a paper horn and add a googly eye.  Markers can help complete the monster’s face.  

To turn it into a puppet, simply glue it onto a craft stick.  The puppets are perfect for little ones to use in acting out the classic song.

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

More Halloween Fun:

• Spider Crafts
• Playdough Monsters
• Halloween Party Games for Kids
• Halloween STEM Activities
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There were also several drinking straws in the bag and some ribbon scraps.

My daughter couldn’t wait to see what kids craft was in store that day.  She quickly fell in love with the shape craft Grandma had planned:  Shape Stick Puppets.

Shape Craft

Materials Needed:

• Colored Card Stock
• Scissors
• Glue Stick
• Clear Tape
• Craft Sticks (or drinking straws)

My mom had cut all the shapes out ahead of time for this craft.  It allowed the kids to start crafting right away.

You might want to start out with a small amount of shapes pre-cut and then have your preschooler cut more shapes as needed.  You can always draw the shapes for him/her to cut out.

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Shape Stick Puppets

This is an open-ended shape craft, allowing your child to use his/her imagination to the fullest.

Have them create animals, people, aliens…. Whatever creatures they want to make, using the shapes.

A large oval may become a body.  A triangle could make a good head for a dog.

While your child crafts you can discuss the shapes they are using.

Once they have finished the character, use clear tape to attach it to a craft stick or plastic drinking straw and turn it into a stick puppet.

You can also add ribbon for hair and to make tails.  (My daughter had lots of fun adding ribbon to her first puppet.)

Once your child has made several puppets, they will have lots of fun playing with their new characters.

Be ready for a puppet show!

This simple preschool shape craft is one you can do again and again.

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• Shape Owl Craft
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