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18 fun and easy Halloween crafts for kids

How do you make the Halloween season fun for you and your children? My answer for any holiday is always “crafting!” or making a special meal together.

As a busy mom, I know you are pressed for time. So, I’ve curated a list of 18 “fun and easy” Halloween crafts to do with your children.

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1. Your children will love making this ooey gooey Do It Yourself Halloween Monster Slime! The secret to countless fun slime time is to use a safe, nontoxic, and washable glue.

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2. Make these ghost feet with your kiddos to help remember how small their feet are this Halloween.

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3. These spooky pine-cone Halloween spiders are the perfect combination of outdoor play and adventure, and creative painting and crafting.

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4.These coffee filter bats are an easy Halloween craft for kids of all ages to make. They take about 20 minutes and use craft supplies you probably already have in your house. 

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5. Fun penciled stamp art project for Halloween. It’s super easy. Get your free printables now.

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6.These Frankenstein characters are made from recycled toilet roll and make a colorful addition to your Halloween decorations. Paint them that slimy green color and then get to work adding your facial features, and funny looking bolts that protrude out the side of his head.

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7. Rag wreaths are a fun and simple craft for all ages. Just get some fun Halloween fabric and start making your own wreaths.

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8. These no-mess, no-sew pumpkins are so adorable yet only require a few supplies you probably already have on hand. P.S. Toilet paper is involved!

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9.These light up milk jug pumpkins are fun to make and display for Halloween!

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10.Get your silly-on with these fun and colorful Halloween painted rocks!

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11.This fun paper plate black cat is easy to make using our free pattern. While most popular at Halloween, we love black cats all year round!

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12.An easy, spooky spider decoration made from a mason jar that will illuminate your home or front porch for Halloween.

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13.This is quite simple to make and involves a little halloween painting using your child’s foot and syarn to encourage little ones to develop fine motor skills.

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14.There is no better time than Halloween, to give your inner creepy and crappy crafter a chance to prove your ghostly abilities. This Halloween, craft something super easy but super spooky with Pringles Can.

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15.Let your little ones go crazy with orange paint then step in with a vinyl stencil and spray paint to turn their art into a pumpkin, just like magic!

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16.This cute spider-web craft is great for practicing fine motor skills with your kiddos:

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17. Make it a fun evening watch the “Nightmare Before Christmas” and then create this fun Jack the Skellington wreath!

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18. Avoid the mess and hassle of painting the soles of your child’s foot with this very easy DIY footprints (using no footprints) banner for Halloween with your kids.

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