MAKE IT · Friendly monsters
Monster parade paper crown
Make a friendly green monster crown with enormous paper eyes, purple horns, and a grin your child designs. Then invent a silly monster walk for a living-room parade.
Supplies & steps ↗HALLOWEEN · PICTURE THE GOOD TIME
A little magic.
Your kind of spooky.
Friendly little monsters, clever classroom crafts and eerie decor for the big kids. Pick the scare level that suits your people.
Halloween with toddlers
MAKE IT · Halloween
A happy painted pumpkin for little hands
Let a toddler explore orange paint on a big paper pumpkin, then choose a friendly face together. There is no carving and no need to stay inside the lines.
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MAKE IT · Halloween
A soft-looking torn-paper ghost
Tear, overlap and press big pieces of white paper to make a friendly ghost with a wonderfully crinkly texture.
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MAKE IT · Halloween
A friendly purple paper-bag monster
Turn a plain lunch bag into a cheerful monster puppet with purple paint, a big green hairpiece and a grown-up-drawn smile.
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MAKE IT · Witches & wizards
Paper cauldron bubble collage
Fill a paper cauldron with pretend fizzy bubbles, crinkled tissue, and little yellow stars. Everything stays on the page: a colorful witches-and-wizards project with no mixing or heat.
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MAKE IT · Halloween
Accordion-wing paper bats
Fold one black paper rectangle into a fan, pinch the middle and add a simple body to make a bat with wonderfully ridged wings.
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MAKE IT · Halloween
A paper-plate yarn web
Lace white yarn across a paper-plate frame and finish with a friendly spider drawn on a small card at the rim.
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MAKE IT · Halloween
A haunted-house story collage
Build a paper house against a purple night sky, add mysterious yellow windows and invent a playful story about who lives inside.
Supplies & steps ↗Super scary Halloween projects
MAKE IT · Halloween
Looming Halloween window silhouettes
Make a giant crooked shadow creature and reaching branches from black paper for an eerie window scene after dark.
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MAKE IT · Halloween
Haunted silhouette portrait gallery
Turn cereal-box cardboard and paper silhouettes into three unsettling portraits for a haunted hallway or party backdrop.
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MAKE IT · Halloween
Cardboard cursed-book prop
Give an empty cereal box a wonderfully ominous makeover with wrinkled paper, a raised paper eye and a copper-colored finish.
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