DIY Halloween Crafts 2022: Best Ideas!

Howling ghosts, black cats, grinning pumpkins, lanterns with cobwebs... Scary? No, it's terribly fun! Halloween is an entertaining holiday where everyone, young and old, can have fun. First, let's make suitable decorations - let's make Halloween crafts with our own hands.

From the article you will learn how to make beautiful and funny crafts using different materials:

• Pumpkins
• Lamps and candles
• Paper
• Felt
• Threads and fabric
• Wreaths
• From different materials
• Templates, diagrams and patterns

Pumpkin crafts

Jack is the main character of the holiday. A lamp in the shape of his head is quite easy to create. To do this you will need a pumpkin and a little patience. Instructions on how to carve a pumpkin candle holder.

1. On the sheet of paper, draw the outline of the face (eyes, mouth, nose). Draw large elements for convenience.
2. Attach the template to the peel, you can secure it with tape so that it does not move. Transfer the design by making punctures with an awl through the sheet.
3. Remove the stencil, there will be dots on the peel of the fruit - we will cut along them. Use a craft knife or a craft knife with a sharp retractable blade.
4. You need to cut off the top or bottom of the fruit and carefully remove the core with seeds so that it does not spoil prematurely.
5. You can put a candle inside if you want to achieve a natural effect. Or put an LED flashlight or garland. And it will shine and it will be safe!

If you don’t have a special knife, you can use a regular chef’s knife. Just please be careful and attentive. Under no circumstances should you entrust this complex operation to small children.

Your Halloween pumpkin craft is ready!

If you don’t have the desire or skills to cut shapes, you can draw a face on the thick pumpkin skin with permanent markers or acrylic paints. They will not be able to penetrate the pulp; it can then easily be eaten. You can also cut out facial features on self-adhesive film.

By the way, all templates and patterns can be found at the end of the article. You can download them for free, print and use. Or come up with your own, scary and unique faces for Jack, the Lord of Pumpkins!

Terrifying Web

Glue, both hot and PVA, is well suited for making creepy webs: the color is similar, and the threads can be pulled out thin.

You will need:

• PVA glue;
• wax paper (or film);
• dry glitter;
• marker.

On a sheet of wax paper, a drawing of the future web is marked with a marker. PVA glue is poured along the paper lines, the lines should connect to each other; It is better not to make them too thin so that the craft does not tear. If hot glue is used, thinner threads can be applied.

Attention! Working with hot glue requires adult supervision!

Sprinkle the wet glue with glitter and leave to dry for 1-2 hours. Carefully pour excess glitter back into the box.

Carefully peel the cobwebs from the film and decorate the house with a bright craft. Like being covered in frost in a frosty forest, brr! You can decorate the room with them in any corner.

Halloween lamps and candles

You can create a completely safe lamp for children if you simply put a garland inside a painted jar. The main thing here is how to decorate! Spider webs, monster faces, witch eyes, furry spider legs, skeletons, black cats and bats are just a few of the things that can be used as a motif for decorating a lantern.

You can wrap a jar (or glass) with threads - it will be a cobweb. Place plastic spiders nearby - this is a ready-made decoration. You can cut out silhouettes of cobwebs, bats, trees, a witch on a broom from a black sheet or film and simply glue them onto a suitable container.

You can complement your Halloween crafts with black lace, bright black and orange ribbons, beads and rhinestones.

An excellent holiday lamp will be made from... an orange or a tangerine. We only need citrus peel. We tell you how to make such an amazing fragrant lantern. Using a sharp thin knife, draw a circle on the zest, separate the slices from the peel and remove. Press the design onto the peel with a knife or small baking molds. You can cut a face or just a geometric pattern: diamonds, squares, stars, zigzags.

If you are a fan of real interior candles, you can make them uniquely scary. Use a knife to cut off the top without damaging the cotton wick. Place the paraffin in a fireproof container and melt it in the microwave or in a water bath. Next, add a few drops of any dye and mix. Pour the colored mixture onto the candle, forming picturesque drips.

It is absolutely safe and at the same time fun and picturesque to decorate with LED candle lanterns. The design can be applied with paints through a stencil or drawn or pasted.

Box with a creepy surprise

The principle of such boxes is simple: a monster or other scary character is attached to a “spring” inside, and when the box is opened, it suddenly jumps out of it. An example is a box with a scarecrow.

Make a scarecrow's face, you can either draw eyes or glue buttons or beads; cut and glue the hat.

Decorate your head with carved leaves.

Add hair, it will look original with dry blades of grass.

Assemble the spring. If you fold only one strip of paper like an accordion, then such a spring will turn out to be rather weak, so two strips of the same length are used; they are glued together at an angle of 90 degrees and folded, as if wrapping each other. This spring is stronger and more elastic.

Interesting! Such crafts will help demonstrate and develop your child’s engineering talents.

Glue the spring to the bottom of the box.

The jumping scarecrow lurks, waiting for someone to open the box.

From paper

You can create a lot of Halloween crafts out of paper. Let's start by making bats, of which there can be very, very many on this day. For the body, we will need an empty jar, a cardboard tube from toilet paper or paper towels. The base can be painted black. For the bat wings, use a thick black sheet. You can fold it like an accordion. You can draw eyes or glue ready-made plastic ones. A pair of sharp white fangs will complement the terrifying look.

With kids you can make a bat from a disposable cardboard plate. Help your child cut out the ears and wings. Glue them on the back side. Mark the grin and teeth with white paint or a clerical touch-corrector. Draw more eyes.

Interesting decorative items are made from a sheet of paper folded like an accordion and glued into a circle. The orange material will make pumpkins, the black material will make cats and bats. If you insert a stick or kebab skewer inside, the monster can be used as a topper.

Simple white paper napkins make adorable and friendly ghosts. In addition to the napkin, you will need a small elastic band or thread and stuffing for the head. You can take a ball of cotton wool or make something more interesting! Use a round candy as a “filling”! This surprise will delight those with a sweet tooth of any age.

From identical orange stripes you can make a fairly simple craft - a pumpkin. Make holes at the ends and pull the strips together as shown in the photo. Use green paper for the tail. The strip can be wound onto a pencil in the form of a spiral.

Black cats and cats are the witch's companions on all holidays; on Halloween you can't do without them. To create a cat that will stand on its own paws, cut out a silhouette with a fold from thick paper (watercolor, Whatman paper), paint it black. Draw a happy face for the cat, because he is a welcome guest at the Sabbath today!

For a children's party, guests can make caps. If there is no base of a suitable color, it can be painted. Twist a cone from whatman paper. Tape the edges. Then get creative and make the decor whatever your heart desires: ribbons, silhouettes of bats, seals, beads, feathers.

The same elements will make a wonderful garland. Make silhouettes from cardboard of the desired color, tie them with thread or ribbon. Complete the garland with tassels, fringe, and beads.

What would a holiday be without a carnival mask! You can literally create it from scrap materials. A small master class is given below.

1. Paint a disposable cardboard plate in the desired color.
2. Make decorative details from colored paper.
3. Connect the mask elements using glue or double-sided tape.
4. Glue a cardboard drinking straw to the side - this will be the handle.
5. Who are you, mask?!

You can make small memorable and useful souvenirs for holiday guests. For example, bookmarks. Cut out two identical motifs (pumpkin, sugar skull, bat, etc.). Merge them together by placing a simple paper clip inside. Makes great crafts for Halloween.

What to give a girl

Usually girls are quite cool about Halloween, so you shouldn't give something creepy or scary. Few people will appreciate the jokes either.

If you don’t know the interests of your significant other well enough, limit yourself to fairly safe gifts:

1. A soft toy with a holiday symbol: a black cat, a pumpkin, a ghost.
2. Original sweets that don't look repulsive (leave the gummy worms and eyeballs to a friend).
3. Night light in the form of a mystical ball with lightning or a full moon.
4. Tickets to watch a horror movie together.
5. Scented candles with original design.

You can resort to a universal gift - a bouquet of flowers. In honor of the holiday, florists collect special bouquets that will fit perfectly into Halloween.

From felt

Felt is such a pleasant and warm material that even the most frightening figures sewn from it turn out to be homely, cute and cozy.

For the little ones, you can make a pumpkin toy from felt, the face of which the baby can change independently. Here she is smiling, and here she is frowning. Make parts of the face: eyes, nose, mouth with different emotions. Prepare a whole set to make the game more varied and interesting.

To decorate a child's room, make a felt wreath. A charming owlet with big eyes is unlikely to seriously frighten anyone, but it will definitely become a decoration! The abundance of small details will give it originality and make it a wonderful gift for little holiday guests.

Schoolchildren and teenagers will be happy to take part in creating Halloween crafts themselves. Sew with them whole families (or gangs) of monsters or bloodshot eyes. In this case, the veins are embroidered with red thread using the simplest stitch.

What to give a guy

Young men like funny or scary gifts, examples of which can be seen in the list above. But older men prefer more practical gifts, even with a festive design.

1. Cufflinks or tie with a skull or pumpkins.
2. T-shirt, sweatshirt with an interesting print.
3. Glasses or shots in the shape of a skull or gothic goblet.
4. Ice molds of original shape.
5. Diary or notepad for notes.

And most men will appreciate the delicious dish you prepare. Even if the only thing in it that reminds you of the holiday is a spider at the bottom of the plate.

From threads and fabric

Thick threads and knitting yarn are also useful for Halloween crafts. The simplest toys for children - ghosts - are made from ordinary brushes. To make a tassel, wrap a piece of white yarn around a rectangle. You can use a cardboard children's book or cut out a rectangle of the desired size from thick cardboard. Glue the eyes and place a flag in the hands. Welcome to the holiday!

The leftover orange yarn will make a wonderful pumpkin. The ponytail can be made from thread or a chenille brush.

Knitters can knit pumpkins for the holiday from bright yarn. A simple plain glass cover with a movement of the hand turns... into a festive pumpkin, you just need to add a little imagination. Black eye sockets and grins can be embroidered or glued on. Fill cups with Halloween themed candy. By the way, such souvenirs can be presented to all guests of a “scary” party without exception.

Using the diagram below, you can sew a pillow pumpkin. The craft can be tiny or quite voluminous. For sewing, take felt or soft, tactilely pleasant flannel. To make the folds on the “peel” look natural, you can tint them with dry pastels or eye shadow.

Witch appliques

Let's assemble an evil witch from paper.

Draw and cut out the outlines of the sleeves and hat; For the hat, cut out a strap with a buckle.

On white paper, draw and color: hands, boots, head; cut out.

Glue the hair and hat onto the head.

Go to the dress; to do this, fold a sheet of thick black paper like an accordion and secure it with a stapler at one end with a 2 cm indentation.

Straighten the collar, glue the head on top, boots on the sides of the arms below.

Wreaths

A wreath is an exquisite interior decoration for Halloween. You can hang it not only in the children's room. It will look great and invite you to Halloween celebrations if you place it on your front door or window.

The material for wreaths can be very diverse:

• threads, twine, yarn;
• ribbons, lace;
• strips of fabric of a suitable color;
• felt;
• paper, cardboard;
• twigs and flowers (live and artificial);
• even tinsel.

By the way, a great idea is to make a wreath of green tinsel and decorate it according to the holiday: for the New Year with balls, in the fall with pumpkins and fruits, in the spring with flowers and ribbons.

You can buy the base for making a wreath at a craft store or use items you have on hand. For example, take a hanger, glue a semicircle of cardboard to the bottom and wrap it with orange ribbons.

The stores also offer a wide range of decorative elements suitable for Halloween celebrations:

• ready-made plastic orange fruits;
• figurines of bats, ghosts, etc.;
• cardboard silhouettes of spiders, black cats, haunted castles;
• felt elements.

Just use them in your crafts and your Halloween will be the most original and memorable.

Severed finger bleeding

According to the instructions below, instead of a whole hand, you can make a separate finger. This craft is not recommended for young children!

Your own hand is wrapped with tape, not too tightly so that it can be removed later, you can make a small incision.

Wrap the hand cast with a bandage.

Paint it. Here the hand is made completely bloody, but there is an option to paint it in flesh color, even paint the nails, and add traces of blood only in a few places.

From scrap materials

Crafts for Halloween can be made from any materials, if only you have the desire and a little time. For some masterpieces, the material is literally at hand.

A black ball plus pipe cleaner legs and ready-made eyes - and now a spider is looking at us.

A glass jar or a decorative cloche will make a unique interior craft. What will happen there, decide for yourself. You can use this idea and create a tree on which several ghosts can comfortably sit.

Make ghosts with your kids from ready-made cotton balls. Cut out a base from white cardboard and let your child glue the balls. Add eyes and be sure to smile - this is a good ghost!

A collection of Halloween monsters will be made from plastic bottles painted with acrylic paints. The paints dry very quickly and then do not stain, harmless to children. The nose and eyes can also be sculpted from plasticine.

Sometimes the shape of objects suggests what can be created from them. Citrus fruits - tangerines, oranges - turn into spiders, disposable cups into a garland of bells, a kitchen towel tube into a mummy.

Given time, you can create complex and individual compositions for the interior. The whole town, artfully cut out of thick cardboard, looks beautiful. Complete it with shiny toys, matching colors and garland.

Several framed ghosts will make up an entire picture gallery for Halloween 2022.

Templates, diagrams and patterns

In this section you will find all the necessary stencils and patterns to create Halloween crafts. Create your own, unique works. A sense of humor is what will be most useful at the festival of evil spirits. Use it, joke and have fun to the fullest. We wish you a spooky... no wonderful Halloween!

Plasticine zombie toad

You can repeat the embodied ideas in the photo:

First you need to assemble the toad's body according to step-by-step instructions:

Then add characteristic details: warts, scars, fangs, dents.