Credit: Kayleigh Jacobs-Rutter
13 Halloween nature crafts and activities for kids
Get set for spooky season! Woods and wildlife provide heaps of inspiration for young thrillseekers. So, we’ve put together our best Halloween activities for kids to ensure you and your family have a spooktacular time. Read on… if you dare!
Paint fallen leaves to create friendly ghosts.
Credit: Danielle Wesley
Make friendly leaf ghosts
This nature craft is cute, not creepy, so it’s fun for all ages. Dig out some white paint, a brush and a marker pen, then get ghost-making.
- Gather up some fallen leaves on your next autumn walk.
- Place the leaves in a heavy book for a couple of days to flatten them out. This makes it easier for kids to paint them.
- Paint the leaves white and let them dry.
- Draw funny faces on them.
Ghost leaves make brilliant Halloween decorations. You can even make monsters, zombies or vampires – let your imagination run wild!
Love your woods
Please don’t leave pumpkins in woods and parks. They can make wild animals poorly and cause harm to habitats as they rot down. Pop any pumpkin leftovers in your compost heap instead.
Create a leafy Jack-o’-lantern
Instead of carving a pumpkin this year, why not make one using fallen leaves? (And save your seasonal squash for pies or soups!)
Pumpkin-coloured leaves fall from deciduous trees in autumn, so go on a leaf hunt and search for dazzling oranges and yellows. Arrange them in a pumpkin shape on the ground and use dark brown leaves to create glaring eyes and a grinning mouth. Finish your Jack-o’-lantern by adding a couple of green leaves on top to make a stalk.
Gather autumn leaves to make a vibrant Jack-o’-lantern.
Credit: Danielle Wesley
Spooky tree
Drafting
I will draw the trunk and branches.
Since it’s Halloween, I drew a dead tree and a shriveled tree.
Rounding the ends of the branches gives it a suspicious look.
Fair Copy
Create a new layer by reducing the opacity of the draft layer and draw the trunk and branches using the draft as a reference.
I dared to draw a rattling and distorted line because it is a dead tree.
After drawing the approximate lines, I painted in colors.
I want to make the branches thicker and more deformed, so I’ll adjust them.
Grave
Drafting
Draw a small coffin-like shape with a cross inside.
Fair Copy
Draw a line at once without worrying about overflowing, to draw a line with less distortion.
Erase the excess lines with an eraser.
Color and you’re done.
You can also draw other graves with just a cross, etc.
Building
Drafting
Draw a square for the walls and a triangle for the general area of the roof.
Draw a house.
Once you have decided on the shape, you can draw the windows.
Fair Copy
Draw the outer frame and then the window.
The line drawing of the window will also be the window frame, so I draw it with a slightly thicker line than the main line.
Color it and it’s done.
Now that all the motifs have been completed, we will paste the motifs we have painted so far.
First, I painted the ground and background color (1).
Draw and paint the wavy line with the background color (2).
Paint the wavy line in the same way in the background color (3).
By increasing the sky color, the image of the mysterious night of Halloween is expressed.
Paste the motifs and use the Transform tool to adjust their size and orientation as you place them.
Draw the moon and stars in the same color (just a little yellowish white) as the ghosts and crosses in the empty space, insert the text and you’re done.
What did you think?
As you can see, if you draw the standard motifs, you can draw various illustrations depending on the placement once.
You can also use it as a background or a small item of the deformed character, so please try it out.
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