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21 Easy Halloween Face Paint Ideas
Halloween is all about candy and costumes. Adding creative makeup can take your costume from boring to spooktacular! We’ve pulled together 21 ideas for Halloween face paint that are great for both kids and adults.
Dressing up as a cute furry (or scaly) friend has always been an easy Halloween costume! Most animal characters can be pulled together quickly with color-coordinating clothing and colorful face paint. For example, if you want to be a tiger, dress in orange and black. To dress as a reptile, grab a green, brown, and yellow outfit. Top it off with some creative animal-inspired face designs, and you’re all set!
Scary Characters
If you’d rather be creepy than cute this year, there are many super easy Halloween face paint ideas to try! Stock up on green paint for witches and Frankenstein, or start with black and white face paint for skulls and vampires. Sugar skulls for a Day of the Dead or Halloween party can be a creative mix between beautiful and frightful, or you can stick with the classics like zombies or ghosts.
Read this: Learn how to turn yourself into a zombie with this face-painting tutorial from The Spruce Crafts!
Superheroes and Princesses
Sometimes it’s more fun to dress up as your favorite fictional character instead of trying to scare your friends! Transforming into well-known superheroes like The Hulk, Captain America, or Spider-Man is easy with a face painting kit. Other easy choices include pirates or mermaids, which are great for themed group costumes! You can also try some glittery Halloween face-painting ideas and become a butterfly, princess, or fairy.
50+ Halloween Crafts for Kids – Art and Craft Tutorials & Ideas
With this selection of Halloween Crafts for Kids, you will never run out of crafting ideas! From the super easy Halloween arts and crafts that toddlers and preschoolers can make to more challenging step-by-step craft tutorials older kids or you will love to make too.
Browse through our selection of best crafts and pick your projects for this season (for your home or to make in the classroom). We have included fun craft ideas for kids of all ages and with various materials; paper plates, pipe cleaners, pom poms…
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Looking for Halloween crafts for a specific age group? We have a few age-appropriate sections ready.
- Easy Halloween Crafts for Toddlers
- Fun Halloween Crafts for Kindergarten
You’ll find lots of monster crafts, spiders, vampires, witches, ghouls, pumpkins and Jack’O’Lanterns, black cats, spooky ghosts, and all kinds of ghastly creatures to create with your kids. These are the very best ideas for the spooky holiday season.
Crafting at home or in the classroom?
We have you covered as we have a few Halloween craft ideas for every occasion – from low-prep easy craft ideas that will take 5 minutes to more engaging ones that kids will be able to play with once they are done. Many of these are great to have as an activity at a kids Halloween party to get them into the Halloween spirit.
1. Our Most Popular & Best Halloween Crafts for Kids – the Puppets
These printable Halloween puppets certainly are one of the kids’ favorites at the moment.
2. Easiest Halloween Art Idea
You don’t need complicated projects to make cool Halloween art with your kids – you just need an apple and a bit of paint to make these apple-printed Jack-o-lanterns They are so much fun to make!
3. Construction Paper Witch Halloween Craft Idea
With just a bit of construction paper, your kids can create the coolest-looking construction paper witch. This is a fun idea and there are many creative ways your little ones can go about how to decorate their witch.
4. Let the Kids Bite Into Their Books
In this day and age, where digital screens are trying to replace books it’s even more important to encourage reading. Let the kids make these cool Halloween bookmarks and reading will instantly become more fun.
5. Skeleton Anatomy
Why not create a skeleton with Q-tips? It’s easy and it’s fun!
6. Tape Resist Halloween Art
Cobwebs and spiderwebs make a great subject for Halloween arts and crafts. Apply tape in the shape of a spiderweb on a canvas or a sheet of paper and paint over it. Remove the tape and enjoy.
7. Make it Pop!
Pop-up cards are fun and when you make a Halloween set? Oh, even more fun.
Check out our whole set of Halloween pop up cards.
8. Halloween Silhouette Art
Another super easy Halloween craft for kids is this silhouette bat project.
9. Surprise Cards
Surprise! What’s hiding inside the Jack-o-Lanterns? Let your kids find out once they make these insanely fun Halloween surprise cards. This is a great project for all ages.
10. Halloween Clothespin Puppets Craft
Perfect for story time or dramatic play, these Halloween clothespin puppets never disappoint. If you and your kids love simple Halloween crafts, this one is a great pick.
Monster Halloween Crafts for Kids
From scary to silly, you just have to add some of these ideas to your crafting plan!
You can’t have a Halloween crafts party without making a monster or two… Or a whole bunch of them. We love getting silly and creating monsters – wiggle eye stickers or googly eyes are a must here, as they take the silliness to a whole new level.
Pick a project (we’ve spotlighted a few), go through the step by step tutorial and have fun creating your monsters.
11. Monster Corner Bookmarks
You’ll find cool Halloween paper crafts, silly toilet paper roll monsters, rock friends your kids can carry around (perfect craft for pre-k and kindergarten as it’s all about fine motor skills).
Like the corner bookmarks above? See the step by step tutorial on making our DIY monster bookmarks.
12. Paper Cone Monsters
If you love free templates you will love this one. With our Halloween monster free printable template, you can make the cutest little monsters.
13. Halloween Toilet Paper Roll Monsters
Transforming ordinary toilet paper rolls into all kinds of monsters is super fun. Let your kid’s imagination soar.
14. Painted Monster Rocks
When you are out and about with your kids, collect some rocks. With just a little bit of paint, you can turn ordinary rocks into all kinds of cool-looking stone monsters. With painting rocks, your kids can make scary or cute monsters.
15. Monsters Clothespins Puppets
Monsters are just so fun to make they deserve their very own set of monster clothespin puppets.
Black Cat Halloween Arts and Crafts
We do love a good cat craft, and Halloween is a great excuse to make a whole bunch.
One of our favorite Halloween themed cretures to get crafty with is certainly the black cat. Younger kids will love making the handprint cat (such a great Halloween handprint art idea) – either by stamping their hands or by tracing them on black paper and cutting them out.
Spotlighting just a few of our favorites here, you will find simple hand tracing crafts that turn into wonderful cat and are perfect for preschoolers (toddlers even with some help) to 3D paper crafts that will bring a smile on any kids face.
Monster Halloween face paint
Incredibly simple to recreate, all you need is to cover your childs face in green paint, then add black around their eyes, and add some stitches.
Witch Halloween face paint
Another easy to do painted face, all you need to do is paint your child’s face green, then add big eyebrows with black face paint or eyeliner. Add black to the lips and around the eyes too.
When is Halloween?
Are you ready for spooky season? Halloween is typically celebrated on October 31st every year, which this year falls on a Tuesday. So whether you’re planning on Trick or Treating on Halloween night or having a party over the weekend, it’s time to start prepping!
Some children don’t like wearing masks, so painting their face is the next best option. Always check a small area of your child’s skin with face paint before covering, to check for any reactions. It would be best avoiding painting children’s faces that are under two years old.
Samantha Ball is a Product & Lifestyle Writer for Mother&Baby and freelanced for the website for two years before joining the team full time. She’s a mum of two and loves browsing for the best products and cute outfits.
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