Kids love the chance to bring a little spooky fun to their space, especially when they get to make the decorations themselves. These 10 DIY Halloween decorations for kids to make are designed for hands-on creativity, with simple materials and easy steps that let kids take the lead. From playful ghosts to crafty spiders, each project invites young makers to add their own style and personality to the Halloween season. Find more Halloween activities for children here.
Halloween decorations for kids
This is a fun nature craft for Halloween. Use leaves to create these simple ghosts that can be threaded together to create a spooky garland.
Here’s a fun Halloween craft that is simple enough for kids, but cute enough for the mantle when it’s done. They just need to do some cutting, gluing, and a little painting to make it happen.
Kids can help with the Halloween decorations this year by making a bunch of these floating ghosts. Adults may need to blow up the balloons beforehand, but the rest of the craft is super simple.
DIY Halloween Tin Can Jack-O-Lantern Craft Project for Kids by Troubleshooting Motherhood
Save a few old tin cans for this next craft. Kids can paint them, then use a black marker to add in faces for adorable Jack-O-Lantern crafts.
Easy Ghost Craft Hanging Halloween Decorations by Family Focus Blog
Here’s a Halloween craft so simple, even preschoolers can handle it. They draw faces on some styrofoam cups, then attach them to a ribbon for a cute ghost garland.
Preschoolers will love this easy and creative craft. With a printable template ready to go, kids can cut out the pieces, color them in, and turn it all into a Halloween paper plate wreath to hang on the door.
Pipe cleaner spider crafts abound, so it’s always nice when one adds in a little something extra. Kids can choose two colors and blend them together, giving these pipe cleaner spiders a unique and colorful look.
This DIY Halloween decoration is great for teaching kids to follow instructions, while still keeping things doable. They can make adorable yarn-wrapped pumpkins to decorate the dining room table, all on their own.
Here’s another great Halloween craft for teaching kids to follow a plan. The coffee filter bats are cute and simple to make, but there are multiple steps involved in making them.
Parents will need to break out the printer for this one, since the suncatcher frame and optional Jack-o-lantern face are printables. Once printed, kids can cut out the pieces and fill them with tissue paper, natural materials, or anything else they choose.
These yarn ghosts are too adorable, and not spooky at all. While adults will need to step in for the glue gun step, kids can make these on their own, and hang them in their room for a fun little haunting.

More Halloween crafts for kids
If spiders are your favorite Halloween craft then you’ll love this post with lots more ideas for Spider Crafts for Kids.
These simple Halloween crafts for toddlers are perfect for young crafters and many of them will make great decorations.

