25 Easy and Cute Halloween Crafts to Try with Your Baby
Halloween is creeping up, and if it’s your baby’s first time celebrating, why not make it extra special with some fun and easy Halloween crafts? 👶🎃 I remember doing this with my Daughter – just a bit of black construction paper here, some googly eyes there, and suddenly we were deep in the spooky season spirit!
Halloween Crafts with a Baby
Halloween with a baby might seem like it’s all about cute costumes and sweet treats, but it’s also the perfect time to dive into fun Halloween crafts! 🖍️Halloween crafts aren’t just a fun activity for the spooky season, they’re also a great way to capture memories of your baby’s first Halloween.
From salt dough footprint ghosts to paper plate spiders, these projects are the perfect way to involve your baby while keeping things simple. If you also have older kids (especially if crafty ones like my Daughter 😊), you can involve them as well and have a day of crafting family fun!
By the way, crafts like this help build fine motor skills for young children. Whether you’re decorating your front door or prepping for a Halloween party, getting crafty is an easy way to add a little spooky spirit to the day. Not to mention, the end result makes for adorable decorations or thoughtful gifts! 🎃
Who wouldn’t want a tiny origami bat or pipe cleaner spider as a reminder of those early Halloween moments? Grab some black paint, glue sticks, and mini pumpkins, and let’s make some fun Halloween memories! 👻
Handprint Crafts
Here are 10 adorable handprint Halloween craft ideas that are perfect for babies and fun for older siblings to join in, too! 🎃
1. Handprint Ghosts 👻
Description: This one is a classic and super easy to do with your baby. Simply dip your baby’s entire hand in white paint and press it firmly onto a sheet of black construction paper. Once dry, flip it upside down so the fingers become the bottom of the ghost. Use a black Sharpie marker to draw eyes and a spooky little mouth, transforming your baby’s tiny handprint into an adorable ghost. It’s simple, but the end result is a precious keepsake you’ll want to frame or hang up as part of your Halloween decorations. I still have the one I made with my Daughter – it’s the cutest little ghost ever!
Tools Needed:
- Black construction paper
- White paint
- Black Sharpie marker
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can help by drawing a spooky background with wax crayons – think haunted houses, pumpkins, or spooky characters like bats or witches. they can even add some glow sticks around the ghost for a fun glow-in-the-dark effect!
2. Frankenstein Handprints
Description: Paint your baby’s palm with green acrylic paint to create the base of Frankenstein’s face. Carefully press their palm onto a piece of paper. Once the paint dries, use black paint or a Sharpie to draw on Frankenstein’s signature stitches, a scar, and wild hair. Add a small rectangle to each side of the handprint for Frankenstein’s neck bolts. The end result is a goofy and fun Frankenstein with your baby’s handprint as the star! My Daughter’s Frankenstein had the wildest hair, thanks to her fingers forming the top of the monster’s head.
Tools Needed:
- Green acrylic paint
- Black paint or Sharpie marker
- Black construction paper
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can take the lead in painting the details like Frankenstein’s hair, bolts, and stitches, or they can make their own Frankenstein handprint for a Halloween party decoration.
3. Bat Wing Handprint Art 🦇
Description: For this one, trace your baby’s hands on black construction paper to create two bat wings. Cut out an oval shape for the bat’s body and glue the handprints onto the sides as wings. Add googly eyes and draw a little smile or some sharp fangs using a black Sharpie. The finished bat can be used as a Halloween decoration on your front door, or you can hang it around the house. We had little bat wings hanging up by the window that looked so cute!
Tools Needed:
- Black construction paper
- Googly eyes
- Glue stick
- Black Sharpie marker
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can help cut out the bat wings, decorate the bat with pom poms or different colors of tissue paper, or make their own larger bats to match.
4. Pumpkin Patch Handprints 🎃
Description: Dip your baby’s hand in orange acrylic paint and press it onto a piece of black construction paper to create a little pumpkin. Once the paint dries, add a green stem and vine with a Sharpie or green pipe cleaner. For a fun twist, make multiple handprint pumpkins to create a mini pumpkin patch! This craft is not only adorable but also a perfect way to celebrate the Halloween season with your baby’s tiny hands. My daughter loved seeing her pumpkin patch grow with each print!
Tools Needed:
- Orange acrylic paint
- Black construction paper
- Green Sharpie or pipe cleaner
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can paint additional pumpkins, add details like little spooky ghosts, or draw vines with wax crayons to bring the pumpkin patch to life. My Daughter’s Cousin added a scarecrow and some bats flying overhead for extra fun!
5. Handprint Spooky Tree 🌳
Description: Paint your baby’s hand and forearm with black paint and press it down onto a sheet of paper to create a spooky tree. The handprint becomes the twisted branches, while the forearm forms the trunk. Once dry, add little spooky ghosts, cute spiders, or bat wings hanging from the branches. It’s the perfect way to create a Halloween scene with minimal effort but maximum cuteness! My Daughter’s spooky tree came out a little wonky, but that just made it even more special.
Tools Needed:
- Black paint
- Googly eyes for spiders
- Black Sharpie
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older siblings can add details like hanging mini pumpkins, creepy crawlers, or even paint a full haunted landscape around the tree.
6. Salt Dough Handprint Ghost
Description: Start by pressing your baby’s hand into salt dough to create a handprint mold. Once the dough is baked and hardened, paint the handprint with white paint, leaving the fingers unpainted to form the ghost’s “tail.” Use a Sharpie marker to draw eyes and a mouth, turning the handprint into a ghost. This craft makes a perfect keepsake you can hang up each year for Halloween.
Tools Needed:
- Salt dough (homemade or store-bought)
- White paint
- Black Sharpie marker
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can help mix and shape the dough, and they can make their own handprint ghosts to match!
7. Handprint Spider Webs 🕸️
Description: For this craft, dip your baby’s hand in white paint and press it onto a sheet of black construction paper multiple times to form the shape of a spider web. Once the web is complete, draw spooky spiders or stick on googly eyes to give it some personality. You can hang this up as a fun decoration around the house. My Daughter’s web looked more like a star, but it was still super cute!
Tools Needed:
- Black construction paper
- White paint
- Googly eyes
- Black Sharpie
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older siblings can create their own handprint spider webs, add details like spiders made from pom poms and pipe cleaners, or draw tiny bugs trapped in the web. They can also add extra creepy crawlies all over the web.
8. Vampire Handprint Craft 🧛♂️
Description: This is such a fun way to make a baby-friendly vampire! Paint your baby’s palm with white paint and press it onto black construction paper to form the vampire’s face. Once dry, use a black Sharpie to draw fangs, eyes, and a little bat bow tie. Add a vampire cape by painting or cutting out a piece of black construction paper and gluing it behind the face. It’s a fun and easy way to make a not-so-scary vampire!
Tools Needed:
- White paint
- Black Sharpie marker
- Black construction paper
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older siblings can help add details like fangs, capes, and bats, or make their own vampire handprints for a matching set.
9. Handprint Candy Corn 🖐️
Description: Paint your baby’s hand with white, orange, and yellow acrylic paint, layering the colors like candy corn. Press the hand onto black construction paper to create a candy corn-shaped handprint. You can make several to create a whole collection of candy corn hands—perfect for a Halloween party decoration. My daughter’s candy corn handprints looked deliciously cute!
Tools Needed:
- White, orange, and yellow acrylic paint
- Black construction paper
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older siblings can add their own candy corn handprints or use tissue paper and pom poms to create candy corn shapes to decorate alongside the baby’s handprints.
10. Handprint Bat Lantern 🦇
Description: This craft combines Halloween decor with your baby’s handprints! Trace your baby’s handprints onto black construction paper and cut them out to create bat wings. Wrap the wings around a small jar using a glue stick and place a tea light candle inside to create a glowing bat lantern. The finished product is a spooky, cute decoration that looks great in dim lighting. Such a tiny bat lantern can add the perfect touch to your Halloween display.
Tools Needed:
- Black construction paper
- Glue stick
- Small jar
- Tea light candle
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older siblings can help by cutting out the wings, adding details like googly eyes, and decorating the jar. They can also make their own lanterns for a glowing bat family. They can add extra details like glitter and colored wax crayons to make the lantern shine even more.
Footprint Crafts
Footprint crafts are a fun and creative way to celebrate Halloween with your little one, capturing those tiny toes in spooky (and adorable) form 😊
Aaaand, they make amazing keepsakes and decorations that older siblings will surely love helping with!
1. Footprint Ghost 👣👻
Description: Turn your baby’s tiny foot into a spooky ghost! Dip their foot in white paint and press it onto a sheet of black construction paper. Once dry, flip the footprint so the toes point downward, and use a black Sharpie marker to draw on two eyes and a mouth for the ghost’s face. This makes for a super cute and simple Halloween decoration.
Tools Needed:
- White paint
- Black construction paper
- Black Sharpie marker
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can add details around the ghost, like a spooky moonlit sky with wax crayons or little spooky characters like bats or cats.
2. Footprint Witch Hat 🎩🧙♀️
Description: Use black paint to coat your baby’s foot and press it onto white paper. Once dry, draw a hat band and buckle using wax crayons or markers, transforming the footprint into a tall, pointy witch hat! This is a quirky and easy craft that captures your baby’s footprint in a magical way.
Tools Needed:
- Black paint
- White paper
- Wax crayons
- Black Sharpie marker
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older siblings can decorate the witch hat with patterns, stars, or glitter. They can also create their own witch hats alongside the baby’s, making it a full witchy crew.
3. Vampire Footprint 🦇🧛♂️
Description: Paint your baby’s foot with white paint for the face and black paint for a cape. Press the foot onto black construction paper and once dry, use a Sharpie marker to add a spooky vampire face – don’t forget the fangs! The toes form the top of the vampire’s head, while the rest of the footprint looks like a cape. Spoiler: it can turn out more cute than scary!
Tools Needed:
- White and black paint
- Black construction paper
- Black Sharpie marker
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older siblings can help by painting the vampire’s details, like fangs, eyes, and a bow tie, or make their own vampire footprints.
4. Footprint Bat Wings 🦇
Description: Trace your baby’s foot on black construction paper to create bat wings. Cut out the footprints and attach them to an oval body shape made from the same paper. Add googly eyes and draw a small bat face using a Sharpie marker. The baby’s footprints become the bat’s wings, just like the handprint versions are perfect for hanging up as a Halloween decoration!
Tools Needed:
- Black construction paper
- Googly eyes
- Sharpie marker
- Glue stick
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older siblings can help cut out the bat’s body, draw the face, or make their own bat footprints.
5. Footprint Spider 🕷️
Description: Create a spooky spider by pressing your baby’s foot, painted with black paint, onto white paper. Once dry, use a Sharpie or black pipe cleaners to add eight legs around the footprint. Finish by adding googly eyes for a cute spider look!
Tools Needed:
- Black paint
- White paper
- Googly eyes
- Sharpie marker
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can help add legs and details to the spider, or they can make their own footprint spiders.
6. Frankenstein’s Monster Footprint 🧟♂️
Description: Paint your baby’s foot with green acrylic paint and press it onto black construction paper. Once dry, use black paint or a Sharpie marker to add bolts, stitches, and a spiky hairline to turn the footprint into Frankenstein’s monster! The toes form the top of the head, and the rest of the foot becomes the monster’s body.
Tools Needed:
- Green acrylic paint
- Black Sharpie marker
- Black paint
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older siblings can add their own creative touches, like stitching details or bolts made from pipe cleaners.
7. Footprint Mummy
Description: Paint your baby’s foot with white paint and press it onto a sheet of black construction paper. Once dry, use a black Sharpie marker to draw bandages across the footprint to create a mummy! Add googly eyes to complete the look. This craft is easy, cute, and captures the spirit of Halloween.
Tools Needed:
- White paint
- Black construction paper
- Googly eyes
- Sharpie marker
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can draw extra bandages, decorate the mummy’s face, or create their own mummies to add to the collection. My daughter’s cousin even made a whole mummy family!
8. Footprint Black Cat 🐾
Description: Turn your baby’s foot into a cute Halloween black cat! Paint the foot with black paint and press it onto white paper. Once dry, use a black Sharpie to draw ears, whiskers, and a long tail. Add googly eyes for an extra cute touch. This is a simple craft that looks adorable and is perfect for any Halloween display.
Tools Needed:
- Black paint
- White paper
- Sharpie marker
- Googly eyes
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can help by adding the cat’s tail and face or creating their own black cats.
9. Candy Corn Footprint 🍬
Description: Paint your baby’s foot in three sections: yellow for the heel, orange for the middle, and white for the toes. Press the foot onto a piece of black construction paper to create a candy corn-shaped footprint! This one is as sweet as the real thing and makes for a festive Halloween decoration.
Tools Needed:
- Yellow, orange, and white paint
- Black construction paper
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older siblings can paint their own candy corn footprints or draw a background full of other candy shapes and sweet treats.
10. Footprint Pumpkin 🎃
Description: Paint your baby’s foot with orange paint and press it onto a sheet of black construction paper. Once dry, use a Sharpie or green pipe cleaner to add a stem and leaves to the heel, turning the footprint into a little pumpkin. This one is super simple, and the end result is an adorable Halloween keepsake!
Tools Needed:
- Orange paint
- Black construction paper
- Green pipe cleaner or Sharpie
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can help draw the pumpkin’s face or add a vine-covered background with tissue paper or markers. My daughter’s cousin loved adding extra pumpkins to create a whole pumpkin patch!
Some More Fun Ideas
Are you looking for more fun baby Halloween craft ideas? Check a few more below!
1. Pumpkin Sensory Bag 🎃
Description: A pumpkin sensory bag is a great way to engage your baby’s senses while celebrating Halloween! Fill a clear zip-lock bag with orange gel or slime (hair gel or aloe vera works great), add black cut-out shapes for eyes, nose, and mouth to make a jack-o’-lantern face. Seal it tightly with double-sided tape to ensure no leaks. Your little one can squish and explore the textures safely without any mess! Babies love squishing around the little creepy crawlers you can add for extra fun.
Tools Needed:
- Zip-lock bag
- Orange gel (hair gel or aloe vera)
- Black paper cutouts (for the face)
- Double-sided tape
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can help by cutting out the pumpkin face shapes or choosing extra items to put inside, like mini pumpkins or glow sticks.
2. Pipe Cleaner Spiders 🕷️
Description: Create cute, child-friendly spiders with black pipe cleaners and googly eyes. Twist a few pipe cleaners together for the body, then bend the ends to form spider legs. Attach googly eyes with hot glue or a glue stick, and voila – you’ve got a fuzzy, not-so-spooky spider!
Tools Needed:
- Black pipe cleaners
- Googly eyes
- Glue stick or hot glue
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older siblings can help twist and shape the spiders or create a whole spider family! They can also make webs out of white yarn for the spiders to sit on.
3. Egg Carton Bats 🦇
Description: Recycle an egg carton to create some bat craft fun! Cut out individual egg cups, paint them black with acrylic paint, and attach bat wings made from black construction paper. Add googly eyes to finish the bat’s face. You can hang them from the ceiling or a shelf for a cute Halloween decoration.
Tools Needed:
- Egg carton
- Black construction paper
- Acrylic paint
- Googly eyes
- Glue stick
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can help with cutting the egg cartons and painting the bats. They can also decorate the wings with glitter or wax crayon patterns.
4. Paper Plate Ghost 👻
Description: Transform a simple paper plate into a spooky ghost by cutting out a ghost face with a Sharpie marker and adding streamers made from tissue paper at the bottom. Babies love the feel of the flowing tissue, and you can hang the ghost as part of your Halloween decorations.
Tools Needed:
- Paper plate
- Tissue paper
- Sharpie marker
- Glue stick
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older siblings can help decorate the ghost’s face or add details like glow sticks or glitter to make it even spookier.
5. Salt Dough Halloween Shapes 🧟♂️
Description: Make salt dough Halloween shapes with your baby by mixing flour, salt, and water to form the dough. Roll it out and use Halloween character cookie cutters (like pumpkins, ghosts, or Frankenstein’s monster) to create shapes. Once baked and hardened, your older child can help paint them with acrylic paint.
Tools Needed:
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup salt
- ½ cup water
- Halloween cookie cutters
- Acrylic paint
Ways to Include Older Siblings: Older kids can help mix, roll out the dough, and paint the finished shapes. They can also come up with different Halloween craft ideas by shaping the dough into spooky characters like bats or black cats.
Takeaway
Whether it is your first Halloween with a baby, or you just want to have fun with the new baby and the whole family, I hope you can find some inspiration in this post 😊
Oh, and in any case, you can still buy Halloween craft kits on Amazon and all the tools you need!
Feel free to let me know which idea is your favorite!
