Halloween

The Best Halloween Suncatchers for Kids

September 30, 2019 By Terri Thompson

Are you decorating for Halloween yet?

My favorite decorations are kid-made. What could be better?

So, decorate your windows with one of these fun Halloween suncatchers. All of these kids crafts are perfect to make this October. They’re fun to make and perfect ways to brighten up your windows.

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Fun Halloween Suncatchers

Pull out your contact paper, your tissue paper and the rest of your craft supplies and get started on one of these fun crafts.

And, I’ll bet you have so much fun that you’ll want to make all of them!

Halloween Suncatchers

Decorate your windows with these fun and spooky Halloween suncatcher crafts for kids.

Silhouette Halloween Suncatcher

Make pretty Halloween silhouettes with this fun suncatcher craft.

Paper Plate Jack-O-Lantern

These paper plate jack-o-lanterns also make a great suncatcher.

Frankenstein Suncatcher Craft for Kids

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This Frankenstein suncatcher is too cute to be scary!

Halloween Shadow Suncatcher Craft

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Use coffee filters to make these simple silhouette suncatchers.

Tie dyed halloween suncatchers

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Turn tie-dyed paper towels into cute Halloween suncatchers.

Witch & Bat Halloween Suncatchers

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Make several fun suncatchers to decorate your window this Halloween.

Hair Gel Halloween Sun Catchers

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Use hair gel to create fun jack-o-lanterns and other Halloween scenes for your windows.

Halloween: Perler Bead Suncatchers for Kids

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Melt perler beads to make these fun suncatchers.

Adorable Coffee Filter Jack O'Lantern Suncatchers

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Use coffee filters to make these adorable jack-o-lantern suncatchers.

Recycled Halloween Suncatchers

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Recycle plastic lids to make these fun Halloween suncatchers.

Which one of these fun Halloween suncatcher crafts are your favorite?

Make sure you have all the supplies you need for your suncatcher crafts

Each of the crafts lists has their own separate list of craft supplies. But, if you want to have fun making suncatchers here are some general supplies you may need.

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Best Halloween Movies for Toddlers

September 17, 2019 By Terri Thompson

A Halloween movie night can be so much fun! But, most Halloween movies for families are not suitable for toddlers.

Don’t give up hope! I’ve got your back.

Here are some fun choices of Halloween movies for toddlers. They’re not too long, not too scary, and just right for your little ones.

These Halloween movies for toddlers are not too spooky and are just right for your little ones. They'll love these fun and adorable options.

These movie choices may not be the most enjoyable for adults (honestly, how many movies for toddlers are?), but they’re good choices that will keep your little ones happy. And that in turn will make your movie watching time much more enjoyable.

So, gather up the kids, queue up a movie, and have a good time together.

Fun Halloween Movies for Toddlers

Room on the Broom

This gentle movie is based on the classic book by Julia Donaldson. It’s fun, whimsical, and very sweet. This is my number one choice of great toddler Halloween movies. You can view it via Amazon Prime and it’s also available on Netflix.

Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About Halloween

Learn all about Halloween and fall from the Cat in the Hat. This fun choice is full of silliness and catchy songs. If you toddler is already a fan of the Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That, they’ll love this choice.

Curious George: A Halloween Boofest

In this movie, George and his friends has a fun (and slightly spooky) adventure after hearing the legend of No Noggin, who likes to kick the hats off of everyone’s heads. It’s a fun choice for little Curious George fans.

Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie

Like most Pooh movies, this is a gentle take on a Halloween story. The friends get a little scared because Halloween can be so spooky. But, they learn that the can be brave together.

A Very Brave Witch

This selection from Scholastic is very short (it clocks in at only 7 minutes), but it is a sweet story about a little witch who meets a new friend and experiencing trick or treating for the first time. You can watch it alone via Amazon Prime or watch it along with several short Halloween selections from Scholastic.

Spookly the Square Pumpkin

Like some of the other choices on this list, so many great toddler Halloween movies are based on beloved children’s books. In this movie, Spookly is teased because he’s a different shape, but with the help of some very good friends he learns that different is awesome.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey’s Monster Musical

This movie from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is just the right amount of spooky for your little ones. They’ll love the music and the story line. It’s a great choice for fans of the show.

It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

Your toddlers are not too young to be introduced to this Halloween classic. This is a perfect choice that everyone in the family will love!

Tips For a Successful Halloween Movie Night With Toddlers

You don’t have to have a movie night at night. A tired toddler will just not enjoy a movie. Try having a movie afternoon or even a movie at breakfast.

Keep things short. Since toddlers have a short attention span, you shouldn’t pop in a full-length movie. These selections are all either around 30 minutes or an hour in length.

Let them play. Don’t expect your toddler to set still for an entire more. If they’d rather sit and play while watching, let them. They’ll have fun and you’ll have a better time too.

Recommended Movie Night Resources

If you’ve got Amazon Prime, it can be so easy to have a fun movie night. They’ve got so many family friendly movies, including many of these Disney classic live action movies for families available via streaming (in addition to other great benefits). You can sign up for Amazon Prime via this link.

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The Cutest Ghost Crafts for Kids

September 12, 2019 By Terri Thompson

Ghosts can be a scary idea, but when it comes to Halloween decorations, they’re often more friendly than they are scary.

And, that’s the case with all of these fun ghost crafts for kids.

These ghosts are fun, cute, friendly, and not the least bit spooky.

Ghost Crafts for Kids

These awesome ghost craft ideas are fun for kids of all ages.

Let your preschoolers try a fun printmaking project when they try a potato print banner. Or your tweens may enjoy making some no-sew ghost pencil toppers for their friends.

Are you ready to start creating? Let’s go!

Ghost Crafts for Kids

Have fun creating this Halloween when you make these fun ghost crafts for kids.

Ghost Bookmark Halloween Craft

Halloween reading is much more fun when you save your place with a cute and easy to make ghost bookmark!

No-Sew Ghost Pencil Topper

Decorate your pencils with a fun no-sew ghost pencil topper. They're so fun to create that you'll want to make one for all your friends.

Ghost Pop-Up Cards

Friendly and family will love to receive one of these fun ghost pop-up cards!

Easy Halloween Hand Puppets: No-Sew Ghost Puppet

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This easy no-sew ghost puppet is also a fun toy and story-telling tool.

Halloween Marshmallow Ghost Craft

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Trim up some marshmallows to use in this fun ghost stamp craft.

Spooky Leaf Ghosts for Halloween

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Find some pretty leaves to paint to create these fun spooky leaf ghosts.

Fabric Ghost Craft

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Use fabric squares to make these fun and simple fabric ghosts.

Paper Plate Ghost

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Use a paper plate to create this fun bouncing ghost craft.

Pencil Eraser Ghost Craft for Halloween

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Use you pencil eraser as a stamp to create this fun ghost craft.

Cotton Ball Ghost Craft for Toddlers

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This cotton ball ghost craft is perfect for toddlers!

Straw Blown Halloween Ghost Craft

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Blow through straws to create this fun straw blown Halloween ghost craft.

Movable Paper Plate Ghost Craft

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This movable paper plate ghost craft is both fun to make and fun to play with.

Painted Rock Ghosts Craft

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Gather a few rocks to make these awesome painted rock ghosts.

Easy Origami Ghost Garland

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Get folding to create this fun origami ghost garland.

Halloween Garland - Potato Print Ghosts

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This potato print ghost garland is a fun printmaking project.

Which of these fun ghost crafts for kids are you going to make?

These fun ghost crafts for kids are too cute to be scary! Have fun making these Halloween crafts.

Our recommended craft supplies

In addition to the supplies listed for each project, if you keep these craft supplies on hand, you’ll be ready for many craft project.

Here are some supplies we recommend:

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Cardboard Tube Spider Craft for Halloween

October 10, 2018 By Terri Thompson

I’m the designated spider killer at our house.

Anytime anyone finds a spider, they come find me. Apparently I’m the only one that that isn’t terrified by these little creatures.

Not only am I not terrified, I actually find them quite interesting. Not kidding. And sometimes a little bit cute. Not kidding either.

So, I thought I’d make them so cute that even my kids would appreciate them and came up with this fun idea: Cardboard Tube Spider Craft for Halloween.

Spiders don't have to be scary, especially when make this fun and simple kids craft, a cardboard tube spider craft for Halloween.

Disclosure: Craftprojectideas.com provided some of the supplies we used to make these spiders. The idea and pictures are my own.

Supplies Needed for your Cardboard Tube Spider craft:

Cardboard tubes: toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls
Black paint
Scissors
Black fuzzy craft sticks (pipe cleaners)
Googly eyes

How to make your cardboard tube spider craft for Halloween

Start by cutting your cardboard tube in half (or quarters if using a paper towel roll).

Then, on opposite sides, use a sharp instrument to poke four holes per side. Grownups – please do these first two steps yourself!

I used the tip of a sharp pair of scissors to make my holes. You just need something to punch through the cardboard.

Now it’s time for the kids to take over.

Use your black paint to paint the outside of each tube. Make sure you paint over your holes.

Of course, you don’t have to stick with black here. Use any color you want for a group of fun and funky Halloween spiders. If you do this, use colorful pipe cleaners for the legs too!

After the paint is dry, thread 4 pipe cleaners through the holes. Take one pipe cleaner and thread in one hole, through the middle, and out through the hole directly across from your first hole.. Your 4 pipe cleaners will make 8 legs.

Once you have them all the pipe cleaners threaded, bend and arrange your pipe cleaners to look like spider legs.

For the final step, attach your googly eyes.

When we made our cardboard tube spider craft, some of us used 2 eyes per spider. My youngest daughter decided to be scientifically correct and use 8 eyes on her spider. I think I like that one the best.

Once you’re done, you’ve got some fun spiders for Halloween.

Stand them up on a shelf or attach string and dangle them from the ceiling.

Either way, they’re a fun addition to your Halloween decorations.

See, I told you I could make spiders cute!

Craft supplies you may need:

In addition to items pulled from your recycle bin, here are some supplies that will help you with your cardboard tube spider.

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Spider Web Wreath Halloween Craft for Kids

October 4, 2018 By Terri Thompson

I’ve got to give most of the credit for these Halloween wreaths to my 7-year-old. She’s got some great ideas.

I had a much different wreath in mind and only got as far as the first step before she took over and made the perfect spider web wreath.

I love it when the kids take over. They’re ideas are always so much better than my own!

And because my daughter called the shots, the craft not only turned out cute, but it was also a fun process for her.

Grab a paper plate and some yarn to weave your own web with this fun and spooky Spider Web Wreath Halloween craft for kids.

This Halloween spider web wreath is fun to make and appropriate for preschoolers as well as elementary-aged kids.

It’s easy to adapt to differing skill levels and is open to a child’s individual creativity.

Supplies Needed

Paper plate
Scissors
Orange paint
Orange yarn
Clear tape
Plastic spider rings

How to make a Spider Web Wreath

Start by cutting the middle out of your paper plate.

If you’re working with young kids, you may want to do this step ahead of time, since you’ll need sharp scissors to do this task.

Flip your paper plate so that the bottom side is facing up and then paint the entire wreath orange.

If you don’t want an orange wreath, another fun option would be to paint your paper plate black and use orange yarn for your spider web.

Let the paint dry.

Once your wreath is dry, cut a long length of orange yarn (several feet!). It needs to be long enough to wrap around the plate many times for your spider web.

Tape one end of the yarn to the back of your wreath with clear tape.

Grab a paper plate and some yarn to weave your own web with this fun and spooky Spider Web Wreath kids Halloween craft this October.

Start wrapping the yarn around the wreath in all different directions. Go back and forth, sideways, diagonally, and around and around.

Keep wrapping until you reach the end of your yarn piece.

Secure the other end of the yarn to the back of your wreath with tape.

Finally, you can add your spider to your spider web wreath. (Or do like we did and add many spiders!)

We found that using small pieces of yarn to tie our spider rings to the web worked best. Add as many spiders as you want. We had a few busy, busy spider webs!

Note: This post was originally published on October 17, 2014. Updated and republished on October 4, 2018.

Find the supplies you’ll need

This fun wreath project only needs a few easy to find supplies. Here’s some great options for you:

Halloween

Fun Halloween Suncatchers

Silhouette Halloween Suncatcher

Paper Plate Jack-O-Lantern

Frankenstein Suncatcher Craft for Kids

Halloween Shadow Suncatcher Craft

Tie dyed halloween suncatchers

Witch & Bat Halloween Suncatchers

Hair Gel Halloween Sun Catchers

Halloween: Perler Bead Suncatchers for Kids

Adorable Coffee Filter Jack O'Lantern Suncatchers

Recycled Halloween Suncatchers

You may also like one of these fun Halloween crafts

Make sure you have all the supplies you need for your suncatcher crafts

Have fun with family activities

Fun Halloween Movies for Toddlers

Tips For a Successful Halloween Movie Night With Toddlers

Recommended Movie Night Resources

You may also like one of these themed movie lists

Spend more quality time with your family

Ghost Crafts for Kids

Ghost Bookmark Halloween Craft

No-Sew Ghost Pencil Topper

Ghost Pop-Up Cards

Easy Halloween Hand Puppets: No-Sew Ghost Puppet

Halloween Marshmallow Ghost Craft

Spooky Leaf Ghosts for Halloween

Fabric Ghost Craft

Paper Plate Ghost

Pencil Eraser Ghost Craft for Halloween

Cotton Ball Ghost Craft for Toddlers

Straw Blown Halloween Ghost Craft

Movable Paper Plate Ghost Craft

Painted Rock Ghosts Craft

Easy Origami Ghost Garland

Halloween Garland - Potato Print Ghosts

You may also like one of these fun Halloween crafts:

Our recommended craft supplies

Do you want to do more activities with your family?

Supplies Needed for your Cardboard Tube Spider craft:

How to make your cardboard tube spider craft for Halloween

You may also like one of these fun Halloween crafts:

Craft supplies you may need:

Are you looking for more activities?

Supplies Needed

How to make a Spider Web Wreath

You may also like one of these fun Halloween crafts for kids:

Find the supplies you’ll need

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