Halloween Crafts – Sheet Ghost
Sheet Ghost
This is the easiest of all ghost crafts. All you need is a white sheet, a balloon, a rubber band, and a black marker. If you want to hang your ghost, you’ll also need some string or a broken rubber band.
Blow up the balloon and place it inside the sheet. Draw a scary face on your ghost, and you are done! To insert string for hanging, just run a threaded needle through the top – don’t pop the balloon! You can also use some string at the bottom to drape him open.
And that’s it – easy as pie!
Outdoor Halloween Decorations – Ghost Bushes
Ghost Bushes
This is a very simple craft that you make from a white sheet, a black marker or black fabric paint, and clothespins. This craft will surely make you the talk of the neighborhood and it is so easy to make, but, of course, you’ll need some bushes to make it work!
Take a plain white sheet and fold it in half. The size of the sheet depends on the size of your bushes! Place newspaper in between the fold and then go to work making the face of your ghost. You can make it scary or fun – it’s all up to you!
Once everything is completely dry, just wrap the sheet around your bush and secure in the back tightly with clothespins. After that, all you have to do is enjoy your neighbor’s compliments!
Halloween Crafts – Paper Mache Ghost
Paper Mache Ghost
Many Halloween crafts can be made from paper mache. You can make pumpkins, spiders, and even bats. Everyone should know how to do paper mache, and ghosts are especially fun to make from paper and glue. So, here’s how to make a paper mache ghost. First, you’ll need the following supplies:
- A long balloon
- A bowl that the end of the balloon fits in (this is just to hold the balloon while you work)
- Newspaper
- Flour and water
- A pan and a stirrer
- Scissors
- White tempera paint
- Paint brush
- A black marker
You will first need to make a thin glue. Make a simple, thin glue from flour and water. Mix 1/2 cup of flour into 1/2 cup of water until the mixture is thin and runny. Stir into 2 cups of boiling water (the heating gives the glue a nice consistency, but is not necessary). Simmer for about 3 minutes, and then cool.
Tear the newspaper into strips about one inch wide. The length doesn’t matter. Blow up the balloon and tie in a knot. Place the balloon in a bowl so that is stable. Dip a strip of paper in the flour glue, wipe off the excess, and wrap the strip around the balloon.
Cover the entire top of the balloon. Have at least three layers surrounding the balloon. Let it dry (at least overnight) after each layer. Let the balloon dry completely (it may take a few days). Pop the balloon and separates it from the outer papier-mâché skin. Throw the torn balloon away. Trim the base of the ghost to form smooth scallops. Cut two holes in the ghost (these will be its eyes). Paint the ghost white. Let it dry.
You can either put the ghost on a table or hang it from the ceiling from fishing line to make a scary Halloween decoration.
Halloween Crafts – Ghost Luminaries
Ghost Luminaries
These are fun to make, and you can use them to light the way along your walkway toward your door to welcome trick or treaters. Kids can make these fun luminaries with very few supplies and plenty of imagination. Get started today!
Supplies needed are:
- clean, empty jars
- white acrylic paint
- black acrylic paint
- black Sharpie marker
- tea light candles or other illumination
If you aren’t comfortable using candles, look in discount or craft stores for glow sticks or miniature flashlights.
Paint jars with white acrylic paint. Let dry completely then add a second coat. Let dry, preferably overnight.
Use a black Sharpie marker to draw on eyes and mouths, and then fill in with black acrylic paint. Let dry completely.
Add glow lights, tea light candles, votive candles or any other illumination and line them up along your sidewalk for a fun and spooky entrance.
Outdoor Halloween decorations – Ring Around the Ghosties
Ring Around the Ghosties
This is a really neat looking craft and pretty easy to make with materials you can find around the house, for the most part. They look especially good when circling a central pole, such as a tree or lamppost.
Here are the materials you will need:
- 6 wooden dowels
- Small white garbage bags
- Newspaper
- Masking tape
- Old white sheets
- String
- Black permanent marker
Cut your dowels to the height you’d like your ghosts to be. They can be any size from toddler height which is quite cute to larger than life which is quite spooky! Remember: the larger the ghosts, the more sheets you’ll need to use.
To make a ghost head, stuff a small white garbage or paper bag with crumpled newspaper or leaves to the size you like. Push one of the dowels into the bag, and then wrap masking tape around the neck to secure. Repeat for the rest of the ghosts.
Drape a sheet (or half a sheet, if you’re making small ghosts) over each head and tie a piece of string around each neck. You may need to experiment with cutting your sheets to the right size; here, we used a queen-size sheet for each ghost and rounded the bottom edges to the desired length.
Use permanent black markers to draw a face on each ghost.
Gather your ghosts around the tree or pole — with a foot or two between each one — and push the dowels into the earth so that the sheets touch the ground. Angle the ghosts so that they are leaning slightly backward, and then knot the corners of the sheets together as if the ghosts were holding hands.
Halloween Crafts – Spooky Bushes
Place this cute little ghost on your bushes. Fold a white bed sheet in half. In between the fold, place some newspapers. Using black craft paint or black permanent markers, draw a spooky ghost face on the front of the sheet. You can opt to make a funny, scary, or whimsical face. Now drape this sheet over the bushes. Pin it using clothes pins. This will make it tight enough. Now there is a ghost sitting in the bushes.
Halloween Crafts – Transparent Ghosts
Transparent Ghosts
Cut out the shape of the ghost from 2 sheets of wax paper. Now, cut out its eyes, a ghoulish mouth and other effects if you wish to, using construction paper. Next, pick out one of the wax paper ghosts. Lay it on the top of a newspaper. Place its eyes & mouth in the right place. Now sprinkle the remaining portions with glitter. Further, carefully place the remaining wax paper ply in line with the bottom edge of the prior (that is placed on the newspaper). Slowly overlap the lower wax paper ghost and further place a sheet of newspaper on them. Heat the iron at medium level. Run it over the ghost in order to meld the two wax paper ghosts. Finally, shred the extra sparkles from the ghost’s body, and attach a string to the same. Hang this anywhere you feel like and have spooky fun!
So, with a little know-how you can make wonderful ghost crafts to make your Halloween special!
Halloween Crafts – Singing Ghosts
Singing Ghosts
You can make scary balloon ghosts to hand outside the house and add some spookiness to your Halloween. Take 2 white plastic bags. These are easily available at the near by grocery stores or Wal-Mart. Now cut the handles and the written part of these plastic bags. Now start shredding the bottom of the plastic bags leaving away the seams. Try to make 1 inch shreds. Beware that the cuts are around 1 inch away from the seams. Now blow up your balloon & make a knot so that it remains inflated. Along with the top knot, now tape 1 bag to the backside of the balloon & 1 bag towards the front. Preferably use black-duct tape s it has quite good grip. Now, draw a ghost face. Tie a string surrounding the knot. The ghost is ready to hang! It can be even more entertaining if you tie some bells at the bottom shreds of the ghost. Now you would hear it haunting in the breeze!
Halloween Crafts – Tissue Ghosts
Tissue Ghost
This is perhaps the writer’s favorite. Take a piece of Kleenex. Gather it together such that it forms a bulb at the top and the bottom should be splaying out. Shaped almost like a ghost! Now, with a rubber band twist and tie to maintain the shape of the bulb. You can also use a garbage bag for the same. This becomes the ghost’s head. So just tie it as tight as possible! Now grab on a black magic marker to dot in the eyes, nose and mouth.
The Kleenex ghost is ready to spook around. You can make loads of these and hang around the house. This would impress your friends & family and friends. You would be able to boast as a Halloween crafts pro!
Halloween Crafts – Ghost Wind Socks
Ghost Wind Socks
These wonderful and easy porch or tree decorations float and flutter in the breeze! You can also decorate inside with them, but have a fan blowing near them to achieve the fluttering effect!
For supplies, gather together the following:
- White construction paper
- Black permanent marker
- Stapler
- White crepe paper
- Tape
- String
For each wind sock, decorate a 6-by-18-inch piece of white construction paper with ghostly eyes and a horrific mouth. Roll the construction paper to form a tube shape and staple the ends together.
Cut eight 8-foot-long strips of crepe paper and drape them over the top edge with both ends hanging down to create “tails.” Secure with tape.
For a handle, cut a 30-inch piece of string and staple the ends to opposite sides of the top of the decoration. Hang everywhere!
