How to Create Toddler Art Projects for Halloween

Directions

1. Lay down a plastic tablecloth on your work surface and keep cleaning wipes within easy reach.
2. Pick safe, washable supplies such as chunky paints, glue sticks, and large sheets of paper.
3. Protect your floor with newspapers or plastic, and dress your toddler in a smock or old t-shirt.
4. Sort supplies into clear bins, and keep anything sharp or messy like scissors and liquid glue out of little hands; supervise when using those items.
5. Make a Halloween spaghetti sensory bin by dyeing cooked spaghetti orange, then adding glow-in-the-dark toys and plastic spiders for squishy fun.
6. Create pumpkin apple prints by cutting an apple in half, dipping it in bright paint, and stamping it onto paper.
7. Make ghostly footprints by painting your toddler’s feet white and pressing them onto black paper.
8. Wrap fruit like bananas or pears with gauze, stick on googly eyes, and you’ve got a mummy snack.
9. Stamp pumpkin shapes using apple halves dipped in orange, brown, and green paint.
10. Dip tiny feet in white paint, step onto black paper, then draw spooky faces with a silver paint pen.
11. Mix shaving cream with white glue and a bit of orange paint to make puffy paint pumpkins.
12. Let your toddler finger-paint monsters, bats, and other Halloween creatures.
13. Glue colorful leaves and pumpkin seeds onto paper to create silly ghost or monster faces.
14. String leaves onto a piece of yarn to make a simple, eco-friendly leaf garland.
15. Fill a sensory bin with leaves, seeds, and orange-colored spaghetti for hands-on exploration.
16. Paint empty toilet paper rolls, add googly eyes, and turn them into ghosts or monsters.
17. Cut fabric scraps into triangle shapes and glue them together to form candy corn.
18. Use cardboard boxes to build 3D Halloween scenes with silly creatures and haunted houses.
19. Cut colored construction paper into random shapes and mix them to build silly monster faces.
20. Stick cotton balls onto a paper plate to make a fluffy, friendly ghost.
21. Crumple orange tissue paper into balls and glue them onto paper to make textured pumpkins.
22. Let children place Halloween stickers and magazine cutouts anywhere they like for extra spooky fun.
23. Help your toddler craft a simple mask or costume using paper plates, construction paper, and craft sticks.
24. Hang finished artwork on a ‘Halloween art gallery’ wall or snap photos to save the memories.