Crafts · KidsNo. 7624 · The 2026 edition
Halloween crafts for toddlers, one paper plate at a time.
Handprints, paper plates and bins of beans and bugs: toddler and preschool projects with few steps, big materials and a healthy tolerance for mess.
Good Halloween crafts for toddlers have a short list of requirements: few steps, materials big enough to grab, and some tolerance for paint in unexpected places. Most of these lean on three dependable formats — handprints, paper plates and sensory bins — with a few that call for an adult on the cutting.
They’re drawn from the Fieldguide’s kids’ and paper craft shelves, and they range from simple stamping to keepsakes set in clay and plaster. One rule covers all of them: supervise small hands closely, and keep small parts — beans, googly eyes, pom poms — where you can see them.
Halloween crafts for toddlers and preschoolers
- Easy Halloween Crafts For Preschoolers — A roundup of simple preschool projects from construction paper, pipe cleaners and egg cartons: paper plate pumpkins, mummies, monsters. Then it all goes on display around the house. The guide
- Haunted House Paper Plate Halloween Craft — A haunted house built on a paper plate, the format that turns up all over this list for good reason. The guide
- How to make a Halloween Witches Potion Sensory Bin — Witches’ potion, sensory-bin edition, for toddlers who like to stir things. The guide covers the full set-up. The guide
- Fun Halloween Handprint and Footprint Crafts — Hands or feet, dipped in paint and pressed onto paper, then turned into Halloween characters with markers and glue. Messy by design. The guide
- Spooky Handprint Art for a Hauntingly Creative Halloween — A hand painted black, stamped on cardstock, then given googly eyes and a marker mouth. A monster, and a record of exactly how small that hand was. The guide
- Easy Fun Halloween Handprint Crafts for Toddlers and Kids — More handprint crafts, pitched at toddlers and older kids alike. If the first stamp goes well, there is always the other hand. The guide
- Paper Plate Halloween Candy Holder — Paper plates painted, stapled and given wings and googly eyes to become a bat that holds candy. Party table or trick-or-treat run, your call. The guide
- Playful Paper Plate Halloween Craft — Paint a moonlit sky on a paper plate, build a yarn-haired witch and a tiny broom, and an adult cuts the slit she flies along. The guide
- Handprint Halloween Crafts for Toddlers — Tiny hands pressed into air-dry clay, cut out, dried overnight, then painted and sealed. Add wiggly eyes or the date and it becomes a keepsake. The guide
- Halloween Sensory Tub For Multiple Ages — Black and white beans, orange lentils, plastic bugs, sticky skeletons and bouncy-ball eyeballs. Toddlers get large items and positive guidance; older kids get tongs. The guide
- Mix n Match Paper Plate Crafting for Halloween — Loose parts — pom poms, buttons, feathers, pipe cleaners — stuck to black and orange plates with Blu Tack. Cats, pumpkins and spiders, endlessly redesigned. The guide
- Halloween Paper Plate Craft for Kids - Cute Moveable Halloween Scene! — A white paper plate turned into a moveable Halloween scene: trace and cut characters from a free printable, mount them on popsicle sticks, and slot them in. The guide
- 3D Zombie Paper Plate Craft with Printables — Yarn brains and an accordion-folded eyeball that wiggles turn a paper plate into a 3D zombie. Printables included. The guide
- DIY Kid Halloween Keepsake: Handprint Spiders — Two overlapping handprints pressed into playdough and cast in Plaster of Paris make a spider’s body and legs. Paint it, add googly eyes, and keep it. The guide
- Halloween Craft for Kids – Paper Plate Witch Hat — Party hat or paper cone on top, paper plate for the brim: trace, cut, assemble, then paint and decorate however the wearer sees fit. The guide
- Easy Halloween Handprint Crafts for Kids — Handprints on canvas, with paint and stencils, sealed so they last. Cut-out prints can be decoupaged onto other surfaces, too. The guide
- How to Make an Easy DIY Halloween Sensory Bin for Kids — Start with black beans, or a substitute, then add eyeballs, skeletons and spider rings, plus scoops for digging. Minutes to put together, per the guide. The guide
- Paper Plate Halloween Characters — Painted black, a small paper plate becomes a bat, with accordion-folded paper legs and wings and googly eyes. A cheerful one, at that. The guide
- How to Make Preschool Pumpkin Art with Cotton Swabs — Tape pumpkin cutouts down, dot washable paint around them with cotton swabs, then peel away to reveal the silhouette. The guide pitches it as fine-motor practice. The guide
- Halloween Sensory Bin for Baby and Toddlers: Edible Eyeballs — Eyeballs made from gelatin and raisins, molded in plastic Easter egg halves, then handed over for squishing. The guide pitches it at babies and toddlers, with minimal prep. The guide
Every handprint craft is secretly a measurement.
Pick one format and repeat it; toddlers rarely object to a second go at the same paint. The full kids’ craft shelf has more handprints, paper plates and sensory bins, each linked to the guide it came from.