How To Make Halloween Decorations Out of Paper

Spooky season is here, and Halloween is just around the corner! The pumpkin patches are nearly ready to visit, and children can’t wait to buy their fancy dress costumes for an all-important evening of trick-or-treating. Are you looking for other ideas for kids to celebrate Halloween? Then let’s get to making some spooktacular Halloween Decorations out of paper! It’s the ultimate fun activity this Halloween.

We’ve got some fangtastic paper craft ideas to decorate your home for Halloween. All the craft ideas can be made using simple supplies….no need to panic about trying to make complicated designs!

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The great thing about many Halloween crafts is that you don’t need a long list of items to complete each craft. Many things can often be found around your house and are things you already have. It’s a good idea to start saving any toilet paper rolls so that you can make lots of different types of creepy characters.

Coloured paper in orange, green, black and white is handy to have and so is a permanent marker. You will also need sellotape, a glue stick, and some googly eyes, which are a fun addition to your creations. Find out below some Halloween decorations you can make….

The humble toilet roll becomes the superhero of crafting for Halloween! Children will love to watch how each roll can transform into funny Halloween characters with minimal effort. These spooky characters will give your table decorations a spooky vibe. Find out how to make a witch, bat, and ghost with basic craft supplies.

Check out the photo above to guide you through how your Halloween toilet roll friends should look as you follow the instructions below. Let’s get started ….

1. Using sellotape, wrap your toilet roll up in black paper or if you prefer you could also use black paint.
2. Make your bat’s wings by cutting out strips of black paper with scissors. Cut jagged edges in the paper, along the bottom. Use our photo as a guide to the jagged shape. Using sellotape, or glue dots, stick the wings on the back of the newly papered toilet roll from step 1.
3. Bat fangs can be created by using white paper cut into points. These can then be stuck onto the base of the toilet roll to begin your bat’s face.
4. For your bat’s eyes, use orange paper to cut 2 large circles. Afterwards, add a pair of googly eyes. An alternative, if you have not got any googly eyes is to use a black marker pen to draw dots in the middle of the orange circles.
5. Have fun with your Halloween bat!

1. Wrap your toilet roll up in white paper, using sellotape or white paint.
2. Using black paper, create a pair of dark, scary eyes for your ghost. Cut the paper into black circles and glue these to the front of your white toilet roll from step 1.
3. For your ghost’s mouth, cut a smaller circle than the eyes with black paper and stick this onto the roll.
4. You can add spooky, floating ghost arms if you like, by using strips of white paper with long finger shapes cut at the end.
5. Why not take trick your new ghost friend trick or treating!?

1. First, choose the colour of your witch character. A green or light orange face is a good choice for this fun craft. Then, colour, paint, or wrap the paper toilet roll in the colour of your choice.
2. To make a witch hat, first cut black craft paper with scissors into a pointed hat shape. Then stick a thin piece of paper on the bottom to make the base of your witch hat. Now you can get creative with your hat design! Exciting! The choice of what to use is endless. For example, you could use star-shaped stickers or glitter to jazz it up or stick on some little sequins. Use tacky glue or sellotape to attach your spooktacular hat to the top of your toilet roll.
3. Every good Halloween witch must have some scary hair! There are a few options for this that you might like to try. Pipe cleaners twisted and curled around the toilet roll would be a good idea, or you could simply cut strips of orange paper to style around the face.
4. Now time to draw a face on your witch. Position googly eyes below the hat and draw a mouth. Have you made a cute witch with a smile, or does she have a sinister grin? The choice is yours!
5. Enjoy your witchcraft!!

This is a really simple craft made from ordinary paper plates that your kids will love. We will show you how to create a paper pumpkin decoration or a paper plate with a spiderweb design.

1. Paint or colour your paper plate orange.
2. Using black paper and scissors, cut out a design similar to one you would use when pumpkin carving a real pumpkin. Stick your design into the middle of the plate. This will give you your pumpkin face.
3. Now, make the pumpkin stem. Draw a stem shape on white paper and use coloured pencils or paint to shade it brown. Cut around your stem shape and attach it to the top of your pumpkin plate.
4. Your pumpkin plate is ready!

1. Cut out the middle of your paper plate so that just the outer ring is remaining.
2. Using a hole punch, place holes all around the plate ready for making a string web.
3. To make your string web, thread white string through the holes in a crisscross design.
4. To add a finishing touch to your spider web craft, place a selection of plastic spiders on top of your string web. Secure them with Sellotape so that they are balanced on top, just like a real-life spider ready to catch its prey from the web!

Spiderwebs definitely add a spooky touch around the home and these Spiderweb paper plate crafts will make brilliant decorations.

1. Cut out the middle of your paper plate so that the outer ring and inner circle are separate.
2. Cut 24 paper strips out of black, orange and white paper.
3. Add glue to one side of the strip, fold it around the paper plate ring, and stick the two ends together. Then, cut the edge of the strips to give them a jagged, spooky appearance.
4. You can then draw your favourite Halloween character or creature onto the inner circle and cut out the shape. You could draw a pumpkin, skeleton or vampire. Let your imagination run wild!
5. Stick your character onto the bottom of the wreath and your Halloween wreath is all ready to go!

We hope you have found lots of fun ways to make Halloween decorations out of paper. From cute table decor ideas to decorations you can hang around the home, these crafts for kids will definitely put you in the spooky mood.

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