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 costume for an all important evening of trick or treating. Are you looking for other ideas for kids to celebrate Halloween? A good activity for all the family to enjoy is a variety of themed arts and crafts activities.

Here you’ll find some fangtastic, spooktacular paper craft ideas that you can use to decorate your home ready for Halloween. All the craft ideas can be made using simple supplies….no need to panic about trying to make any complicated designs!

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 are a fun addition for 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. Find out here 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 your 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 use white paint.
2. Create a pair of dark, scary eyes for your ghost using black paper. 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. 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 which you might like to try. Pipe cleaners twisted and curled around the toilet roll would be a good idea or 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 colouring pencils or paint to shade in brown. Cut around your stem shape and attach at 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 balance on top just like a real life spider ready to catch its prey from the web!

We hope you have found lots of fun ways to make Halloween decorations out of paper.

Are you looking for a Halloween fancy dress costume for your child? You will find lots of inspirations and ideas in our blog Ideas For Halloween Costumes.

Thinking of things to do for Halloween? We’ve got you covered with our article Halloween Events Near You.

 And don’t miss our guide to Halloween Colouring Pages. Ideal for when you need to keep kids entertained so you can bake a pumpkin pie!