This creative Halloween craft stick art activity is filled with the sights of Halloween night. Kids fill their pictures with pumpkin and ghost cutouts to highlight this not-too-spooky event. What will you see on Halloween night?
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Explore the sights and sounds of Halloween with this Halloween craft stick art activity. Halloween images can be fun for kids, but some can be scary and unfamiliar. Kids can share their ideas about Halloween with the artwork they create.
This simple Halloween night art activity lets kids imagine not-too-spooky ghosts, and grinning jack-o-lanterns when they go trick-or-treating. Kids can even create new characters to highlight Halloween night.
Halloween art activity
Halloween is filled with strange and wonderful sights – in the costumes displayed at the mall; in the stories you read at circle time; in games played at home or at the class party.
An activity that highlights the characters and images of Halloween will help little ones become familiar with the novelty of the holiday.
The cutouts used in this activity are my own drawings. I prepared a printable with ghost and jack-o-lantern cutouts and a Halloween tree, as an option for your art activity.
Halloween images for preschool art activity.
What will you see on Halloween night?
Materials for Halloween art
- craft sticks
- white paint
- construction paper
- Halloween paper cutouts or stickers
Instructions for Halloween craft stick art
1. Paint craft sticks white for a picket fence. Allow to dry.
- Kids may want to use other paint colors on the craft sticks. Follow their lead as they prepare the fence for the Halloween characters.
2. Glue the painted craft sticks to construction paper to make a fence.
- The fence is just a starting point to spark creativity. Kids should be supported if they choose to use the craft sticks in other ways – a house, a bridge, a door or window for example.
- Provide the option of other colors of construction paper for the background, such as purple or dark blue.
3. Glue tree, ghost and pumpkin cutouts to the construction paper.
- Cut out shapes and characters beforehand if preferred.
- Find characters to cut out on cards and pamphlets.
- Provide paper for kids to draw and cut out other symbols and characters.
- You could also provide self-adhesive stickers for this activity.
This Halloween night art activity is easy to set up and needs little instruction.
Once the craft sticks are in place, kids can use their imaginations to choose cutouts, design layouts, and glue characters in place to make their pictures.
Art sessions provide opportunities for kids to reflect on their unique experiences. Talk about the ideas and images they choose as they engage with the materials. This will support skills development as they play and learn.
