31 Fabulous October Arts and Crafts for Kids

Are you ready to celebrate the month of October and all the fun pumpkins, monsters, spiders, candy corn, Jack o lanterns, and Halloween? You will love this HUGE variety of clever and fun October Crafts! We have a months worth of October crafts for kids that are just a little spooky, but not scary, and they are a great way to celebrate fall! Your toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade will love these October arts and crafts to make!

Pumpkin Crafts for Kids

• Jack in a Box Paper Toy from Adventure in a Box. This fun pumpkin paper craft has a step by step video and a printable to help you make it.
• Folded Paper Pumpkin from Buggy and Buddy. These gorgeous paper pumpkins would make lovely fall or Halloween decorations for your house.
• Newspaper Pumpkin Garland from Kitchen Counter Chronicles. I love a good garland and this little pumpkins garland is adorable.
• Paper strip Pumpkins from A Dab of Glue Will Do. This fun paper craft is great for practicing cutting skills.
• Potato Stamping Pumpkins from Natural Beach Living. This is a great craft for little hands that will love stamping out lots of pumpkins, but older children will enjoy it to and can extra features to their pumpkins.
• Painted Rock Pumpkins from Easy Peasy and Fun. What a fun, and easy, way to create jack-o-lanterns!
• This Ruberband Pumpkin Craft is such a unique project with stunning results you will enjoy year after year.
• Puffy Paint Pumpkin Craft from Messy Little Monsters. What a fun art technique this is and how cute are the brightly painted pumpkins!

Spider Crafts for Kids

• Fingerprint Spiders from Simple Fun for Kids. I love this hands-on arty crafty activity.
• Spider Handprint Craft from The Best Ideas for Kids. This is such a clever way to use little fingers to make fun spiders.
• Spider Web Halloween Craft from Buggy and Buddy. Do you have some craft sticks in the cupboard? These little spiders on their webs are such a great way to use them up.
• Twiggy Spiders from Kitchen Counter Chronicles. The twiggy legs make these little spiders extra adorable.
• You are going to love this super cool Glow in the Dark Spider Web
• Cardboard Tube Spiders from Creative Family Fun. I love all the googly eyes on these cute spiders.
• Pom Pom Spider from Red Ted Art. This cute spider craft would make a great backpack charm or keyring.
• Stick Spider Webs from Mother Natured. If all your crafty spiders need a home, make one of these webs!
• Spider Headband Craft from Fantastic Fun and Learning. Dress up as a spider with this super cool spider headband. Maybe you could do a spider dance to some spider songs.
• Amazing Spider Slime!

Monster Crafts for Kids

• Friendly Monster Watercolor Blow Art from Adventures in a Box. These bright monsters look like lots of fun to make.
• Cardboard Tube Monsters from The Joy of Sharing. I love the funny faces on these cute little monsters.
• No-carve Pumpkin Monsters from Projects With Kids. These cute little monsters would look great decorating your fireplace or front porch.
• Yarn Monsters from Blue Bear Wood. I just love how cute and quirky these little monsters are.
• Halloween Handprint Painting from My Bored Toddler. Great creative and turn hands into monsters!
• Monster Slime

Cute Ghost Crafts for Kids

• Pom Pom Popper Ghosts from The Craft Train. These little poppers are so cute, and so much fun to play with.
• Fun Friendly Paper Ghosts from Picklebums. A free printable makes crafting these cute ghosts really easy.
• Easy Paper Ghost Craft from I Heart Crafty Things. These would make adorable ghost puppets, do you know any ghost stories or songs to go with them?
• Printable Ghost Halloween Craft from Printable Paper Crush. I love the ‘kawaii’ faces on these cute ghosts.
• Paper Roll Ghost from One Little Project. These flutter paper ghosts would look fabulous hung from a tree outside.

October Arts and Crafts

• Halloween Pencil Toppers from Laughing Kids Learn. These cute pencil toppers are easy to make and would be a great Halloween treat instead of candy.
• Halloween Sewing Craft from Coffee and Carpool. This is a great Halloween themed beginner sewing activity, and the finished product looks really cool.
• Tissue Paper Candy Corn from Typically Simple. Hang these bright candy corns in the window for a Halloween themed suncatcher.
• Popsicle Stick Candy Corn Friend from Glued To My Crafts. How cute is little candy corn guy!?!
• Easy Skeleton Halloween Craft from Simple Everyday Mom. This skeleton craft comes with a free printable and is a great way to practice cutting skills.
• Halloween Handprint Bats from Kids Craft Room. How much fun are these cheeky looking bats!?!

 

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Everyone will be busy and happy all month long making these 31 fabulous October crafts for kids! Plus don’t miss our FUN October Activities for Kids

Pumpkin Printables

• Free pumpkin activity printables that uses Pumpkin Candy to Count and Trace
• Practicing Counting with Pumpkin Seed Counting Activity
• Pumpkin Letter Tracing – use with a dry erase marker or playdough
• Super cute parts of a pumpkin craft to help kids learn the parts of a pumpkin
• Improve reading with this fun Word Family Pumpkin Activities for Kindergarten
• Fall Addition Sticker Worksheets are a fun, hands-on math worksheet
• Pumpkin Pie Number Sense Activities for Preschoolers
• Pumpkin Shape Matching Game to practice shape recognition with kids
• Practice sight words with this fun Pumpkin Sight Word Game
• These super cute Pumpkin Alphabet puzzles allow children to practice letter tracing as well as working on beginning sounds
• Lots of FUN October Activities for Kids
• Make practicing math fun with this super cute, Pumpkin Patch Math Game
• These fun pumpkin addition task cards are super cute and make practicing fun for kids
• Sneak in some fun practice with these homophone puzzles
• Grab this free Pumpkin Life Cycle Worksheet pack to learn about the life cycle of pumpkins
• Trace and Erase to practice again with this handy Pumpkin Letter Tracing printable
• Super cute pumpkin pie counting activity – pile on the “whip cream”
• Pumpkin Word Family Slides Printables
• Practice making shapes with these pumpkin shapes playdough mats
• Grab these Pumpkin Addition Worksheets for a no prep math activity for young learners
• This find the letter free pumpkin activity printables
• Adorable Pumpkin preschool pie craft for practicing counting!
• Hands on Pumpkin Shape Games for Preshoolers
• Work on One to One Correspondence Kindergarten with this pumpkin pie themed math activity
• Work on Number Bonds to 10 with these pumpkin themed math worksheets for kindergarten and grade 1
• Kids will love this Pumpkin Phonics activity where they will work on beginning sounds to put together these alphabet puzzles.
• Trace numbers and work on 1:1 correspondence with this free pumpkin activity printables