8 Easy Halloween Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Little ones can join the Halloween fun with projects made for small hands. These eight activities for ages 3 to 5 use paper plates, toilet paper rolls, cotton swabs, dry beans, and other supplies you probably have at home, and most take less than 30 minutes. While kids scoop, glue, paint, and toss, they’re also building fine motor skills and practicing colors and shapes.

  • Visual aid of how to complete Halloween Sensory Bin

    This festive Halloween sensory bin is a perfect way to explore the themes of Halloween with your little one. Sensory bins allow children to learn through exploring and using their senses such as touch. They are also great for developing fine motor skills. For this particular bin, they have the added bonus of learning about colors and textures as well.

  • Visual aid of how to complete Paper Plate Halloween Crafts

    Want some super simple, last minute Halloween craft ideas for the kids?

    Create this trio of Halloween characters using dessert plates from

    the dollar store and a short list of supplies.

  • Visual aid of how to complete Paper Roll Ghost Family

    This simple Halloween craft is great for the entire family to do together. Using just paper rolls and white paint, you can create a ghost family that will look great on the mantel this Halloween.

  • Visual aid of how to complete Witch Hat Ring Toss Game

    Every year, our family hosts a Halloween party for friends and family. We came up with this special Halloween spin to this classic game. We love that this ring toss is easy enough for the little ones, but also challenging for teens and grownups. It all depends on where you stand. Hope you have fun creating and playing your own witch hat ring toss for spooktacular family fun!

  • Visual aid of how to complete Halloween Q-Tip Skeleton

    Use cotton swabs and glue to create a dramatic skeleton picture to hang on the wall for Halloween. If you have a shadow box frame, you can mount it in that and keep it year after year.

    I love how simple this craft is, yet there is so much to take away from it! Our son was fascinated with the various bone sizes and how they all connected to create our bodies.

  • Visual aid of how to complete Pillowcase Ghost

    Decorating the house for the holidays is a great way to spend some family time together and get excited about the holidays. This weekend we created this spooky ghost to liven up the neighborhood this Halloween.

  • Visual aid of how to complete Paper Pumpkin Decorations

    I love this pumpkin shape craft because it is fun for all ages. My two-year-old gets a chance to work on shapes and sorting while having fun and my five-year-old is inspired to get creative making jacko-lantern faces with his shapes.

  • Visual aid of how to complete Paper Spiders
    Paper Spiders

    (Ages 3-8)

    Here's a fun (and super easy) Halloween craft from last year that the kids really enjoyed.

  • Share your little one’s ghosts, spiders, and pumpkins with us by tagging @kiwico_inc. And for Halloween projects with every supply already in the box, explore Halloween projects from the KiwiCo Store.


Get inspired!