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Until recently Halloween wasn't celebrated much in Australia, but in the last few years that has changed a lot. Halloween is quickly becoming a popular event, and you can see why. The chance to dress up, decorate your house, and make some great Halloween crafts and treats is just too much fun!

Sometimes I like to go to a dollar store and see what Halloween items they have and then work out the crafts and activities later! 

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Just a few of the great items we bought on our shopping trip

Would you like to see what we made? 

*You can find all of the items required for these at www.spotlight.com.au, or at your local Spotlight store.

If you make any of these fun Halloween crafts with your toddlers we would love you to share a pic in our Facebook group or over on Instagram --tag @myboredtoddler so we can all see!

If you want some encouragement to do some Halloween crafts with your toddlers why not join our FREE 5 Day Halloween craft challenge.

free toddler halloween craft challenge

Here are our favorite Halloween crafts and activities for Toddlers: 

Halloween crafts for toddlers

 

Crepe Paper Pumpkin

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You need:

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What to do:

  1. Cut out a pumpkin shape using the black cardboard
  2. Cut the orange crepe paper into squares.
  3. Let your toddler scrunch the paper into ballsscunched paper 1
  4. Glue the orange scrunched crepe paper balls onto the black cardboard
  5. Cut out the pumpkin top from the green construction paper and glue on the top of the pumpkin
  6. Cut out eyes, nose and a mouth from the black cardboard (these can be any shape you like).

Crepe Paper Spider

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You need:

What to do: 

  • Cut out  2 circles of black cardboard (I traced around a side plate to make the large circle, and a glass for the smaller circle)
  • Scrunch the black and orange crepe paper into small balls (let your kids do this - it's a great fine motor activity!)
  • Glue the crepe paper onto both circles.
  • Cut out 8 thin strips from the orange construction paper and glue onto the spider's body.
  • Glue the googly eyes onto the spider's head.

Felt Pumpkin

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This felt pumpkin has removable and interchangeable eyes, nose and mouth, to make a simple yet fun activity that is great for toddlers.

What you need: 

  • I piece of orange felt - firm felt is best if you can get it, although normal felt will work too.
  • 1 piece of green felt
  • 1 piece of black felt
  • Stick on Velcro

What to do: 

  • Cut a pumpkin shape out of the orange felt, and a green top for the pumpkin
  • Using the black felt, cut out a variety of eyes, noses, and mouths.
  • Apply velcro to all of the eyes, noses, and mouths. 

 

Halloween Cup Cake Decorating

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These cupcakes were made by my toddlers, with very little help from me. They had heaps of fun making them! The fun of this activity was in the decoration, so you can use any cupcake recipe. I have to confess that we used a packet mix for this one, allowing us more time to ice and decorate them.

What you need:

  • Your favourite cupcake recipe
  • White cooking chocolate
  • Green, orange and brown M&M's or Smarties
  • Halloween cupcake cases & toppers. We used the Spooky Hollow set pictured below, from Spotlight.

 

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What to do: 

  1. Make basic cupcakes, following the directions of your favorite recipe, and using the Halloween cupcake cases.
  2. Melt a cup of white cooking chocolate in the microwave, in 30 sec intervals until soft
  3. Spread the chocolate onto each cupcake. I let my toddlers do this part, being careful that the chocolate is not too hot.
  4. Let your toddler place M&M's on their cupcakes. There's a good chance that they will be eating the M&M's as they do this so make sure you have enough!
  5. Place the Halloween cupcake topper on the top.

These were a hit in our house, and we took some of the extras to a playgroup where they were very well received.

Spooky Jelly Cups

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These jelly cups were probably my kids favourite treat and they were the easiest to make. We made them with red jelly, but green would look great too.

What you need: 

  • Spooky Halloween Cups - available at Spotlight
  • Jelly mix

What to do: 

  1. Make up the jelly, following the packet directions
  2. Pour into the spooky Halloween cups
  3. Let set overnight and enjoy!

Halloween Popcorn Cups

popcorn cups

These popcorn cups are a hit at kids parties, and they don't contain any of the nasty ingredients that you sometimes find in the bags of colored popcorn. They're quite healthy too if you air pop the popcorn. For this, we used these great Halloween themed cups, which are the perfect kiddie-sized serving.

How to Colour Popcorn 

What you need:

  • 2 cups of popped popcorn (you can pop them however you like. Air-popped is the healthiest, but microwave popcorn works well too).
  • 25g butter
  • Orange and green food coloring.

What to do: 

  • Mix half of the butter with one of the colors of food coloring
  • Add in the popcorn and gently mix them together.
  • Spread the popcorn out on greaseproof paper until the kernels are dry.
  • Serve in the Halloween cups.

Halloween Chocolates

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A sample of the homemade chocolates that we made.

What you need: 

  • Good quality cooking chocolate
  • Halloween chocolate molds. We used the ones below from Spotlight.

chocolate moulds

What to do: 

  1. Melt the chocolate in the microwave, in 30-second intervals until soft
  2. Fill the molds with chocolate
  3. Put in the fridge to set

You can find more Halloween crafts here, including Halloween Costume Ideas and Halloween Books.

If you make any of these fun Halloween crafts with your toddlers we would love you to share a pic in our Facebook group or over on Instagram --tag @myboredtoddler so we can all see!

 

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Ali Gilbert

Tuesday 3rd of November 2015

What cute ideas! Maggie would love to do some of these- especially eat the M&M's as she decorates the cupcakes- haha! Thanks for sharing :)

Deborah from Mommy Crusader

Monday 2nd of November 2015

This is a great list of activities. Pinning this for next year's Halloween party! :) Thanks so much.

Sarah Sq.

Thursday 29th of October 2015

I know it says these are for toddlers... but I'm doing them anyway haha.

Carol

Tuesday 3rd of November 2015

That's what I want to hear!

Charlene @ Teacher by trade Mother by nature

Thursday 29th of October 2015

I always forget about shopping at Spotlight! Thanks for the reminder. Hope you don't mind, I am sharing your Crepe Paper Pumpkin in my Halloween round up post - will be linking up for #ToddlerFunFriday.

Carol

Tuesday 3rd of November 2015

Of course I don't mind! Thanks!