16 Easy Witch Crafts for Kids
Getting your kids excited about spooky creatures like ghosts and witches can be a challenging but fun activity. The best way to introduce scary stuff is with art.
These 16 easy witch crafts for kids are sure to take the fear out of the legend of a green witch with a pointy hat. We’ve picked the best witch crafts for all ages with minimal supplies or steps. Who needs complex, complicated craft projects when you can do simple ones that are just as fun?
The best thing about these witch craft ideas is that you can do them with any skill level, age, or budget. Forget that trip to the craft store because you’ve probably got everything you need already available.
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16 Easy Witch Crafts for Kids
No matter what age your kids are, they’ll enjoy getting their hands busy and their imaginations fired up by any of these 16 witch projects for kids.
Be sure to keep your scissors, glue, writing utensils, and other craft essentials close by because they’ll go with nearly every project. You may have to find some special items too for some of these projects, like paper cups, paint, or pipe cleaners.
And don’t forget to grab your littles to have extra crafting fun with these easy kids witch crafts.
1. Adorable Handprint Witch Project
Crafts that permanently capture your children’s age and size are the best projects for the holidays. These cute handprint witches make the perfect Halloween craft to do quickly and with minimal materials. All your kids need besides the basic craft supplies and the template is colored paper. Construction or cardstock works best.
2. Witchy Gnome Craft
We’re in love with the adorableness of these gnome witches and how easy they are to assemble. Kids of all ages will enjoy assembling these colorful witches. Older kids can color, cut, and assemble for more uniqueness. But you can print the pieces on colored paper for younger kids or to speed up the process. Use cardstock or construction paper for a thicker structure.
3. Paper Plate Witch Project
This easy witch craft turns a basic paper plate into a cute little witch. You’ll need to collect paper plates, a paintbrush and green paint, and colored paper – construction or cardstock. Along with the template, you’ll also require a pencil, a black marker, and a glue stick.
4. Easy Origami Witch Hat
Paper folding can be a great way to make fun kids’ projects, including this 3D paper hat. You’ll need craft glue and several colors of craft paper. Don’t forget scissors and a pencil. An adult may have to do the folding and cutting for younger kids, but it’s great for older kids to learn how to follow directions and do their own assembly.
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5. Cheerful Paper Plate Witch
You can change a paper plate into a cheerful, cute witch using this witch template. You’ll need skin-colored paint, coloring utensils like markers or pencils, scissors, and black paper. Young kids will enjoy cutting the printed shapes from a plain piece of paper, coloring them, and pasting them onto the plate.
6. Fork Painted Witch Broom
Kids of all ages will enjoy painting their whimsical witch broom using a kitchen utensil. Once you print out the simple template, you’ll also need brown paint, a brown marker, a fork, scissors, and glue. You or your kids can cut out the broomstick pieces to trace onto colored paper. And use the fork and brown paint to decorate the broom bristles.
7. Create a Witch Cauldron
This witch cauldron template combines a paper plate with unusual craft supplies like bubble wrap to create a spooky witch’s pot full of potions. You’ll also need green paper, brown, green, and black paints, glue, and scissors. Steps for creating are as simple as printing the template pieces, cutting, tracing, gluing, and coloring.
8. Colorful Origami Witch Hats
These paper origami witch hats transform basic colored craft papers into different colored 3D origami hats. You’ll need yellow, black, and brown craft paper sheets, craft glue, and scissors. Younger kids may need extra assistance following the papers to the project’s specifications. Older children might need you to supervise them as they follow the instructions or do it as they watch you complete a sample one.
9. Toilet Paper Roll Witch
These creative witch characters start with an empty toilet paper cardboard tube that turns into creepy yet cheerful witch decor. Besides upcycling a leftover toilet paper roll, you’ll also need scissors, a black Sharpie pen, a glue stick, and different colors of construction paper. If you don’t want to wrap the tube in colored paper, you can also paint the cardboard to create the witch base.
10. Wearable Witch Hat Headband
Who wouldn’t enjoy wearing a witchy headband on their heads, especially when it’s one that you’ve made yourself? This headband is easy to make following the printable template using cardstock, scissors, and coloring tools like pencils, markers, crayons, and staplers. Then, the assembly is as easy as printing, coloring, cutting, and stapling.
11. Witch Hat Bookmark Project
These witch hat bookmarks are the perfect project for kids who love to read. Best of all, they require minimal materials and assembly to create. The process involves mostly paper folding and gluing, so all you’ll need are craft paper in different colors, origami paper pieces, scissors, markers, and glue. An adult or older sibling might need to help younger crafters fold the paper into corner bookmarks.
12. Witchy Double Handprint Project
This handprint witch project lets your kids have fun with their hands and gives you a memorable keepsake to capture their age for eternity. It’s the ultimate project to do when there are minimal supplies, your kids are bored, and you need a bit of quiet time. You only need a black marker, scissors, and a glue stick, in addition to yellow, black, orange, green, and purple cardstock.
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13. Flying Witch Paper Plate Project
Kids of all ages will love turning a simple paper plate into this cool flying witch project. Start with a paper plate base that you paint solid black. Use yellow paint to create stars with a paintbrush and scissors to cut a slash on the plate. Then, use black, green, yellow, white, and orange construction paper and a paper stick to make your flying witch with some yellow yarn to complete the design with a textured broom.
14. Festive DIY Witch Paper Bag Puppet
If you have brown paper bags around the house, it’s the perfect craft base to create these awesome witch puppets. This cheap and fast project makes it excellent for minimal budgets and fast crafts. Besides a brown bag, you only need glue, scissors, a marker or pen, googly eyes, and some colored construction paper. Your kids will practice their tracing, cutting, and gluing skills by following the easy instructions for prepping and assembling.
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15. DIY Curly Haired Toilet Paper Roll Witch
This easy DIY witch project reuses an empty toilet paper roll to create a festive curly-haired witch with a cheerful, happy face. After you print the witch template and cut out the pieces on colored construction paper, you’ll need a glue stick and a pencil to finish assembly and add the final touches.
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16. Cute Paper Cup Witch
For this easy Halloween witty project, you’ll need crafting essentials like a paper cup, paint and brushes, colored paper, googly eyes, a marker, and some pipe cleaners. It’s an easy project for older kids to do on their own but youngers may need some help since you’re working with hot glue.
16 Easy Kids Witch Crafts
Be sure to keep this list handy when you’re trying to keep your kids entertained this spooky season. Kids of all ages will enjoy putting their personalized touches on the typical green witch with a pointy hat. And you can capture holiday keepsakes to cherish for years to come.
If you and your crew do one of the crafts from this list, drop your results in the comments. We love seeing what our readers do with the projects we recommend. And if you have a cool witch craft we didn’t include, teach us about it. You could end up in our next roundup!
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