Spooktacular Halloween Fun

Hallowe'en Arts & Crafts, Printable Projects, Puzzles & Stories!

FREE Pumpkin Carving Templates for the Nit Wits PUNKin
Looking for some rebellious pumpkin carving creativity this Halloween? Try the Nit Wits PUNKin! These printable carving design templates pin right on your gourd and include instructions for making the totally scary pumpkin and bling: eyebrow rings and a tongue stud. Don't be afraid, print yours now!

More Halloween Pumpkin Carving Resources
This assortment of online pumpkin carving resources share free printable patterns, pumpkin carving tips and decorating techniques for a variety of carved pumpkin characters.

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Creative creatures, take note! The October 31 Halloween holiday isn't ONLY about dressing up in creative costumes, decorating your house with spooky things for Halloween Parties, carving scary pumpkins, and trick-or-treating for candy. No, some people claim that Halloween is the unofficial Beginning of Christmas and the sanctioned "start" of indoor and outdoor decorating and creative fun. (Don't forget the scary and spooky Halloween stories!)

Yes, Halloween marks the beginning of three full months to play with the holidays, express yourself, and transform your environment at work, school, and home unihibitedly with nature's gifts and big box store riffs and enjoy creative bliss!

To get in the spirit of things, Creativity Portal offers a bag of candied treats in the way of craft project ideas, printable projects, coloring pages, and Halloween articles. And if we don't have something spooktacular that you're looking for, check out some of the other online resources we've listed for more Halloween art and craft projects, tricks, and treats!

A Scary Sampling of Halloween Projects

Teachers, parents, and Halloween enthusiasts: If you like the printable Halloween activities on this page, you'll love the e-playbook "Scary Christmas! Printable Halloween Activity Pages for Kids of All Ages" by Chris Dunmire, available for instant download at CreativeSlush.com.

Original Creativity Portal Halloween Projects for Personal & Classroom Use

Halloween Spooky Story Writing & BOO! Book Project
By Molly Anderson-Childers & Chris Dunmire
Creative writing prompts and book-making instructions guide you in your ghost story creation and BOO! Book making. Free printable project templates for a Jack-O-Lantern BOO! Book are included with project for personal or classroom use.

Printable Halloween Word Search Puzzle
By Chris Dunmire
Teachers and puzzle enthusiasts alike will enjoy the brain-crunching challenge of finding all of the Halloween-related words before the monsters come out to play! (Includes teacher's answer key and copier-friendly formats.)

Creative Writing Halloween Story Showcase
No Halloween night or kid's party is complete without telling spooky and scary Halloween stories. Read some written and submitted to Creativity Portal's Halloween Writing Contest.

Cartoony Lesson: How to Draw a Pumpkin
By Chris Dunmire
Learn how to draw your own pumpkin in four easy steps. Once you draw it, color or make a creative paper greeting card carved Jack-O-Lantern out of it!

Printable Coloring Pages: Nit Wits Punkin & Pumpkins
By Chris Dunmire
Free 'n Fun Halloween pumpkin coloring pages that won't bore you out of your gourd! Perfect for kids and classroom Halloween priming.

Printable Pumpkin Patch (Orange-riffic Humor)
By Chris Dunmire
Who says a pumpkin patch need to be a big ol' farming affair? Humor your friends and workmates by sporting your own lil' novelty pumpkin patch on your body. This free must-have costume-enhancing accessory is perfect for every Halloween party.

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More Halloween Art & Craft Resources

Haunted Halloween Paper Toys
Free printable Halloween model toys created by Ray O'Bannon with instructions to construct. Models include: Dancing Skeleton Marionette, Board Games, Ghost House, Face Plate, Zombie Mask, Vampire Mask, Skull Mask, Medieval Helmets, Coffin Boxes and Gift Boxes, Mechanical Bat, Halloween Greeting Cards, and Monster Playsets.

Martha Stewart's Costume Central
Creative Halloween costume ideas, how-tos, and tidbits. Don't miss the informative sections on how to create realistic "Scary Make-up" effects!

Ben & Jerry's Halloween Crafts
Coloring book, creepy crafts, screen savor, and more! "Make your own Halloween decorations. Print out these craft pages, color them, cut them out and fasten them together to make your own Ben & Jerry's Halloween decorations."

Halloween Garden Flags
"Two Halloween flags you can sew — pumpkin and a ghost. Use them along the driveway, in a window, or as a centerpiece; or, give them as a gift."

Halloween History
Are you interested in learning about the history of Halloween? "For thousands of years people have been celebrating different holidays and festivals at the end of October. The Celts celebrated it as Samhain (pronounced "sow-in", with "sow" rhyming with cow)."

Halloween Safety Tips from the Red Cross
"With witches, goblins, and super-heroes descending on neighborhoods across America, the American Red Cross offers parents some safety tips to help prepare their children for a safe and enjoyable trick-or-treat holiday."

Plaid Bandit Trick or Treater
Includes a project pattern for a cute pair of trick or treating Halloween ghosts made out of styrofoam, wood dowels, wire, plastic wrap, and brown paper bags.

Polymer Clay Black Cat
Step-by-step project instructions to make a black cat and pumpkin out of polymer clay.

Soft Sculpture Pumpkin Craft
"This is a lovely pumpkin craft comes from Kathy Ross' book, Crafts for all Seasons that you can make out of old pantyhose and some fiberfill."

Styrofoam Halloween Craft Projects from Dow
Select the project type and category you want, and Dow will serve back hundreds of fun projects to you! Halloween projects include molded spider and pumpkins, bats, ghosts, stacked pumpkins, witches brew wall hanging, stacked pumpkins, skeleton, and wreaths.

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