Create these fluffy ghosts using some basic supplies you already have at home. This cotton ball ghost craft is fun for kids of all ages.

This cotton ball ghost craft is an easy craft for young children and really kids of all ages!

Halloween is such a fun time to load up on the crafts. Many crafts are not only fun Halloween activities for your younger kids, they also double as decorations.

These little ghosts are a fun project for kids to make during their classroom Halloween party.

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Halloween Spooky Fun Facts

Before using pumpkins to create jack o’lanterns, people used turnips! The history of using turnips comes from Ireland and a man nicknamed Stingy Jack.

At the end of this Irish folktale, Stingy Jack had only one coal to light his way back and he placed that lit coal inside of a turnip. Many, many years later, we began to place candles inside pumpkins instead of turnips.

Black cats are usually spooky to see, especially around Halloween, but black cats have been thought of as little protectors for a long time ago. So if you see one on Halloween, don't be frightened!

Halloween was introduced to the US in the late 18th century and early 19th century by Scottish and Irish immigrants. So it hasn’t been here in the US for long but has changed over time.

A lot of cultures participate in Halloween celebrations differently. In the US, you may see children dress up in different costumes and go around getting candy from houses, or some towns will have costume contests.

In Scotland, children will dress up and instead of saying “trick-or-treat”, they may recite a themed poem or maybe sing a short song and then receive sweets or small cakes in return.

Simple Halloween Craft Pumpkins

My family loves to carve or paint pumpkins that we get from a pumpkin farm and we set the pumpkins out for Halloween night. Last year, we sliced open the painted pumpkins after Halloween and let the birds get the seeds.

Well, it turns out quite a few seeds were left behind because a couple of months ago, I noticed three plants popping up in our yard. We now have three ginormous pumpkin plants growing and we can’t wait to see how many pumpkins we are able to get from these plants!

My oldest child is so excited and wants to set up a mini pumpkin stand for our neighborhood. She can add Halloween Cotton Ball Ghosts to her stand as well!

Non-Spooky Halloween Crafts

This is an easy Halloween craft! You can’t go wrong with cotton balls and googly eyes. My children love to decorate for holidays, so having simple crafts that are cute and easy for children and isn’t “scary” spooky at Halloween, is great!

A fun Halloween is a good Halloween and fun ghost crafts are definitely a part of that. You make ghosts out of milk jugs, paper plates, and more.

An easy ghost craft is to get dum-dum suckers and place a small piece of white paper towel over them and tie it off with white string at the base of the sucker.

Then take a black marker and draw three black dots. Two for the eyes and one for the mouth. This is a fun treat to hand out to trick-or-treaters.

Find all the ghost fun you ever wanted to have is in our Ghost Crafts post. Don't miss our ghost coloring page, paper plate ghost, ghost frosting board, and popsicle stick ghost either.

Supplies For Ghost Craft

Cardboard or Thick Cardstock
Black Construction Paper
Cotton Balls
Toilet Paper
Popsicle stick
Scissor
Craft Glue
Hot Glue (optional)
Googly eyes

How Do You Make a Puffy Ghosts?

You will have step-by-step instructions with this Cotton Ball Ghost craft and can make as many as you want, and your children can add their own creativity to it because that is what crafting is about.

You can use these as Halloween decorations with, attach them to candy to hand out, or maybe have your children make these as a Halloween gift for friends. Puffy ghosts for kids are a sure way to have fun and have their minds get creative.

Cut an arc shape from your cardboard. If you are looking for a symmetic shape, you can fold the cardboard or cardstock in half and then cut the half arc.

Grab your cotton balls and glue and your new ghost shape cardboard piece.

Spread glue over the front of the entire ghost shaped cardboard then place cotton balls covering the arc shape.

Add the googly eyes using the glue. If you have little kids making this project, you adding googly eyes using a glue stick or white school glue.

Cut an oval out of the black paper.

Glue the black oval to the top of the cotton balls.

Now take a piece of toilet paper or one piece of tissue and cut it into strips approximately a half inch thick.

how to make floating part of ghost craft

Grab your glue and the spooky ghost head 🙂

Glue the strips to the back of the ghosts.

Next you're going to grab a craft stick.

Glue the craft stick to the back of the ghosts and you you very own Halloween ghost craft puppet.

We hope you enjoy this kids craft idea as much as we enjoyed making it.

We highlighted this Halloween Crafts along with some other fun kid's crafts in our October Crafts along with our 101+ Easy Craft Ideas for kids.

Happy Halloween!

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