Celebrate the Fall season and Halloween with preschoolers by making one or several of these fun and easy pumpkin crafts. From pumpkin patches and jack-o-lanterns, to handprint keepsake crafts and pumpkin decorating ideas, we have a fun craft project for everyone to enjoy! Gather some simple supplies like jumbo foam pumpkins, glittery Halloween foam sheets and self-adhesive pumpkin shapes, and watch as kids smile and get creative making a variety of pumpkin crafts. Check out these five easy 30 minute preschool crafts too!
Preschoolers love everything about stickers so there's no doubt, using self-adhesive pumpkin shapes makes creating this easy pumpkin patch craft an absolute winner! Children peel the backing off pumpkin shapes and place them on a piece of green cardstock paper, filling it to look like a pumpkin patch field. Then using a green marker, kids draw swirly pumpkin vines coming out of each pumpkin to finish creating the pumpkin patch.
Project by: Rachel Nipper of I Heart Crafty Things
Painting pumpkins for Halloween is a great alternative to carving pumpkins for preschoolers. Here's a fun way to turn a painted pumpkin into a cute shark to display on your porch for Halloween. The best part, these pumpkins are easily created with these shark pumpkin decorating kits. Simply use a sponge paintbrush to paint a pumpkin with blue, green, pink or purple acrylic paint and let it dry completely. Then assemble the pieces of the shark decorating kit together. Attach the eyes and mouth on the front of your painted pumpkin, and insert each fin into the pumpkin. An easy and fun no-carve pumpkin craft kids will love!
Project by: Rachel Nipper of I Heart Crafty Things
Jumbo foam pumpkins and adhesive foam sheets makes this a mess free and super easy pumpkin activity for toddlers. Children use scissors to cut out eyes, a nose and a mouth for their pumpkin from Halloween self-adhesive glitter foam sheets. The sheets come in orange, purple and black so children are able to get creative with the colors of their choice. Peel the backing off the eyes, nose and mouth and attach them to the jumbo foam pumpkin to create a jack-o-lantern. You can even string several together with baker's twine to create a fun Halloween banner to hang up on a mantel at home.
Project by: Rachel Nipper of I Heart Crafty Things
You can pretty much make anything with wooden craft sticks, including a cute Halloween pumpkin character. To make the rectangle shape, line six large craft sticks together and then hot glue another large stick onto them diagonally to attach them together. Paint the front of the sticks with orange paint and after it has finished drying, use a black paint marker to draw a face on your pumpkin. You can use more craft sticks and paint to create additional Halloween characters like a ghost, Frankenstein and a monster too.
Project by: Shauna Krantz of Ella & Annie
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Finger painting is a classic activity that preschoolers love. Here's a simple way to turn orange fingerprints into a fun pumpkin keepsake craft that can be hung up at home all season long. After cutting out and securing the free pumpkin template on white cardstock, kids fill the pumpkin template with their painted fingerprints. Finish off this adorable and easy paper pumpkin craft with a curly green chenille stem and a cute tag that reads "You're my favorite pumpkin in the patch".
Project by: Ashley Canipe of The Littles and Me
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It doesn't get simpler than creating a pumpkin craft out of a paper plate and construction paper. It's a perfect craft for toddlers and preschoolers to make for Halloween. Cut out shapes from black construction paper for your pumpkin and a pumpkin stem out of brown construction paper. Kids add glue to the back of the shapes and glue them onto an orange paper plate to create a festive Halloween pumpkin craft.
Project by: Becky James of The Crafting Chicks
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Hang up these cute pumpkin windsocks in a tree in your yard for a fun and festive Halloween decoration. Kids will love watching as their jack-o-lantern windsocks blow around in the fall breeze. To make a Halloween windsock, paint a plastic jar with several coats of orange paint. After it is completely dry, cut out jack-o-lantern eyes, nose and mouth out of a black adhesive foam sheet and attach them to your painted jar. Pierce two holes in the jar to attach a green chenille stem handle at the top of the windsock and then glue orange crepe paper streamers coming out from the bottom of the windsock.
Project by: Shauna Krantz of Ella & Annie
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This cute handprint salt dough pumpkin is an adorable keepsake to make with your little pumpkins for the fall season. Follow the recipe to make a batch of salt dough. After rolling out the dough, cut out a large pumpkin shape. Children press their hand in the center of the pumpkin firmly to make an imprint. After the pumpkin has dried for up to 72 hours, children paint the pumpkin with orange and brown paint. Wrap a green chenille stem around the pumpkin stem for a vine and attach a tag that reads "Picked for you" and your pumpkin gift is ready to give to someone special.
Project by: Mariah Leeson of Giggles Galore
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Add some cute Halloween decor to your windows this fall by making a colorful Pumpkin Suncatcher. Adults can help set up this craft by cutting out the free pumpkin template on white cardstock paper and placing it on a piece of contact paper. Children fill the pumpkin with orange tissue paper squares and the pumpkin eyes, nose and mouth. A second piece of contact paper is placed over the pumpkin to seal the pieces together. After the pumpkin is cut out, hang it in the window and watch as it shines when the sun hits it. You can also make a bat, ghost, monster and Frankenstein Halloween suncatcher craft.
Project by: Becky Jame of The Crafting Chicks
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