Updated By TeckWrap Craft On October 10, 2024

20 Halloween Crafts For Kids Using Vinyl

This Halloween, unglue yourselves from screens and indulge in some creative and spooky crafting. Get imaginative and ask your kids to help in making thrilling vinyl projects that will bring a ghoulish touch to your celebrations. We have compiled a list of superb Halloween vinyl craft ideas for kids using both adhesive and heat transfer vinyl. So, grab your supplies, and let's dive into the world of chilling Halloween crafts for kids!

What Are HTV And Adhesive Vinyl?

Heat Transfer Vinyl (HTV) is the best material for creating designs on various fabrics, such as t-shirts, bags, and hats. It comes with a heat-activated adhesive backing. It offers excellent adhesion on cotton, polyester, and cotton blends. It is available in many different colors and finishes offering a wide range of creative possibilities.

Adhesive vinyl is used to decorate smooth, hard, clean, and dry surfaces. It is available in two variants: permanent and removable. Permanent adhesive vinyl has a robust pressure-sensitive adhesive and is resistant to water and harsh weather making it perfect for both indoor and outdoor use. It is also available in an extensive variety of colors and finishes. Check out the premium-quality range of both HTV and adhesive vinyl at the TeckWrap Craft online store.

Halloween Crafts For Kids

Getting ready for Halloween is always a thrilling adventure, and what better way to get into the spooky spirit than by creating some ghoulishly delightful crafts with your kids? Here are some amazing ideas:

1-Design Halloween Family Costumes

Family costumes are a great way to bond and celebrate and you can do just that with heat transfer vinyl! Whether it is a spooky ghost, a fierce vampire, or a charming witch, let your kids’ imaginations run wild and create the perfect Halloween outfit based on their ideas. For inspiration, check out our blog on ‘20 Halloween Costume Ideas for Family of 4’.

2-Decorate Windows With Stickers

Windows provide an excellent medium for Halloween décor. With a few adhesive vinyl sheets and a pair of scissors, you and your kids can cut out spooky shapes like bats, ghosts, pumpkins, and witches and decorate the windows with these. Take it up a notch by adding cobweb decals and glowing eyes to scare the neighborhood.

3-Design Halloween Themed Drinkware

Designing mugs with the help of your kids and giving your spin to them makes for an unforgettable memory. Give the kids plain tumblers or cups and vinyl decals or stickers to create their own custom Halloween-themed drinkware. They can stick ghosts, witches, or any other spooky designs. The best vinyl for these is the Cold Color Changing vinyl.

4-Create Halloween Wall Art

Creating Halloween-themed wall art with adhesive vinyl can be a fun and engaging activity for kids. Following are some of the ideas that you can use for this project:

• Cut out classic Halloween symbols like bats, cats, witches, pumpkins, or ghosts. You can also use googly eyes. Let your kids decide where to place them on the wall.
• Create a haunted house scene using black adhesive vinyl. Cut out windows, doors, and other spooky elements like cobwebs, bats, and gravestones. Let your kids arrange these pieces to build their own creepy haunted house.
• Craft a witch's cauldron and decorate it with green "brew" bubbling out using adhesive vinyl. Add a witch's hat and broomstick for extra flair and paste these on the wall.
• Cut out candy corn shapes from adhesive vinyl in various sizes and colors. Your kids can then arrange these candy corns in fun patterns or designs on the wall.
• Cut out ghost shapes from Glow in the Dark adhesive vinyl. These ghosts will be visible and look spooky in the dark. Your kids will love the surprise effect.
• Create a "Boo!" or "Happy Halloween" sign using adhesive vinyl lettering. Let your kids choose the colors and fonts they like, and help them arrange the letters on a background of their choice.

5-Make Spooky Lanterns

Provide your kids with vinyl sheet cut-outs and glass jars to create spectacular holiday-themed lanterns. Cut silhouettes of bats, witches, and other Halloween symbols. Stick them on glass jars or lanterns to create ghostly decorations that can be illuminated with candles or lights. You can place LED tea lights or string lights inside the lanterns.

6-Decorate Goody Bags

Help your kids spread the holiday spirit by creating party favors for their friends or classmates. Get treat boxes or paper bags and let the kids use vinyl stickers to decorate them with Halloween-themed designs and messages.

7-Craft Halloween Countdown Calendar

On a piece of cardboard, create your own eerie countdown calendar to count the days before Halloween. Cover the board with black vinyl, then add numbers and symbols in scary font. Let the kids mark the days until Halloween, adding to the excitement as the day draws near.

8-Vinyl Decorated Pumpkins

Who says you need to carve a pumpkin to make it scary? Grab some adhesive vinyl rolls and get your kids to create their own spooky designs to stick onto pumpkins. Take faux pumpkin for better adhesion. From wicked witches to grinning ghosts, you can bring any design to life without the mess of carving!

9-Create Paper Plate Ghosts

Make cute paper plate ghosts with your kids. You can make the face using black vinyl. You can also make spiders this way by painting the paper plate black and making eyes with red adhesive vinyl. The legs can be made with cardstock. Punch a hole in these at the top and hang them all around the house.

10-Glow In The Dark Indoor Decorations

Add an extra element of spookiness to your home decorations by using Glow in the Dark vinyl. Make ghosts, pumpkins, or bats that will glow hauntingly when the lights are out or quite dim, creating an eerie atmosphere for your festivities. Create Glow in the Dark adhesive vinyl ghost shapes and apply them to bedroom walls or ceilings for a spooky nighttime glow.

11-DIY Trick-Or-Treat Tote Bags

Decorating tote bags can be a great activity for family bonding and allowing the kids to express their child-like creativity. Provide plain canvas sacks or pillowcases and let the kids design their own trick-or-treat bags using heat transfer vinyl.

12-Customize T-Shirts

Let the kids use fabric paint to create their own spooky t-shirts, then jazz them up with Halloween-themed designs made with HTV. This craft allows for personalization and creativity. You can also opt just for heat transfer vinyl and help the kids design their decals.

13-Design Halloween Party Invites

Throw a party for your kids this Halloween and use Glow in the Dark vinyl to create Halloween party invitations. You can involve your child in making these with adhesive vinyl using his or her ideas. When their friends will take these home, they will be fascinated with their glowing effect in the dark.

14-Halloween Placemats And Napkins

If you are inviting kids to a party this Halloween, take the whole experience a notch up by designing spooky placemats and napkins for table decor. Some of the design ideas are vibrant orange pumpkins with cute or spooky HTV faces, witch's hat designs, Halloween candies, like candy corn and chocolate bars, spiderwebs, and strips of white HTV to create mummy wrap designs.

15-Spooky Covers For The Chairs

This is an amazing idea. Make covers for the back of your chairs with white or off-white cotton cloth in the shape of a tombstone and write RIP and years on it with heat transfer vinyl. Another idea is to create a witch's hat using black HTV on plain chair covers. You can also design skeletal outlines with white HTV on black chair covers. Cut out zombie handprints using green or gray HTV and apply them to white chair covers.

16-Decorate Your Garden Or Outdoor Area

This can be an excellent outdoor Halloween activity with kids. If you have a garden or space in front of your house, or a backyard, you can decorate it using adhesive vinyl. Create glowing pathway markers with Halloween symbols like witches' hats, pumpkins, or bloody footprints, and place them along your walkway to guide trick-or-treaters. Cut out glowing eyeball shapes, paste them on the cardboard, and hang them or put them in trees or bushes in your yard. When viewed in the dark, they'll give the impression of scary, glowing eyes.

17-Design Bat Or Witch Garlands

If you are having a party, then why not make bat garlands for the little invitees? Design these using card sheets and Glitter adhesive vinyl. Let your kid help you in the process. You can make these with witch’s hats and cauldrons, pumpkins, and ghosts too. Why not ask what the little one wants and design accordingly?

18-Dracula Capes For All

This can be a family costume. Using heat transfer vinyl, design Dracula capes for all. Involve your kids in the activity. Let them select what they want on their capes. Complete the look with fangs.

19-Decorate Balloons

Balloons always bring great pleasure. Designing these with your kids can double the fun. Decorate your home using foil or bubble balloons embellished with shimmery or reflective adhesive vinyl. You can even add Glow in the Dark vinyl accents if you plan to keep the light dim in that area. Your kids would love the idea especially if their friends are coming over.

20-Make Halloween Buntings

Buntings add a true festive touch to the decor. Customizing Glow in the Dark ones will double the Halloween fun. These can be made with card sheets, fish wire, and adhesive vinyl. Ask your kids what they want on the cutouts and design accordingly. They can also help in tying these around the house. You can store these to use next year too.

Halloween-Esque Products At TeckWrap Craft

TeckWrap Craft is a constant companion to crafters and one that comes in clutch every time. So, this Halloween plan ahead and get your hands on the best products this craft vinyl pioneer offers. Here are a few stellar films both in adhesive and heat transfer vinyl that are sure to make your Halloween super spooktacular!

• Glow in the Dark: Imagine the thrill of crafting eerie and luminous decorations that come alive in darkness. Glow in the Dark vinyl can transform ordinary Halloween motifs into captivating, otherworldly spectacles with its haunting glow.
• Reflective Vinyl: Add an element of surprise to your decor with this vinyl. Watch as your decorations come to life under the moon's glow or when hit by a passing light source.
• Puff Vinyl: Add depth and texture to your Halloween crafts and costumes with 3D puff heat transfer vinyl. Create visually striking decorations that pop and stand out, capturing the attention of all.
• Metallic Vinyl: Infuse a touch of glamor into your Halloween crafts with metallic accents. Let your decorations glimmer and shine, casting an alluring spell on all who behold them.

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Let’s Make Fun Halloween Crafts For Kids!

With these creative vinyl crafts, you and your kids will be all set for a spine-chilling Halloween! There is no better companion to your Halloween this year than the vinyl available at TeckWrap Craft.

Not only will it help you bring your mystical and enchanting visions to life, but it also allows you to preserve holiday memories. So browse our extensive catalog and leave all your guests spellbound this Halloween!