Haunted House Craft For Kids {with FREE template!}

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This Haunted House Craft for Kids uses oil pastels to create a super eerie and fun effect. Great for younger kids (with help) as well as older kids!

Ooooh, Haunted Houses are so spooky. But not this haunted house! This would make an awesome art project to do with your kids this Halloween season. It uses oil pastels and not paint, so it isn’t super messy. And even though it looks really complicated, thanks to the FREE Printable craft template, it’s actually quite a simple craft!

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What Will You Need?

Construction Paper (or cardstock)— Black, White, and either Yellow or Orange
Oil Pastels (these ones are very highly rated)
Scissors
Glue (Elmer’s Glue or gluestick are both fine)
FREE Haunted House Craft Template (click here to download!)

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How to make this adorable Haunted House Craft For Kids

Step One: Download and print out the Haunted House Template

You will want to print out the first page in black, the second page in either yellow or orange, and the third page in white. Just print out one page at a time and feed the cardstock into the printer tray one page at a time.

Click here to download!

Step Two: Carefully cut out all the pieces, following which color cardstock to print on.

You will have windows, the door, pieces of the fence, bats, and the ghosts. Once you cut out all the pieces set them aside. You will need them later.

Step Three: On a white piece of construction paper or cardstock, draw a circle (moon) with yellow pastels and then trace that
circle with orange.

If you want the moon to appear above the chimney of the haunted house, draw it in the upper left corner of the paper. Don’t try to be exact. The effect is supposed to be eerie so fuzzy lines are all good.

Step Four: Use your fingertips to smudge the colors together.

Your kids will love doing this part. The smudging is really fun. Just be sure to keep the yellow center.. yellow.

Step Five: Use shades of orange, red and yellow to finish filling in the paper, darker to lighter. Blend, blend and blend some more!

A good technique would be to color with orange and then either use yellow or red to get the exact orange color you want. Then keep adding red or yellow to make the orange lighter or darker. Don’t forget to smudge (blend) the colors together when you are done coloring!

On the edges you should use a more red orange blend. This will frame your page very nicely. And by edge, let’s say… about 1-2 inches in from the edge (as opposed to just the very edge).

Step Six: Once finished, draw a border around the entire piece of paper with black oil pastel. Blend the black pastel towards the middle of the paper.

Check out this finished example. See how the black border gives the entire painting a spooky antique look? A great way to get this look is to take the black oil pastel and brush it back and forth against the actual edge of the paper. You can still get this look by coloring, but brushing the pastel is much more effective.

Step Seven: Glue the fence towards the bottom of the paper. Glue the house on top of the fence and the bats over the moon.

You could also glue the house first and then fit the fence around the house.

Step Eight: Glue the doors and windows onto the house followed by
any ghosts you want to add!

You can arrange them anyway you want, but if you want to use the really cute example, here you are!

The ghosts are the finishing touch!

Here is the finished Haunted House oil pastel art project.

Make this project even more unique! Try different color combinations and add some glitter!!!

Here is another version of this fun craft in purple and blue! (different template)– Click here or on the photo to get the craft tutorial and template for this one!

Haunted House Craft For Kids {with FREE template!}