Easy Torn Paper Ghost Craft for Kids

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This Easy Torn Paper Ghost Craft is such a fun and simple craft for kids of all ages. You only need paper, glue, and under 30 minutes to complete this craft for the Halloween season.

Ghost Craft for Kids

Looking for some simple Halloween activities? We have a few on our site and are always adding more! Check out our pipe cleaner spiders, Halloween handprint ghost, torn paper bat, and our paper plate witch for some simple Halloween crafts. This torn paper ghost is a perfect addition to our halloween art and is a great way to make some spooky fun that is also a simple fine motor activity! This cute little ghost is great for a halloween party with kids of all ages. It’s simple enough for little hands of preschoolers and can be personalized by older kids by adding extra decorations with markers, poms poms, silly faces and more!

torn paper in ghost shape on purple paper

Supplies needed for Torn Paper Ghost:

Cardstock or Construction Paper – white, pink, purple and black paper. You can also use different colors for your background if desired.
Pencil, to lightly draw your ghost shape
White paint pen, if you would like to add some pupils
Free Ghost Template, or you can draw your own

HOW TO MAKE TORN PAPER GHOST

Follow the simple steps to make your own Torn Paper Ghost

1. DRAW YOUR SHAPE: Lightly draw a ghost shape on your background card stock or use our free template. We used a purple piece of card stock, but green paper or orange would be fun options as well!

2. TEAR PAPER: grab your white paper and tear into pieces. Our pieces are usually 1/2 inch to 1 inch in size but any size will do! The smaller the paper the more gluing required.

3. GLUE PAPER: glue your torn white piece of paper into your ghost shape with a glue stick until the entire ghost is covered.

4. ADD FACIAL FEATURES : cut out your eye shapes from your black paper, along with a mouth and two pink cheeks. You can also add a white pupil to each of the eyes with a white paint pen if desired.

Crafty Tips:

Feel free to swap paper eyes for some silly googly eyes instead! We love to self-adhesive eyes! Use a black marker to add some eyelashes!
You can make a tissue paper ghost by following the same steps as above but instead of using small pieces of torn paper you can use small pieces of lightly crumbled up tissue paper.
For a little bit more texture to your project use pom poms as the pink cheeks instead of paper!
Want to add some Halloween fun to your refrigerator? Add a piece of self adhesive magnet to the back of your finished ghost. You can also glue a small ribbon loop to the back for easy hanging as a fun piece of Halloween decor.

Torn Paper Ghost finished on craft counter

The Halloween season is the perfect time to create with your kids! Paper art like this is one of our favorite ways to craft as it’s simple, doesn’t require many supplies and is great for building imagination, hand strength in littles and fine motor skills.

For more friendly ghost crafts and Halloween Fun you should try these fun ideas!