3 Fun Halloween Handprint Art Crafts For Babies and Toddlers

This tutorial on 3 fun Halloween handprint art crafts includes directions to make a monster, mummy, and witch crafts using painted handprints, googly eyes, and other embellishments. The handprint crafts are perfect for infants all the way up to children in grade school and kids will get a kick out of the end results.

These fun Halloween handprint crafts make the perfect keepsakes for daycares to make for parents, parents to make for grandparents, or even parents to make and keep for the baby books or use to decorate the house for Halloween.

Each cute Halloween handprint craft includes a fun Halloween pun or saying. For more fun Fall handprint crafts be sure to also check out this fun Turkey handprint and footprint craft keepsake.

Halloween Handprint Craft Tips and Advice

*When making these crafts with especially young infants you may have a difficult time getting them to open their hand up all the way when stamping it down on the paper. Here are a few tips to make it easier or to ensure you get the perfect handprint for these crafts:

• Paint your child’s hand and hold it open. Put a clear plastic binder sleeve on top of the paper you want the handprint craft to go on. Stamp your child’s hand down on this. Then quickly pull the binder sleeve out so their hand stays on the paper how you want it.
• Trace your child’s handprint with a pencil and cut out the handprint instead of using paint.
• Try multiple times until you get the handprints stamped down the way that you want.

*When making these crafts with older children you can have them paint their own hand or you can help them. Make sure to instruct them to try to get paint on only one hand so they can still turn on the sink and touch things with the other hand without making a big mess.

*Let your craft dry completely before adding the details and drawing on any embellishments. This will make things a lot less messy.

Halloween Handprint Art

Materials:

• Washable paint
• Construction paper
• Toilet paper
• Googly eyes
• Black and White Pen/Crayons

Directions:

Monster Handprint Craft:

1. Paint your child’s hand with green or blue green paint.
2. Push your child’s hand down onto a piece of corresponding colored construction paper. We like the combination of a blue-green hand with purple paper.
3. Let it dry.
4. Add one googly eye to three of the fingers. Add three googly eyes onto the top of the palm of the handprint.
5. Draw a smile underneath the three googly eyes.
6. Add on a cute saying like “I love my Mom-ster” or “Love your little Monster.”

Witch Handprint Craft

1. Paint your child’s hand with purple paint.
2. Push your child’s hand down onto a corresponding colored piece of paper. Orange paper looks great with a purple handprint.
3. Cut out 7-8 small and very thin 1-2″ long paper strips from green construction paper. Glue three to four to each side of the top of the handprint to make the witches hair.
4. Cut out a black triangle about the side of the top of your child’s hand. Glue it to the top of their hand right on the top of the green hair to make the witches hat.
5. Cut out one more super thin green paper strip and glue it to the middle of the hat to make the brim.
6. Add two googly eyes to the palm and draw on a smile underneath to complete the witches face.
7. Add on a cute saying like “Have a Spooktacular Halloween.”

Mummy Handprint Craft

1. Paint your child’s hand with white paint.
2. Stamp your child’s hand down onto a piece of black (or any other dark Halloween colored) paper.
3. Using a roll of toilet paper break off a square or two. Cut roughly 1/2″ wide strips from the toilet paper pieces.
4. Cut the pieces so they are about the length of your child’s handprint.
5. Glue the toilet paper strips on top of the handprint. Glue one or two at diagonals and one or two straight across. Try to keep the shape of the handprint so it is visible.
6. Glue or add two googly eyes on top of the toilet paper where the middle of the palm is.
7. Add on a cute saying like “I love my Grand-mummy,” or “I Love you Mummy.”

Additional Halloween Themed Crafts & Activities For Kids

These Halloween handprint crafts for kids make the cutest Halloween crafts. For some more fun Halloween themed crafts for toddlers and preschoolers be sure to also check out some of our favorites below:

• Lacing Spider Craft – Using a painted paper plate, beads, and pipe cleaners make a fun craft that is also perfect for fine motor practice.
• Pumpkin Glyph – This fun Jack-O-Lantern craft also makes a great Halloween keepsake. Follow the glyph directions to make a fun Jack-O-Lantern that describes your child and some of their favorite things or characteristics.
• Gooey spaghetti sensory bin – This fun sensory bin uses spaghetti and Halloween embellishments to make a fun sensory bin that toddlers and preschoolers will love to play in.