Fun Skeleton Halloween Crafts for Kids

These simple Halloween crafts are perfect for classrooms, after-school care activities or just some quality time at home with your own children. Most of the materials are probably already in your home and they all fit within a tight budget. Let your kids get creative this Halloween with these easy skeleton crafts. The basic idea is the same, but using different materials allows you to change the craft for different age groups of children.

Pasta Skeletons

Gather a variety of pasta shapes, like penne tubes, spaghetti strands and shells. Paint the pasta shells with glow in the dark paint and let them dry. Give each child a piece of black construction paper. Arrange and glue the shells on the paper to create a skeleton. You may have to make one so your kids get an idea to make theirs. Use a shell for the skull and penne tubes for arm and leg bones. Spiral rotini are perfect for the two halves of the rib cages. Use tiny pieces of spaghetti for the phalanges, or fingers and toes.

This is a great craft for physical science classrooms studying the bones in the body. Make each student label their glow in the dark skeleton and then let them take the craft home to decorate for Halloween. Hang the glow in the dark past skeletons in your porch windows or on your front door to greet trick-or-treaters on Halloween night.

Pipe Cleaner Skeletons

These skeletons Halloween crafts are made of white or silver pipe cleaners so your kids can play with them by posing and bending the fuzzy bones. Start with a white pom pom and glue it to the top of a white pipe cleaner. Let it dry completely. Twist a long piece of pipe cleaner below the head and leave it horizontal to make shoulders. Bend each arm halfway for the elbow. At the bottom of the body pipe cleaner twist another pipe cleaner so two legs hang down. Take small pieces of white pipe cleaner and twist them in the center of the body for ribs. Bend knees in the legs.

Q-tip Skeletons

Q-tip skeletons are the perfect Halloween craft for very young children and toddlers. Cut several Q-tips into smaller sections and leave some whole. Cut out a white skull shape from construction paper and glue it to a piece of black construction paper. Let your children use glue and the pieces of Q-tips to make a skeleton. The long ones are best for the arms and leg bones. The short ones make good ribs and fingers and toes.