For easy Halloween crafts for kids you don’t have to look beyond your own house and backyard to create wonderful costumes. In fact, there are many things you can find in your closet. Nature can also offer you loads of Halloween materials.

If you’re looking for easy Halloween costumes, try rummaging through your closet for some old discarded outfits and accessories. You’ll be surprised what you can create with these. Start off by thinking of basic themes such as caped characters, princesses, and other characters from cartoons/fairytales. Here are some costume ideas:

Bloody Red Riding Hood

For an easy Bloody Red Riding Hood costume, use an old red hooded sweaters and attach simply any long red cloth or fabric (a pillowcase, old bed sheet, towel, or table cloth) to the backside of the sweatshirt with safety pins. Wear a skirt to complete the Little Red Riding Hood look. If you’re going to wear a red-colored skirt, the better!

Bandages and fake blood will complete your Bloody Red Riding Hood look. Making fake blood is an easy Halloween crafts for kids: just mix cornstarch, corn syrup, and red food coloring. For your “scratches”, use a red pen or marker. You can now be a Bloody Red Riding Hood who seemed to have barely escaped the Big Bad Wolf!

Batman

This is an extremely easy Halloween crafts for kids. For the mask: measure the distance between your eyes and apply it on the surface of a paper plate, where you will punch two holes for vision. After punching the two holes, draw out a bat outline and cut out this outline. You can find free bat templates over the Internet and print them out. Next, paint the whole mask black with fast-drying poster paint. You can also purchase a pack of black paper plates if you can find one. Then, punch holes in the sides so you can attach garters, which will secure the mask over your face.

To add a realistic Batman look, wear a black or gray sweatshirt and tights. Attach a black fabric to the back of the sweatshirt with safety pins.

Sleepwalker

Making a sleepwalker costume is another easy Halloween crafts for kids. All you need are your PJ’s, a set of curlers, and a teddy bear (or voodoo doll to scare off guests).

The Nature Princess

A nature princess costume is an easy Halloween crafts for kids. For this costume, you will need a nightgown, some flowers, dried leaves and some twigs. Tie the flowers together, suspend upside down, and let them dry under the sun. Make a wreath for your crown out of the twigs and dried leaves by using strong glue and your glue gun. Add the dried flowers and eggshells for more interest. You can also purchase a rubber snake to wear around your neck.

Now you realize that in finding easy Halloween crafts for kids, you need not look farther than your old closet and your very own backyard. You can think of hundreds of other themes around materials you already have in your home.