As the Halloween season approaches, there’s a flurry of Halloween crafts and pumpkin crafts emerging to fill your home with spooky delight. Engage kids of all ages in crafting with our Printable Halloween Lantern Craft pack, perfect for classroom use or a fun activity at home.
Our printable halloween lantern pack features seven different Halloween lantern templates, each promising a unique, engaging project that’s perfect for the Halloween time.
These aren’t your typical pumpkin-shaped lanterns. Instead, they boast traditional lantern outlines with various Halloween themes intricately cut out to resemble scenes like a spooky graveyard, a witch in flight, or a mysterious black cat prowling the night.
Crafting these lanterns is an easy craft that offers a great opportunity for kids to develop fine motor and scissor skills.
Each lantern requires two sheets of A4, totaling a 14-page PDF file packed with fun. It’s a great project that is sure to get everyone into the Halloween spirit!
How to Make Your Own 3D Halloween Lanterns
How to Make a 3D Paper Lantern for Halloween
Delight in crafting with our Printable Halloween Lantern Craft, offering seven unique jack o' lantern templates!
Not your usual pumpkin shape, these lanterns feature various Halloween scenes like spooky graveyards, prowling black cats, and flying witches, cut out within a traditional lantern outline.
Perfect for kids of all ages, this fun pumpkin craft enhances fine motor and scissor skills while bringing much joy and Halloween spirit into your home or classroom.
Just print, cut, fold, and glue - an easy craft ready to light up your Halloween festivities!
Materials
- Your choice of one of the 7 free templates from the PDF file
- Glue stick or school glue
- Scissors
- Black construction paper, black paper or cardstock
- Optional: orange paper, green paper, tissue paper in different colors eg red or dark purple paper, or glitter for additional decorative elements.
Tools
- Printer for the template
Instructions
- Select your favorite jack-o'-lantern template from the variety of shapes provided in the downloadable pack.
- Print the templates. Little kids through older kids can then cut out the lantern and the negative space, showcasing the Halloween-themed designs.
- Optional: add colored tissue paper to the space within the lanterns, for a stained glass effect. You can glue this down on the back of the template before folding.
- Glue the edges together using a glue stick or school glue to form a three-dimensional lantern, using two matching sheets from the printable to get all four sides
- Add a battery powered candle inside for the light - small tea light sized candles are great as they are not heavy, and will flicker inside your lantern to provide a subtle glow.
- For extra flair, cut a long strip and add a handle at the top. Otherwise you can leave the lantern as it is and display on table, floor, at the doorway etc.
Once you’ve put together these printable halloween lanterns, you could add a battery tea light inside, making sure you’ve use cardstock heavy enough to hold it.
They are perfect to take out trick or treating as the perfect way to light the way in the dark, and a super fun activity to make together with kids before going out trick or treating as a group.
You can use black card stock to put together these lanterns, or use white card stock and color your chosen lantern coloring sheet to customise before assembling.
This adds an extra element of fun and creativity for young kids. You could add glitter too in all kinds of Halloween colors like orange, green, black or purple.
This step is not only much fun but is also a perfect activity for developing their fine motor skills.
Crafting with these free pumpkin templates and lantern coloring pages offers an easy way to involve kids of all ages in celebrating Halloween.
With a glue stick, scissors, and a bit of creativity, these printable downloads promise a fun pumpkin craft session for everyone involved, from preschool kids to older kids.
Spooky Halloween Lantern Template Designs
Here’s a preview of the seven free printable Halloween Lantern designs which you can download below. Which one is your favorite?
Design 1 has a haunted house and spooky tree
Design 2 has a selection of pumpkin jack o lantern face designs, including silly pumpkin faces, along with a creepy spider and his web.
Design 3 has a spooky graveyard scene, and some menacing spikes at the top of the lantern.
Design 4 has a creepy scarecrow with a jack-o-lantern, a witch on her broomstick and a halloween cat.
Design 5 has a spooky ghost scene
Design 6 has a haunted tree and a spooky Halloween cat with his fur standing on end
Design 7 has a creepy zombie hand rising up from the dead, and a spooky witch with her cauldron
Download Free Printable Halloween Lantern Templates PDF
Terms of use: These lanterns are for non-commercial use, so they are perfect for classroom use or a great craft project at home. So why wait? The Halloween season is the perfect time for some happy crafting with these fantastic printable Halloween lantern crafts.
Click below for your free instant digital download of all 7 templates to make the perfect Halloween lantern.
More Fun Halloween Crafts and Printables
For more fun ideas and educational activities geared for the Halloween season, feel free to explore our site further and stay connected with us on social media! Here are a few more of our favorite Halloween activities, craft projects and free coloring pages for kids of all ages.
- Halloween dress up dolls
- Printable Halloween puzzle
- Skeleton coloring pages
- Free printable Halloween signs
- Halloween word search
- Pumpkin seed craft with free printable pumpkin templates
After crafting, take some time to display these delightful lanterns and share your creations on your social media or our Facebook page. It’s a great way for the community to connect and share craft ideas and success stories during this festive time of year.
Happy Halloween!
Anna Marikar, mum of four and seasoned blogger, has spent over a decade sharing her parenting journey and passion for kid-friendly crafts and free printables.
Her easy-to-follow craft ideas and practical parenting advice have transformed In The Playroom into a cherished resource for parents.
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