If you’re too busy to spend a lot of time on Halloween crafts with your family but you’d like to do some kind of activity together, you’re in luck. The online world is a great source of free Halloween images that can be used to make easy craft projects. For example, craft projects made from vintage Halloween cards found online make projects simple, due to the fact that vintage images are both versatile and very effective at conveying a Halloween feel. You can find a little something for everyone, because vintage Halloween images range from sweet to gory to scary. These pictures also usually cost nothing to download and their age puts them outside the range of copyright protection. That’s important for people who want to honor copyrights (as we all should).

Doing a fast online search for “vintage Halloween” will net you a huge selection of no-cost images from which many fun crafts projects can be made. And if you’re not a fan of vintage, contemporary Halloween clip art can also produce great craft projects.

Here are examples of two Halloween projects nearly anyone can make by using free art found online:

Handmade Halloween Cards
When you’ve downloaded the Halloween image you’d like to use, paste it into a Word, PowerPoint or OneNote document. You can make the card virtually whatever size you want by adjusting the software’s settings. Position the image on one half of the card, so it can be folded in half once it’s printed. Print the card on card stock as heavy as your printer will allow, fold it and and apply just a little glitter glue to make it sparkle. You might also want to make your own envelopes or just buy two-for-a-dollar card and envelope sets at the dollar store and then recycle the cards.

Halloween Door Wreath
Making a Halloween wreath is simple. Here are the supplies you’ll need to have on-hand:

  • 1 plain Styrofoam wreath ring (you choose the size)
  • Scissors
  • Short straight pins
  • Ribbon or a plastic or metal door-hanger
  • Halloween clip art or vintage Halloween cards of your choice (between two and four inches long), printed and cut along the outlines
  • This paper (optional)

Download images you like to your computer. Then, print enough clip art images to fit around the wreath and cut them out with scissors or a craft knife. You can also vary the look by using Halloween scrapbook paper cut into bat or leaf shapes. Once all the pieces are cut, stick them to the Styrofoam wreath with the straight pins. Be prepared to adjust the positioning of the pieces a bit to get everything to look balanced. The straight pins should make it easy to reposition the elements. (Just make sure small children don’t get their hands on the straight pins!) When your wreath is done, use a door hanger or a ribbon to display it.

I hope you have a great time making these Halloween craft projects and that you have a fun holiday!

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