Halloween Paper Crafts for Adults

Make spooky silhouettes using stiff construction paper.

Celebrate Halloween with handmade paper crafts that you can decorate your home with, keep for yourself or give out as gifts. If you are an adult looking to express your creativity in a fun way on Halloween, make items at home using decorative papers found at craft or scrapbooking stores and basic craft supplies.

Silhouettes

Silhouettes are easy to make and add a bit of spookiness to your Halloween decorations. Trace the figure you want, such as a cat or bat, onto black poster board or black card stock, and cut it out. You can attach the silhouette anywhere in your home, such as on the walls, stair steps, mirrors or in front of pictures on picture frames. Make a larger silhouette that looks like a person's shadow out of a larger black piece of paper to tape to a wall in your home, and frighten people as they walk by.

Garlands

Decorate your home for the Halloween season, a special party or a celebration using paper and Halloween-related shapes like pumpkins, cats, bats or ghosts. Make a stencil of the shape for your garland by drawing it on a piece of paper and cutting it out. You can then use your stencil to trace onto construction paper. Use black paper for cats or bats, orange paper for pumpkins and white paper for ghosts. Once all of your pieces have been traced and cut out, attach them together into a garland with tape, glue or staples.

Tree Ornaments

Make ornaments to hang off the branches of real or artificial trees, whether you have a plastic tree in your home to decorate or you want to hang ornaments on a tree outdoors for a Halloween party. You can either make simple tree ornaments from paper by cutting out images of haunted houses, ghosts and goblins or make them three-dimensional using origami techniques for the various tree ornaments.

Scrapbook Pages

Make scrapbook pages using Halloween-themed papers and embellishments found at any craft store. Create scrapbook pages with photographs of your kids in their costumes or other pictures you have at home. You can also use scrapbooking techniques to make Halloween greeting cards, pictures to put in picture frames or to hang on the wall as posters or in a shadow box.