Halloween Crafts for Kids: 14 Mess-Free Pumpkin and Spooky Season Ideas with Kwik Stix

Spooky season has landed, and this year the mess stays outside while the creativity gets loose. Whether you're stocking a classroom art table or clearing space on the kitchen counter, TPG Creations built a whole lineup of mess-free art and craft supplies made for exactly this kind of Halloween chaos: pumpkins, ghosts, gnomes, and everything spooky in between, no water cup or brush required.

Did you know our Kwik Stix Solid Tempera Paint also work on pumpkins?! Their quick drying time of 90 seconds makes them the perfect no carve alternative for pumpkin decorating. Draw your favorite character, create a funny face or turn your pumpkin into a beautiful rainbow! 

Added Bonus- You can create a glow in the dark pumpkin with our Neon Kwik Stix! 

Materials Needed: cardboard, Kwik Stix, screw top part of pouch, hot glue, and googly eyes

1. Start by painting a pumpkin onto your cardboard box
2. Poke holes into the pumpkin
3. Glue cardboard triangular pieces onto each screw top
4. Glue on googly eyes
5. Push the screw top into each hole to form a Jack-O-Lantern

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Pumpkin Painting

Materials Needed: pumpkin, and Kwik Stix

1. Paint your pumpkin with Kwik Stix
2. Wait 90 seconds for the paint to dry and display!

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1. Paint pumpkin with Kwik Stix. Wait just 90 seconds for the paint to dry! 
2. Customize by tracing your name onto the pumpkin
3. Display as a cute Halloween decoration

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Halloween Rocks

Materials Needed: rocks and Kwik Stix

1. Go outdoor and collect your favorite sized rocks
2. Paint with Kwik Stix
3. Decorate near your front door for the trick or treaters!

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Halloween Gnomes

Materials Needed: card stock paper, paper plates glue, scissors, and Kwik Stix

1. Paint a paper plate for the face
2. Use card stock to create the hats and noses
3. Paint the hats
4. Glue together
5. Add any decor such as wooden spider webs, pumpkins, etc.

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Pumpkins and Pasta

Materials Needed: pasta, glue, paper, and Kwik Stix

1. Draw an outline of a pumpkin onto the paper
2. Drizzle the glue inside of the outline
3. Glue on pasta
4. Let glue dry
5. Paint pasta with Kwik Stix

Check out this craft on Instagram @twinsthinkandplay

Wonder Stix: Multisurface Writers for Paper Pumpkins

Wonder Stix are dustless, dual-mode crayon sticks that wipe off whiteboards and glass while staying permanent on paper and wood, so a whole class or family can move between projects without switching supplies. No caps to lose and no chalk dust to sweep up means these multisurface writers keep the momentum going between crafts. Shop the best sellers collection for more of TPG's most-loved classroom and home staples.

Pumpkins and Wonder Stix

Materials Needed: construction paper and Wonder Stix

1. Use black construction paper and orange construction paper for the pumpkins
2. Color in extra details with Wonder Stix

Check out this craft on Instagram @theadventuresofanartcart

Magic Stix: The 7-Day Cap-Off Marker for Detail Work

Magic Stix come with a 7-day cap-off guarantee and a triangular anti-roll barrel, so a marker left uncapped after craft time still works days later and never rolls off the table mid-project. These washable markers are the detail workhorse for the finer lines a big paint stick can't reach, like ghost faces and pumpkin stamping outlines. For more no-mess Halloween ideas beyond these fourteen, check out 10 Easy Fun Halloween Crafts.

Finger Painting on Cardboard Pumpkins

Materials Needed: cardboard pumpkin, Kwik Stix, and Magic Stix

1. Paint your fingertip with Kwik Stix
2. Quickly stamp your finger print on the pumpkin
3. Continue step 2 until your finger prints are all around the pumpkin
4. Use Magic Stix to color in your designs such as ghosts or pumpkins!

Popsicle Stick Ghosts

Materials Needed: popsicle sticks, card stock paper, Magic Stix, and Kwik Stix

1. Cut ghost shaped figures out of the card stock paper
2. Draw your ghosts faces and bodies using Kwik Stix and Magic Stix
3. Glue onto popsicle stick

Check out this craft on Instagram @little.learner.playground

Toilet Paper Roll Ghost

Materials Needed: empty toilet paper roll, Kwik Stix, scissor, and Magic Stix

1. Cut the bottom of the empty toilet paper roll to look wavy
2. Cut the top of the empty toilet paper roll to look rounded
3. Paint white with Kwik Stix paint
4. Draw on face with Magic Stix

Check out this craft on Instagram @momtoolbox

Pumpkin Spice Latte

Materials Needed: white paper, orange tissue paper, brown construction paper, glue, scissor, and Magic Stix

1. Draw an outline of a coffee cup
2. Cut tissue paper into squares or rectangles
3. Glue onto the coffee cup
4. Glue a rectangular piece of brown construction paper onto the tissue paper
5. Draw a pumpkin onto brown paper

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Stock Up Before the Pumpkins Run Out

Fourteen crafts, one supply drawer. Browse the full TPG Creations collections for every mess-free paint stick, marker, and multisurface writer featured above, and swing by the TPG Creations blog for more seasonal craft ideas once the pumpkins are put away.