Get spooky and creative this Halloween season by making your own stained glass lantern! Follow along for a step-by-step tutorial on how to easily make your own eye-catching luminaries – perfect for adding extra scares to your holiday décor.
Halloween Ghost Lantern Craft Idea For Kids
Since our original tutorial from summer went a little viral this past year, I decided to bring it to life for the upcoming Halloween season as well!
So on that note, every finished mosaic paper Halloween lantern piece will be extra SPOOKTACULAR and I just know you are going to love it as much as I love sharing it with you all!
Kids AND adults will LOVE conjuring up this spooky lamp craft within their home and displaying it proudly for everyone to see. Find everything you need to know, as well as the free lantern shape printable, in the full stained glass haunted light craft tutorial below.
Happy crafting, my friends! Don’t forget to share pictures of your ghost lantern creations with us! You can find us on Facebook or Instagram for easy tagging! I seriously can’t wait to see your GLOWING pieces in action! #gluedtomycrafts
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Get into the Halloween spirit with some art! Let’s get creative this year and make some stained glass lanterns to light up your spooky night.
Craft Supplies:
- Lantern Printable – on our landing page
- White Cardstock Paper
- Coloring Pencils, Crayons or Markers
- Craft Scissors
- Clear Contact Paper
- Orange, Yellow & Black Tissue Paper
- Loose Craft Glitter
- Halloween Spider Stickers
Directions:
- First print out the FREE blank lantern template above. You will want one printable, per Halloween light craft.
- Next grab your choice of coloring utensil and color in the top & bottom section of the lantern design. You can color those two sections however you like but keep in mind that you want the center portion to remain blank.
- When done coloring, go ahead and grab your scissors & the decorated lantern printable.
- Trim out the design, as well as the inside portion of the lantern.
- Before you discard the excess paper, cut out TWO small ghost shapes for inside your lantern.
- Use a marker to draw faces on your two ghost cutouts.
- Now grab your clear contact paper.
- Cut out TWO pieces that are bigger than the lantern cutout.
- Remove the backing from one piece of contact paper.
- Lay it on a flat surface.
- Place the lantern cutout, face down, on the contact paper.
- Now add the cutouts, face down, inside the lantern as well.
- Next decorate the inside of their camping light however you like with tissue paper squares {I did various shades of orange, yellow and black in mine, as well as loose star shaped craft glitter.}
- Once you are done creating the contents, grab the second piece of contact paper.
- Peel off the backing and place it on top of the other piece of contact paper, moving your hand around to “squish” everything together.
- To finish off the Stained Glass Halloween Light craft, use your scissors to trim out the cup/remove the excess contact paper.
- Add on some small spider stickers on the outside to really tie the theme together.
- Then display proudly on a window with a little bit of clear tape!!!
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Give your home an extra dose of spookiness with an eerie, stained glass-inspired Halloween lantern!
Craft time is HAPPY TIME {especially during the holidays} so let’s make it happen today!
Get ready to be wowed with our popular Thumbprint Ghost and Paint Splat Magic Ball craft posts! Both of which would pair nicely with today’s Stained Glass Halloween Lantern tutorial – hint hint!
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Stained Glass Halloween Lantern Craft
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