28 Creepy Skeleton Craft Ideas You Will Be Thrilled To Make

Budget-friendly skull and crossbones place card holders are perfect for any Halloween tablescape.

The kids will have fun helping to make this friendly-looking skeleton decoration. All you need are some paper plates and Sharpies.

Turn wine corks into Halloween decorations by painting on skeletons. There is another skeleton design with this craft and the Nightmare Before Christmas character above.

This illuminated upcycle can be made with a vintage skull or the entire skeleton. The site provides free printable vintage skeleton illustrations for this craft.

Give your Halloween decorations a Scandinavian feel with these simple embroidered skulls.

The skeleton on this bottle looks more friendly than scary. It's fun to light up your porch by upcycling old bottles.

Spooky season is here, and it’s a perfect time to make a fun and floppy skeleton plush! This DIY project uses simple sewing to combine all the bones into a Halloween decoration that doubles as a soft toy.

Use cheap dollar-store plastic skeleton hands to make this spooktacular wreath for the front door.

Make your guest smile with these spooky, repurposed skeleton ice tongs.

Paint rocks white and then have fun making decorative scary skull faces with Sharpies.

A super clever Halloween craft idea, use Sharpies on latex gloves to create skeleton hands and then illuminate them with tea lights.

If you have a Cricut machine, this is a fun skeleton craft idea. It's a little more quirky than your usual Halloween bags.

A felt cross and bones felt pillow that's too good for Halloween. I'd have this on my couch all year around.

You don't need fancy crafting machines to make this skeleton t-shirt, just freezer paper and paint.

Update some plain paper lanterns with black tissue paper and glue for a spooky Halloween version.

This skull looks even cooler after dark as it glows!

Did you know you can transfer images to candles using tissue paper? These DIY Skull and Skeleton Candles are a great way to make some inexpensive Halloween decorations!

A skeleton craft to go with the t-shirt above. Fun slippers to wear on your feet whilst taking the kids trick-or-treating!

They are perfect Halloween wall vignettes. I love the idea of using it as a dried flower vase or just showing off tiny pumpkins. And quite possibly a key holder for all of October. 

Upcycle some round vintage picture frames and add skeleton silhoute for stylish Halloween decor.

Surround a glass vase with painted dollar store skeleton hands for a stylish but creepy Halloween decoration.

A fun DIY trick-or-treat bag that GLOWS in the DARK! It’s such a cute, personalized design that is perfect for Halloween!

This homemade card stock skeleton is so bold and perfect, and you can see him as you’re pulling up the block. It’s so cool. I positioned him so that his hands needed to be holding something; you could put anything that you wanted in his hands.

Give a garden flamingo a creepy make over with this skeleton craft.

Air dry clay is used to make the creepy skeleton hands and skulls on these cool Halloween bottles.

Make enough of these salt dough bones, and soon you'll be able to make a whole skeleton.

This Disney Haunted Mansion Frame for Halloween adds the perfect amount of spookiness to your Halloween decor!

A basic Skeleton Paper Puppet Template – that you can embellish with flowers and hearts and anything you wish… And it has an additional printable page – with Day of the Dead accessories – such as roses, marigolds, top hats and hair pieces.