Time for Some Ghostly Fun
As spooky season is coming around the corner, you might be looking for some craft ideas to get your family into the Halloween spirit. This DIY Pet Ghost in a Jar is an easy hands-on project for kids, classroom parties, or anyone who wants to add a touch of handmade Halloween magic to their home. Best of all, you can easily pull this together using recycled jars, fabric scraps, and some everyday items that you might already have lying around the house.
Let’s bring this spooky creation to life!
Materials:
- 1 Empty plastic or glass jar (peel off all the label stickers)
- Scrapbook or card stock paper
- Glue Gun
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Black Permanent Marker
- White cloth, old T-shirts, pillowcase, bedsheets, or any fabric
- Ribbon
- Stuffing material (white cotton balls, large pom poms, or old pillow stuffing)
- Hole puncher
Optional: Small Halloween decorations, fake plastic spiders or bugs, Halloween stickers, twigs, etc
Halloween Tags Example
Directions:
- Measure and cut 8 inches by 8 inches of your white fabric and set aside.
- Cut out 2 sets of 12 inches of ribbon and set aside.
- Take your fabric and place it down in a diamond shape. Then place your white stuffing material in the center.
- Grab the top corner of the fabric and pull it down over to meet the bottom corner. Then gather the fabric around the stuffing.
- Next, take one of the ribbons and tie it around the ghost’s neck to secure the stuffing.
- Now draw a face for your ghost with the black marker.
- Grab the jar and twist off the lid. Then place the lid facedown on your scrapbook paper and trace around it and cut out the circle. Then glue the paper on the top of the lid and set aside to let it dry.
- Decorate the inside or outside of your jar with the Halloween decorations. After you are done, place your pet ghost inside your jar and twist the jar’s lid back on.
- Create a cute ghost tag and make a hole punch on top.
- Take the last ribbon from earlier and loop it through the tag. Then tie it around the jar.
- And there you go! Your new pet ghost.
What a cute spooktacular little friend in a jar! To make it official, you can even create an adoption certificate with your pet’s ghost name, your name, and Birthday. Hope you enjoyed making this DIY craft.
Have a hauntingly Happy Halloween!
Check out the Military Mom Collective Pinterest page for more craft ideas.
