This easy Paper Cup Flying Ghost Craft is sure to be a big hit with the kids. It’s a super fun, super spooky interactive Halloween craft that they can play with!
Just pull the strings at the bottom to make the paper cup ghosts fly up and down! This spooky spectre is so much fun!
This is a great Halloween STEM craft and a super fun way to bring some learning into your celebrations. Kids will love making and playing with this easy educational Halloween toy.
They’ll be having so much fun they won’t even realise they’re experimenting and learning about gravity, levers and forces and more!
This flying ghost craft is great for kids of all ages from toddlers to teens! It’s really easy to make a Halloween paper cup ghost that actually flies and you can have your spooky spectre up and floating about in just a few minutes!
When the kids have finished playing with their ghost crafts, you can just leave them hanging up because they make lovely Halloween decorations too.
Kids will love making these ghost crafts for Halloween. They’re great for decorating the house and super fun and easy to make with friends on a crafting play date too.
If you like the idea of these paper cup flying ghosts then you might like to take a peek at some of our other ghost craft ideas too.
Our Ghost Luminaries look fabulous with battery tea lights inside. Jumbo Floating Ghosts are great for decorating the house at halloween and making it look spooky and fun quickly and easily. Ghost Finger Puppets are a easy 10 minute craft great for tiny tots. Chocolate Ghost Popsicles are loads of fun for the whole family to make and eat!
Paper Cup Flying Ghost Craft Tutorial
Supplies To Make A Paper Cup Ghost That Flies:
How To Make A Paper Cup Flying Ghost Craft For Halloween
1 – Cut random zig zags lengthways across a sheet of white office paper.
2 – Cut strips upwards from your zig zags towards the top of the paper but don’t cut all the way through to the top. You want to create a band of hanging strips.
3 – Glue your band of paper strips inside the white paper cup.
4 – Use your black sharpie to draw on the ghost’s face.
5 – We drew the ghost’s mouth, eyebrows and eye background and then glued on oval googly eyes for detail.
6 – (Grown Ups Only) To make your paper cup ghost fly carefully make two holes in the base of the paper cup. We used a small pair of scissors and pushed and wiggled them in.
7 – Cut a length of white yarn. We used about two arm spans worth. Thread the two ends of the yarn through the base of the paper cup and pull the ends into the cup and out the other side. Tie the two ends together.
8 – Now your Paper Cup Flying Ghost Craft is ready to move! Hang the looped end of yarn over a door handle or hook and gently pull the two threads out to each side.
STEM Ghost Ideas
This is a really fun educational Halloween craft that gives kids the chance to make predictions and experiment.
As they open their hands out further and further apart the ghost will “fly” to the top of the yarn. When they bring their hands in together again the ghost will “fly’ back down!
Kids can explore what happens when they use different thicknesses of yarn or place the holes in different positions.
They can try to see how high they can make their ghost fly by using different lengths of yarn.
My boys loved to see if they could make the ghost come back down quicker and taping a small weight, like a penny, onto the inside seemed to help.
We think this interactive flying ghost craft is so fun for Halloween. If you want to get an idea of what it looks like moving we have a video of a flying witch craft that uses the same method.
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