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Halloween Handprints Craft to Spread Kindness This Fall

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Inside: Use these Halloween Handprints kindness Crafts as a way to celebrate Halloween and spread some kindness in your community. 


Every October I dig out my Halloween boxes and bins and decorate my home because I love everything about Halloween. And one of my favorite ways to decorate for the holiday is by hanging up Halloween art projects my  kids have made over the year all over my kitchen cabinets. 

It brings me so much joy to look at their creations all month long. 

But not everyone is as lucky to have kid creations at their fingertips to decorate with. And so many clinical places in our community like nursing homes, mental hospitals, hospitals, and retirement communities have bare walls. 

So for this Halloween as a way to spread kindness, we can make these Halloween Handprints Crafts with our kids and/or our students and then hang them up in community areas that need a little more cheer and holiday spirit. And what a sweet way to spread kindness.

The residents or patients will enjoy the crafts as they get ready for Halloween. 

Use these Halloween handprint Kindness craft to celebrate Halloween and spread Kindness at the same time

How to Make the Halloween Handprints Craft 

1. Download the free printable templates (download below)

2. Print out the handprint templates you wish to use on cardstock or construction paper (pages 4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18, or 20).

Use these Halloween handprint Kindness craft to celebrate Halloween and spread Kindness at the same time

3. Encourage children to color in the words and color in the pictures on the template.

4. Allow them to sign, trace or copy their first name only to the page.

Use these Halloween handprint Kindness craft to celebrate Halloween and spread Kindness at the same time

5. Paint their hand(s) the color for the craft you’re doing and apply their handprint in the correct spot.

  • Bat (black)
  • Witch’s broom (brown or brown and yellow)
  • Pumpkin (orange)
  • Frankenstein (green)
  • Owl (brown)
  • Spider (black or brown)*
  • Cat (black)
  • Mummy (red or your choice)
  • Ghost (white or gray) 

*For the spider, make sure to not paint the children’s thumbs so the spider only has 8 legs. 

Use these Halloween handprint Kindness craft to celebrate Halloween and spread Kindness at the same time

6. Allow for the art to dry completely.

Attach the art to construction paper to create a backing/frame to make the art sturdier.

7. Donate the art to spread kindness (ideas are below!)

Want more Fall Crafts? 

You’ll love this Halloween Pointillism Art Project and this Fall Pointillism Art Project! 

This jack o'lantern pumpkin art project is perfect as a Halloween craft on canvas or as a fall card. Connect fine art lessons on Pointillism and Seurat and make a meaningful and gorgeous pumpkin art project. #pumpkins #pumpkinart #artlesson #artforkids #pumpkincraft #fallactivityforkids #Halloweenart #Halloweencrafts #Halloweenactivitiesforkids #Pointillism #coffeeandcarpool

You’ll also love these Ghost Footprints!

Halloween Footprint Ghosts are a great Halloween craft #Halloweencraft #Halloweenart #footprintart #Halloween

How to Use the Halloween Handprints Craft to Spread Kindness 

1. Contact your local nursing home, retirement home, VA hospital, children’s hospital, or mental health facility and ask if you can bring by Halloween/fall art to decorate the waiting rooms/ cafeteria/ hallways/ patient doors, etc. to spread a little kindness and cheer and color!

2. Drop off the art at the front desk or hang the art for them with painter’s tape.

3. Take pictures to show your children their artwork hanging up!

4. After Halloween, you can take down most of the art but leave up the owl and pumpkin to celebrate the rest of fall. 

5. You can go pick up the kindness Halloween art and send it home with students if you’re a teacher or you can leave it for the facility to use again next fall. 

Download the Halloween Handprint kindness Crafts Templates here!

 Use these Halloween handprint Kindness craft to celebrate Halloween and spread Kindness at the same time


Use this kindness pumpkin hands-on sel activity to help kids determine what is kind and what is not.

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I’m Nicole and I am a recovering elementary school teacher, a mom to three super busy kids, and I mostly survive on strong coffee.

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