Halloween Miniatures and Projects for Decorations and Party Favors

These printable miniature coffin boxes are easily made using your printer, a pair of scissors and some glue. They are large enough to fit a miniature skeleton in dolls house scale, and can also be filled with candy for table favors.

Skulls are an easy shape to model from polymer clay, air dry clay, or epoxy putty for beads or miniature Halloween decorations. You can also make edible miniature sugar skulls from fondant, or easy skulls from commercial marshmallows following these instructions for Modelling Miniature Skulls.

There are lots of ways to make decorations from Halloween Characters. Skeletons and dolls can be dressed in costumes and used to hold place cards, or identifying signs for buffets.

• Make a Halloween Witch in 1:12 scale or 1:48 scale from paper or fabric.
• Make a Miniature Felt Cowboy Hat
• Make a Miniature Tricorne Hat for a Pirate

Bats make great decorations for Halloween trees, wreaths, and villages. These scale miniature bats are made of polymer clay or epoxy putty. The ones shown here are 1:12 dolls house scale, but you can make them in smaller or larger sizes to suit your scene. You can roost them in trees or hang them from attic rafters.

• Make Miniature Bats

If you need a display background, or a quick house for a haunted scene, these free printable roofs, porches, windows and doors in two sizes are an easy way to turn boxes into haunted houses. The simplest version shown here has no porch, only a roof and windows. It is an easy project for a child or a class. The smaller sizes will make backdrops or houses that fit with standard commercial viallages. The additional printables (not shown) give you a lot of scope to make more detailed and complex houses quickly from a minimum of materials. You can make the houses as facades or background silhouettes only, or cut open the windows and make houses with interiors.

• Make Miniature Haunted Houses

These printable door covers and picket fence sections with rats and black cats will turn any small scale building into a Halloween scene. All you need then are some garlands or miniature pumpkins found elsewhere on this list.

These Paper Mache Pumpkins can be made in a huge range of sizes and scales and are a great project to work on with children. You can use them hollow as Jack O Lanterns, or leave them solid for a pumpkin display. They take very little in the way of materials and can be made any shape you want.

Make realistic miniature corn stalks from paper or raffia to add to a halloween miniature scene.