Mini Ghost Mobile Preschool Halloween Craft

The Mini Ghost Mobile Preschool Halloween Craft is very simple to make. This Halloween craft can be as elaborate or as complex as your preschooler’s imagination and abilities allow. Hang your mini Halloween ghost mobile anywhere you'd like to have a haunted touch.

Materials You Will Need

3 to 7 Preschool Mini Ghosts
1 coat hanger
Thread or Yarn
Scissors
Lengths of 1/8th inch dowel, cut as will work for your preschoolers mobile design

How to Make it

Step 1:
Lay out your project on the table with the hanger at the top.

Step 2:
Ask your preschooler to imagine how s/he wants the ghosts to look hanging in the air.  Where does your preschool child want them to be in relationship to one another?  Lay out the ghosts where s/he will want them to be when the mobile is hung.  For instance, s/he might want one ghost to hang straight down a foot or so and another to hang down only 6 or 8 inches. S/he might want to hang a short piece of dowel next to the first string and hang two ghosts from it.

Step 3:
Help your preschooler measure the distance between the hanger and where the first ghost will be.  Cut a piece of string or yarn that length plus a 3 or 4 inches longer to allow for tying.  Do the same with the other distances.  The dowel the length you would like it to be.

Step 4:
Tie the string to the ghosts then tie them either to the hanger or the dowel, according to your preschooler’s plan

Helpful Tips for Parents

Tip 1:
Please make a mobile yourself before you do this craft with your preschooler. S/he may really need to see and example in order to understand this craft.

Tip 2:
Depending on your preschooler’s stage of development, s/he may have a difficult time planning the layout of the mobile. Guide him/her when needed and don’t be concerned if it comes out lopsided. The experience of doing it is what counts.

Spook it Up

You can brush the ghosts lightly with diluted white glue and sprinkle them with which, colorless, or silver glitter for a more ghostly, shimmery effect. 

Ways to Use the Preschool Mini Ghost Mobile

You can hang this mobile nearly anywhere you have someplace to hang it from. If you add string to the hook end of the hanger, you can hang it from a light fixture or ceiling fan, the bathroom mirror, or a door frame or you can make it part of one of the displays below.