How to Make Kids Halloween Party Invitations

Ok, let's have some scary fun with your kids Halloween party invitations.

Haunted Stocking Invitations

Younger kids will have fun making their own ghostly party invitations and spooky Halloween stocking envelopes.

1. Start with your scary Halloween stockings. For each invitation, place two sheets of black poster paper together and cut them into the shape of a stocking.

2. Use scissors, glue and colored poster paper to decorate the outsides of your stocking shapes. Make the stockings scary! Use strips of green and orange paper to make striped witches’ stockings, white paper to make cobwebby heels, trim and toes, create an eerie landscape with gravestones, bare trees and a crescent moon, or simply let the kids decorate the stockings with cutouts of pumpkins, scary-cats and other Halloween shapes!

3. Placing the two stocking shapes together again, use a pencil to mark dots, about ½ inch apart, around the edge of the stocking shape. Don’t mark the top of the stocking!

4. Use a hole-puncher to punch holes on the marks and sew the two sides of your stocking together using orange or black ribbon. Finish each end with a knot at the top of your stocking then tie the excess ribbon together to make a handle. Your envelopes are finished – now it’s time to make the Halloween party invitations!

5. Cut out long rectangles of white poster paper to fit inside your spooky Halloween stocking envelopes, making them tall enough that about an inch of paper shows over the top of the stocking when it’s all the way in.

6. Cut each rectangle into the shape of a simple ghost. Make it rounded on the top where the head is, with wavy sides and a jagged ‘hem’ at the bottom.

7. Give each invitation ghost two eyes and a mouth, and write the details of your kids Halloween party (date, time, address, etc.) on its body. Once the invitation ghosts are hiding in their haunted stockings, write the names of your invited guests onto the exposed ghost foreheads.

Now send them out!

These simple kids Halloween party invitations can be personalized to suit your imagination. Send out invitation bats in haunted house envelopes, invitation witches in Jack o’ Lantern envelopes, even invitation coffins in tombstone envelopes!

Qing Gu is a party planning expert, freelancer, and owner of a few websites about celebrating holidays and special occasions. These ideas above are only a few of the terrific original Halloween party ideas you can learn from his site. You can also find lots of unique party invitations that you won't find else on the internet.