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Gather all the empty cardboard tubes you can find – we’re going to use them and some craft paper to make a toilet paper roll haunted house craft!

Nearly every neighborhood in every country on this planet has that one old building in a visible state of disrepair. It’s been that way for many years, giving the locals enough time to come up with all kinds of interesting stories about the house – or its current inhabitants, ghosts and monsters!

Haunted houses have two meanings today – it’s either an old dilapidated house believed to be inhabited by spirits, or it’s a house that’s specifically designed as a tourist attraction, with scary displays inside. Some haunted houses are so scary that pregnant people and those with heart conditions aren’t allowed inside!

We’ve found another kind of haunted house – the one you make yourself! We’ve got lots of haunted house crafts, and today we have a new one – a toilet paper roll haunted house craft!

Toilet Paper Roll Haunted House Craft

Supplies required:

• Empty cardboard tube
• Colored craft paper
• Pencil
• A pair of scissors
• Craft glue
• Markers

How to make the Toilet Paper Roll Haunted House Craft:

1. Let’s start with the base element of our toilet paper roll haunted house – the toilet paper rolls! Choose paper rolls of 3 different heights, which will form the pillars of our haunted house.

2. Cover each paper tube with black craft paper and put them aside.

3. Download and print the Toilet Paper Roll Haunted House template. This template includes the parts of the haunted house, like the roof, the spider web, the doors, and windows as well as the Halloween creatures like ghosts, bats and pumpkins.

4. Trace the parts of the template on craft paper of the appropriate colors and cut them out. We’ve used yellow for the doors and windows, orange for the roof and pumpkins, as well as black for the bats. The ghosts and the spider web are white.

5. Take the square white paper and fold it in half diagonally, 3 times. You get a triangle like this.

6. Draw the spider web outline on one side of the folded paper. Cut out along the drawn lines.

7. Unfold the paper to reveal the spider web pattern. Keep the web aside.

8. Take the door and window cutouts. Use a yellow or orange marker to draw outlines. Put these aside.

9. Time to give our creatures some features! Take a black marker and draw eyes and a mouth on the ghosts and pumpkins. Attach the thin strip on the bats. Put the monsters aside.

10. Take the roof cutout and fold it into a cone shape. Use glue to secure the shape in place.

11. Time to put all the separate pieces together and build our toilet paper roll haunted house. Take the black paper-covered paper rolls and stick the door and windows on them.

12. Take the spider web and cut it into 2-3 parts. Stick them on the black paper rolls.

13. Attach the cone roofs on the tops of the paper rolls with glue. Next, place the largest paper roll in the middle and the smaller ones on the side. Secure all the rolls together with glue. 

14. Stick the pumpkins to the bottom front sides of the toilet paper roll haunted house. Stick the bottom end of the bat strip to the top end of the roof so it looks like the bats are flying above the haunted house. Finally, attach the ghosts wherever you like – it’s their house!

This craft shows you how easy it is to make a haunted house out of pretty much anything that you have at home. A house is made haunted by the creatures inside it, so make sure you include all your favorite monsters – whether they’re skeletons, mummies, witches or vampires!

If you’d like to try different haunted house crafts, check these out:

• Halloween Haunted House Shoebox Diorama
• DIY Halloween Character and Haunted House Bookmarks
• Haunted House 3D Coloring Halloween Craft
• Handprint Haunted House Craft for Kids
• Haunted House Color and Trace Printable