Halloween Cards
Since the late nineteenth century, Halloween cards have been exchanged to share spooky greetings each autumn. From funny sayings to eerie poems, there are endless creative ways to send Halloween wishes to friends and family. Make your own cards for fun and unique designs. Here are some Halloween card ideas I have used over the years.
Pumpkin Cards
To make your own pumpkin cards, fold an orange sheet of construction paper in half. Trace a pumpkin on the paper so that the design edge is along the folded edge. Cut out the pumpkin – but be sure to leave the folded edge uncut. Lastly, draw on your carved face and add a green stem.
Bat Cards
For an extra challenge, try making a bat card. The pictures are for a Christmas card version, but if you leave off the Santa hat, it is a beautiful Halloween bat.
For this one I created a template – which is especially useful if you are making 60+ cards. I traced the outline of a bat on some thick paper and cut it out. I then traced the template on a piece of scrap paper and folded it to make sure the wings crossed the bat’s body properly when closed. I adjusted the template as needed. Once happy with it, I took my template and traced it on my black construction paper. Since I was making a lot of these cards, I also made templates for the bat belly, ears, and mouth. I traced them on red paper and cut them out. The eyes were just hole-punched white paper.
Next, I outlined all the pieces in black sharpie and glued them on the bat body. I used a bone file to crease the wings three times for that bat-like fold.
Repurposed Cards
I am a big fan of not letting things go to waste. My Grandma had a ton of generic greeting cards sent to her from charities she donates to; cards she never planned to use because they didn’t quite suit her taste. So, I took some and used Halloween stickers to bring them back from the dead. Every card is unique!
Sayings for Inside Your Cards
You have made your card, but do you need something to write inside it? Try some of these spooky greetings:
- When witches abound and ghosts are seen, your fate you will learn on Halloween
- Have a Happy Halloween! Hold you candle steady and keep a sharp lookout. For back among the shadows, you’ll see goblins peeping out.
- Watch your sept for it’s Halloween. The time when witches and spooks convene.
- By pumpkins fat and witches glean, By coal black cats with eyes of green, By all the magic ever seen… I wish you luck this Halloween.
- When black cats prowl, and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween!
- A Halloween merry, a Halloween bright. Though pumpkins make faces and ghosts walk at night, let no noises scare you, and don’t start to run. For ’tis but a joke, and Halloween fun.
- Light all the pumpkins and let their weird gleam call witches and goblins to keep Halloween.
I’d love to see your card creations! Show me on Facebook & Instagram.
For more card crafts, check out my Spooky Christmas Cards.
Halloween Cards
Since the late nineteenth century, Halloween cards have been exchanged to share spooky greetings each autumn. From funny sayings to eerie poems, there are endless creative ways to send Halloween
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