Let’s make a jack-o-lantern night light for kids with this easy recycled item arts and craft project that works well for kids of all ages.

Halloween can be a little scary for kids and one of the solutions for fright is light.  This simple-to-make Halloween night light is fun to make together and is guaranteed to assist in nighttime bravery.

Make a Halloween Night Light Craft

This fun and colorful Halloween craft for kids turns into a night light that they can use next to their bed. Or if you want to make them in different sizes, they could be a really cute lit centerpiece or Halloween decoration.

Make a whole set as Halloween luminaries. <–Check out this article for a lot of Halloween luminary ideas.

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Supplies Needed

• Orange Tissue Paper
• Black Construction Paper
• Scissors
• White School Glue
• LED Touch Night Light
• Paint Brush
• An empty plastic container

I love Halloween crafts that are so easy that kids can do themselves.  This is definitely one of them.  We started with an empty Ovaltine container and peeled off the label.

Any empty container that will let light shine through will work!

Directions

Step 1

I cut orange tissue paper into triangles of various sizes – they don’t have to be perfect shapes or even close to perfect.

Step 2

Next, we spread a glue over the blank canister and stuck on the tissue triangles.  Once we had a layer completed, we brushed on another layer of glue and filled in the gaps with more orange shapes.

Step 3

When the jar was completely covered with orange, we added three black construction paper triangles for 2 eyes and a nose and a squiggly, smily mouth cut out of paper as well.

Step 4

One more layer of the glue/sealer and then we let it dry.

Step 5

I added an LED tap light at the bottom of the night light and put the top on.

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How did your Halloween night light craft turn out? Did you make more than one? What item did you steal from the recycling bin to make the Halloween craft?