Recycled Halloween Suncatchers - Red Ted Art

Turn plastic lids and tissue paper scraps into fun recycled Halloween Suncatchers. A great little eco friendly craft for the Spooky Season to make with your little ones. This is part of our Best Makes Ever series – as series designed to make fun and easy crafts with every day items at home. So, have a rummage through your recycling box, see what all tissue paper you have lying around (we save all tissue paper from packaging and gift) and see what you can make! We love this Halloween Craft for Preschoolers!

About the Best Makes Ever series

The Best Makes Ever Series, is a series of art and crafty videos, that Art Crafty Kids and I produced for Sky Kids UK back in 2020-2022. They were designed to bring delightful arts and crafts projects to kids – using every day materials/ limited resources. Enabling everyone to join in and have fun! Now, 5yrs on, we are (slowly) able to share these lovely arts and crafts projects with you on our websites too! So, DO explore our Best Makes Ever Series tab for more info.. or check out some of our highlighted projects here, that work particularly well for the Halloween Season

Another wonderful sewing project – make super cute Felt Owl Ornaments or Felt Fox Ornaments (using basic shapes!) – you could switch the colours out and make the owls more “spooky” if you wish
From apple prints, to addorable recycled Halloween Garland!
Turn Cardboard Tubes and salvaged tissue paper into Monster Mini Pinatas!

Don’t have a plastic lid? Do have some craft sticks or maybe cardboard?

Here is a similar, but alternative version to the Plastic Lid Suncatchers.. make (recycled) Popsicle Stick Suncatchers for Halloween too – or if you have Mason Jars – you can make these fabulous Jack O’Lanterns Laterns.. so fun!

Supplies needed for these Recycled Suncatchers

The supplies require for this recycled Halloween craft are simple:

A plastic lid – any plastoc lid will do, ours came of a yoghort pot!
(Recycled) tissue paper – we always save tissue paper from gifts etc so we had some yellow, orange, blues and purples to play with
Scrap black paper
PVA glue
Scissors
Pencil (for sketching Halloween designs)

How to make Recycled Halloween Suncatchers – Video Tutorial

We have the video for you once again, or the step by step instructions below!

How to make Plastic Lid Suncatchers for Halloween – Step by Step

Making these Halloween Suncatchers is super and easy! Once you have gathered your recycled supplies, it is time to get started!

Start by cutting up the tissue paper into small squares. You can also “tear” it if you perfer. Both are great for developing those fine motor skills!

Sketch out what Halloween character you would like for your recycled suncatcher. Make sure it FITS the size of your lid. Here we have a cat and a spider. Though of coure pumpkins are perfect too (and shown in the video!).