Easy Halloween Face Paint That Will Transform Your kids Halloween Costume

You can transform your kids Halloween costume from super cute to super spooky with this easy Halloween face paint. It’s great for adding that extra touch of spooky ghoul to a shop-bought costume. You don’t have to be exact and it also works beautifully with most costumes, including everyday clothes!

And To keep your creepy kids occupied we have some fabulous Halloween Crafts and Activities on the blog such as our: Needle Felt Spiders, these cute Paper Pumpkins, and this Ghost & Bat Bunting.

This though is one of my favourite Halloween face paints to do on my girls, as it’s pretty easy to do.

The key face paint colours are black and white. If you do bring in another colour blend it in around the eyes area only and pick a colour from the costume itself. Ra’s costume had a hint of blue in it so I added that to the eye blend area which worked really well

Materials You Will Need For The Easy Halloween Face Paint

• Sponges,
• Face paint (black, white and blue),
• Good quality paint brushes,
• a cup of water (for the paintbrushes)
• two bowls of water (for the sponges)
• a hair band to keep the hair off the face
• kitchen towel.

How To Apply The Halloween Face Paint

Make sure you have everything you need set up before you start the facepaint

I try to keep siblings out of the room. They are a massive distraction and have a habit of winding up the child who’s with you!

Start With The Base

Start with the white faceprint and dab gently all over the face. The trick with this is to not make your sponge to wet so you get an nice even layer. I do a first cover, let it dry and then apply the second. I also do a light whitewash over any bare arms, neck, shoulders or chest area.

Creating a Ghoul Eye With The Facepaint

Next, apply the dark colour on to the eyelid and a lighter shade of it around the upper eyelid and underneath the eye using your fingertip. I mixed some blue and black together to create my colour.

Don’t worry about being perfect, once you start blending it all comes together. The hardest part is getting the eyes to look a similar colour.

Once the main colour is in place it’s just a case of gently blending using a mix of water and colour on your sponge. To blend in the edges I put a small dab of whiton the sponge and gently dab on the outside colour. It’s a bit like painting. Practice on your hand beforehand you can completely change the sales by dabbing a little white or black.

Use your the back of your hand as a paint palette to blend the colours.

Adding The Scary Ghoul Mouth

Once you’ve done the eyes, pick up a paintbrush and draw a large smile line from one side of the face to the other. Don’t make the paintbrush too wet and use a good quality brush with a nice firm bend to the hairs. Fill in the lips and add some vertical lines. Don’t be overly precious about the lines. With kids speed is important as they like to move!

And there you have it. A costume with extra wow using simple Halloween Face Paint.

Halloween Crafts & Activities For Your Little Ghouls To Make

You’ll find loads of Halloween activities and crafts for your little ghouls and monsters love to get creative with on BlueBearWood. You can find all over them listed in this round up post that has Halloween Crafts For All The Family where you’l find fun crafts like the ones shown below.