Halloween face paint ideas for kids 2023

If your little one fancies turning themselves into a vampire, here's how you can get the look.

You'll need white, black and red face paints.

1. Start by slicking back hair and sponging white all over the face and slightly into the hairline.

2. Next, take your black face paint and mark out a v-shape at the top of the forehead, two sideburns on the jaw line and thick eyebrows.

3. Smudge and blend the black face paint and finish off with red face paint for a blood-red vampire's mouth.

4. Finish it off with a set of false vampire teeth to complete the effect (no teeth? You could just paint white triangles on your child's bottom lip instead)

Who doesn't want to be a witch when it's Halloween? Here's how to transform your little one:

You'll need white and black face paints.

1. Start by sponging white face paint over the forehead, nose, cheeks and chin.

2. Next, take a sponge and smudge black around and over the eyes and nose.

3. Finish off by using a brush dipped in black face paint to define cheekbones and to add witchy wrinkles around the mouth.

Zombify your little one with this Halloween-inspired look.

You'll need white, blue and black face paint.

1. Start by sponging on white face paint all over the face.

2. Next, go over using a blue face paint, painting on with a brush at the hairline and cheeks for definition.

3. Finish off by taking a brush dipped in black face paint to paint on eyebrows and a scar down one or both cheekbones.

The surprise here is that half the face looks normal and the other half ...aargh, it's a frightful looking pumpkin. Here's how to get the look:

You'll need orange and black face paint.

1. Start by using a brush dipped in black face paint to get the carved effect outline of a pumpkin. Just use zig-zagging lines around one side of the face, drawing down the nose and half of the mouth and chin (roughly).

2. Carefully paint on orange inside the lines. You can always go over the black edging once you've filled it in for neater lines.

3. Draw on a black triangle around the eye to look like a carved out pumpkin's eye and the same on the tip of the nose. And then do a zig-zag shape around the mouth, filling them all in with black face paint.

This scary skull will truly terrify trick or treaters! Here's how to get the look:

You'll need white and black face paints.

1. Start by slicking back hair and sponge white all over the face.

2. Next you'll paint a squarish shape around both eyes, filling in with black face paint. Do the same on cheeks and nose (using a triangular shape).

2. Finish off by painting on a black and white mouth

This cute as a button (we mean, super scary, of course) witch's cat is perfect for little ones who just want a little bit of face paint.

Here's how to get the look:

You'll need white and black face paint.

1. Using a brush dipped in white face paint, mark out a triangle coming down from the hairline, into the forehead and fill in with white.

2. Now take a brush dipped in black face paint to go over eyebrows with an extra feline line at the start of each brow. Then paint on suitably feline, flicked out looking lashes, with white between the lashes and brows.

3. Paint the tip of the nose black, with a line joining down to the middle of her mouth and then go over lips.

4. Dot on some black face paint for the start of the whiskers and finish the look with three white lines (for whiskers) on each side of the mouth.

If your child is keen to be a clown this year, then this is an easy way to do it:

You'll need white, black and red face paints.

1. Using a black crayon face paint or brush dipped in black face paint, draw a large circle around each eye. Fill in with white face paint and then draw a black line vertically from the top of the circle to the bottom (being careful to close eyes as you draw).

2. Now do the clown's mouth. Draw an oversized mouth that fills in the area above your child's actual mouth and down to the chin. Fill in with white face paint and then draw on a wide red mouth.

3. Finish off the look with a red nose painted on. As for a wig; the curlier and crazier, the better!

If your little one fancies being a cheeky pumpkin, this is a good look to copy.

You'll need orange, white and black face paints.

1. Sponge on orange face paint all over the face.

2. Now go around the edge with a pen dipped in black face paint to give a round pumpkin edge.

3. Draw triangles over the eyes and fill in with white face paint.

If your little monster fancies this gruesome and gory ghost, then here's what you'll need:

You'll need white, red and black face paints.

1. Sponge white face paint all over the face.

2. Paint on thicker black eyebrows over the real ones, smudging slightly with fingers or a sponge.

3. Now take a brush dipped in red and draw smudgy, rough lines to resemble cuts and blood dripping down. Have fun!

These ghoulish ghosts are easy to do.

You'll need white face paint and a murky colour (green/brown) or black.

1. Sponge white face paint all over the face.

2. Now, sponge over circular shapes using the darker colour of your choice to resemble eye sockets.

3. Dot the same colour on the tip of the nose or sides of the nose and also sponge over the mouth for a monstrous grin. Paint on white teeth for added ghoulishness!