Face Painting for Halloween: Easy and Fun Face Paint for Kids

If you are looking for easy face painting designs for your kids this Halloween, there are several ideas you can try, from old favorites to new trends.

Skeleton Face Painting for Halloween Monsters

A skull or skeleton face is a face painting design that is wonderfully spooky! Older children love to look horrible at Halloween, but little ones in the family can be scared by fake wounds and blood. The skeleton face painting is perfect in that it can be creepy without being gory. Skull face paint is also a very simple face painting design to create and only needs two colors of face paint! First, cover the face in white face paint, avoiding the eye area. Then sponge on black face paint over and around the eyes (no need to go too close to the eyes for little ones) for the dark eye sockets. Add some more black face paint in the hollows of the cheeks. Using black face paint on a brush, paint on some teeth over the closed lips. More experienced face painters can take this a step further by adding more detail, but the simple skeleton face painting is very effective when teamed with a Halloween costume. Get this skeleton face paint look easily with a Skull Theme Snazaroo Face Paint Set.

Witch Face Painting for Halloween Mischief Makers

Parents and professionals alike have probably all done a witch face painting for Halloween at some point! Little girls love this delightfully wicked look. The best thing about a witch face painting is that you can be creative -- there is no one way that you have to paint a witch's face. She could resemble Elphaba from Wicked with simple green face paint teamed with a black costume. Or add some black face paint to give her a dark mouth, wrinkles and warts. A Witch Face Painting Kit will not only give you the face paint but can give you some great ideas for your witch face paint design. There's no reason why a witch face painting can't be sparkly, so add on some face glitter as a finishing touch! A more glamorous witch might have purple lipstick and eye makeup teamed with thick dark eyebrows. If you have a steady hand, add a spiders web cheek face painting to complete the look!

Pumpkin Face Painting for Halloween Cuties

A pumpkin is the classic face painting for Halloween and is so adorable on younger kids. Of course, you could just paint their faces orange, but the secret to a successful pumpkin face painting is in the shading. Use dark face paint to add some depth to the sides of the pumpkin and add a stalk over the forehead with green. To really make the pumpkin face painting stand out, outline with black face paint. Carved pumpkin lanterns normally have triangular eyes so use black face paint to create a triangle shape with your child's eye at the center. Extend his or her mouth line with black face paint in a zig zag line. It's these details that will make your pumpkin face paint stand out! Snazaroo, one of the most trusted brands of face paint for kids, have a handy orange, black and white 18ml face paint set that can help you create your pumpkin face painting.

Vampire Face Painting for Halloween Trendsetters

You can't have failed to notice that all the older kids want to be vampires right now, and no prizes for guessing why, so vampire face paint is perfect for tweens and teens. Fortunately, vampire makeup is pretty easy and can be quite subtle. Think very pale face, reddish eye area from lack of sleep and of course remember to paint on a couple of small sharp fangs on the lower lip! Fake blood or some red face paint can be dotted on for that bloodthirsty look the kids love. This Vampire Face Painting Kit comes with step by step vampire face painting instructions.

Have fun with these easy Halloween face painting ideas for kids!

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I'm a writer for a number of online information sites, including Squidoo where you can find more face painting for Halloween ideas and some fantastic step by step face painting tutorials. For a whole range of face painting designs for kids and adults, visit my collection of some of the best face painting examples available on the Web.