Free Halloween Haunted House Papercraft

Intro: Free Halloween Haunted House Papercraft

Happy Halloween from all of us at Instructables!!

Welcome to the Instructable Haunted House candy box, our 2022 Free Halloween Papercraft. This house contains a secret opening to hide candy, notes, or other spooky surprises.

This compact papercraft is easy to assemble and is a great activity to get you in the Halloween spirit. Get your family, friends, or students involved too!

If this isn’t exciting enough on its own, Instructables is also running a fun Halloween Photo Challenge & Giveaway!

• ENTER THE I MADE IT CHALLENGE

Post a photo of your Instructables Haunted House as an "I Made It" on this project, and we’ll send you an Instructables giveaway pack! Find all the details of how to participate in Step 7.

STEP 1: Cut It Out + Special Cuts

Print out the pattern at 100%. Once it's printed, cut along the outer edge of the papercraft with your scissors or a utility knife.

Special cuts - Take extra care to cut along the "special cuts" indicated in the photo above in RED.

STEP 2: Cut the Slots

Using your utility knife, cut along the THREE slots indicated in the photo above in RED. This is where your tabs will slot into when you assemble your haunted house

STEP 3: Score the Fold Lines (optional)

Optional Scoring: Score along the fold lines indicated in the photo above in BLUE.

Scoring your fold lines can make assembling a papercraft much easier, especially if you opted to use cardstock. You can use the smooth side of a butter knife to score these lines, with a ruler placed parallel to the fold line as a guide. Don't press TOO hard with the butter knife or you may rip the paper.

STEP 4: Assemble

Fold all the edges you just scored and assemble your haunted house by placing the orange tab into the orange slot along the walls, and the brown tab into the brown slot along the bottom. For now, leave the roof un-attached.

Optional Adhevise: This papercraft assembles with no adhesives, but you can add a little tape/glue to both of the above tabs to make it sturdier.

STEP 5: Fill and Close

At this point, you can choose to continue assembling your roof, or hide something inside your haunted house. We suggest candy for a friend, a spooky spell for an emergency escape, or any other secrets you need to hide this halloween season.

Once you're ready to close up your papercraft, fold the purple triangles on the side of your roof inwards, and slot the purple tab on the roof into the accompanying purple slot.

VIOLA! You just completed your very own spooky Instructables Haunted House. Looking for some friends to invite over? Check out our previous year's papercrafts

STEP 6: Tinkercad

Build you own haunted house in Tinkercad by following this starter lesson: How to Build a Tinkercad House.

Follow along in the attached 30 minute video as I work through this lesson with you. This project is beginner friendly and you do not need any existing knowledge of Tinkercad to join in the fun.

Complete Lesson 1 and decorate your house for Halloween to be eligible for our spook-tacular giveaway! Remember to take a screenshot or click the "send to" button in the top right corner of your Tinkercad workstation to download an image.

Find all the details of how to submit your image for the give-away in Step 7.

STEP 7: Instructables Giveaway

Here's how to participate: 

• Build your Instructables Haunted House Papercraft or build a Tinkercad Haunted house House (see step 6).
• Share a photo of your Haunted House with us by clicking the yellow "I Made It" button, which can be found at the bottom of this project.
• We must receive submissions and iterations of this project by November 7th, 2022 (11:59pm Pacific Time) to be eligible for this offering, and we’ll send you an Instructables giveaway pack filled with goodies!

Instructables staff will feature the best recreations of this papercraft project on our Twitter and Instagram Stories.

Comments

[Penolopy Bulnick]

Forms have been sent to fulfill your gift packs! Please make sure to fill them out as soon as possible or let us know if you have issues!

[pizzidave]

Swapped the color scheme to a pastel goth aesthetic. PDF attached.

[Sunny Naguri]

This looks amazing! Love the colours.

[pizzidave]

Thanks!

[Emily Snavely]

What exactly is in the goodies pack?

[pizzidave]

This....

[JoDD]

I received my gift pack today! Thank you. I feel like a winner of the "big award" for Christmas. Who needs a leg lamp - I've got a great Instructables mug.

[Elaina M]

We're so glad to hear you feel like a big winner ! Thanks for crafting with us this season :)

[Oscar Zhou]

I received my gift pack yesterday. To my surprise, I also got a instructables mug! Everything is well-packed and the notebook and stickers are delicacy. Thank instructables and thank you! :P

[Elaina M]

<3 So happy to hear you enjoyed the goodies !

[Penolopy Bulnick]

Glad to hear you had a good time with it!

[Elaina M]

So glad you enjoyed getting to craft with us this halloween. Thank you for sharing :)

[Noah and Caleb]

Thanks for the activity and tutorial.

[James Hood]

Such a nice work! Happy Halloween!

[Emily Snavely]

Awesome project!
I found if you trace the outline of the house onto paper, you can design your own house with pencil to add an extra bit of craftiness.

[mwitherspoon]

Reminds me of decorating milk cartons in grade school!

[HarlowMonroe]

Adorable!
Happy Halloween, everybody!
🍬🍭🎃🕸👻🍎🍭🍬

[simple shoemaking]

I WOULD LOVE IT IF THIS HOUSE WAS MADE TO ENCLOSE A WINE BOX, SUCH AS BOTA BOX - I COULD CREATE A WHOLE VILLAGE FROM MINE!

[Not_Tasha]

I'm sure you could figure out how to enlarge it

[charlessenf-gm]

Find a local copy shop and ask them if they can enlarge copies - most can and many can do so in color. But, d/l the monochrome version and blow it up. If you measure a line on the original - say the wall height - you can tell them how many inches (mm) you need it to be (to fit a wino bottle) and they should be able to determine the ratio and thus the size of the enlargement needed. They likely have limits on the width they can print. You may be able to work around such limitations by cutting the original into sections and blowing each up and assembling the results.