Halloween Perler Beads (50+ Free Patterns!)

Get over 50 patterns for Halloween perler beads! There are a variety of hama bead patterns including pumpkins, witches, ghosts, bats, and more.

What are your favorite Halloween traditions? Does your family carve pumpkins? Go trick or treating? Make your own costumes? Make desserts? I’m definitely assuming crafts are in there.

Or could be all of the above.

For me, Halloween was about three things, and in this order. First, the crafts. Second, the candy. And third, the making of the costumes.

Luckily, my nieces are into the same things I are. And I’m excited to share our latest Halloween creations with you today.

If you’re jonesing for some great holiday craft ideas for the littles, I’ve got hours of entertainment for you below with a big collection of Halloween perler beads!

There are over 50 patterns below with all sorts of traditional Halloween characters like pumpkins, ghosts, skeletons, spiders, skulls, witches, bats, and more. They range from very simple to more advanced.

Perler beads are recommended for ages six and up, so this is a very fun craft to try with kids. They love perler beads (also known as hama beads, fuse beads, or melty beads).

They aren’t just fun for kids either. EVERY time I bring out the beads when the nieces come to my house, the adults join in. Every single time without fail!

I know you’re absolutely going to love this post.

Tips for Using Perler Beads

Before we get into the patterns, I want to review a few basics of using fuse beads to make sure you get the best results (using a rainbow as an example). If you don’t want the tips, scroll down to the bottom to get the Halloween perler bead patterns.

Remember that the overall goal is to melt the beads together on both sides while still leaving the holes open. Here’s what you’ll do.

Use Ironing or Parchment Paper

Place ironing paper or parchment paper over the beads on the pegboard. Be gentle so you don’t disturb the beads underneath.

Heat your iron to the medium setting (no steam). In a circular motion, begin to iron the project. Don’t press down too hard with the iron.

When ironed properly, the beads will still have an open center. Check and make sure your edges are melted. Let the design cool on the pegboard.

Note: BE CAREFUL about lifting up the paper while you’re ironing! If you want to check, carefully peel back paper around the edge of your design and see if all the beads are melted.

If you lift the paper up quickly and there are a lot of unmelted beads, they will easily fall off or go flying and you may be forced to start over. Sometimes the edges need more time so when you check, just check the edges and peel paper back slowly.

Peeling back the paper to check if the beads are melted

Another Note: some beads melt faster than others (clear melts faster than white, for example). So some holes might be larger than others. It’s okay! That’s part of the look of the project.

Iron the Other Side

Remove the bead design from the pegboard. Flip it over to the non-melted side and repeat the fusing process.

Ironing the other side of a fuse bead design

Remove the Paper

Let cool completely and remove the paper again (which is reusable). Some people pull the paper off after they iron the first side, but I just wait until the end and peel off both pieces. It’s up to you!

Peeling the ironing paper off the finished project

Now if you’re ready for the Halloween perler bead designs, here are the patterns.

Hama Beads for Halloween

Make sure to check out these notes:

A few of these patterns are larger than a 29 x 29 pegboard, so you’ll either need a extra large pegboard (49 x 69 tall) or to put multiple square peg boards together to form a larger “canvas.”
In addition to square pegboards, you’ll see round and hexagon pegboards. These are fun to have in your arsenal if you plan to do a lot of perler-ing.
You’ll see a couple of the pattern backgrounds below aren’t white – that’s simply to give contrast so you can see where all the white beads should go. You don’t need to add the background (but you can if you want to).
Don’t stick to my colors necessarily. Customize with your favorite color beads.
I typically start with easier, smaller patterns in my list and then move on to the more advanced ones. You’ll see several different versions of ghosts, witches, pumpkins, etc. with increasingly larger patterns; just keep scrolling!

Mini Ghost, Bat, Dracula, Skeleton, Frankenstein, and Jack O’ Lantern

These minis are classic holiday symbols and great for first timers. You can also use any of these as markers in our Halloween tic tac toe game!

Ghosts, Pumpkins, Vampire Bat, Black Cat, Skull, and Witch Hat

Witch, Purple Cat, Dracula, and Pumpkin with Vines

Frank n’ Head, Happy Ghost, Eyeball, and RIP Headstone (with stand)

Hocus Pocus Perler Beads

These patterns include Winifred, Mary, and Sara. You’ll also get Thackery Binx (as a cat), a Book of Spells, and Billy Butcherson.

Round Skull and Eyeball

The green-ish beads of the skull are glow-in-the-dark! You can also use white.

Small Potion Bottles

This pattern uses 72 black, 24 sour apple, 44 light green, and 46 clear beads.

Round Halloween Coasters

These patterns use small, round pegboards and are great for using as coasters! The cobweb coaster is a mixture of clear beads and glow-in-the-dark. You can also use gray beads and another color for the spiderweb.

3D Pumpkin Box

You’re going to make one face, one top, one bottom, and THREE sides! Assemble the sides with the face and bottom. Then add the two green stem pieces to the lid as a handle.

Cute Spider with Candy Corn and a Spiderweb

This shows you how to make a spider web using a small hexagon board.

Scary Halloween Characters

Looking for some characters that are a bit frightening? This pattern includes Frankenstein, Dracula, a mummy, and Wolf Man.

Cute Witch

This pattern uses 83 black, 14 purple, 71 red, 48 kiwi lime, 26 butterscotch, and 7 brown beads.

Smiling Pumpkin

This pattern uses 147 black, 7 bright green, 218 tangerine, and 102 orange beads.

Hexagon and Round Spiders in Webs

These patterns up the ante a bit by placing some pretty tough looking spiders in the middle of their webs. The pattern on the left uses glow-in-the-dark beads but you can also use white or gray.

Candy Corn, Ghosts, Pumpkin, Black Cat, Witch, and Bat

These patterns feature some classic Halloween characters on hexagon boards. Note that the hexagon board is the easiest way to make a perler bead candy corn!

Skulls and Skeletons

These patterns use 359 black and 331 white beads.

Purple Potion Bottle

This pattern uses 12 gingerbread, 6 sand, 90 light blue, 90 mint, 13 turquoise, 53 white, 171 purple, 26 black, and 15 gray beads.

Witch with a Black Cat and a Black Owl

These patterns use the large and small hexagon boards. You’ll see some gray dots on the witch pattern; that is where you can place clear beads to make the project more stable. If you don’t want to use them, just skip over all gray beads.

Happy Jack O’ Lantern

This pattern uses 50 forest, 29 pastel green, 246 cheddar, 72 orange, and 86 black beads.

Bat in Front of a Moon

This pattern uses 508 purple, 301 yellow, and 32 black beads.

Witch Hat

This pattern uses 237 black, 40 gold, and 24 purple beads.

Four Friendly Ghosts

These patterns use 250 black, 613 white, and 3 red beads.

Pumpkin Tealight Holder

There’s a front, back, and two sides for this tealight holder! Snap everything together then use an LED tealight for your Halloween decor.

This pattern uses 514 orange, 8 shamrock, 87 cheddar, and 25 black beads.

pumpkin tealight holder perler bead pattern

Skeleton Bat

This pattern uses 397 black and 134 white beads.

Witch Flying in the Sky

This pattern uses 239 dark blue, 320 black, 17 light blue, and 265 yellow beads.

Toxic Potion Bottles

This pattern uses 26 gingerbread, 145 dark green, 80 bright green, 42 purple, 215 black, and 66 white beads.

Owl Wearing a Witch Hat

This pattern uses 109 pastel lavender, 36 black, 44 yellow, 25 bright green, 10 brown, 29 white, 62 dark gray, and 18 orange beads.

Skull Hourglass

This pattern uses 120 black, 118 light gray (or gray), 37 white, and 101 red beads.

Tree in a Graveyard

This pattern uses 311 orange, 47 orange, 296 black, and 187 glow-in-the-dark beads. You can also substitute with a different shade of yellow if you don’t want to use the glow beads.

Colorful Vampire Bat

This pattern uses 170 black, 64 dark blue, 26 light lavender, 24 cotton candy, 46 gray, 6 cream, 6 cobalt, and 2 white beads.

Three Black Cats on a Pumpkin

This pattern uses 780 black, 40 clear (to hold on the whiskers), 12 yellow, 121 brown, 33 light brown, 620 orange, and 81 cheddar beads.

Spooky Scary Skeletons Sign

This pattern uses 1251 black, 10 kiwi lime, 131 orange, 83 grape (or purple), 194 white, 28 dark green, 11 gray, 28 plum, and 24 fuschia beads.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice)

You get a large and a small! The choice is yours.

Cute Witch with a Spider and Skull

This pattern includes 232 black, 180 purple, 109 light lavender, 67 clear (to hold the spider onto the hat), 80 pastel green, 40 spice, 13 orange, 4 brown, 30 tomato, 10 white, 6 light blue, 4 red, and 31 black beads.