Halloween Tic Tac Toe with Perler Beads

Learn how to make Halloween tic tac toe using perler beads! Kids will love this easy holiday project that results in a game to play.

Skills Required: None. Even if you’ve never crafted before, this game is easy to make. You’ll be melting beads with an iron and gluing them together. The patterns are at the bottom of the post.

Happy Halloween, my friends! I’m so excited for this time of year, and all the creativity that goes along with it. I love Halloween crafts, and I’ll be the first to admit that I get started early.

But you’re allowed to start early with holiday crafting, right?

This was the year of perler beads, and I did a lot of Halloween perler bead patterns . . . and my niece and I had an amazing time!

We came up with patterns for spiders, skulls, pumpkins, and all sorts of fun holiday characters and themes.

Then we realized we wanted to make another game. We made a perler bead tic tac toe game not so very long ago. It’s still on the table and regularly played by everyone.

Of course with the holiday approaching, it was time to take that same game and add a bit of magic to it. So – we made Halloween tic tac toe! With pumpkin and Frankenstein markers.

And as you know, tic tac toe is very simple. In more ways than one. Not only is it simple to play, but it’s simple to make! Your kids are going to love this Halloween themed game.

Tray of a variety of colors of hama beads

Perler beads are recommended for ages six and up, so this is a very fun craft to try with your elementary age kids. All children seem to love perler beads (also known as hama beads, fuse beads, or melty beads). But don’t be shy – adults love them too!

Now if you’re ready to make the game, here are the patterns! You’ll need to make the base, the grid, and then the pieces.

Tic Tac Toe Base

This fills an entire 29 x 29 square and uses 841 beads in the color of your choice. I used black.

Tic Tac Toe Grid

This pattern uses 400 beads in the color of your choice. I used grape.

Tic Tac Toe Pieces

You’ll need five of each piece. I chose Frankenstein and a pumpkin for my game, but you can make any shape you like!

Each Frankenstein takes 2 silver, 12 black, and 29 shamrock beads. Each pumpkin needs 4 kiwi lime, 7 black, and 29 orange beads. I used a small round board to make the pumpkins.

Note: There’s only one additional step you’re going to need to do to make the Halloween tic tac toe, and that’s glue the grid down on top of the base. This is how I did it with the previous game.

layered perler bead pieces for tic tac toe

I used a dab of clear drying craft adhesive (Aleene’s works great) to attach the finished designs to the sticks. They dried completely in about an hour. You could probably hot glue them as well.