Halloween Games For Kids

Toddlers and Preschoolers

Most of the Halloween games for kids you find here are variations of favorite party games that have been given a spooky Halloween spin to them. Standard Halloween games for kids can still be used for preschoolers, you may just need to choose games that are not too scary and are age appropriate. The aim should be to keep the Halloween games fun and entertaining while still maintaining a Halloween spirit.

Younger kids will love the dressing up aspect of Halloween, so be sure to give prizes for best/most creative/funniest costume. Younger children won't last as long at a party so less games will be required than for older kids. Choose 4-5 games and go with the flow of the party when deciding which ones you will play.

Guess The Ghost
Start by having the kids sitting/standing in a circle.
Have one child leave the room and take a large sheet and have another child stand and hide under the sheet. Mix up the remaining children in the room and then allow the child who left the room to come back inside. That child has to guess who's the ghost, by process of elimination they need to figure out which child is hiding under the sheet. Then that "Ghost" goes out of the room and a different child becomes the new ghost, mix up the remaining children and repeat until all of the children have had a turn being the ghost.

Halloween Toe Mural
The perfect Halloween game for kids- they will love getting their toes all icky and sticky. Probably a better outdoor activity because of the 'mess-factor'!
Get a large piece of butcher paper for each child. Instead of finger painting - do "toe" painting with a Halloween theme. Kids must dip their toes and/or feet into pie pans of different color water paints.
Another option is to divide up the kids into several groups to have several different murals being created. Award prizes for creativity, funny, scary, etc.

Marshmallow Bobbing
Young children mostly hate getting their faces wet so this game is a variation on Apple Bobbing.
Take a large tub with icewater in it and float full size marshmallows in it.
Each child is given a straw cut in half. (Shorter straws are easier to suck and hold the marshmallow) They then have to race to see who can suck up a marshmallow the fastest. Once a child scores a marshmallow they can eat it, and sit out to let another child have a turn if they cannot all fit around the basin at one time. Keep rotating until all the kids have had one or two marshmallows.

Monster Freeze Dance
One of those Halloween games for kids that can last as long as you want it to providing you have plenty of Monstery music!
Play Halloween music and have the kids dance around like monsters! The Monster Mash is a great song for this game.
When the music stops the kids freeze in their monster positions.
The first kid to move is out, and the game continues until only one child is left.

Trick For a Treat
Make up a bag with candy and a bag with slips of paper in it. The bag with slips of paper will have all 'trick' apart from one which will have 'treat'. The number of slips of paper should equal the number of children.
All the kids who draw a 'trick' will have a specified trick that they will need to perform to get a piece of candy. One lucky child just wins a special 'treat'. The tricks can be singing a song, doing jumping jacks while turning around, other fun things that are fairly easy for little ones.

Pin The Face On The Pumpkin
Another Halloween game variation on a traditional party game. Some toddlers will not like to be blindfolded so you may have to be flexible, I sometimes just put my hand over their eyes as I guide them towards the pumpkin.
Using a large piece of orange poster board draw a pumpkin as big as the poster board. Draw triangle eyes and nose with a black magic marker and draw a large X in the spot where the mouth should go.
Using cardboard as a template draw a pumpkin mouth with teeth. Use the template to trace on construction paper as many mouths as you think you will need- one for each child at your party, and a couple of spares.

Blindfold the child an give them a pumpkin mouth with tape on the back. Then spin him or her around, making sure that he/she is facing the pumpkin at the end. Have them try to stick the mouth onto the pumpkin where they think it should be.
The child with the mouth closest to the X is the winner.

Pass the Brains
Here's a Halloween variation of 'pass the parcel' game. Scoop out a pumpkin as you would to make a jack -o -lantern. Carve out a face, but don't make the holes too big otherwise the 'brains' will fall out too quickly. (alternatively, you could just draw a face on the pumpkin with a black marker pen). Fill the pumpkin with cold, cooked spaghetti, hiding wrapped candy in amongst the 'brains'. There should be one lolly for each child playing. Play some spooky music as the pumpkin head is passed around. When the music stops, the child holding the head feels through the brains to find a treat.

Rap The Mummy
This one is a favorite Halloween game for kids of all ages. Best of all it is cheap and easy to prepare!
You need an even number of people who are broken into pairs. Choose who in every group is going to wrap the mummy. The object of the game is to see who can wrap their partner with toilet paper the fastest. Then after one person is done the person who is wrapped breaks out of the toilet paper and wraps the other person. The first team that raps each other wins!

Witch Hunt
Based on a traditional Scavenger Hunt, this Halloween game for kids still maintains a Halloween theme while allowing the kids the excitement of looking for treasures!
First design a witch on a piece of paper as a template, about the size of a matchbox. Trace it onto black construction paper. Cut out 50 or more black witches and then hide them all over your house.
For the party have everyone go in search of the witches. The child returning with the most witches wins.

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