Halloween game ideas for your party whether you are in shut down or you are back to normal living. This Halloween game can either be spooky, creepy, and fun at the same time. As you plan your Halloween party remember to include party games that every one can participate in.
There are countless ways to have fun at a Halloween party. Over the years, Halloween has grown into a sophisticated, adult celebration, but you can return the fun kids had years ago with these basic-but-fun Halloween party games for kids.
Apple Bobbing
This is a classic Halloween game. It’s a wet, messy (but fun) activity that literally dates back hundreds of years. Make sure you have lots of towels on hand, and if indoors, protect the floor against spilling water.
Fill a large bucket or tub with water and float in it apples that have had their stems and leaves removed.
Let kids take turns bobbing for apples by grabbing the floating apples with their teeth, holding their hands behind their backs.
You may choose to set time limits or rules as to how many bites players get before they lose their turn, or you can just allow players to keep trying until they succeed. Let everyone who manages to get an apple win a prize.
Variations:
Hanging Apples: Suspend a row of apples hanging from a line, such as a clothesline. Each person has to catch a moving apple with their mouth, hands held behind their back. This game suits people who don’t want wet faces or when it is too cold to risk wet clothes.
Hanging Doughnuts: Instead of hanging apples, this is a row of doughnuts hanging up to be caught with the mouth, hand-free.
Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest
Hold a pumpkin carving contest. See who can carve the funniest or silliest face into a pumpkin. You can also add as more categories to your list so more contestants can win smaller prizes (and so no “little ones” feel left out) and hand out a grand prize to the best carved Jack ‘O Lantern.
Variation:
Provide acrylic or craft paints that will adhere to the pumpkin shells for drawing silly or scary faces on the pumpkins, rather than dealing with the mess involved with cleaning out and carving them! Perhaps even provide safe glue that will also adhere to pumpkin shells along with glitter, feathers, sequins, etc.
Make a Halloween Mask
Give younger kids at your Halloween party construction paper, round-ended scissors, markers, and glue. Let them make their own face masks for the party. Punch a hole in both sides of the mask and tie string or tiny elastic on the mask….
