12 Halloween Games and Activities Guaranteed to Fill Your Holiday with Spooky Fun

Holidays are exciting, especially for kids. I love to plan different games and activities to make holidays fun and hopefully create core memories and traditions that my children will carry with them as they grow.

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Here are 12 games and activities we enjoy as a family to make Halloween that much more fun.

1. Candy Corn Stacking

Materials: Candy Corn, Timer

Directions: Set a timer for one minute. See who can stack the most candy corn to make the tallest tower before time is up.

2. Spider Straws

Materials: Straws, Plastic Spiders, Painters Tape, Timer

Directions: There are two variations of this game that we play.

The first way to play is to place two strips of painter’s tape across from each other on the floor. (The distance can increase to make the game more challenging.) Kneel behind one strip of tape. Place a plastic spider behind the strip the player is kneeling against. Use a straw to blow the spider across the other line of tape. Set a timer for one minute and see who can blow the most spiders across the line before the time is up.

An alternative idea is to set up one strip of tape. Have each player start behind the line of tape and see who can blow their spider the farthest with one single blow.

3. Spider Pick Up

Materials: Plastic Spiders, Chopsticks, Container (such as a bowl or cup), Timer

Directions: Place a pile of plastic spiders and a container in front of each player. Set a timer for one minute. Use chopsticks to pick up the spiders and put them in the container. See who can get the most spiders in their container in one minute.

4. Scavenger Hunt

Materials: Halloween Themed Clue Cards, Optional- Candy or Treats

Directions: Place the clues around the house according to the descriptions. Hunt for the clues. I hid a piece of candy with each clue and had a larger treat bag at the final location.

Click the link below to download a printable copy of my Halloween Scavenger Hunt clue cards.

5. Halloween Scattergories

Materials: Halloween Scattergories Clue Paper, Writing Utensil, Optional- Timer

Directions- Choose/assign a letter and fill in answers for each item on the Halloween Scattergories Clue Paper. Share your answers when everyone is done.

To make the activity more challenging and a contest, set a time for a determined amount of time and see who can get the most answers.

Click the link below to download a printable copy of my Halloween Scattergories Clue Paper.

6. Halloween Would You Rather

Materials: Halloween Would You Rather Paper

Directions: Read the questions out loud. Take turns sharing your answers and why.

Click the link below to download a printable copy of my Halloween Would You Rather.

7. Halloween LEGOs

Materials: Assorted LEGOs, Halloween LEGO Directions

Directions: Follow the directions to build LEGO themed objects. I found some great ideas on the Arts & Bricks website. LEGO also sells small holiday themed sets, which we have done in the past.

8. Halloween Candy Dice Game

Materials: Game Direction Sheet, Dice, Halloween Candy

Directions: Give each player 4 pieces of candy. Put the rest of the candy in the center of the table. Take turns rolling the dice and following the directions on the game direction sheet. The first player to collect ten pieces of candy wins.

Click the link below to download a printable copy of my Halloween Candy Dice Game Direction Sheet.

9. Paint or Carve Pumpkins

My kids love to both paint and carve pumpkins. Painting pumpkins is usually an activity we do earlier in the month. We typically wait until the weekend before Halloween to carve pumpkins so they don’t rot.

10. Read Halloween Books

I love to read, and children’s books hold a special place in my heart, as I have read so many to my children as they grew up and to my students during my many years of teaching. Click here for a list of some of my favorite Halloween themed books.

11. Watch Halloween Movies

Family movie nights are some of our favorite evenings spent together as a family. There are so many Halloween themed movies to watch together in October. Some of our favorites are:

• Hocus Pocus
• Hocus Pocus 2
• Haunted Mansion (2023) -Click here to read my Haunted Mansion movie night party post.
• Haunted Mansion (2003)
• Goosebumps
• Goosebumps 2
• Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
• The House with a Clock In Its Walls
• Beetlejuice
• The Addams Family
• The Addams Family Values
Be sure to research the movie you choose before watching it with your kids to ensure it is not too scary.

12. Make and Eat Halloween Themed Snacks

We love to cook and bake together as a family. Creating Halloween themed snacks and drinks is a fun activity.

One of our favorite Halloween snacks is a Dirt Dessert Graveyard. Visit my blog post Haunted Mansion Movie Night & Themed Party Snacks for the recipe, as well as other ideas for spooky snacks!

Looking for the recipe for my M&M Ridge Krispie Treats? It can be found on my TikTok and Instagram Reels.

I hope you have a spooktacular Halloween with your family and use some of these ideas to create new traditions together.

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