25+ Budget-Friendly Halloween Party Ideas For Kids

If you’re looking to host a memorable Halloween bash but the cost is what has you spooked, don’t fret! We’ve got some suggestions to help you throw a spooktacular soiree on a shoestring budget. These Halloween party ideas include themes, decorations, activities, and snacks. We’ll teach you some tricks that are sure to make your event a real treat!

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

1. Boo Bash Make this spirited party all about friendly ghosts! There are so many inexpensive and irresistible Halloween crafts and recipes featuring ghosts. Ghost cupcakes are easy with lots of white icing and black gel or mini chocolate chips for eyes and mouths. Alternatively, you could serve marshmallow ghosts on chocolate biscuits.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

A floating ghost made with cheesecloth and fabric stiffener would make the perfect table centerpiece. Accent tables with tiny ghosts made from modeling clay, lit by battery-operated tealight candles from the dollar store.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Line your walkway with ghost luminaries made from white paper bags filled with sand, and drop a battery-lit candle inside each one. Use a black marker to give each bag a unique ghostly grin! This little touch of Halloween decor can serve double-duty by welcoming trick-or-treaters on Halloween night!

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

2. Flicks & Frights This Halloween party idea takes movie night to a whole other level! Invite the kids to dress in costumes representing favorite characters from Halloween movies like Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus, and The Addams Family

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Project some not-so-scary movies on a wall. If you don’t have a projector of your own, many public libraries rent them out but you’ll need to ensure you reserve yours early. If you don’t want to show movies, assemble a playlist with songs from the soundtracks.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Decorate in the theme—you could have a unique tablescape for each of the movies you want to highlight. For instance, this Nightmare Before Christmas tablescape is amazing! Or check out these adorable ideas featuring Peanuts characters and The Great Pumpkin!

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Give each kid a decorated bag of popcorn or a candy corn popcorn bag. Fill a cauldron with Halloween candy or movie snacks and let party guests select their own. A mini version of this theme could even work for an “after-party” after the children go trick-or-treating.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

3. Monster Mash Invite children to dress up like their most loved monsters and throw a party full of monster-themed Halloween decorations. Set the theme with monster eyes and teeth around your doorway. Decorate windows with posterboard beasties and place monster balloon garland around the room.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Let party guests make their own monsters with Play-Doh. Purchase or make DIY kits containing moldable dough, googly eyes, plastic fangs, pipe cleaners, and other crafting materials.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

You could cut costs further by making the playdough for your monster bags. If you don’t want to do any monster-making at the party, the kits make great favors for kids to take home.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Serve theme-appropriate snacks like apple bites and one-eyed monster Oreos or homemade monster sandwich cookies. And don’t forget to feed the monsters! Decorate big cardboard boxes like hungry beasts, make holes for mouths, and give the munchkins some foam balls to toss in.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

As a highlight of the evening, invite all of the little monsters in attendance to break open a papier-mâché Mike Wazowski piñata. You can make it yourself using inexpensive materials. The kiddos will love scrambling to collect the Halloween treats that fall out!

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

As a highlight of the evening, invite all of the little monsters in attendance to break open a papier-mâché Mike Wazowski piñata. You can make it yourself using inexpensive materials. The kiddos will love scrambling to collect the Halloween treats that fall out!

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

4. Pumpkin Carving Party What’s more Halloween-themed than pumpkin decorating? Purchase one small pumpkin and a child-safe tool kit for each child in attendance.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

4. Pumpkin Carving Party What’s more Halloween-themed than pumpkin decorating? Purchase one small pumpkin and a child-safe tool kit for each child in attendance.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

If you will have itty bitty kids in attendance or the kits are too expensive, there are alternatives. The dollar store usually sells foam pumpkins and sometimes has kid-safe carving tools, as well.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Amazon sells pumpkin punchers that could be knocked into a pumpkin with a cheap rubber mallet, or you could switch pumpkin carving to pumpkin decorating with markers.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

To complete your theme, use decorations like these easy-peasy yarn pumpkins that would look fantastic full of LED string lights. Serve pumpkin treats like candy-coated pretzel pumpkins, and play poke-a-pumpkin for prizes.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

5. Mini Masquerade Ball How precious would kids be dressed in masquerade ball attire for a fancy ball at your house? Reserve the Halloween costumes for trick or treating. Instead, have the guests dress in their party best and offer masquerade masks at the door.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Play music and create a small dancefloor area, lined with lights. Serve appetizers on expensive-looking metal trays that resemble the finest silver. Make the event extra Halloween-themed by decorating the setting like a haunted mansion.

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Play music and create a small dancefloor area, lined with lights. Serve appetizers on expensive-looking metal trays that resemble the finest silver. Make the event extra Halloween-themed by decorating the setting like a haunted mansion.

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25+ Budget-Friendly Halloween Party Ideas For Kids

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5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

A floating ghost made with cheesecloth and fabric stiffener would make the perfect table centerpiece. Accent tables with tiny ghosts made from modeling clay, lit by battery-operated tealight candles from the dollar store.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

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5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

2. Flicks & Frights This Halloween party idea takes movie night to a whole other level! Invite the kids to dress in costumes representing favorite characters from Halloween movies like Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus, and The Addams Family

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Project some not-so-scary movies on a wall. If you don’t have a projector of your own, many public libraries rent them out but you’ll need to ensure you reserve yours early. If you don’t want to show movies, assemble a playlist with songs from the soundtracks.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Decorate in the theme—you could have a unique tablescape for each of the movies you want to highlight. For instance, this Nightmare Before Christmas tablescape is amazing! Or check out these adorable ideas featuring Peanuts characters and The Great Pumpkin!

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Give each kid a decorated bag of popcorn or a candy corn popcorn bag. Fill a cauldron with Halloween candy or movie snacks and let party guests select their own. A mini version of this theme could even work for an “after-party” after the children go trick-or-treating.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

3. Monster Mash Invite children to dress up like their most loved monsters and throw a party full of monster-themed Halloween decorations. Set the theme with monster eyes and teeth around your doorway. Decorate windows with posterboard beasties and place monster balloon garland around the room.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Let party guests make their own monsters with Play-Doh. Purchase or make DIY kits containing moldable dough, googly eyes, plastic fangs, pipe cleaners, and other crafting materials.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

You could cut costs further by making the playdough for your monster bags. If you don’t want to do any monster-making at the party, the kits make great favors for kids to take home.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Serve theme-appropriate snacks like apple bites and one-eyed monster Oreos or homemade monster sandwich cookies. And don’t forget to feed the monsters! Decorate big cardboard boxes like hungry beasts, make holes for mouths, and give the munchkins some foam balls to toss in.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

As a highlight of the evening, invite all of the little monsters in attendance to break open a papier-mâché Mike Wazowski piñata. You can make it yourself using inexpensive materials. The kiddos will love scrambling to collect the Halloween treats that fall out!

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

As a highlight of the evening, invite all of the little monsters in attendance to break open a papier-mâché Mike Wazowski piñata. You can make it yourself using inexpensive materials. The kiddos will love scrambling to collect the Halloween treats that fall out!

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

4. Pumpkin Carving Party What’s more Halloween-themed than pumpkin decorating? Purchase one small pumpkin and a child-safe tool kit for each child in attendance.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

4. Pumpkin Carving Party What’s more Halloween-themed than pumpkin decorating? Purchase one small pumpkin and a child-safe tool kit for each child in attendance.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

If you will have itty bitty kids in attendance or the kits are too expensive, there are alternatives. The dollar store usually sells foam pumpkins and sometimes has kid-safe carving tools, as well.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Amazon sells pumpkin punchers that could be knocked into a pumpkin with a cheap rubber mallet, or you could switch pumpkin carving to pumpkin decorating with markers.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

To complete your theme, use decorations like these easy-peasy yarn pumpkins that would look fantastic full of LED string lights. Serve pumpkin treats like candy-coated pretzel pumpkins, and play poke-a-pumpkin for prizes.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

5. Mini Masquerade Ball How precious would kids be dressed in masquerade ball attire for a fancy ball at your house? Reserve the Halloween costumes for trick or treating. Instead, have the guests dress in their party best and offer masquerade masks at the door.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Play music and create a small dancefloor area, lined with lights. Serve appetizers on expensive-looking metal trays that resemble the finest silver. Make the event extra Halloween-themed by decorating the setting like a haunted mansion.

Read more

5 Epic Halloween Party Themes for Children

Play music and create a small dancefloor area, lined with lights. Serve appetizers on expensive-looking metal trays that resemble the finest silver. Make the event extra Halloween-themed by decorating the setting like a haunted mansion.

View more

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