Spooktacular Halloween Activities at Home for Kids

It’s that time of year again to plan some spooky & fun Halloween activities at home for your kids. The Halloween season is such a fun time of year for the whole family. It’s all about make-believe, costumes, and enjoying family & friends.

Spooktacular Halloween Activities at Home for Kids

Plus there are Halloween parties, cool Halloween decorations, pumpkin carving, and more to help you get into the Halloween spirit. Let’s get you ready with fun Halloween ideas for kids of all ages to do at home and in your community.

Best Halloween Activities at Home for Kids & Families

Halloween is a great time of year to spend time with the kids. What I love about this holiday is there are no presents it’s just about enjoying all things Halloween & fall-related. A great way to keep the Halloween excitement going all month is trying fun Halloween activites at home.

Best Halloween Activities at Home for Kids & Families

But don’t worry our list only has easy Halloween activites to try because let’s be honest we are all so busy. Look through the kid’s activities list and pick out a few to try this year. Who knows they may even become your new Halloween Tradition. You can also use our Free Printable Fall Bucket List to help you plan your Halloween activities.

Best Halloween Activities at Home for Kids & Families

If you want to stay more socially distanced this year check out How to Have a Fun Socially Distanced Halloween with Your Kids.

Favorite Halloween Games

The entire family can have fun playing Halloween games together. These are also great games for a fun Halloween party at home or at Halloween school parties.

Halloween Mystery Boxes

Create DIY Halloween Mystery boxes out of an old shoe box. They’re a play on a sensory box filled with spooky Halloween items. Kids will reach inside and try to figure out if it’s Zoombie Brains or spaghetti without looking inside the box.

Halloween Mystery Boxes

My kids love trying these every year at home and I’ve used them at my kids school party too. It’s a simple way to add sensory play to a Halloween party.

Game of Halloween Charades

This is a great family game night idea. Split up into two groups and try to guess what Halloween word your teammate is trying to act out. Use our free printable Halloween Charades word list to make this an easy game for home or parties.

Halloween Bingo

Play a fun game of Halloween bingo at home with the kids. Use these free printable Halloween Bingo Cards & Calling cards. Then use candy corn or candy pumpkins as your bingo markers.

Halloween Pumpkin Toss

All you need are a few plastic pumpkins and plastic eyeballs or candy pumpkins to toss. Line up the plastic pumpkins in a long row and see how many plastic eyeballs the kids can toss into the pumpkins.

Halloween Pumpkin Toss

If you do this at a party give out small prizes like plastic spiders, rubber witches’ fingers, or Halloween candy.

Halloween Spider Races

Can you beat your family at racing a spider across the table? All you need to race are plastic spider rings with the ring part cut off, straws, and painter’s tape. Use a long table or floor area and place a strip of painter’s tape to act as your finish line. Then kids will each take a spider and a straw.

Halloween Spider Races

Tip: If you don’t want to put tape on your table you could also have the winner be the first spider to fall off the end of the table.

Pumpkin Tic Tac Toe Game

Create a DIY Pumpkin Tic Tac Toe game for the kids to play. Create a tick tac toe board on the table with painter’s tape or draw one on a big poster board. Then get small pumpkins and paint an X or O on the pumpkins or some type of design to distinguish between players.

Pumpkin Tic Tac Toe Game

Painting the pumpkins could be a craft to go along with the game before you play too. You could also use small white pumpkins and small orange pumpkins to designate the player. Now use these pumpkins to play a game of Tic Tack Toe.

Witches Hat Toss

This is a fun and easy game to make with paper plates and poster board. Create a witch’s hat from a black poster board by cutting out a circle for the bottom of the hat and shaping a larger piece into a cone. Then tape the bottom and cone together to create a hat.

Witches Hat Toss

Now take a paper plate and cut out the middle portion. This is what kids will toss to go over the witch’s hat. That’s all you need to do to make a Witches Hat Toss perfect for a Halloween game at home or school party.

Halloween Scavenger Hunt

Get your kids outside with a fun Neighborhood Halloween Scavenger Hunt. Head out on a walk through your neighborhood with our free printable Halloween scavenger hunt and see how many spooky items you can find.

Halloween Scavenger Hunt

If you want to make it a competition break up into groups and see who can return with the most items checked off their list by your preset end time.

Halloween Color by Number Worksheets

Get into the Halloween spirit with cute Color by Number Halloween Printables. There are 30 Free printable Halloween-themed coloring pages your kids will have a blast creating. Free Printable Color by Number Halloween Pages

Halloween Party Ideas

This is a great time to throw a Halloween celebration at your house. Kids love coming over to celebrate Halloween. Here are some cute ideas to have at your party. – Best Halloween Costumes Contest – Halloween Games (listed above) – Halloween coloring or Halloween crafts

Halloween Party Ideas

– Watch a Halloween Movie – Carve Pumpkins together

DIY Outdoor Halloween Decorations

Get into the Halloween spirit by decorating your house with a fun Halloween Theme. I love to create my own DIY Halloween decorations with Dollar Tree items. It’s super cute and no one knows how little you spent on the decorations.

DIY Outdoor Halloween Decorations

-Add a large Spider web with a spider -Hang adorable bats from the trees -Place gravestones on your front lawn -Put Jack-O-lanterns on the front steps

DIY Outdoor Halloween Decorations

--Flashing Halloween lights for some spooky fun in your yard -Hang a Halloween sign on your door or a large plastic Halloween door covering -Drap Ghost Garland over the front door frame

Indoor Halloween Decorations

Don’t forget to decorate the inside of your house too! Find ideas for indoor Halloween decorations at Dollar Tree too. It’s a great way to save money & decorate for the holidays. -Put out cute Halloween Signs on your tables or counter

Indoor Halloween Decorations

-Make a Vase filled with plastic pumpkins and gords. -Create a table tray with real pumpkins and gords -Use fake spider webs to spread across a hallway or corner of a door opening with spiders hanging down.

Halloween Photo Shoot at Home

Create really fun family Halloween photos or videos to share on Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook. Try this super cool Pumpkin Head Photo shoot idea that is the latest trend. First, have your family carve pumpkins to look like a face.

Halloween Photo Shoot at Home

Then add some Halloween-colored smoke to the pumpkin for a spooky effect. Lastly, hold the pumpkin up like it’s your head. It turns out really cool! Make sure to dress up in your Halloween costumes and pose with your Halloween decorations outside.

Haunted Gingerbread House

Gingerbread houses don’t just have to be for Christmas you can make a spooky Halloween Haunted House too. The whole family can decorate the house together and then use it as a Halloween decoration in your house. That is if the kids don’t eat it first (:

Halloween Bonfire & Scary Stories

Have a bonfire in your backyard and roast marshmallows while telling spooky ghost stories. Let everyone make up a Halloween story to tell. It could be scary or end up being pretty funny to hear the stories your kids create.

Outdoor Pumpkin Hunt

On Halloween Night Host a Night Time Pumpkin Hunt with mini plastic pumpkins and battery-operated tea lights. You can hide them all over the yard and then send the kids to find them. See who can bring back the most pumpkins.

Outdoor Pumpkin Hunt

If you want to do a Daytime pumpkin hunt do the same thing but instead of putting lights inside the pumpkins add Halloween candy. It’s just like an Easter egg hunt but for pumpkins instead.

Scary Movies – Halloween Movie Marathon

Pick a night to stay in with the kids and have a Halloween-themed Movie Marathon. There are tons of fun Halloween movies for kids ranging from scary to cute. Here are some ideas: – It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown – Ghostbusters – Toy Story Tower of Terror – Hocus Pocus (Hocus Pocus 2 coming to Disney+ Sept. 30th)

Scary Movies – Halloween Movie Marathon

– Beetlejuice – Lego Star Wars Terrifying Tales – not a terrifying movie (: – The Adams Family – The Goonies

Pumpkin Carving

Visit your local pumpkin patches to find the best pumpkin. Then bring it home to carve into fun Halloween shapes. We like to use pumpkin carving stencils to help guide us while we are carving.

Roast Pumpkin Seeds

While you’re carving your pumpkins save the pumpkin seeds to roast. This is one of our family’s favorite Halloween traditions. I like this pumpkin seed recipe from allrecipies.com

Bake Pumpkin Cookies

You’ll love the smell of pumpkin cookies baking in the oven as yummy Halloween treats. Try this super easy recipe for Pumpkin Cookies with only 3 ingredients. The kids will love helping with these so make it into a fun fall kids activity.

Zoom Costume Party

Let the kids show off their costumes to family and friends who live far away at a Halloween Zoom Party. This is a great way to include the grandparents who can’t be in person to see the kids on Halloween night.

Zoom Costume Party

Get ideas on how to throw a zoom costume party in Fun Social Distancing Ideas for Halloween. Plus other safe Halloween activities to try if we need to stay inside again this October. Don’t forget to decorate the wall behind where you sit on Zoom to give the call a party vibe. Even just hanging some black and orange streamers and a Halloween sign would be fun.

You’ve Been Booed

A fun Halloween tradition to do with your neighbors is the You’ve Been Booed game. Families fill a cute Halloween bag with candy and leave it on their friend’s porch with a You’ve Been BOOED tag.

You’ve Been Booed

The family who receives it passes it forward by creating a gift bag of their own to leave on another friend’s porch. It’s a fun surprise the kids in your neighborhood will love! Grab your Free Printable You’ve Been Booed Sign.

You’ve Been Booed

Turn your living room into a haunted house by using the furniture to make a tent maze. Throughout the maze add in some spooky skeletons, plastic spiders, bats, witches’ cauldron, and any other Halloween items you have at home.

You’ve Been Booed

You can use cotton balls spread out as spider webs for kids to crawl through too. This is a great alternative for younger children as the big haunted houses can be too scary.

Fun Halloween Crafts

Get the kids into the Halloween spirit with some fun Halloween crafts at home. It’s the perfect Halloween activity to keep your kids excited about the holiday.

Fun Halloween Crafts

Pumpkins – Let kids paint a paper plate orange when it dries glue on cut-out construction paper to make a nose and mouth then glue on googly eyes. Finish the top with a green stem. Spiders – Make a large circle by wrapping two pipe cleaners for the body. Cut small legs out of a black pipe cleaner. Glue the pipe cleaners’ legs to the body of the spider.

Fun Halloween Crafts

Monsters & Bats – Wrap a paper towel or toilet paper roll with construction paper. Glue on google eyes and cut out construction paper shapes for the mouth, teeth, and crazy hair to make monsters. To make bats glue on construction paper wings.

Halloween Books

Add reading time to your Halloween fun! Go to the library or buy some fun Halloween books you can read together as a family or the kids can read on their own.

Fun Fall Kids Activities

Let’s get you a few more fun fall activities you can do with your kids this year. Check out our Holiday Page to find the latest ideas for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and more.

Fun Fall Kids Activities

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Spooktacular Halloween Activities at Home for Kids

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Spooktacular Halloween Activities at Home for Kids

It’s that time of year again to plan some spooky & fun Halloween activities at home for your kids. The Halloween season is such a fun time of year for the whole family. It’s all about make-believe, costumes, and enjoying family & friends.

Read more

Spooktacular Halloween Activities at Home for Kids

Plus there are Halloween parties, cool Halloween decorations, pumpkin carving, and more to help you get into the Halloween spirit. Let’s get you ready with fun Halloween ideas for kids of all ages to do at home and in your community.

Read more

Best Halloween Activities at Home for Kids & Families

Halloween is a great time of year to spend time with the kids. What I love about this holiday is there are no presents it’s just about enjoying all things Halloween & fall-related. A great way to keep the Halloween excitement going all month is trying fun Halloween activites at home.

Read more

Best Halloween Activities at Home for Kids & Families

Read more

Best Halloween Activities at Home for Kids & Families

If you want to stay more socially distanced this year check out How to Have a Fun Socially Distanced Halloween with Your Kids.

Read more

Favorite Halloween Games

The entire family can have fun playing Halloween games together. These are also great games for a fun Halloween party at home or at Halloween school parties.

Read more

Halloween Mystery Boxes

Create DIY Halloween Mystery boxes out of an old shoe box. They’re a play on a sensory box filled with spooky Halloween items. Kids will reach inside and try to figure out if it’s Zoombie Brains or spaghetti without looking inside the box.

Read more

Halloween Mystery Boxes

My kids love trying these every year at home and I’ve used them at my kids school party too. It’s a simple way to add sensory play to a Halloween party.

Read more

Game of Halloween Charades

This is a great family game night idea. Split up into two groups and try to guess what Halloween word your teammate is trying to act out. Use our free printable Halloween Charades word list to make this an easy game for home or parties.

Read more

Halloween Bingo

Play a fun game of Halloween bingo at home with the kids. Use these free printable Halloween Bingo Cards & Calling cards. Then use candy corn or candy pumpkins as your bingo markers.

Read more

Halloween Pumpkin Toss

All you need are a few plastic pumpkins and plastic eyeballs or candy pumpkins to toss. Line up the plastic pumpkins in a long row and see how many plastic eyeballs the kids can toss into the pumpkins.

Read more

Halloween Pumpkin Toss

If you do this at a party give out small prizes like plastic spiders, rubber witches’ fingers, or Halloween candy.

Read more

Halloween Spider Races

Read more

Halloween Spider Races

Tip: If you don’t want to put tape on your table you could also have the winner be the first spider to fall off the end of the table.

Read more

Pumpkin Tic Tac Toe Game

Create a DIY Pumpkin Tic Tac Toe game for the kids to play. Create a tick tac toe board on the table with painter’s tape or draw one on a big poster board. Then get small pumpkins and paint an X or O on the pumpkins or some type of design to distinguish between players.

Read more

Pumpkin Tic Tac Toe Game

Painting the pumpkins could be a craft to go along with the game before you play too. You could also use small white pumpkins and small orange pumpkins to designate the player. Now use these pumpkins to play a game of Tic Tack Toe.

Read more

Witches Hat Toss

This is a fun and easy game to make with paper plates and poster board. Create a witch’s hat from a black poster board by cutting out a circle for the bottom of the hat and shaping a larger piece into a cone. Then tape the bottom and cone together to create a hat.

Read more

Witches Hat Toss

Now take a paper plate and cut out the middle portion. This is what kids will toss to go over the witch’s hat. That’s all you need to do to make a Witches Hat Toss perfect for a Halloween game at home or school party.

Read more

Halloween Scavenger Hunt

Get your kids outside with a fun Neighborhood Halloween Scavenger Hunt. Head out on a walk through your neighborhood with our free printable Halloween scavenger hunt and see how many spooky items you can find.

Read more

Halloween Scavenger Hunt

If you want to make it a competition break up into groups and see who can return with the most items checked off their list by your preset end time.

Read more

Halloween Color by Number Worksheets

Get into the Halloween spirit with cute Color by Number Halloween Printables. There are 30 Free printable Halloween-themed coloring pages your kids will have a blast creating. Free Printable Color by Number Halloween Pages

Read more

Halloween Party Ideas

This is a great time to throw a Halloween celebration at your house. Kids love coming over to celebrate Halloween. Here are some cute ideas to have at your party. – Best Halloween Costumes Contest – Halloween Games (listed above) – Halloween coloring or Halloween crafts

Read more

Halloween Party Ideas

– Watch a Halloween Movie – Carve Pumpkins together

Read more

DIY Outdoor Halloween Decorations

Get into the Halloween spirit by decorating your house with a fun Halloween Theme. I love to create my own DIY Halloween decorations with Dollar Tree items. It’s super cute and no one knows how little you spent on the decorations.

Read more

DIY Outdoor Halloween Decorations

-Add a large Spider web with a spider -Hang adorable bats from the trees -Place gravestones on your front lawn -Put Jack-O-lanterns on the front steps

Read more

DIY Outdoor Halloween Decorations

--Flashing Halloween lights for some spooky fun in your yard -Hang a Halloween sign on your door or a large plastic Halloween door covering -Drap Ghost Garland over the front door frame

Read more

Indoor Halloween Decorations

Don’t forget to decorate the inside of your house too! Find ideas for indoor Halloween decorations at Dollar Tree too. It’s a great way to save money & decorate for the holidays. -Put out cute Halloween Signs on your tables or counter