Halloween Party Games for Kids

These Halloween party games for kids are some of the best we've found. They cost very little to put together but this set of fun Halloween games will provide lots of good times at your next graveyard bash.

When writing up your invitations be sure to let everyone know to bring their empty "trick or treat" buckets from home. This will come in handy for some of the games and is a great way for guests to tote home goodies and prizes. (Make sure you have extras for little goblins who forget to bring one.)

More Halloween Party Games for Kids, Easy Costumes, Gross Foods and Other Halloween Treats

1. For more Halloween party games for kids check out all of our fun party games. Any of these games can become a Halloween game by just changing the game slightly to fit your Halloween theme.
2. Don't plan your party menu without checking out our gross recipes for halloween, and the gross Halloween foods we have to go with them.
3. Teach the kids how to make caramel apples before the party or do it as a Halloween party activity. Wrap them in cellophane bags as a take home treat.
4. We've got ideas for cool Halloween costumes for your teens.
5. There are easy homemade Halloween costumes for your little kids.
6. We even have ideas for easy to make Halloween costumes for when you're short on time, money or both.

Musical Pumpkins

• A bunch of small pumpkins and/or gourds


• Music you can start and stop easily

Have your party guests sit in a circle and hand out your pumpkins making sure there is one less then there are players. One person will be empty handed.

When the music starts players hand the pumpkins off to the right and keep them moving around the circle until the music stops.

Once the music stops the player without a pumpkin is out of the game.

After each round remove a pumpkin so there is always one less pumpkin than players.

This continues until you are left with one player holding the pumpkin.

Candy Corn Toss

• Pumpkin Trick or Treat buckets - The cheap plastic ones you can get at Walmart or Dollar Tree

• Candy Corn

1. Divide the group up into teams of two or three.
2. One person on each team ties a pumpkin bucket around their waist and stands on one side of the room.
3. The rest of the team stands a few feet away with about 15 pieces of candy corn each.
4. On "go" the players with the candy corn toss their candy and try to get it into the bucket of their teammate.
5. The player with the bucket can move side to side to try and catch the candy but no hands allowed.

Which is Witch

This is one of the best Halloween party games for kids for when you need to settle the masses. I used a variation of this game at a birthday party right before it was time to go home.

• Witch's Hat
• Cauldron (a bowl)
• Walnut shells or Small Dixie Cups (one fewer than the number of kids)
• Orange and Yellow paint

1. Break open the walnuts and paint inside of each half either orange or yellow. If you don't have nuts use the small dixie cups and paint a yellow or orange dot on the inside bottom of each.
2. Players sit in a circle around the cauldron. Inside the cauldron are the shells face down so that the paint inside cannot be seen. Each player takes a turn choosing a shell without revealing the color inside to anyone else.
3. The player chosen as "it" wears the witches hat and walks around the circle going to each player trying to telepathically sense what color that player is holding.
4. Players in the circle can't speak but should be encouraged to focus on the color they are holding and try to send a message to "it" with their mind. Think, "orange, orange, orange"
5. Once "it" takes a guess, the player reveals their color and someone keeps track of correct guesses.
6. Everyone takes a turn being "it" and the player with the most correct guesses gets to keep the witches hat.

Decorate Pumpkin Cookies

• Raw Sugar Cookies already cut into Halloween shapes
• Icing in squeeze tubes
• Sprinkles
• Candies

Give everyone a couple of cookies on a paper plate on waxed paper and let them decorate them any way they want. Bake them off while more Halloween party games for kids are played.

Send them home in the goody bags or make them the final treat at the party.

Mummy Wrap Race

• Rolls of Toilet Paper

Put together groups of three. They pick one person as the mummy. The other two will be wrappers.

Race to see who can use the whole roll to wrap their mummy from head to toe first. It isn't as easy as it sounds because the toilet paper will tear if pulled too hard. Also, make sure they leave little noses and mouths free for breathing. :)

Eyeball Race

• Plastic Spoons
• Hard boiled eggs unpeeled, or Ping Pong Balls

1. Whether ping pong balls or eggs, draw a set of eyes on each.
2. Designate a starting line and a finish and split everyone up in groups of two or three. Give everyone a spoon and a bowl of "eyes".
3. One at a time teams hold the spoon in their mouths and balancing eyes on their spoons race to the bowl at the finish line. No hands allowed.
4. The first team to get all their eyes in the opposite bowl wins.

Halloween Bone Hunt

• Plastic bones - about 6 or so per child. (Found in Halloween isle at stores like Walmart or Dollar Tree)
• Halloween Stickers

1. Put stickers on some but not all of the bones.
2. Before your guests arrive hide the bones all around the house. -One of the fun Halloween party games for kids to play outdoors as well.
3. Each bone with a sticker gets a prize of a small piece of candy
4. The guest with the most bones collected gets a prize.
5. Everyone gets to keep their bones.

Mini Pumpkin Makeover

• Mini pumpkins, assorted gourds - one per guest.
• Halloween Stickers
• Markers - bold and fine point
• Wiggly eyes in assorted sizes
• Tacky glue or paste
• Scissors
• Construction paper, fabric scraps, buttons, yarn....or any other scrap items that can be used as embellishment.

Cover your table with newspaper or a plastic Halloween table cover and let everyone choose a pumpkin or gourd to decorate. Prepare some ahead of time with funny faces, scary faces and funky hair to give your guests some inspiration.

Eyeball Bounce

• 3 to 5 Ping Pong Balls - Use permanent markers to make them look like eyeballs.
• Trick-or-Treat Buckets, or Halloween Party Cups

1. Set your pumpkins or plastic cups up on a table giving a point value to each one, like at a carnival.
2. Give everyone three eyeballs, or however many you have and let them take turns tossing them into the pumpkins.
3. Total everyones points and let them choose a prize based on how many points they were able to get. Just make sure no matter what that everyone gets a prize.

Pumpkin Bowling

This game is popular in our driveway using some bottles and a basketball. This variation just requires a few small pumpkins instead of the basketball.

• Some empty plastic water bottles. 12 or 20 oz. (2 liter bottles can be too heavy for little kids to knock over.)
• Some small pumpkins.

1. Fill each plastic bottle 3/4 full with water and put in a few drops of orange food coloring. The water gives the bottles some weight.
2. Set up the bottles like bowling pins, and let each child take turn trying to knock them over by rolling pumpkins at them.

Give prizes based on how many "pins" get knocked over.

Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin

• The biggest pumpkin you can find
• Construction paper in different colors
• Tape
• A Blindfold

1. Draw a face on your pumpkin leaving the space for the nose blank.
2. Use the construction paper to make paper noses of different shapes and colors. Make some silly and some scary.
3. Put a tape loop on the back of each nose.
4. Taking turns, blindfold each child, spin them a couple of times then let them try to pin the nose on the pumpkin.

Skeleton Scavenger Hunt

• At least 3 Skeleton Decorations- The kind with movable bones. You will need to take them apart.

This game is played in teams. Decide ahead of time how many teams you will have then purchase that many skeletons.

Carefully take the skeletons apart , bone by bone, keeping all the parts together. Label skeleton parts so you can tell which parts go together. You can name the skeletons to do this, then write his name on each "bone".

Mix up all the pieces then hide them all over before your guests arrive. Break everyone up into teams and assign them a skeleton to find. If they find bones of another skeleton they need to leave those bones where they are, being careful not to let the other teams know where those bones are.

The first team to find their entire skeleton and reconstruct it wins.

This game is especially fun for older kids played outside, after dark, with flashlights.