Instead of spending Halloween night going door to door asking for candy, you have the opportunity to celebrate creatively. With alternative Halloween activities like having a scavenger hunt, organizing a trunk or treat or hiring a virtual magician, you can make this year special with these great Halloween entertainment ideas.
Here are 22 Halloween activities for you and your family if you’re not trick-or-treating this year.
Halloween Scavenger Hunt
If you decide to stay home, a scavenger hunt is one of our favorite fun alternatives to trick or treating this Halloween. Create Halloween crafts ahead of time and hide them around the house, with a map or list to guide the scavenger hunt players. Think cut-out black cats, witches, broomsticks, toy spiders and fake eyeballs. You could also treat it more like trick-or-treating and give each player a trick-or-treating bag or bucket to find hidden Halloween candies or toys.
Halloween Candy Apples
You can make them as easy or as intricate as you’d like, from simply dipping the apples into melted chocolate to turning them into monsters with marshmallow eyes and sugary fangs.
Monster Mash Freeze Dance
Using the iconic Halloween hit, Monster Mash, set up a small dance floor and play Monster Mash Freeze Dance! The idea is to freeze every time the music pauses, and whoever moves during the freeze is out! The last one dancing wins a spooky Halloween prize.
Trunk or Treat Party
Instead of having trick or treaters go door to door, this new concept invented as a safe alternative is actually the perfect outdoor Halloween party idea for social distancing this fall 2020. Here’s how this fun trick or treat idea works. Invite a bunch of families to gather in a parking lot with their car trunks decorated—you could even match the decor theme to your child’s costume. The trick or treaters walk from car to car to collect candy and see all the displays.
Magic Themed Halloween Party
If your kids love magic and illusions, make this Halloween at home magic-themed!
Psychic Themed Halloween Party
Take a peek into the future and have a night of fortune-telling and palm reading this Halloween.
Tell Ghost Stories
Depending on your child’s interest in the dark and mysterious, set up the living room or den with candles and flashlights and huddle together to tell haunting stories.
Halloween Arts and Crafts
It’s amazing what you can create with popsicle sticks, cotton balls, pipe cleaners, and construction paper.
Homemade Halloween Treats
Along with spooky candy apples, there are a variety of other Halloween treats and baked goods you can make with your kids this Halloween.
Have a Murder Mystery Party
Another great trick or treat alternative is to make this Halloween’s event a murder mystery! Hunt for clues together once each player has received their character scripts. You can assign these ahead of time to coordinate with Halloween costumes, or give them out night-of and improvise!
Host a Spooky Seance
If your kids are a little older, why not up the spook-factor a little with some help from the occult?
Haunted House Party
If you and your kids enjoy a theme park haunted house every now and then, why not create your very own? Spider webs, spooky masks, “heads” on plates and fake blood may provide those hilarious jump scares you’re looking for this Halloween. But it’s up to you how scary you make it! The best part about making your own haunted house is that you can curate it to your child’s spook-tolerance.
Jack O’Lanterns
Whether you carve a classic jack o’lantern face or even paint a black cat onto your pumpkin instead, this autumnal activity is a great source of entertainment for everyone on Halloween day.
Make sure you save the seeds so you can roast them for a snack later too!
Harry Potter Party
If your family loves Harry Potter, turn your home into Hogwarts this Halloween! Set up different stations with a sorting hat, DIY wand making, and potions class with slime and food coloring. Hide a golden snitch (which you can make easily out of a Ferrero Roche chocolate and paper wings) and award a magical prize to whoever finds it first. Weather depending, you could even set up a quidditch game in the back yard! Don’t forget Bertie Bott’s every-flavored beans and chocolate frogs.
Reading Tea Leaves
Make some loose-leaf tea for your family to drink, but be sure to tell everyone to allow their tea leaves to settle at the bottom of their cups. Look for shapes that may have formed, and have your own fortune telling session together!
Halloween Candy Jar
This simple Halloween game is great for starting the Halloween festivities. Fill a jar with jellybeans or M&Ms, and take note of everyone’s guesses! Whoever guesses closest wins a prize - or even the jar itself!
Halloween Slime
If your kid loves sensory activities, why not make your own spooky slime this Halloween? With black, green, or red coloring and objects like googly eyes or fake teeth, you can create some super spooky slime to play with.
Halloween Mystery Box
Speaking of sensory activities - the Halloween Mystery Box is great for kids who love tactile games. Turn a box into a mysterious treasure chest and fill it with strange items that are interesting to touch - like slime, gummy eyeballs, and candy. The idea is to feel around the box blindfolded and try to guess what each item is. After each correct guess, award a Halloween treat or prize!
Halloween Bingo
Bingo is a fun and easy game the whole family can play. Use candy corn, M&Ms or skittles as markers, and make sure you have a fun Halloween playlist to enjoy while you play the game.
Pumpkin-Spiced Hot Chocolate
Stock up on cinnamon sticks and spices and prepare a tasty treat everyone can enjoy. Don’t forget the whipped cream!
Halloween Coloring Pages
An easy yet effective Halloween activity for kids is Halloween coloring!
Halloween Themed Movie Night
There’s nothing that gets you into the Halloween spirit like a fun Halloween movie. You can even extend your viewing to other friends or family by watching together on Netflix Party! However you choose to watch, the options for kid’s Halloween movies are vast. The Adam’s Family, Casper, Hocus Pocus, Nightmare Before Christmas, Halloweentown, The Little Vampire, Frankenweenie, Hotel Transylvania, and Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween are some great family Halloween films to consider!
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