Halloween Activities for Kids
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Have a ghoulishly good time with our collection of Halloween crafts and activities for kids, including free printables, games, and more!
Give kids of all ages even more to love about Halloween! Explore easy Halloween crafts, printable games and coloring pages, festive food ideas, songs and videos, and educational games. Whether you need a simple preschool craft, a free Halloween printable, or a festive family activity, you’ll find plenty of ideas to make October more memorable at home or in the classroom.
Easy Halloween Crafts for Preschoolers
Our easy Halloween crafts for preschoolers use familiar themes such as friendly ghosts, silly monsters, bats, spiders, and pumpkins. With simple materials and plenty of room for creativity, these preschool Halloween activities are ideal for classroom centers, playdates, or family craft time and even provide practice with fine motor skills.
Ping Pong Ball Ghosts
Create spooky-cute ghosts with ping pong balls, white tissue paper, and ribbon for an easy Halloween decoration.
Candy Corn Collage
Tear and layer colorful paper to create a festive candy corn collage that’s perfect for Halloween.
Painted Monster Rocks
Turn ordinary rocks into colorful, silly monsters with paint, googly eyes, and lots of creativity.
Monster Pencil Toppers
Everyday pencils become silly monsters with colorful pipe cleaners and googly eyes.
M is for Monster
Practice the letter M while creating colorful, silly monsters with this fun Halloween learning craft.
G is for Ghost
Learn the sound of the letter G while making an adorable paper ghost with this fun Halloween learning craft.
Paper Plate Black Cat
Use paper plates and a few simple craft supplies to make an adorable black cat for Halloween.
Paper Pumpkin Craft
Create a friendly ghost windsock that dances in the breeze with a paper cup, streamers, and yarn.
B is for Black Bat
Turn the letter B into a friendly black bat with paper wings, pointy ears, and big googly eyes.
E is for Eyes
Cover the letter E with googly eyes for a silly, spooky Halloween alphabet craft.
W is for Web
Practice the sound of the letter W by creating a simple web with white yarn and glue.
X is for X-Ray
Turn the letter X into a spooky X-ray craft by adding simple bones with chalk or cotton swabs.
Paper Plate Pumpkin
Paint a paper plate orange, then add a stem and curly green vine to create a simple pumpkin craft for kids.
Pumpkin Sun Catcher
Create a glowing jack-o’-lantern sun catcher with colorful tissue paper and a silly pumpkin face.
Pumpkin Wreath
Create a pumpkin-shaped wreath with colorful tissue paper, then add a stem and leaves to make it complete.
Pumpkin Stamp
Apple halves make great pumpkin stamps when they’re dipped into orange paint and topped with a painted green stem.
Halloween Crafts for Kids
Add even more creativity to October with our collection of easy Halloween crafts for kids in kindergarten and up. These hands-on Halloween crafts use common supplies and are perfect for creating festive decorations or playful keepsakes in the classroom or at home.
Balloon Bat Craft
Turn a simple black balloon into a spooky-cute bat with this easy Halloween craft for kids.
Itsy Bitsy Spider Craft
Create a creepy-crawly spider and web decoration that’s perfect for getting into the Halloween spirit.
Hanging Bat Craft
Make colorful hanging bats with paper rolls and folded paper wings for a fun Halloween decoration.
Craft Stick Jack-O’-Lantern
Transform ordinary craft sticks into festive jack-o’-lanterns with this simple Halloween craft.
Paper Monster Face
Create a silly paper monster with a big mouth, googly eyes, colorful spots, and other fun details.
Mason Jar Jack-O’-Lantern
Turn an ordinary mason jar into a glowing jack-o’-lantern decoration with paint and a spooky pumpkin face.
Pumpkin Stress Ball
Make squishy pumpkin stress balls with orange balloons and silly jack-o’-lantern faces for a fun Halloween sensory activity.
Paper Pumpkin Craft
Create a cheerful 3D pumpkin using strips of orange paper, then add a face, stem, and curly vine.
Yarn pumpkin
Wrap glue-coated orange yarn around a balloon to create a fun 3D pumpkin, then add a green stem and curly vine.
Melting Monster
Mix up a colorful, gooey monster and add googly eyes and silly features for a fun Halloween sensory activity.
Halloween Sciene
Create glowing pumpkin and ghost decorations for a fun and spooky Halloween display.
Craft Stick Spider Web
Wrap white yarn around craft sticks to create a spooky spider web, then add a plastic spider to finish it off.
Halloween Sensory Bins
Explore spooky sensory bins filled with pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, monsters, and more for hands-on Halloween fun.
Paper Cup Witch
Turn a paper cup into a spooky green witch with crinkly paper hair, a witch hat, and a glowing tea light nose.
Fork Painted Black Cat
Use a fork and black paint to create a furry black cat, then add paper eyes, ears, whiskers, and other silly features.
Pinecone Bat
Turn a pinecone into a hanging Halloween bat with paper wings, a silly face, and yarn for displaying your creation.
Halloween Food Crafts for Kids
Kids love crafts even more when they can eat them! These delicious Halloween foods for kids double as entertainment and a treat at holiday gatherings. Children can transform fruit, crackers, pretzels, and other familiar foods into pumpkins, ghosts, monsters, spiders, and more. Adult help is recommended for cutting, heating, or using skewers.
Ghoulicious Treats
Make spooky-cute Halloween snacks with fruit, marshmallows, and other tasty ingredients.
Pumpkin Cheese Snacks
Turn bite-sized cheese balls into pumpkins, monsters, and other festive Halloween characters.
Halloween Pretzel Snacks
Decorate crunchy pretzel rods with colorful coatings, sprinkles, and candy eyes to create silly Halloween monsters.
Mummy Fruit Pouch
Wrap juice boxes or applesauce like mini mummies for a quick and easy Halloween party treat kids will love.
Ghost Marshmallow Fruit Skewers
Thread fresh fruit and spooky marshmallow ghosts onto skewers for a festive Halloween snack kids will love.
Banana Ghosts
Turn banana halves into adorable little ghosts with chocolate chips for the eyes and mouths.
Cracker Spiders
Turn round crackers, pretzel sticks, and candy eyes into creepy-crawly spider snacks that are fun to make and eat.
Pumpkin Grilled Cheese
Give classic grilled cheese a Halloween twist with a jack-o’-lantern face and gooey melted cheese.
Free Printable Halloween Activities & Coloring Pages
Keep kids entertained with free printable Halloween activities and coloring pages featuring pumpkins, ghosts, monsters, costumes, and other not-so-spooky favorites. These low-prep Halloween printables are easy to use at home, in the classroom, or at a party and offer kids fun ways to color, solve puzzles, learn new words, and play together.
Halloween Bingo
With Bingo cards for kids of all ages, this classic game is ready to add some fun to any Halloween gathering.
Halloween Words
Our printable list of Halloween words adds seasonal fun to practicing spelling and vocabulary. Kids can also use them to create Halloween poems and stories.
Halloween Trivia
Families and classrooms can test their Halloween knowledge with our printable trivia questions that come with and without answers.
Halloween Word Search
As excitement builds for Halloween, word searches make excellent quiet time activities and provide easy on-the-go entertainment.
Halloween Jokes and Riddles
Get everyone cackling with family-friendly jokes and riddles featuring classic Halloween characters and themes. When kids read them to each other, they also provide highly entertaining reading practice!
More Halloween Printables
Print, color, cut, and create with Halloween activities like Build-a-Creature crafts and a Halloween Train, plus festive coloring pages and more.
All Halloween Coloring Pages
Explore over 200 different Halloween coloring pages, including friendly monsters and ghost, haunted houses, and Happy Halloween signs.
Jack O’ Lanterns
Get into the Halloween spirit with jack-o’-lantern coloring pages featuring silly, spooky, and smiling pumpkins for kids to color.
Halloween Cats
Color cute Halloween cats dressed in costumes and surrounded by pumpkins, spiderwebs, witch hats, and other festive fun.
Ghost Coloring Pages
Have some not-so-spooky fun with friendly ghost coloring pages featuring pumpkins, stars, costumes, and other Halloween favorites.
Fun Halloween Music Videos
Sing and dance along with the silly ABCmouse Halloween music videos
A ghost Who Loves Toast
Who knew ghosts were such big fans of toast?!
Halloween Train
All aboard the ABCmouse Halloween train! Kids will love this song that tells a not-so-spooky tale.
Fun Spooke, Silly, Slimy
This catchy Halloween song encourages movement, helping kids burn their seasonal excitement!
Fun Halloween Learning Games for Kids
Add learning to the Halloween fun with educational games for kids featuring friendly monsters, pumpkins, ghosts, and other seasonal characters. These online Halloween activities turn practice with letters, reading, math, memory, and problem-solving into engaging play for young learners.
Memory Match
Play with a friend and match spooky Halloween pairs! Take turns flipping cards and build memory and turn–taking skills in this fun 2–player game.
G is for Ghost
Color a friendly ghost while practicing the letter G! This alphabet activity is a fun way for kids to build letter recognition while getting creative.
Monster Stacker
Stack silly shape monsters to build the tallest tower you can without letting it topple!
Monster Math: Fruit Snacks
Help Alice and her monsters compare quantities and practice addition and subtraction using berries and grapes.
P is for Pumpkin
Enjoy a fun Halloween game where kids color a pumpkin while practicing the /p/ sound.
The Monster on the Mountain
As they play, kids will read the story The Monster on the Mountain and practice the “imagine it” visualization strategy to help understand the story.
Alice’s Monsters: Number Clouds
Help Alice and her Monsters add three or four single-digit numbers by using the strategy of making tens.
Monster Math: Contest
Help Fleeb and Gumball settle their contest by solving addition problems and deciding which game they should play!
Fun Screen Free Halloween Themed Games for Kids
Put the devices away and enjoy these fun screen-free Halloween games for kids! These easy games are perfect for classroom parties, family game nights, playdates, and festive fun at home.
Spoon and “Eyeball” Race
Supplies:
- Plastic spoons
- Toy eyeballs, or ping pong balls decorated to look like eyeballs
Instructions:
- Each player balances their eyeball on a spoon, holding it by the handle with one hand only.
- At the word “go,” each player moves as quickly as they can toward the finish line.
- If their eyeball falls off, they can stop and pick it up, but they can’t move toward the finish line until the eyeball is balanced on the spoon again.
- First across the line with their eyeball wins!
Halloween Pictionary or Charades
Supplies:
- Index cards
- Markers
- For Pictionary: a whiteboard and dry-erase markers, or paper for drawing
- Timer
Instructions:
- Select the Halloween words you want to use for your game and write them on individual cards.
- Mix up the cards and flip them over.
- Players take turns drawing a card and either acting it out or drawing a picture, trying to get their teammates to guess the word before the time is up (1 to 2 minutes works well).
- Keep track of the score, or just play for fun!
Witch Hat Ring Toss
Supplies:
- Toy cones
- Black paint and brushes
- Purple ribbon
- Glue
- Rings
Instructions:
- Paint the toy cones black and allow them to dry, then wrap strips of purple ribbon around the bases to make hat bands.
- Lay the cones out and give each player a number of rings. See how many they can toss around the “witch hat” cones!
Jack-O’-Lantern Balloon Pop
Supplies:
- Orange balloons
- Black marker
Instructions:
- Blow up each balloon, tie it off, and use the marker to make a jack-o-lantern face.
- Start the game by giving each player a balloon.
- On the count of 3, each player tries to be the first to pop their balloon by sitting on it, stepping on it, etc.
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