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Inside: Discover 5 easy and fun Halloween activities for kids that you can quickly set up and enjoy with your little ones!
Every October, we reserve a special afternoon for Halloween preparations. The kids get to display their favorite decorations and wear their costumes for the first time.
I love seeing how much the kids enjoy the preparations, so I always prepare a few simple and fun activities for us to try together the week before Halloween.
If you are looking for some lovely Halloween activities to enjoy with your kids, I gathered here 5 of our favorite ideas to inspire you!
Halloween activities: Watercolor resist spider web
This is such a simple and fun idea that works great for many ages!
Materials:
- wax crayons
- paper
- watercolor paint
- sharpie marker
Instructions:
- Invite the kids to draw a big spider web using wax crayons. For best results, make sure to press on the crayons to get strong lines.
- Once the web is ready, use watercolor to paint the whole paper.
- Once the paint dries, add spiders on the web using crayons or a sharpie marker.
⭐ Bonus idea: You can use this idea for creating many other designs like pumpkins or haunted houses.
Paper plate masks: Funny monsters
This was actually my son’s idea. I had a few paper plates that were shaped like a bear’s face and I asked my son if he would like to decorate them and create funny bears.
Instead, he said he will use the other side of the plate and create funny monsters. 😊 And this is exactly what we did!
Materials:
- paper plate
- drawing supplies (anything you have at hand: pencils, markers, paint)
- pom poms, pipe cleaners, paper pieces, sequins, and anything else you want to use to decorate the “monster”
- glue (we used glitter glue as well).
Instructions:
I just put all the supplies on a tray and offered it to my son. He asked for help gluing some of the decorations, but he did everything elso on his own.
Halloween activities: Monster lab
For this activity you’ll only need paper and drawing supplies.
Invite the kids to a “Monster lab” and create funny (or scary) monsters together. Encourage kids to get creative and use their imagination to create monsters and name them.
We had a lot of fun talking about the monsters we created and all their super powers!
You can see one of the monsters my son created in the picture above (on yellow background). He’s called Crunchy and he loves cookies. 😊
⭐ Bonus idea: We also had another “Monster lab” session when we used playdough, googly eyes, pipe cleaners, and beads to create monsters.
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Halloween activities: Silly pumpkin faces
This activity works great for many ages, and you can use the colorful pumpkins as decorations.
Materials:
- orange, black, and white paper
- crayons
- scissors and glue
Instructions:
- Invite the kids to draw a pumpkin on an orange piece of paper and help them cut it out.
- Use white and black paper to add the eyes, mouth, and teeth and create silly pumpkin faces.
- Create a set of silly pumpkins and use them to decorate a door or a window.
How to adapt this activity for older kids: Instead of using orange paper, invite the kids to draw the pumpkin on white paper and use crayons, paint, or markers to decorate it. Then, add the face details using black and white paper.
Halloween activities: Sticky spider web
This is an activity that you can quickly set up for your kids and it works great for multiple ages, so siblings can easily try it together.
Materials:
- painter’s tape
- pom poms (or mini balls out of paper)
Instructions:
- To prepare the activity, use painter’s tape to create a spider web on the top part of a door. (For younger kids, make a bigger spider web so they can easily reach it when throwing pom poms.)
- Put some pom poms in a box or bowl and invite the kids to throw them and try to stick them to the spider web.
(If you don’t have any pom poms at hand, you can create some mini balls out of paper. Then, invite the kids to create their own paper balls and test out different sizes.)
Bonus: Halloween scavenger hunt
We love scavenger hunts and we tried many ideas over the years!
A Halloween scavenger hunt is an awesome bonus activity to try before trick or treating to make the day even more fun for the kids!
Materials:
- the printable Halloween scavenger hunt (you can download it below)
- a pen or marker (to check the items on the list)
- (optional) clipboard to hold the paper
Instructions:
- Prepare the printable scavenger hunt and the markers.
- Go for a walk in your neighborhood and enjoy the decorated houses!
- Invite the kids to find the items on the list and have fun discovering all the decorations!
To download the printable, click the button below:
More fun Halloween activities for kids
We planto try these activities in the next days, but I wanted to share them with you, in case you want to try them as well:
- Invite your kids to draw Halloween costumes they would like to design for each member of the family.
- Choose a theme and invite all family members to decorate a pumpkin using that theme as inspiration.
- Create Halloween-themed paper chain decoration and use them to decorate the house.
- Create zentagle pumpkins (an activity that works great for many ages – you can find more details here).
- Play Halloween bingo (you can download free printable bingo cards here)
- Have a Halloween-themed story time. Here are some great Halloween books to read with your kids.
I hope you and your kids will enjoy these ideas! Have a fun Halloween!
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