Here’s a FUN list of 31 Halloween activities for kids that includes Halloween crafts, art activities, decorations, book suggestions, recipes, costumes, and more!Plus, download the FREE printable list!
October means autumn is in full swing with fall leaves, sweater weather, pumpkin patches, and, of course, all things Halloween. It’s an exciting time of year, especially for kids.
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
L. M. Montgomery
Since our30 Days of September Activitieswas so popular, we’ve done the same for October.
Would you like some ideas of creative activities to do with your children this month?
Some of our October traditions include picking out our pumpkins (perhaps at a pumpkin lot or a local farm), decorating our pumpkins, planning and making our Halloween costumes, baking with pumpkin, and making lots of Autumn and Halloween arts and crafts!
Plus reading Halloween books, of course!We’ve included a list of favorite children’s picture books about Halloween at the bottom.
Here’s our list of Halloween activities for kids and families!
31 Days of Halloween Activities for Kids
If you’d like a printable version of the list, scroll down to the bottom of this post to get a handy PDF version!
5 Pumpkin Decorating and Carving Ideas for Kids
1.Pumpkin Paintingwith Kids(it’s the perfect Halloween sensory activity!)
2.Make awesome3D pumpkin faceswith playdough and poke-ins(you can do this fun activity early in the month and then still carve the pumpkin closer to Halloween!)
3.The bestpumpkin decorating ideasfor kids(that they can actually do!)
4.How to carve & decoratea pumpkin fairy housefor kids(plus more pumpkin fairy house inspiration)
5.How toget a Lite Brite effectfor your Jack-o’-lantern(super cool!)
5 Recipes Perfect for October
6. Bake a batch ofthe bestpumpkin chocolate chip muffins
7. Makemini Halloween gingerbread houses
8. Baketeddy bear breadfor dinner (or use the bread dough to make monsters!)
9.Make delicious and healthypumpkin waffles
10. Decoratesugar skull cookiesfor Día de los Muertos
6 Halloween Art Ideas for Kids
11.Tape-resist skeleton paintings(full-sized!)
12. Make not-too-spookydrawing prompts for kids with eye stickers(are they ghosts, monsters, bats, Jack-o’-lanterns, witches, spiders, or owls?)
13.Raised salt paintingwith Halloween themes such as pumpkins, Jack-o’-lanterns, spiders, webs, ghosts, and witches
14.Carve potatoes and makeHalloween potato prints
15.Halloween scratch art(an easy peasy DIY method!)
16. Makeplaydough monsterswith poke-ins
5 Spider Arts and Crafts Ideas
17.Make a Halloween spider web from coffee filters(super easy, plus they look awesome in the window!)
18.Makeglue resist spider websand pumpkins
19.Zentangle spider webs(a fun tangle art activity for older kids and adults)
20.Spider web crafts(so many more ideas here!)
21.How tomake Halloween spider webs with a marbleand paint!
3迪Y Halloween Decorations
22.DIY bat garland(the perfect Halloween decoration!)
23.How to make aJack-o’-lantern melted bead suncatcher
24. CreateDoodle Tissue Paper Lanterns
3迪Y Costumes for Kids
25.Have acostume making party for kidsand makepaper plate masks,cardboard wings, and more!
26.The easiest everglow-in-the-dark skeleton costume
27.Check out our list ofcreative DIY Halloween costumes for kidsfor more inspiration!
4 More Halloween Activities for Kids
28.)填写鬼火的面孔(a Halloween drawing activity for kids)
29.)Make a spooky Halloween fortand drape colored lights on it for evening play (ora witch house play fort)
30.)A not-too-spookyHalloween music for kids activity
31.) Head to the library and check out someBooks about Halloween
Need some suggestions? Ask your children’s librarian or try some of these:
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- Ghosts in the House!by Kazuno Kohara
- Ten Timid Ghostsby Jennifer O’Connell
- Pumpkin Jackby Will Hubbell
- Halloween Miceby Bethany Roberts and illustrated by Doug Cushman
- Scaredy Squirrel Prepares for Halloween: A Safety Guide for Scarediesby Melanie Watt
- The Fierce Yellow Pumpkinby Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Richard Egielski
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How about you?What are your favorite Halloween activities for kids?
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