If you’re looking for alternative Halloween ideas this year or if you’re simply looking to add a few things to your October bucket list, this list is for you.
15 Easy and Fun Halloween Activities
Whether you decide to do traditional door to door trick or treating or not, here are 15 alternative options to add to your Halloween festivities for Halloween 2020.
1. Spooky movie night
Microwave popcorn and serve it in plastic orange pumpkins then snuggle up on the couch and watch a classic scary movie. Here are a few kid friendly scary movie ideas:
- Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest, Ages 3+
- It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Ages 5+
- Toy Story of Terror, Ages 6+
- E.T., Ages 7+
- Casper, Ages 8+
- Hocus Pocos, Ages 10+
2. Hand out bat treats
Turn a plaint peice of paper into a bat box with this free printable Halloween craft. Fill bats with candy and hand out to neighbors!
3. Halloween lunch
Buy a roll of scotch tape. Next, wrap every pre packaged food item in it. Then, add sticker wiggle eyes. (Yes, I did say sticker eyes, so much easier!) You made a mummy! Serve it to your children for lunch. Happy Halloween, kids! For more easy Halloween food ideas, check out these non candy Halloween treat ideas.
4. Halloween parade
Round up your neighbors and have a costume parade down your street. Have home owners not participating in the parade hand out candy from their yards.
5. Build a haunted cookie house
My kids love making the $10 Trader Joes Haunted House chocolate cookie cookie kit every year. Pro tip: Use a hot glue to glue the house pieces together. If you don’t have a Trader Joes near you, you can get a haunted house cookie kit on Amazon.
6. Carve pumpkins
There are endless ways to carve a pumpkin! Here are 20 unique pumpkin carving ideas!
7. Candy sticking
Tape candy to wooden kabob skewers and stick them in your yard. Let kids grab a stick or 2 each! Thanks for the idea, Wendy!
8. Scavenger hunt
We do scavenger hints for all birthdays in our house, so this will absolutely happen for Halloween too. I plan on going with a treasure hunt theme since my son has decided to be a skeleton pirate! Here’s lots more about how to make scavenger hunts for kids.
9. Coffee filter leaves
Turn coffee filters, marker and water into fall leaves. Find the coffee filter craft tutorial here.
10. Piñata
You can’t go wrong with a piñata filled with candy. Plus, if there is ever a year adults deserve to swat at a piñata with a bat it’s 2020. Here’s a fun pumpkin piñata.
11. Candy Slide
The Wicked Makers built this awesome candy slide that ensures everyone follows proper social distancing guidelines. Plus, it looks amazing! Check out their You Tube channel for the complete tutorial.
12. Decorate pumpkins
Piggie and Elephant are still a big hit in our house, but you can decorate or carve pumpkins any way you like! Check out these 20 unique pumpkin carving ideas.
13. Virtual costume contest
Gather your friends and family that live out of town and host a virtual Halloween party. Don’t forget to include a glow in the dark dance party and a costume contest! Here are 29 DIY kid Halloween costume ideas.
14. Deliver boo buckets
Think Easter basket but in an orange pumpkin filled with things like glow sticks spiders, and Hallowen stickers! Add glow sticks, candy, slime, stickers, pencils, and spiders to a pumpkin basket and deliver it to friends on or before Halloween. Or hide a Boo Buckets for your kiddos, turn off the lights and let the kids hunt for their buckets in the dark! Here’s the best deal I’ve seen on Jack-O-Lantern candy baskets.
15. Painting Halloween rocks
Give rocks a white coat of paint and let kids use crayons or permanent markers to make Halloween master pieces.
What are you planning on doing for Halloween 2020?
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