[For Seniors] Fun Halloween Games: Ideas to Enjoy with Ghosts, Mummies, and Spiderwebs
Are you looking for games you can enjoy with older adults during the Halloween season? There are plenty of fun activities that make the most of Halloween motifs like ghosts, mummies, and jack-o’-lanterns.
We’ve gathered a wide variety—from team relays that involve passing items to the next person and games that help build hand strength, to matching games that are great for brain training.
It’s sure to be a recreation that brings lots of smiles to the faces of participating seniors.
Enjoy creating wonderful memories together on long autumn evenings, with lively, cheerful fun for everyone.
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[For Seniors] Exciting Halloween Games: Fun Ideas with Ghosts, Mummies, and Spiderwebs (11–20)
Ring toss activity with Halloween hats
https://www.tiktok.com/@usery5o1nffxli/video/6753963397814963458The rule remains the same—toss a ring and score if it lands on the target—but to create a Halloween vibe, the targets are witch hats.
You can easily make them by combining a circular piece of construction paper with another piece rolled into a cone.
How about adding a touch of Halloween to your usual game with this idea? You could make the hats in several colors and vary the points by color.
If you plan to use them multiple times, be sure to reinforce the hats for durability.
Heart-Pounding Halloween Game
It’s an idea where you treat balloons as monsters and enjoy a target-throwing game.
When you pop a balloon to defeat a monster, there’s a surprise: candy comes out from inside! But balloons can be surprisingly hard to pop.
So after you’ve enjoyed the target game, use a pin to prick the balloons and take out what’s inside.
Popping balloons itself makes for a thrilling game.
Be sure to put the candy in before inflating the balloons.
You can easily decorate them as monsters using stickers or construction paper.
Hang them from the ceiling or in the breeze and they double as decorations—two birds with one stone.
Halloween ball toss game
Participants form a circle and pass a balloon around while trying to get it into the Halloween tower in the center.
Be careful not to drop the balloon—watch the timing and aim for the tower.
When a balloon goes into the tower, flip over one panel on the whiteboard and try to guess the hidden word.
If you think you know the answer, raise your hand and check it.
If the answer is wrong, put the balloon into the tower again, flip another panel, and gather more clues.
Evil Spirit Banishment Game
In the spirit of Halloween, why not try a game where you banish evil spirits? Cover plastic bottles with bags decorated with ghost drawings, then fan them with a uchiwa (Japanese hand fan) to knock the bags off and drop them onto the floor.
You can compete for the fastest time to remove them all, or have several people play at once and see who can finish first—highly recommended! Depending on how you fan, the bags may come off quickly or take some effort, so try different techniques as you play.
Since you only need to sit and wave a fan, it’s enjoyable for all ages.
Easy Homemade Halloween Ring Toss
How about enjoying a ring toss as a Halloween game? The rules are the same as usual, but you decorate the targets with a Halloween theme.
In this idea, toilet paper rolls are turned into ghost targets, and two pipe cleaners are twisted together to make the rings.
Make several targets and glue them onto a base.
Just cut slits along the edge of each roll, fold them outward, and attach them to construction paper.
Using purple and orange pipe cleaners can make it feel even more Halloween-like.
Treasure Hunt
It’s a game where you hide clues in various places—like indoors or in the garden—and follow them to reach the treasure.
If you prepare gifts such as sweets or origami for the treasure, people will be delighted.
Making Halloween decorations and using them as markers also sounds fun.
It might be a bit challenging, so please have staff members provide support as you go.
[For Seniors] Fun Halloween Games: Ideas using ghosts, mummies, and spider webs (21–30)
Jack’s fukuwarai
When you think of fukuwarai, you picture New Year’s, but it’s perfectly fine to play it year-round, right? (laughs) And if you’re playing at Halloween, “Jack’s Fukuwarai” is perfect! Halloween means jack-o’-lanterns, and this game uses that face for fukuwarai.
With just three parts, it’s simple and can be played while seated, so it’s great for older adults, too.
It’s also fun to skip the blindfold and create your own unique jack-o’-lantern!