[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] Fun Halloween Games: Ideas using ghosts, mummies, and spider webs (21–30)
Balloon Pétanque
Let me introduce a game called “Balloon Pétanque.” All you need to prepare is to blow up a balloon and attach a bottle cap filled with a small weight to the balloon’s knot to make a “belly button.” To play, place the balloon on the floor and have two teams take turns tossing red and white beanbags.
Beanbags closest to the belly button score points for that team.
Since the balloon easily moves when a beanbag hits it, the target keeps shifting—making the result uncertain right up to the very end, which is part of the fun.
Draw jack-o’-lanterns or ghosts on an orange-and-white balloon to give it a Halloween vibe.
Halloween Game: Banish the Ghosts
It’s a perfect game for stimulating little fingers: flick the pieces with your fingers to chase away the ghosts! Draw ghost faces on white round stickers and stick them onto plastic bottle caps.
Draw jack-o’-lantern faces on yellow round stickers and attach them the same way.
Prepare as many ghost pieces as possible, and make enough jack-o’-lantern pieces for the number of players.
Once you set the ghost pieces inside a square frame, you’re ready to play.
From outside the frame, flick the jack-o’-lantern pieces with your fingers to hit the ghost pieces inside.
The player who knocks the most ghost pieces out of the frame wins!
[For Seniors] Fun Halloween Games: Ideas to Enjoy with Ghosts, Mummies, and Spiderwebs (31–40)
Halloween Bowling
Paint the pins in Halloween colors, stick on ghost drawings made from construction paper, or turn the ball into a jack-o’-lantern—then your usual bowling becomes Halloween-themed! The rules are the same as regular bowling, so there’s nothing new to learn.
If you switch to kick bowling, it can be played while seated, making it a great option for older adults.
It’s even more fun as a team competition!
Halloween Spot the Differences
Spot-the-difference puzzles that everyone can enjoy, from kids to adults.
Even grown-ups, when they try them once in a while, somehow end up getting oddly fired up and competitive, don’t they? How about trying a Halloween-themed spot-the-difference using illustrations like pumpkins? Halloween really comes to life with pumpkins and slightly spooky images.
Even if you can’t find the differences right away, thinking it through makes for good brain training—so the more you think, the better the activity.
And that satisfying feeling when you figure out the answer is irresistible, isn’t it?
balloon volleyball
A seated balloon volleyball game using balloons and uchiwa fans.
How about enjoying balloon volleyball—with the added benefit of an upper-body workout—in a Halloween style? Use orange balloons and make faces out of colored paper to turn them into jack-o’-lanterns, and decorate the uchiwa fans (which serve as rackets) with Halloween-themed ghosts or bats using colored paper! You can sit in a circle and enjoy rallying together, or sit in two facing rows for team matches—it’s sure to be exciting either way.
Mummy Wrap Game
Form several pairs of two people each.
At the starting signal, one person wraps their partner with toilet paper.
Start from the feet, and the pair that wraps the fastest and neatest wins.
They’ll look like a mummy with bandages, which really boosts the Halloween mood! It’s a fun game that also tests the team’s teamwork.
If the paper tears along the way, please start wrapping again from the same spot.
A recreational activity using a whiteboard and beanbags
A unique game that uses a whiteboard with a stand laid flat! Place items like a jack-o’-lantern plush toy evenly on the horizontally positioned whiteboard.
Once everyone is in position around it, take turns tossing beanbags to land them on the board.
Every time the board flips over, you can’t help but let out an “Ahh!”, making this game not only a blast for everyone but also a good workout that gets your arms moving.
Set up the whiteboard and give it a try right away!