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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 with Ghosts, Mummies, and Spider Webs (1–10)
Halloween Strikeout
It’s a target-throwing game where you toss balls at a board illustrated with various Halloween motifs.
By focusing on the targets and throwing the balls, players also get to learn what kinds of motifs appear at Halloween.
Encouraging them to be mindful of ball control makes it a perfect physical activity as well.
Decorate not only the targets but also the surrounding area with Halloween-themed elements so participants can fully experience the event’s atmosphere.
Pumpkin Hat Drop Game
The “Pumpkin Hat Knockdown Game” is a fun target-throwing game! In the spirit of Halloween, prepare a big pumpkin and place a black pointed hat, like a witch’s hat, on top.
Then take a soft ball or beanbag and throw it aiming for the hat.
If you knock the hat off, you win! If everyone throws at once it will fall too quickly, so we recommend taking turns and competing to see how many throws it takes each person to knock it off.
Drawing a Jack-o’-lantern face on the pumpkin really sets the mood, and as long as you have a pumpkin, it’s an easy game to play!
Ghost-slaying game
https://www.tiktok.com/@safran5069/video/7429999246994066695Here’s an idea for a “ghost knockdown game” based on bowling.
First, print and cut out ghost illustrations and stick them onto the bowling pins.
Place the pins at a distance, then aim at the pins and kick a ball to knock the ghosts down.
If you don’t have dedicated pins, plastic bottles will work fine.
Plastic bottles are handy because you can adjust how easily they fall by adding water.
If small children or seniors are playing, or if you’re using a light ball, it’s better not to put water in the bottles.
Target shooting game with an air cannon
This is a game where you use a tube that shoots bursts of air to knock down Halloween-themed targets.
The air cannon is made by punching a hole in a candy container and attaching a cut balloon, using the balloon to propel the air.
How you design the targets is also important—adjust their weight and the base they sit on to enhance the gameplay.
It’s also essential to focus on decorating the air cannon and the targets to create a strong Halloween atmosphere.
Ghost Ball-Throw Game
It’s a game where you throw a ball at a ghost wearing a cardboard hat! Just hitting it isn’t very exciting, right? So how about creating a mechanism where, if the ball hits the hat just right, the hat comes off and a different picture hidden behind the first one appears? Since older adults may not have much strength, try moving the throwing distance closer and adjusting the hat so it falls off with a moderate amount of force.
Give me a sweet potato or I’ll play a trick on you!
During the Halloween season, there are plenty of harvests, and sweet potatoes are one of the signature crops of this time.
This game combines sweet potatoes with Halloween motifs and tests the careful action of pulling a string.
Along the string are bumpy sweet potato decorations, and at the end, a base carrying a Halloween mascot is attached.
As you pull the string, the sweet potato bumps make the whole setup wobble, so the rule is to reel the Halloween mascot in toward you without tipping it over.
A timed competition works great too—have players pull the string carefully yet quickly.
Eyeball-carrying relay
When it comes to Halloween, it’s an event full of spooky motifs—eyeballs included—often used in decorations.
Focusing on the round shape of eyeballs, here’s a game like a ball-carrying relay where you carefully transport them.
Prepare ping-pong balls decorated with eyeball designs, and pass them to the next person using a spoon.
Split into teams and compete to see who can carry the eyeballs more accurately and quickly—those rules are highly recommended.