Handmade games recommended for Halloween parties
Halloween, the once-a-year event that children and adults alike look forward to! In recent years, it’s become hugely popular in Japan, with people dressing up and joining events.
More and more places—like nursery schools, kindergartens, and even homes—are hosting Halloween parties.
In this article, we’ll introduce recommended handmade games for Halloween parties! All the games we introduce can be made using easily available materials, so kids can enjoy helping with the preparations, too.
Create fun, handmade Halloween memories you can’t get from video games!
Recommended DIY Games for a Halloween Party (1–10)
Halloween Treasure Hunt
It’s a simple game where treasures are hidden around the venue and participants search for them.
The treasures could be accessories or toys with Halloween motifs, and sweets are a perfect fit for the Halloween setting too.
If you make the treasures more extravagant depending on how hard they are to find, the searchers will get more fired up and excited.
Not only is it fun for those who are searching, but it’s also an enjoyable game for the organizers, who can think about what prizes to prepare and where to place everything.
Halloween Ring Toss
Ring toss, a staple at festivals, is a simple game that’s fun precisely because it can be enjoyed with many variations.
A straightforward, easy-to-understand approach is to arrange candy as prizes and aim to win them.
Alternatively, if you make the targets motifs like ghosts instead of prizes, and treat getting the ring over them as “defeating” them—competing on how many you can defeat—you can create a lively Halloween atmosphere.
The extent to which you put care into illustrations and decorations may be the key point in conveying the Halloween feel.
Pumpkin Fukuwarai
When you think of Fukuwarai, you probably associate it strongly with New Year’s, but as long as you choose the right motif, you can adapt it for any event.
For Halloween, there are striking motifs like jack-o’-lanterns, so we’ll use those to create a Fukuwarai game.
The idea is to see if players can correctly place the facial parts while their vision is blocked, and the quirky results when they get it wrong are part of the fun.
Starting with prompts that have fewer parts and gradually increasing the number to raise the difficulty will likely make it even more exciting.
Pumpkin Hunt Game
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckeu9bapine/This pumpkin hunt game is a Halloween version of a treasure hunt.
First, decide the area where the game will take place and hide lots of pumpkins within that area.
Then set a time limit and have the children search for the pumpkins! You can hide real pumpkins, pumpkins made from colored construction paper, or even buckets decorated with jack-o’-lanterns or pumpkin pictures.
If you use buckets, putting candy inside will make the children even happier.
Ghost Balloon Catch
When it comes to classic Halloween motifs, ghosts are a staple.
Speaking of ghosts, we often imagine them floating gently in the air.
We’ll recreate that ghostly quality using balloons and turn it into a game.
Prepare balloons and cone-shaped cups, toss the balloon upward, and see if you can catch it.
If you pay attention to the decorations, you can really enhance the Halloween atmosphere.
If this feels too easy, you can adapt the rules in various ways, such as dividing into teams and carrying the balloons in a relay.
Halloween Bingo
Halloween Bingo is a handmade game you can enjoy with your kids from the preparation stage.
Even the process of sticking ghost and witch stickers onto the bingo cards is exciting and fun.
On party day, you call out characters one after another and everyone waits with anticipation for their rows to line up.
The simple rules make it great for even young children to join.
If you prepare Halloween treats as prizes, it’s sure to be even more exciting.
It’s the perfect game for creating warm, handmade memories.
Ghost fishing
This is a game where you catch and defeat ghosts—classic Halloween motifs—by reeling them in.
Both the fishing rod and the ghosts have magnets attached, and you use them to skillfully snag your targets.
You can compete on how many you catch, or, if you attach the ghosts to candy, the weight of each treat will change the difficulty of reeling it in while adding the fun of aiming for the prize you want.
Paying attention to decorations is key to emphasizing the Halloween atmosphere.
Crawling through a spider web
In addition to striking motifs like ghosts, eerie settings such as abandoned ruins are also essential elements of Halloween.
Such places often evoke the image of cobwebs.
This idea describes creating an indoor attraction inspired by spider webs.
Stretch plastic string or paper streamers across a hallway at home so that people can’t walk straight through.
The goal is to make your way skillfully through the web to reach a designated spot.
Using adhesive materials like painter’s tape or masking tape can help you create an attraction that feels even more like a spider’s web.
Halloween Bowling
Bowling, where you throw a ball to knock down pins, is a classic party game.
For Halloween, there are staple motifs like jack-o’-lanterns and ghosts, so painting those on the pins would help set the mood.
Competing to see who knocks down the most pins sounds fun, but if you make the equipment by hand, you can come up with all kinds of variations.
For example, you could make the pins out of paper assembled like pillars, put candy inside them, and let people keep the candy from the pins they knock down—adding an element of randomness that could make it even more enjoyable.
Mummy Game
When it comes to Halloween motifs, Western-style ghosts are common, and mummies wrapped head to toe in bandages are often depicted too.
This is a game where you try making your own mummy.
All you need is toilet paper.
To improve the final look, it might help to give the person serving as the base a ghostly complexion with makeup.
Wrap the toilet paper within the time limit and compete on how well-crafted the finished mummy looks.
It’s not just about how much you wrap, but how you wrap it to create a scarier appearance that really matters.