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!
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- A Halloween song for children. A fun Halloween song.
Recommended DIY Games for a Halloween Party (1–10)
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.
Handmade Games Recommended for Halloween Parties (11–20)
Shooting Gallery Ghost Hunt
Shooting games are a staple at party games and festivals.
Precisely because they’re simple, there are all sorts of ways to arrange them.
If you draw zombies—the classic Halloween motif—as the targets, you can set the mood and make things more exciting.
Also, by combining plastic bottles and balloons, you can easily make an air cannon; using this turns it into a safe shooting game and broadens the range of ages who can enjoy it.
Placing obstacles on the stage to make it harder to defeat the zombies and adjusting the difficulty could make it even more fun.
Eyeball-carrying relay
This is a simple game that often gets used as Halloween decoration too, featuring eyeballs.
The rules are very straightforward: using a spoon, you carry a ball painted with an eyeball to the next person.
Split into teams and race to see who can transport all the balls the fastest.
You can easily make the eyeballs by drawing on ping-pong balls, but the more realistic and creepy they look, the better they’ll enhance the Halloween atmosphere.
Because the game itself is simple, it’s one where you can really focus on the decorative details.
Eyeball scooping
Eyeballs are a classic Halloween motif, aren’t they? This game involves drawing eyeball-like patterns on ping-pong balls and competing to see how many you can scoop up with a spoon within a time limit.
A nice feature is how easy it is to adjust the difficulty—for example, by changing the spoon size or using chopsticks instead of a spoon.
You can also float the ping-pong balls in water and use a scooper (poi) to scoop them up, which creates a different kind of fun, evoking the feel of the goldfish scooping games that are a staple at festivals.
What’s inside the box?
It’s a game where you put your hand into a box containing something and try to guess what’s inside using only your sense of touch.
The reactions—carefully checking what’s inside while feeling scared—are part of the fun, and it’s a staple segment on TV variety shows.
Even with familiar objects, identifying them by touch alone is difficult, which adds to the challenge.
You could also include items associated with Halloween as prompts, such as pumpkins or rubber spider toys.