Coolest Halloween Games

Reverse Treat Game: Prepare a list of "magic" words and a small bag of candy for each child. When a child is caught saying one of these words then they have to give up a piece of their candy. The guest left with the most candy wins a spooky prize.

Musical "Witch Hat": This game is similar to most classic party and Halloween games - musical chairs. Instead of chairs, you pass a witch hat around.

Pass the Pumpkin: This is a relay race where each guest runs with a miniature pumpkin under their chin and has to pass it along to the next child with out using their hands.

Pin the Wart on the Witch: Need I explain?

Pass the Head: Same as Hot Potato, but with a creepy mask.

Guess What: Here's another one of those creepy Halloween games. Take different foods and articles and place them in bowls behind a curtain on a table (or in a dark room). The kids have to stick their hands in the food and guess what it really is. Before each food sample, tell the kid what they are about to feel. For example: Witch's eyeballs (peeled grapes), Witch's brains (cooked spaghetti noodles), a poor soul's guts (canned spinach that's very slimy and disgusting), Frankenstein's fingernails (slivered almonds), Blood (warm non-set Jell-O), Witch Noses (cut hot dogs), dried ears (dried apples), bat toenails (seeds), liver (slab of jell-o), teeth (Popcorn kernels). You'll get lots of "yuck!" and "gross". You can get very imaginative with these type of Halloween games.

Obstacle Course: Split the group into three-four teams. The first guest dunks for an apple, then moves on to get a marshmallow out of flour using only teeth (while the flour sticks to their wet face). Then, they have to eat a doughnut hanging from a string, run back and tag the next kid in line. This is one of those Halloween games that gets very messy, so have lots of towels on hand.

Marshmallow Fishing: Pair up the guests. Give one of the pair (the fisherman) a stick with a fishing line attached to it. The fishermen hold the poles while the fish attempt to bite the marshmallows. Then the fishermen switch with the fish.

Ghost Stories: This is great for kid Halloween parties. Have all the kids sit in a circle. Wrap about a dozen simple trinkets and place them all in a velvet bag. Then start telling a Halloween story that has one word that you can repeat many times (for instance, "Teeny Tiny Witch" in which the word "bone" appears many times). As you tell the story, pass the velvet bag around. When the word "bone" is said, the bag stops and whoever is holding the bag takes out a wrapped trinket. This is one of the best calm down Halloween games as the kids sit and listen VERY anxiously.

Witch Relay Race: Split the guests into three or four groups. Give each group a broomstick and witch's hat. Set a race course, and let the guests fly while they holler like witches.

Costume Fashion Show and Contest: Set up a runway and have the guests strut their costumes as if they were real models doing the walk. Play a fun Halloween CD, and prepare certificates for the different categories (Most Beautiful, Scariest, Silliest, etc.) and hand out the awards with a lot of fanfare. If the party is for young children, make sure to create enough categories so that each child receives an award. This is one of the most enjoyable Halloween games.

Balloon Sweep: Divide guests into teams. Set up a course for them to race through. The guests need to run relays sweeping the balloon along the course and back to their team. First team to finish the course wins.

Doughnut Ghosts: This is one of the classic party and Halloween games. Pair up the kids. Tie a powder sugar doughnut to a string and then to the waist of one of the pair so that it's dangling like a ghost between their legs. Then have their couple lie beneath and try to eat the doughnut without the use of hands. The pair that finishes first, wins.

Candy Corn Catch: Divide the guests into two teams. Tie a plastic pumpkin around the waist of one team member from each group and have them standing a few feet across from their team members. On the word, "go" have each team toss candy corn toward their team member wearing the pumpkin. Whichever team gets the most candy in the bucket during the allotted time wins!

Siamese Twin Relay: Divide your guests into two teams. Form twins by having two players stand back-to-back while linking their arms at the elbows. Their arms must stay linked at all times! On "Go", the first set of Siamese Twins walk to a bucket full of goodies. Each twin takes out one treat and then they return. The game continues until all twins have retrieved a prize from the bucket. The first team to finish wins.

Suck It Up: Place two chairs at the far end of the room and place two empty Halloween containers on the chairs. Divide your guests into two teams and line them up in straight lines. Give everyone a straw and a witch, ghost, or other Halloween eraser. The first person in each line places the straw in their mouth and sucks in so that the ghost eraser sticks to the end. While continuing to suck in, they walk to the chair and drop their ghost into the container. They run back to the line and the next person goes. First team to finish wins.

Mummy Wrap: Here's another of those classic Halloween games. Divide the guests into groups of three or four. Give each team one roll of toilet paper (cheap toilet paper tears too easily, so use a name brand). One kid in each group is the mummy. When you say "go" the other team members wrap him/her up as fast as they can. First team to finish wins.

Some more fun Halloween games and activities can include Fortune Telling and a fun hayride.