15 Fun Halloween Party Games & Activities For Tweens

Pumpkins are carved, the costumes are ready, and the trick-or-treat bags are set to go for rounds with the tweens. But what about planning few exciting games and activities? How can there be a Halloween party without few entertaining games and activities to make the event fun and memorable? It’s a well known fact that they tend to get bored very easily.So you must include few fun games to keep them entertained all day long. Don’t despair! Here are 15 exciting halloween party games for tweens that will make the Halloween party truly memorable.

Fun Halloween Party Games For Tweens:

1. Murder Mystery:

You Will Need:

• Paper
• Pen

How To:

1. Create a gripping story, character list and solution to the murder mystery. Do not tell the kids about it.

2. Now assign the kids a part in the story and hide the clues around the house.

3. Tell the tweens to act their role and figure out the murder mystery together. It cannot get spookier.

[ Read: Halloween Activities For Teens ]

2. Candy Hunt:

You Will Need:

• Candies and chocolates
• Flashlights
• Bags

How To:

1. Hide the candy and chocolates in your backyard.

2. Assemble the kids in the yard and divide them into 3 to 4 groups.

3. Once it’s dusk, hand each child a flashlight and a bag and tell them to find the candies.

4. Assign them a time limit, maximum one hour.

5. The team that collects the most candies and chocolates will be the winner.

It is a fun halloween games for tweens.

3. Eyeball Bounce:

You Will Need:

• 3 pumpkin buckets
• Ping-pong balls
• Candies
• Red, blue, green and black markers

How To:

1. Use the red, blue, green and black markers to make creepy eyes on the ping-pong ball.

2. Place the candy at the bottom of the baskets and keep on the floor.

3. Give each player 3 to 5 ping-pong balls and tell them to try to toss the ball into the basket.

4. If they toss it successfully to the basket, reward them with candy from the basket.

5. Make the game hard by placing the basket on moving objects or moving the baskets around.

4. Pumpkin Hunt:

You Will Need:

• Pumpkins
• Sharpie marker
• Prizes

How To:

1. Assemble the kids in the large area. You should have as many prizes as the pumpkins.

2. Mark each pumpkin with a number using a marker. Give its corresponding gift the same number. Hide the pumpkin in the backyard or garden.

3. Now tell the tweens to hunt for the pumpkin as you call out ‘go.’

4. The tween will get the prize that matches the number on the bottom. Isn’t it a great halloween activities for tweens?

5. Worm Bobbing:

You Will Need:

• Whipped cream
• Gummy worms, 5 per player
• Empty plates, one per player
• Table and chairs

How To:

1. Place 5 gummy worms on the plate and cover with whipped cream. You need to do this for each player.

2. Tie the hands of the players lightly with a scarf.

3. As you say go, the players have to pull the worms from the plate and place on the table.

4. The tween who puts the fifth worm first will be the winner.

6. Scarecrow Race:

You Will Need:

• A pile of old clothes for the skeleton to wear, like gloves, flannel shirts, straw hats and so on.
• Wrapped candy to reward the winning team

How To:

1. Split the teams into 2 to 4 teams. Let them choose which kid they would want to dress as scarecrows. The scarecrow has to stand a few feet from the team.

2. Now the teams have to dig through the pile, find the appropriate items of clothing and run to dress the scarecrow.

3. The players have to move back and forth until their scarecrow is dressed.

4. The team that dresses the scarecrow first will be the winner.

[ Read: Halloween Costume Ideas For Tweens ]

7. Push The Peanut:

You Will Need:

• Peanuts in the shell
• Toothpick
• A chalk

How To:

1. Make a start and finish line on the table.

2. Give each player a peanut and toothpick. Place the toothpick in their mouth.

3. Now tell the kids to use the toothpick to push and roll the peanut from the starting to the finish line.

4. Do not make the distance between the start and finish line, as it is a slow race.

5. The child who finishes first will be the winner.

8. Candy Corn Toss:

You Will Need:

• Candy corn
• Timer
• Two plastic trick-or-treat pumpkins

How To:

1. Draw a line on the ground.

2. Divide the kids into teams and tell each of them to stand behind the line.

3. Place trick and treat for each team at a short distance.

4. On the call of ‘go’, the kids have to toss the candy corn into the jack-o-lantern.

5. The team that throws the most number of candy corns in the jack-o-lantern in two minutes will be the winner.

6. You can also let the team leader hold the jack-o-lantern for their team.

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9. Ghost Bingo:

You Will Need:

• Bingo cards
• Halloween related images, black cat, a bat, ghost, witch, pumpkin and so on

How To:

1. Make Halloween special Bingo card, but place a Halloween picture instead of numbers. You can also get the kids draw the images.

2. Now hands each player a copy of the bingo template.

3. If someone gets a bingo, he has to yell ‘boo.’

10. Halloween Body Parts:

You Will Need:

Food items:

• Yarn, corn silk for hair
• Cooked spaghetti for brain
• Peeled tomato for the heart
• Grapes for the eyeballs
• Banana for the tongue
• Popcorn kernels or small gravel rocks for teeth
• Carrots or hot dogs for fingers
• Carrot for nose
• Almond slivers for fingernails

How To:

1. Have the tweens sit in a circle and switch off the light. The room shouldn’t be entirely dark.

2. Now pass around the ‘body part’ so that each player gets to feel it.

3. Now tell the kids to guess what they are touching.

11. Witch’s Relay:

You Will Need:

• 2 broom
• A group of kids

How To:

1. Create a starting and ending point in the playing area.

2. Now split the kids into two teams and tell each team to line in a single file.

3. Now give the broom to the first player in the team.

4. The first team player has to run around the playing area flying on his broom. Then he has to pass the broom to the second player and then stand at the end of the line.

5. Continue the game until all the tweens get the chance to fly on the broom.

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12. Spooky Stories:

You Will Need:

• Nothing

How To:

1. Have the kids sit in a circle in a dimly lit room.

2. Now tell one player to create an excellent beginning for a spooky story.

3. Now the other child has to add a sentence to the story.

4. As the story grows, the imagination of the kids will start getting wilder.

Some story ideas to get started:

1. Near a big and old house, just in the corner, stood a…

2. As the kids were about to start singing songs around the campfire, they heard some noises coming from the forest…

[ Read: Birthday Party Game Ideas For Tweens ]

13. Build A Scarecrow:

You Will Need:

• Old hat, jeans, and body
• Sticks
• Chair
• Hay
• Pumpkins
• You can either gather the materials yourself or tell the guests to bring their own set of clothing.

How To:

1. Divide the kids into equal groups and give each team 20 minutes to build a scarecrow.

2. Children can use anything for making their scarecrow, but it should be what the material you provided.

3. The team that makes the scariest and wackiest scarecrow will be the winner.

14. Cornholes:

You Will Need:

• Tabletop Cornhole Board
• Black Acrylic Paint
• 1/4″ double sided tape
• Silver Glitter
• Toy Spider
• Corns

How To:

1. Paint the cornhole board back and create a spider web design using a black tape.

2. Spread silver glitter over the entire board. Brush off the excess glitter.

3. Apply a coat of garnish to prevent the glitter from falling.

4. Affix a spider on the cornhole.

5. Now have the kids toss the corns into the cornhole.

6. The kids who manage to throw the maximum corns in one minute will be the winner.

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15. Bat Count:

You Will Need:

• Scissors
• Black construction paper
• Pencil

How To:

1. Draw and cut out the bat shapes from the black construction paper. Make the bats in different sizes.

2. Now stick the bats all around the party area, including others room that you will leave open for the guests.

3. Write down the number of bats on a sheet of paper and hide. Now tell the kids to count the number of bats in the house.

4. The kids who get closest to the number will win the game.

These are just a few ideas to get the party started. Feel free to involve as many people as possible, even the adults. They will also enjoy the moments whole heartedly! What is your tween’s most favorite Halloween game or activity? Let us know in the comment section below!

Happy Halloween.

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