Fun Halloween Party Games for Kids and Adults

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Photo by: Michael Hall

Happy Halloween Friends,

From cakewalks to can tosses, pumpkin-carving contests to piñatas, our list of DIY Halloween party games is guaranteed to make your ghoulish get-together as freaky-fun as possible.

Pumpkin Tic-Tac-Toe

Photo by: Cassidy Garcia, Styling by: Jill Tennant Design

Move the festivities outside to play this oversized version of tic-tac-toe that uses orange and white petite pumpkins in the place of x's and o's. To recreate at home, use decorative duct tape to create a grid on a flat area, like a driveway or patio, then place pumpkins in a basket or stack them up beside the gameboard.

GET THE HOW-TO: 3 DIY Pumpkin-Themed Yard Games for Fall Fun

Pick-a-Pumpkin Party Game

This kids' party game is easy to make and fun to play. You can make it simple by allowing kids to pick a prize depending on which pumpkin they choose, or more difficult by making the goal to match two items behind the pumpkin flaps.

GET THE HOW-TO: Halloween Party Game: Pumpkin Pickin'

Candy Bucket Pong

Photo by: Cassidy Garcia, Styling by: Jill Tennant Design

This oversized version of the classic college party game is reimagined for family fun. To play, set up 10 plastic candy buckets in a pyramid shape on the lawn and fill each bucket with rocks or sand. Standing about 6 feet from the first bucket, players take turns trying to toss a Ping-Pong ball into the buckets, removing a bucket each time they score. The player with the most buckets at the end wins.

GET THE HOW-TO: 3 DIY Pumpkin-Themed Yard Games for Fall Fun

Indoor Halloween Scavenger Hunt

Photo by: Celsea Faulkner, Printable Designed by: Maggie Miller

Spiders, mummies and ghosts — oh my! Our free, printable Halloween treasure hunt sends kids on a harrowing journey around the house to gather clues and find hidden treats. Follow the link below to find the instructions and download the free printable cards that guarantee hours of fun this Halloween.

GET THE HOW-TO: Free, Printable Halloween Scavenger Hunts

Cookie Stacking Tournament

Courtesy of Kim Stoegbauer

Games with prizes, especially food prizes, tend to keep kids entertained. Using sandwich cookies, see who can stack the most cookies in one minute without the stack falling over. Reward the winner with candy or a small Halloween trinket. Hosting a lot of kids? Try putting together a cookie-stacking tournament!

Jack-o'-Lantern Can Toss

Photo by: Cassidy Garcia, Styling by: Jill Tennant Design

Take a page from the book of classic carnival games to fashion this fun, almost-free can toss. Clean out 10 metal soup cans, cover them in sparkly orange cardstock and add fun jack-o'-lantern faces with a marker or black cardstock. Stack the cans in a pyramid shape on top of some hay bales and let the bean bag tossing begin! The player to knock down the most cans in five rounds wins.

GET THE HOW-TO: 3 DIY Pumpkin-Themed Yard Games for Fall Fun

Marshmallow Toss Game

Courtesy of Kim Stoegbauer

Get a little help from the kiddos to craft this easy party game. They'll enjoy helping to create the game as much as they will playing it. As a reward for their skills, let them eat whichever marshmallows they can get in the cups.

GET THE HOW-TO: Halloween Party Game: Marshmallow Toss

Haunting Hopscotch

Put some pep in the trick-or-treaters’ steps with a festive pumpkin hopscotch game. Follow the step-by-step instructions below to make this sweet and simple DIY to highlight the path to candy on Halloween night. Not spooky enough for your taste? Use the same hopscotch base but swap the pumpkins for inky spiders, screeching bats or bloody footprints.

Monster Mash Musical Chairs

Photo by: Michael Hall

Halloween musical chairs is just like ordinary musical chairs, only played to a Halloween soundtrack and full of fun Halloween decor. As ordinary musical chairs goes, it is a blast for all ages and brings out just enough of everyone’s competitive spirit. Set up chairs around a fun tree decorated for Halloween, as designer Jennifer Perkins did here.

Kooky Cornhole

This bean-bag toss game is fun and easy for the whole family and building a set is a fairly easy woodworking project that you can tackle in a day. Feeling extra festive? Paint the board in graphic Halloween colors like black and orange and buy bean bags to match.

GET THE HOW-TO: How to Build Regulation Cornhole Boards

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Live well,
Yvonne