22 Halloween Class Party Games for Elementary Classrooms (& How to Manage Seasonal Halloween Energy)

Directions

1. Play a basketball-style game with eyeball-shaped balls and trash cans as hoops.
2. Test memory with a Halloween-themed concentration card game featuring pumpkins.
3. Challenge kids to find Halloween words in a word search puzzle.
4. Race to stack plastic ghost cups into a tower.
5. Blow through straws to move toy spiders across a line.
6. Toss bean bags onto a target board decorated for Halloween.
7. Play BINGO with Halloween symbols and pictures.
8. Create a pretend diner where students serve spooky food.
9. Ping pong balls are tossed into carved pumpkin buckets.
10. Throw rings to land on an inflatable witch hat.
11. Toss rings onto an inflatable spider web target.
12. Set up additional bean bag toss variations with Halloween themes.
13. Hand out a scavenger hunt sheet asking students to find classmates matching descriptions.
14. Sit in a circle and pass a pumpkin while music plays; stop when music ends.
15. Blindfold students and have them pin a paper eye on a monster poster.
16. Blindfolded kids try to pin a spider on a large paper web.
17. Balance an eyeball on a spoon and race to the finish line.
18. Wear a Halloween headband with a card; ask yes/no questions to guess the item.
19. Act out Halloween-themed words or phrases for classmates to guess.
20. Students list five facts about a pumpkin within a time limit.
21. Share two truths and one lie about Halloween; others guess the lie.
22. Dance to Halloween songs; freeze when the music stops.