Here’s a FUN list of 31 Halloween activities for kids that includes Halloween crafts, art activities, decorations, book suggestions, recipes, costumes, and more! Plus, download the FREE printable list!
Updated December 2025
October means autumn is in full swing with fall leaves, sweater weather, pumpkin patches, and, of course, all things Halloween. It’s an exciting time of year, especially for kids.
Since our list of Creative Fall Activities for Kids was so popular, we’ve done the same for Halloween.
Would you like some ideas of creative activities to do with your children this month?
Here’s our list of our favorite Halloween activities for kids and families! Be sure to save or print out the printable version so you have ideas all month long!
31 Days of Halloween Activities for Kids
5 Pumpkin Decorating and Carving Ideas for Kids
1. Paint pumpkins with your kids (it’s the perfect Halloween sensory activity!)
2. Use a hammer and fasteners to do pumpkin pounding
3. Try these pumpkin decorating ideas for kids
4. Learn how to carve & decorate a pumpkin fairy house for kids
5. Try this super cool Lite Brite effect for your Jack-o’-lantern
5 Recipes Perfect for October
6. Bake a batch of the best pumpkin chocolate chip muffins
7. Make mini Halloween gingerbread houses
8. Bake Halloween monster bread for dinner
9. Make delicious pumpkin waffles
10. Decorate sugar skull cookies for Día de los Muertos
6 Halloween Art Ideas for Kids
11. Try this super popular Halloween scraper painting
12. Make not-too-spooky drawing prompts with eye stickers (are they ghosts, monsters, bats, witches, spiders, or owls?)
13. Try a Halloween twist on raised salt painting with designs like pumpkins, spiders, webs, ghosts, and witches
14. Carve potatoes and make Halloween potato prints
15. Halloween scratch art (an easy DIY method!)
16. Make playdough monsters with poke-ins
5 Spider Arts and Crafts Ideas
17. Make a Halloween spider web from coffee filters (super easy, plus they look awesome in the window!)
18. Make glue resist spider webs
19. Draw Zentangle spider webs (a fun tangle art activity for older kids and adults)
20. Make black glue resist spider webs!
21. Try making Halloween spider webs with a marble and paint!
3 DIY Halloween Decorations
22. Make a DIY bat garland (the perfect Halloween decoration!)
23. Or create Halloween paper chains and garlands
24. Create a spooky ambiance with doodle tissue paper lanterns
3 Costume Ideas for Kids
25. Have a costume making party for kids and make paper plate masks, cardboard wings, and more!
26. The easiest ever glow-in-the-dark skeleton costume
27. Check out our list of creative DIY Halloween costumes for kids for more inspiration!
4 More Halloween Activities for Kids
28. Try one of these fun Halloween book and craft ideas
29. Have fun with these Halloween sensory bin ideas for kids
30. Throw a Halloween art party!
31. Head to the library and check out some books about Halloween
