Fun halloween games for 4 year olds

Then count them down before seeing who can hop to victory first. Get the kids into teams of 3 or 4. In each team, choose one child or adult! The rest of the team use a roll of toilet paper to wrap them up as a Mummy.

The winner can either be the group that finishes first or the group that does the best job of wrapping up their Mummy. Pumpkin Patch Stomp is one of the easiest Halloween games for kids to set up.

The winner here is the one with the most burst balloons. Pick up a couple of bags of marshmallows on your weekly shop. Repeat this as the marshmallows continue to build in their mouth, until they can no longer coherently say the line.

Prepare bowls filled with gross, slimy feeling foods that could be interpretative as Halloween themed nasties, such as peeled grapes as eye balls or slimy spaghetti as brains.

Bingo — but a bit spookier! We love this pre-made Halloween themed bingo set — which instead of numbers has characters like Frankenstein, a skeleton and ghost to tick off. Appoint a host who picks a caller image randomly and reads out the Halloween related item for the players to cross out on their bingo card.

Just like the old classic, pin the tail on the donkey, but with a Halloween twist! Blindfold them, spin them round three times and then set them off. The winner is the child who gets the wart closest to the end of the nose.

Tip: Create your own DIY version — simply draw and cut out a picture of a witch and stick it on the wall before the party. A kid-friendly dartboard with a Halloween twist! This set includes a spider web poster to pin on a wall with different pointed targets.

Have your little ones take turns throwing and aiming the sticky spiders at the wicked web, totting up their points. And of course the player with the highest points wins. Make the most of pumpkin season, with this simple pitch and putt pumpkin golf game. A bit of DIY is in order with this activity: carve your pumpkins, making sure to leave an extra wide hole for the mouth.

Then dot your stylised squashes around your back garden, equip the kids with a club and ball and let them tackle the course individually or as a team. You can pick up plastic golf club sets that are colourful kid-sized from Amazon these days at under a tenner. Plenty of reason to give this one a go.

This set from Amscan has a 4. Draw out all the bones to make up two skeletons on a sturdy piece of card and lay all the bones in a pile on one side on the room, with a surface or card to place or pin them on at the end other end of the room.

Split your little monsters up into two teams and on the whistle one by one they must run to assemble the skeleton tagging in the next person. The first team with a full skeleton wins — educational AND fun! Beer pong made kid-friendly. This one might be one of the most challenging Halloween games for kids, as they use their hand eye co-ordination skills to throw and land the eyeball into the plastic cup.

Separate them into teams first, and the winning group is the one who manages to land all the eyeballs into their opponents cups. Add a Halloween theme to traditional hide and seek by getting the kids to wear costumes. Buy some Halloween-themed small toys like toy spiders, bats, mini toy pumpkins and hide them around the garden or house.

Separate the kids out into groups of 2 or 3 and give them a list of what they have to find. Place some plastic spiders on a table and have the kids blow them across the table with some festive Halloween straws. Whoever crosses the finish line first wins. The kids have to eat the doughnuts with their hands tied behind their backs.

Make up a big bowl of jelly and hide little Halloween toys and wrapped sweeties in it. One of those fun Halloween games for kids that the whole family can get involved in. Make a note to hang onto empty cans or water bottles in the lead up to the party.

Children are eliminated for not freezing. And the last person standing is the winner. Have kids race to put on and take off old Halloween costumes in this fun and frantic Halloween party game for kids.

Divide the kids into even teams for the relay race. The team that has every member put on and take off their designated costume first wins. Kids work together in this game to wrap a classmate or friend with toilet paper or crepe paper. The object of the game can be the mummy with the most wrapping in an allotted amount of time wins. Or simply let the kids wrap to their heart's content to burn off a little energy. Tell ghost stories in "round-robin" fashion with this spooky Halloween party game for kids.

The activity calls for sitting in a circle with candles, but it can work just as well with mini flashlights.

Have each person tell a portion of a spooky story and then blow out their candle or turn off their flashlight before passing the story onto the next person. Split kids into teams, and have each team race to move candy corn from one bowl to another.

The catch is they have to use a spoon and can't touch the candy corn with their hands. The team that finishes transferring the candy corn between its bowls first wins. This Halloween game will get kids moving. Kids hold hands to form a "worm" and then run from one spot to another trying to keep their worm intact. It can be played by teams or just be a fun activity for all the kids to do together. Split kids into teams, and provide each team with a scarecrow and a bag of clothes.

Then, have the kids dress the scarecrow one article of clothing at a time in a relay race format. The first team with a fully dressed scarecrow wins. Create a pumpkin out of posterboard or cardboard, and make a separate stem for it. Then, blindfold kids and have them try to pin the stem on the pumpkin. You can use masking tape on the stem if the kids are too young for pushpins. Fill a jar with Halloween candy, and have kids guess how many pieces are in the jar.

The winner either guesses correctly or is closest to the correct number. They can take home the jar—after sharing a piece with everyone, of course. This game is a fun twist on musical chairs. Print out Halloween-related images, and spread them around the room.

Have smaller versions of the images to put in a jar. Have Halloween music playing, and when it stops the kids must choose an image on which to stand. Pull an image from your jar. Anyone standing on that image is out of the game. Remove the image, and keep playing until there's a winner. Partner up kids for this fun and active game.

The object of the game is for one kid to catch candy corn thrown by their partner in a plastic pumpkin worn around their waist. The duo that's able to make the most pieces of candy corn in the bucket wins. Divide the kids into two teams, and assign each team a color. Supply each team with several pumpkins, with their bottoms painted in the team color. Tape a Halloween-related character name on each child's back, making sure the characters are suitable for the kids' age group.

Also, don't allow them to see their character name. Then, have the kids walk around and give each other clues about the characters on their backs. The first person to guess the character they have wins. This game is essentially hot potato but with pumpkins. Kids pass around a mini pumpkin, and if they're caught holding the pumpkin when the music stops they're out. This is a fun Halloween party game that even the littlest kids can play.

Divide kids into two teams, and give each team a pumpkin and a hockey stick. Then, have each participant stick-handle their pumpkin to a designated spot and back before passing the stick and pumpkin off to the next person on their team.

The team that finishes first wins. Create lollipops with paper covering them to make a ghost-like form. On each piece of paper should be a letter than spells a Halloween-related word of your choice. The game is played in two parts. First, have the kids hunt for the hidden lollipops. Then, have them work together to unscramble the letters and decipher the word.