Halloween
Halloween activity ideas for kids.
Halloween activities here stay on the friendly side of spooky, which suits the two-to-eight range better than anything genuinely frightening.
Pumpkins do double duty: scooping the insides out is one of the best sensory activities of the year, and the seeds can be washed, dried and used for counting and sorting afterwards.
Carving is an adult job. Everything a child can do — scooping, painting, drawing the face, decorating without a knife — is what these activities are built around.
Activities
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Weave a Spider Web
Snip notches round a paper plate, wind wool across it, and you have a web. Good threading practice hiding inside a Halloween craft.
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Monster Feet Painting
Paint the bottom of their feet and walk them down a roll of paper. Messy, hilarious, and over in ten minutes.
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Spooky Shadow Puppets
Cut a bat and a cat from card, tape them to straws, and put on a show against the wall with a torch.
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Count the Pumpkin Seeds
Wash and dry the seeds from your pumpkin, then turn them into a counting game that lasts all week.
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Scooping Out a Pumpkin
The insides are the best part. Scooping is a proper sensory activity, and the washed seeds do a week of counting afterwards.