30+ Fun Halloween Activities To Do This Year
If you’re looking for something fun to do this Halloween, then check out this bucket list. This bucket list has 30+ ideas for children, families, couples, and single adults!
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I watch horror movies, visit hay farms, and even dress up in fun costumes. There are many fun Halloween activities for you this year, and it’s not all about trick or treating. Whether you prefer a ghoulish or chill season, there are plenty of Halloween activities for children, families, adults, couples, and everyone. Likewise, there’s no shortage of activities you can do around Halloween.
So, if you’re stuck trying to figure out what to do this year, check out my fun Halloween activities list.
Fun Halloween Activities For Everyone
For Children
- Participate in a Halloween-themed scavenger hunt
- Start creating homemade costumes
- Eat some candied apples
- Go apple or pumpkin picking
- Go to a local school costume party
- Visit an amusement park around Halloween
- Play with some messy slime
- Trick or treating
- Prank some friends
- Paint pumpkins
- Watch kid-friendly Halloween movies (Caroline, Hocus Pocus, and The Nightmare Before Christmas are my favs!)
- Bob apples
- Attend a local Halloween party
- Play with Halloween stickers or toys
- Listen to ghost stories
- Bake Halloween treats together
- Make caramel apples with children
For Adults
- Host a costume party with friends
- Go on a haunted house tour
- Decorate your home with Halloween décor
- Hand out Halloween candy to neighborhood children
- Tend to your inner child
- Drink Halloween spiked alcoholic beverages
- Go on a hayride
- Participate in a costume party at your local bar or pub
- Go bar hopping
- Do a Halloween candy taste test
- Make a festive cocktail
- Listen to a Halloween-themed Spotify or Apple Music playlist.
- Visit a farmer’s market
- Shop for Halloween decorations
- Watch Thrillers or Murder Mysteries
- Do a DIY Halloween Craft
- Journal about your fears
- Take a walk through the neighborhood and admire the creativity
For Couples
- Go to a murder mystery dinner
- Dress up together in a themed costume
- Watch horror movies
- Carve pumpkins together
- Celebrate Halloweekend together
- Watch a spooky Broadway together (I recommend Beetlejuice)
- Decorate the house together
- Attend a nearby fright fest
- Go ghost hunting
- Order takeout from a fav local restaurant
- Play CLUE
- Bake a Pumpkin Spice treat together
- Binge watch American Horror Stories
- Participate in a mock exorcism
- Go on a night hike
- Take pictures at a graveyard
For Families
- Visit a corn maze
- Go UFO watching
- Go stargazing in the backyard
- Read Horror books together
- Watch family-friendly Halloween films (Halloweentown and Twitches are my favs!)
- Create candy wreaths
- Play a pumpkin toss game
- Craft paper mache Halloween decorations
- Create dreamcatchers for scary nightmares
- Visit the zoo around Halloween
- Attend a neighborhood Halloween block party
- Have a family monster bash
- Have a sock puppet show with bats
- Play a Halloween version of ISpy
- Complete a fizzy science experiment together as a family
- Count creepy bats
- Pretend to call ghosts
- Attend a fall festival during the daytime
- Go on a haunted tour of your hometown
- Have some spooky fun at the museum
- Play some Halloween-themed party games
- Watch seasonal cartoon episodes (The Simpsons, Mickey Mouse, Spongebob Squarepants, and Scooby-Doo!)
- Volunteer at a food bank
- Attend a sporting event on Halloween
I hope you enjoyed this list of Halloween activities. As Halloween approaches, everyone is planning their costumes and searching for spooktacular events & activities! You can have fun Halloween outside trick or treat and dress up in spooky costumes.
Whether you celebrate Halloween family with your children, attend a spooky party, or choose to chill with your significant other, there are so many ways you can enjoy the horrific wonders of Halloween.
How are you celebrating Halloween? Let me know in the comments.
