7 Family-friendly Halloween Activities!
The Witching hour is upon us. Halloween season is finally here, and Call Emmy has a list of kid-friendly Halloween activities sure to impress all Halloween lovers. Make the season a blast for your family this October with terribly fun activities that everyone can enjoy.
Halloween Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger hunts shouldn't only be reserved for easter. Create the ultimate scavenger hunt for your kids this fall. A Halloween hunt follows the same structure as any regular scavenger hunt, but spooky toys and candy take center stage. To host your own Halloween scavenger hunt, you will need small Halloween toys – spiders, skeletons, toy bats. Write the items on multiple lists and give a list to each player. Get some index cards and write down clues for the players (don’t go too easy on them!). Get creative with the clues and the locations.
Head to an Escape room
What's better than solving a spooky mystery during Halloween? Escape rooms are great for this time of year. The themed exit games will keep everyone busy as they look for clues and crack the codes needed to escape. Your family can dress up and work together to break out. It's perfect family fun. Look up escape rooms near you and see what they have in store for the Halloween season.
Paint Pumpkins
Pumpkin painting is a fun way to decorate pumpkins without having to use knives. Jack O' lanterns are great, but the knife skills required to make them prevent younger kids from fully participating. Get some paintbrushes, paint, and a big ole pumpkin for the kids, then let those young Picassos do their thing.
Decorate Halloween Buckets
Halloween wouldn’t be complete without spooky Halloween decorations. Let the kids customize their Halloween baskets this year. You’ll only need a few decorative items: Halloween stickers, colored paper, glue, and ribbon for the handles. That's all it takes to create a killer Halloween bucket.
Decorate Halloween Desserts
Don’t limit Halloween decorations to the walls and furniture in your home. Decorate your desserts. Frosting and a few drops of food coloring can make some seriously creepy designs. You can pipe black frosting onto cupcakes, shape cookies into fingers and fashion googly eyes onto donuts; there are so many ways for a family to bring out their creative side on Halloween.
Host Halloween Movie Night
Tis the season for Halloween classics. It’s time to cue up those scary movies for a Halloween movie night! Here are some top family-friendly picks:
- Halloweentown
- Ghostbusters
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Hocus Pocus
- ParaNorman
- Casper
Grab some snacks, throw on some themed pajamas, and you're good to go.
Themed Game Night
Give your loved ones a mystery to solve this season. Pick up some detective kits and mystery board games for them. Clue is undoubtedly the top choice. It's a board game that's easy to play and only takes up about an hour of your day. Best of all, it's suitable for kids eight years and older.
The detective kits include case documents and photos, each containing clues and red herrings. Unsolved Case Files is a game kit designed for teens and adults, but there is also a family-friendly case that challenges players to solve the mystery of a missing class pet. Kill a couple of hours on a rainy October night with a mystery set, or create your own. There are templates available online to help you plan out your mystery. The templates will help you decide on the crime, characters and motive.
Conclusion:
If you’re used to throwing Halloween parties, you know the biggest scare is the state of your home post-event. When the holiday clean-up fills you with dread, who you gonna call? Call Emmy! Call Emmy offers cleaning services to help you during the holidays and whenever else you need them. There are also babysitting services, home organization, and companion care services available; book a service here.