Are you planning a Halloween party this year? If so, we’ve got lots of fun and easy Halloween party ideas and games to keep guests of all ages entertained for hours.
Don’t forget to test your knowledge of all things Halloween with my FREE Halloween Science Quiz, too!
Halloween Party Decorations
First, why not decorate your room with Halloween-themed lava lamps? These can be themed as pumpkins, ghosts, or anything else that takes your fancy!
Rainy Day Mum has some brilliant ghost decorations.
Or how about some pipecleaner pumpkins?
Make a Halloween garland like Tinkerlab. You could experiment with different materials to see which moves the least/most in the wind.
If you don’t fancy carving a pumpkin, this yarn wrapped pumpkin from The Imagination Tree is lovely.
Decorate your room with some fake blood and learn about coagulation at the same time.
We love these spider web paper plate decorations from Creative Family Fun. Another idea is to make the web sticky and throw spiders at it.
Halloween Party Food
Serve up jelly scabs for dessert. These look gross but taste delicious!
Red blood cell cupcakes are another dessert idea!
Make a Halloween gingerbread house and test which sticky substance (liquid glucose, icing sugar, or royal icing) sticks it together best.
We love these witchy cauldron cakes from Rainy Day Mum, too.
Halloween Party Games
Try one of my easy Halloween STEM Challenges. Build Halloween candy towers, blow up a pumpkin balloon with baking soda, make a creepy density jar or make spooky Halloween melting hands.
Use Halloween coloured juices and investigate which mixture makes the best bubbles!
How about a slimy game of what’s in the pumpkin?
These shooting ghosts are brilliant from Growing a Jewelled Rose.
Try a game of who can make the scariest play dough monster or vegetable monster.
Have a race to see who can construct a model brain the fastest. Try to name the component parts.
Make a Halloween railroad like Play Trains.
Make skeleton pictures using Q-tips like Mama Smiles.
Scare your friends with this spooky sounds device. If you use different sized and shaped cups, the sound should change.
Halloween Messy Play and Potions
Last year, I put together ten brilliant witchy potion recipes. There’s gloopy chia seed slime, fizzy baking soda potions and even a magical colour changing potion! Which will you try first?
Halloween Costumes
Red Ted Art has some brilliant Halloween themed costumes, and we especially love her Harry Potter wands.
Do you have any more Halloween party ideas for us?
Last Updated on October 24, 2025 by Emma Vanstone
