This article is all about Halloween Trunk or Treats and the 20 Activities you can add to it to make it a full fun night for everyone!
1. Pumpkin Painting Station
Set up a small station where kids can paint mini pumpkins with washable paint. Provide paintbrushes, stencils, and fun decorations like glitter or stickers to let them be creative.
2. Spooky Sensory Table
Fill containers with “spooky” sensory items such as peeled grapes (eyeballs), cooked spaghetti (guts), or slime. Let kids reach in and guess what they are touching!
3. Candy Corn Toss
Create a fun game where kids can toss candy corn (or bean bags) into different buckets or bowls for small prizes.
4. Carnival Games
Have the adults or youth in your ward run carnival games in the chapel while the other adults are decorating their trunks in the parking lot. This is a great way to kill time if it’s still too sunny outside too!
5. Costume Parade
Organize a mini costume parade where kids can show off their costumes. Give out awards for different categories, like “funniest,” “most creative,” or “spookiest” costume.
6. Photo Booth with Halloween Props
Set up a photo booth with Halloween-themed props like witch hats, vampire capes, and ghost masks. Decorate the backdrop with cobwebs, pumpkins, and spooky lights for a perfect photo op.
7. Trunk Decorating Contest
Encourage participants to go all out by decorating their trunks with themes like haunted houses, witches, or movie characters. Offer a prize for the best-decorated trunk!
8. Spooky Story Time
Have a designated area where a volunteer reads not-too-scary Halloween stories to children in between trick-or-treating rounds.
9. Glow Stick Hunt
Hide glow sticks or small Halloween trinkets around the parking area and let the kids go on a glow-in-the-dark treasure hunt. Provide small bags or baskets for collecting their treasures.
10. Spider Ring Toss
Create a game where kids try to toss rings over large inflatable spiders or spooky objects. Award them candy or small prizes for participating.
11. Pumpkin Bowling
Use small pumpkins as bowling balls and set up ghost-shaped pins made from toilet paper rolls for a fun, Halloween-themed bowling game.
12. Decorate a Treat Bag
Provide plain paper bags or fabric totes and let kids decorate them with stickers, markers, or stamps before they start trick-or-treating.
13. Chili Cook-off
Get the ward members involved and hold a chili cook-off. Give awards to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best Chilis!
14. Halloween Bingo
Create a simple Halloween bingo game with pictures of bats, witches, pumpkins, and other themed images or costumes. As the night continues on, have kids cross out different images or costumes they see. Provide treats for anyone that gets bingo!
15. Mummy Wrap Contest
Have a fun contest where kids work in teams to wrap each other up like mummies using toilet paper or white streamers.
16. Witch Hat Ring Toss
Set up cones decorated like witch hats and let the kids toss rings onto them. You can use glow-in-the-dark rings for added excitement!
17. Pumpkin Golf
Cut holes into pumpkins and set up a mini-golf game where kids try to hit golf balls into the pumpkins’ mouths.
18. Face Painting
Set up a station where kids can get their faces painted halloween-themed characters.
19. Line-Dancing
As the night goes on and it’s nearing to the end, consider spending 15 minutes teaching your ward some line dances! It’s a great way to get everyone involved and together right before closing prayer!
20. Pie or Cupcake Walk
The kids walk around a circle that is sectioned off by numbers. They walk around the circle to music and when it stops, if the number they’re standing on is drawn, they get a cupcake or pie!
