Youth Group Activities for Halloween
- Kids love Halloween activities.little girls with a pumpkin image by Lisa Eastman from Fotolia.com
Because of safety concerns with trick-or-treating, there is a desire to find activities for Halloween that can be done in a group. These activities can be done in the days leading up to the holiday or on the night itself and are appropriate for all age levels. If this youth group is held on a school night, feel free to give a little leeway with how late the festivities go, but ensure that they return home at a reasonable hour. - You can organize a neighborhood tailgate trick-or-treat. This works best in a large group of 20 or more children. For this activity you will need to rent out or secure the permission of a large parking lot. The parents will drive their cars to this lot and position them in a big circle with the trunks facing in. Each trunk will be like a different house and will include candy and prizes for the trick-or-treating participants. This simulates the door-to-door experience while preserving the safety of your group.
- For this activity you will need 30 empty 2-liter soda bottles, some gravel for the bottom of the bottles, three small pumpkins, white paint and a black marker. The clear bottles act as bowling pins, which you can paint white and add spooky faces to and you can weight them with the gravel. Divide your group into three separate groups, each bowling at 10 bottle pins. Each group will use one of the small pumpkins to try to knock over all 10 pins. The pumpkins often roll every which way but where you want them to, which can be amusing for the kids and adults involved. Keep score like bowling, use another method, or simply play for fun.
- Have your youth group create their own costumes with construction paper, cardboard, glue, and add-ons like feathers and sequins. These costumes may appear a bit goofy and will require some parental assistance, but the children will love getting to create their own vision for a costume. If all the parents chip in for the materials, this will be the most inexpensive and creative way for the children to be costumed.
- The witch hunt game is like the Halloween variation on the Easter egg hunt. Use paper and glue create a large amount of witch hats, about three to five for each person in the group. Hide the hats all throughout the room or building that you are holding your activity in. The hats can have various prizes and candies in them, or you can simply have a prize at the end for the most hats or the ones that were the most difficult to find. This game can be changed from witches to anything you wish, but it is very easy to make a paper witch hat.
