Halloween party script for children

Do you like Halloween as much as we do? Are you are looking for something fun to celebrate it with your kids? Very cool then! Despite the fact that some people call this day a celebration of evil spirits, Halloween teaches children to cope with their fears and experience them from a different perspective. Disguised as a witch or a monster, playing a role of some scary creature and making their fears tangible and funny, children no longer see real fears as creepy. Every parent can turn this October holiday into a lot of fun with their own hands! You’ll find many useful tips and life hacks in our article:

• Preparing for the holiday & decorating the house with improvised means
• Doing Halloween arts and crafts with children
• Halloween party script: costumes, contests, games and a quest
• A ready-made Halloween quest script with puzzles and active games

All you need is a little time and desire to have fun with the kids!

Children's Halloween party at home: preparation

Decorating the house

You don’t have to decorate the whole apartment/house - you can choose one room and let your creativity out there. We usually do it in the kitchen – there is a large white wall and the whole family gathers more often there. However, both the children's room and the living room will do, if it's more convenient for you.

Firstly, look at everything you have at home: we have collected various toys suitable for a creepy celebration: a wooden skeleton, a black cat, an owl, a monster. Maybe you'll find something in your toy drawer, too. And if not, you can easily make some toys yourself.

Making a ghost

We will need a balloon, a strong rope or thread, a piece of black cardboard or felt and any white piece of fabric (an old towel or sheet will do). We took Grandma's woolen shawl.

Inflate the balloon, tie the string to it (since we have a shawl with holes, we wrapped the balloon with a white cloth). In the center of the flap, cut out a small hole and thread a string there. Hang the future ghost by a rope. Now cut out any “facial” expression from cardboard or felt and glue it on double–sided tape or attach it with a pin or a couple of stitches in the right place - the ghost is ready!

Cool pumpkin for Halloween without carving

The tradition of carving Jack's lantern out of a pumpkin is a cool one, but it's a rather tedious task that only an adult can handle. Moreover, the insides of the pumpkin need to be cooked right away, as we don't want to just throw them away. Such a lantern also dries and fades in a few days, which is a real pity! We have come up with a great way to make a traditional pumpkin that will stand on the windowsill for the whole month: you can paint it with paints or stick a face with modelling clay! Feel free to decorate the vegetable with rhinestones, sequins, beautiful strings and what not.

Jack O Lantern from an orange

If you absolutely need a lantern, let’s make it from a large orange or grapefruit: cut off the "lid", carefully scoop out the pulp with a spoon and carve the face. Put a small candle inside – the lantern is ready! It burns beautifully, no worse than a pumpkin. But it’s also easier to make and throw away when the time comes.

Garland of ghosts or spiders

Take a ribbon of old wallpaper 20 cm long (drawing paper will also do) or glue some A4 sheets together. It is better to take thicker paper for making spiders, because when painting it in black, the paper can shrink. Paint the paper with black gouache (this can be done with a child), then dry it. There’s no need to do it for ghosts. Fold the paper ribbon like an accordion, draw a silhouette of a ghost / spider on the top sheet and cut out without cutting the "hands" so that they seem to hold on to each other. Unfold the garland and hang it on the wall.

Bottle lanterns

Wash any bottle, paint it with white gouache or acrylic paint, dry it. Draw the eyes and mouth with black paint or cut them out of black cardboard and glue. Put any lights in the bottle (it is better if the bulbs are not colored, but white or yellow), leave the tip of the cord sticking out of the neck. Plug it into the socket – the creepy flashlight is ready.

Crafts with children for Halloween

Here's what you can do with children: a mummy and witches from dolls, a spider web with a spider and small ghosts.

Mummy made of a doll

You will need any doll (preferably with a minimum of hair, we took an IKEA man) and a bandage. It's easy: undress the doll and wrap it with bandages! Then draw a face – fierce or funny at your choice.

Witches made of dolls

For hats, you will need a piece of felt (you can find it in crafts department and creativity stores), any piece of non–crumbling fabric for a raincoat, a chopstick and any thread for a broom. We took a common grey twine. Roll up a bag with a pointed tip from felt according to the size of the doll's head, cut off the desired length and glue it with a glue gun or sew it together. To make the brims, circle the round bottom of the “bag”, draw 2-3 cm wide brims around it and cut out a circle from felt, glue or sew it to the hat. We also attached a bead on the top. For the broom, cut the threads and tie the bundle around the stick, you can glue it as well. The witches are ready!

Spider in the web

Make the web from a strong thread and hang it in any convenient place. You can just cling it to the wall with the pins, but if you don't want to leave holes, then wind the thread in any order on the back of the chair, between the shelves on the rack, etc. Cut out the spiders from felt: draw a body with a head like a big "8" and wrap them with a fluffy wire in a narrow place (these are paws). You can simply twist the body from a black cloth, or sew it from a sock stuffed with cotton, and make the paws from any wire or tight rope.

Little ghosts

You’ll need white fabric, buttons or black cardboard for the eyes and stuffing material: cotton wool or scraps of fabric. Сut out a square of fabric about 40х40 cm in size (the larger the flap, the bigger the ghost will be). Form a ball for stuffing, place it in the center of the flap and wrap it. Tie the "neck" with a strip of fabric 3-4 cm wide and 30 cm long. These will be hands. Make cardboard eyes and attach them with tape or sew button eyes to the head. The ghost is ready to play and scare!

If you don't have a pumpkin or you don't want to mess with it – you can simply draw this symbol and hang a poster in a prominent place.

Halloween house party script for kids

DIY Halloween Costumes

A Halloween party is unthinkable without scary or fun costumes! We always invent and make them ourselves, but you can also buy ready-made oneы. The children's imagination works great when they need to come up with an outlook themselves. Prepare some old unnecessary clothes in advance: T-shirts, skirts, or just scraps of fabric. Various shawls, stoles, straps, glasses and other accessories will also come in handy.

It is very easy to make colored mesh skirts for girls: buy 1.5 m of mesh, cut it into long strips and tie the middles to an elastic band. There are many detailed workshops on the Internet if you try the request "tutu skirt with your own hands / DIY tutu skirt / no sew tutu skirt".

It is very easy to make a little ghost: put on some white clothes or make a cloak out of a bed sheet, and draw "black circles" around the eyes. The child will feel very cool!

It won't be difficult to make "bats" as well: cut out wings that resemble mice in shape from an old black T-shirt or any suitable fabric, then lightly sew them on some black clothes on the back. Sew loops on the ends of the wings, so the child will be able to put one finger or wrist into it and wave the wings. Ready to fly!

When the costumes are ready and the styles are designed, you need to figure out what to do next. We offer you some contests for Halloween:

• organize creative workshops,
• play active games,
• arrange a quest to find sweets at the end of the festivities.

"Bats" workshop

We will need toilet paper bushings (in other words, cardboard rolls), cardboard and felt-tip pens. You can add any stickers, rhinestones, feathers for decoration. This is how you can make a bat: flatten the top of the craft to get sharp "ears". Cut out the wings from cardboard in one piece, glue them on the back. Draw a muzzle. Decorate. You can also make owls (another shape of wings) or kitties (then you need a tail).

"Creepy cups" workshop

Prepare disposable cardboard cups according to the number of children, some felt-tip pens and scary stickers. The children should decorate their cups as creepy as possible. Then they can drink juice from them!

In advance, check on one cup that the pens do not smudge (they still need to dry out for at least a couple of minutes after drawing). Even small children from three years old can cope with this task.

"Ghost hunting" active game

This is a Halloween version of "blind man's buff". The leader is a ghost hunter, he or she is blindfolded in the middle of the room (prepare the room in advance – remove everything dangerous and fragile). The participants are "ghosts", they run around the hunter and "howl" from time to time. Be sure to change the hunter, let everyone play the role. Children really like it when one of the adults becomes a hunter, so try this version of the game.

Dance Battle: Witches vs Skeletons

Download some mystical and active music in advance. Give the girls any shawls or stoles in the shape of witch cloaks. You can also use mop stick as a broom. The boys are skeletons, you can paint their faces. Arrange a dance battle: first witches dance, then skeletons, then ask them to dance together some kind of brand "witch" or "skeleton" movement. Make it more complicated: let the next round of the dance be performed while kneeling, or with hands raised above your head, jumping, etc. Let the children come up with a team name (something creepy). If there are only girls or only boys in the company, then organize a battle between two teams of witches or skeletons.

Ready–made Halloween quest "Spoooky party"

A Halloween-style party is impossible without sweets, so we suggest you arrange a quest to find them at the end of the day. To do this, buy sweets in advance (it's gonna be amazing if you find some themed ones: jelly worms and spiders, skeletons, pumpkins, etc.), hide them in some stash at home (so that the children don't accidentally find them in advance), and prepare a chain of clues with riddles leading to the hiding place.

Here’s another idea – you can write simple notes "from Jack" (he is the owner of the pumpkin lantern), and you can come up with riddles and puzzles. You can also lock the candy (for example, in a suitcase, a drawer, a chest or any lockable place), and the children need to “earn” the code from the lock! For example, they will need to perform funny forfeit tasks (to show a vampire pantomime, to walk like a zombie, to make a mummy with toilet paper, etc.)

The first note "from Jack" is at the pumpkin lantern: "seems like it’s very dusty" (vacuum cleaner), in the vacuum cleaner they’ll find a note "no one likes broccoli!" (a toy from IKEA in the shape of a broccoli), under the toy there is a new note: "a light source in cold darkness"... The children get dressed and go outside, they see a burning candle (on batteries) in the courtyard in the dark, and there is the next note under it. And so on all the way to the stash with sweets.

However, the simplest way is to buy a ready-made script. It's very fast, and we have one, by the way. Read further and learn all about it!

If you have no time to come up with riddles and puzzles - we have already invented everything and designed it for you. A ready-made "Spooooky Party" set of cards with thematic tasks only needs to be printed on a black-and-white or color printer and hidden at home according to the instructions. The witch invites the children to her cool and creepy party with sweets and gifts, only they have to collect all her friends along the way: a skeleton, a vampire, a werewolf, a bat, a spider, an owl and a mummy. Children will receive each next clue if they solve the task on the card.

There are dances, forfeits and active games in the quest, and the participation of an adult is minimized – the quest "conducts" itself! The main thing is that children should be able to read (the recommended age is from 6 to 11 years old). You can play at home or at school. Have a look at the colorful tasks that are waiting for children:

Have fun with our quest this Halloween! Boooo!