Trick or treating is a great Halloween tradition but it’s not always practical. In fact, depending on where you live, dressing up and knocking on doors may not be very safe or perhaps your kids are older and the thought of trick or treating has lost its appeal. For whatever reason you’re searching for fun Halloween activities besides trick or treating to enjoy with your family, you’ll be happy to know there are a lot of great alternatives to explore. Check out below for some Fun Halloween Activities Besides Trick or Treating.
1. Choose a theme and decorate one room in your home
Go all out and make it as spooky or interesting as you want. Then dress up in costumes and spend a couple hours playing Halloween games and taking pictures of the family with all the decorations.
2. Host a kids Halloween costume party
It’s a fun and safe way for the kids to celebrate the holiday with a Halloween Party for the family. Do a little decorating, put on some spooky and/or funny Halloween music and play games. Not only will the kids have a great time, but the parents will love it too. You can also have a virtual Halloween costume party with your kid’s friends or other family members.
3. Plan a Halloween movie night for the family
Have everyone dress up in their costumes. Then gather in front of the TV to watch some of your favourite shows or movies together while munching down on some great Halloween snacks.
4. Have a backyard candy hunt
Hide wrapped candy, toys and other treats in the backyard and have your kids go hunt for them. They’ll have a blast searching for the items and you’ll have a great time watching them. Be sure to make a list of what you hide and where so you can collect all hidden items before the hunt ends.
5. Set up a few family backyard games
You can play games like bean bag toss or ring toss. Bob for apples, make a Halloween craft, or set up a table where the kids can paint a small pumpkin to take home with them.
When trick or treating is no longer an option, try one or more of the activities above to make this Halloween even more fun and exciting than any other. It’s a great way for the whole family to spend the holiday together in a safe and controlled environment.
Halloween is definitely fun, even without trick or treating. My family did this kind of stuff growing up too, especially costume parties.
It’s nice to do something fun as a family besides the stress of trick-or-treating. It sounds like fun to me, anyway.
Yes, there are so many other fun activities to do!
Scary movie night sounds like a great idea!
I love the backyard candy hunt idea! Or an indoor candy hunt would be fun, too! Thank you for the great ideas.
You’ve got great ideas, because the only Halloween party that we got was at school
The candy hunt sounds like so much fun,thanks for sharing !
I like the idea of the outdooor halloween haunt , I bet that would be perfect for my 2 yr old grandson
We love our scary movie night tradition!
October is a fun month to have fun both indoors and out.it’s fun to decorate and to dress-up !
There are many Halloween parties to attend in my town for non-trick or treaters. I love this holiday. Thanks for posting!
I love the idea of a Halloween movie night.
I like the candy hunt idea! I would have to do it indoors as we usually have snow at Halloween. It would be a lot less stressful than trick or treating. This year worked out great. My neighbour’s grandparents took the older (faster!) kids and we took the younger ones. It was a lot easier.