Halloween Activities for Kids (Frightfully Perfect for 3-5 Year Olds)

• After some Halloween sensory play with shaving cream, cut out some ghosts and spider webs to decorate!
• Instead of pumpkin carving, pick out some pumpkins that resemble your family and make them into mummies for a table decoration!
• Create monsters with yarn and glue. Add some monster touches and hang on a Halloween monster tree!
• Kids can get crafty in this Halloween activity with cardboard tubes and crepe paper to make candy holders for trick or treats!
• Use tape in a doorway (or hallway) and make a sticky spider web to catch ‘flies’!
• Dye cooked spaghetti the color of your choice. Add some ‘glue’ to the mix and make spider webs to hang in the window!
• Having a Halloween party? Make these monster treat bags during the party for take home treats!
• Add zits, eyes and hair to some odd looking pumpkins to make them into monsters!
• Go on a Halloween scavenger hunt! Skip the scary and spooky activities this Halloween with a super fun not-so-spooky spider hunt in the dark for kids.
• This not-so-spooky spider handprint is also a window cling for the whole family to make! It’s fun to use a colored googly eye for the eyeball!
• Have a Halloween pajama party with this easy Halloween themed reading fort idea.

Halloween Sensory Activities:

These are some kids sensory activities for toddlers and preschoolers to explore this Halloween season.

• Add food coloring to shaving cream and let your toddler (and preschooler) enjoy the gooey-ness of it all!
• Add food coloring and oil to cooked spaghetti and let your toddler mix up some slimy spaghetti potions!
• Put hair gel (and food coloring if necessary) along with monster features, such as googly eyes, in a baggy for some sensory exploration!
• Dress up a gingerbread boy as a mummy for a tasty (and smelly) treat for the holiday to make with the kids!