50 Fun Things to Do for Halloween

There are limitless amounts of fun things to do for Halloween, but we put together 50 that are sure to bewitch you.

There’s something fun about Halloween. 

The streets are filled with happy, smiling children in beautiful and intricate costumes. They run around, ringing doorbells, screaming “Trick or Treat!” and holding out their bags with their expectant eyes.

These costumed superheroes, princesses, and ghosts running amok will melt your heart with cuteness, and you’ll obviously want to offer them the best candy money can buy. The last thing you want to do is be that house that offers raisins.

There are also the stories told over a bewitching cup of hot cocoa while huddled around candlelight, and the decorations adorning the neighborhood houses, showcasing all the creativity of each household and illuminated by multicolored strobe lights.

Bottom line, Halloween is one of the best holidays around!

It’s one of the few days you can dress up in any costume imaginable and no one even bats an eye.

It’s a time to escape into different realities and be whoever you want to be for a little while. 

The spirit of Halloween is also a great time to introduce people to experiences that only come around once a year. After all, it’s a fantastic time to crawl out of your comfort zone, with all the thrills unique to the season. So what do you say? Take a look at our newest list with 50 fun things to do for Halloween!

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Fun Halloween Things to Do At Home

Even on an energy-packed holiday like Halloween, there are going to be times when you’re feeling like being a bit of a homebody. I know this because a lot of times I’m the same way. There are a lot of times when I’m not feeling like a huge party and I’d rather just spend some time at home, either alone, with my partner, or with a few choice friends.

1. Spend a weekend watching the cheesiest Halloween movies you can find.
2. Host a low-key Halloween feast.  Nothing wild, but if you gather a few friends, carve up some pumpkins, bake some tasty pies, and have them bring fall-inspired foods; you’ve got a sure recipe for spooky success.
3. Bake and decorate cookies! You can design some gravestones, ghosts, spiderwebs, and the like; the more intricate, the better!
4. Dim the lights and share spooky stories with friends and family.
5. Decorate your home, inside and out, with as many dark and creepy things that you can find. You can think about themes if you’re feeling ambitious, then work all the decorations in to fit a particular kind of Spooky House.
6. Host a Halloween movie night and make Halloween snacks and popcorn for everyone.
7. Once the holidays are done and gone, smash your pumpkins and create a mess. If you have a backyard, don’t worry too much – the squirrels and other critters will love the pumpkin seeds.
8. Make and send Halloween cards to your favorite people.
9. Create a creepy scarecrow. Why? No reason. 
10. Make a Halloween wreath.
11. Create beautiful designs on candy sugar skulls.

Candy Sugar Skulls

Fun Things to Do on Halloween with Friends

I wanted to lead with some things for the homebodies so that they know that we love them, but Halloween is one of the biggest seasons for get-togethers and for going out and having fun with your friends. Keep the Halloween spirit alive and catch up with some friends you haven’t seen in a while with these spooktacular ideas!

12. Go pumpkin picking with a group of friends with a mission in mind. Instead of grabbing a regular pumpkin for each of you, make it a challenge to find the largest or wackiest pumpkin. The natural follow-up is to have a pumpkin decorating competition. If you’re all skilled carvers, you can spice that idea up even more by adding a theme, such as Halloween movies, scary creatures, or the like.
13. Terrorize your neighborhood… politely. No one is a fan of property damage or assault, but dressing up as clowns or vagabonds can make Halloween night more of an adventure for the whole community.
14. Host a Halloween version of an Easter egg hunt, where you hide trinkets inside of leaf piles and task your friends with finding them.
15. Go to a Halloween party! There’s a whole section of the list that has to do with Halloween party activities, but that’s really geared towards hosting (or helping to host) a shindig. You could always round up the crew and go to a party hosted by someone else, or at a bar or nightclub, and end up having the time of your lives!
16. Have a bonfire and roast marshmallows while commiserating or playing a fun game. One great game for that type of setting is a Pass-It-On Ghost Story.
17. Do special effects makeup of the gory nature. Think hanging eyeball, blown up face, Zombies, that kind of thing. Even if it doesn’t come out movie quality, it can be a fun time giving it a shot, and if it does look alright, you can head out to that Halloween get-together in your scariest style.

Fun Things to Do On Halloween Night

If you’re stuck on how to spend All Hallow’s Eve specifically, here are some ideas on how to pass the time.

18. Turn on a slasher movie, get dressed up, and hand out candy to the neighborhood kids when they come to your spooky house. Remember, hot cider for the parents will make you an instant favorite around town.
19. Go Halloween caroling. Much like Christmas, but with Halloween songs or spooky poetry, you can go around town and share your creativity with your neighbors.
20. Go on a haunted house tour.
21. Visit an actual haunted place. New England has plenty of haunted spots. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if this section of the country is cursed, because what gives with that?

Haunted Spots in New England

22. Have a Halloween potluck or dinner for your friends and family.
23. Go camping, either with friends or with that special someone. You can have a fun and scary time out in the woods. Just remember – bear mace also works on hook-handed serial killers!
24. Carve some Jack O’Lanterns!
25. Watch a horror movie at a drive-in, or set it up on a projector screen and let the neighborhood in on the screams and scares.
26. Break out the candles and the Ouija boards and invite your most easily frightened friends over for a seance.

Fun Things to Do on Halloween for Adults

Halloween is typically seen as a child’s holiday, but, who says it has to be? Halloween is as much for adults as it is for the kiddos. Dress up all month if you want to (or all year, you do you), come up with the best cocktail concoctions, and have a spooky time.

27. Listen to a podcast about true crime, ghosthunters, or some other scary, Halloween-esque topic.
28. Go on a ghost tour.
29. Pour those drinks into a to-go cup and take a stroll (safely!) around your neighborhood, admiring the Halloween decorations.
30. Go apple picking with friends and use them to have a tipsy apple pie bake-off.
31. Have you ever tried a spooky graveyard tour? Go on one of those!
32. Read some thrillers to keep you on your toes.
33. Host a Halloween game night, with spooky classics like Betrayal at House on the Hill and Death by Trivia.

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34. Do a spooky scavenger hunt all around your city. Grab a couple of friends, your phones, and create a group chat. First person to find all the items on the list wins a prize! You can hide physical clues, or you can write cryptic riddles and award points when someone takes a selfie with the right landmark in the picture.
35. Dress up in your costumes, the sillier the better, and go for a bar crawl with a spooky entourage.
36. Take it old school and organize a grown-up slumber party! Break out the air mattresses and the red wine, throw on a scary movie and catch up with your favorite people, without all the trappings of adulthood holding you back.

Fun Things to Do At A Halloween Party

Whether this is for kids (obviously pick and choose age-appropriate games and events) or for the adults, there is always something to add to a Halloween Party. And please don’t limit yourself to this section of the list! There are other sections you can add to your party to make it a smash hit.

37. With a group, play Act and React, a Halloween version of Charades. Let people write down spooky one-line scenes, shuffle them in a hat, and then each person pulls a scene and acts it out until someone guesses what they are doing in 2 minutes or less.
38. Set up a haunted playlist to keep everyone in a spooky vibe.
39. Play a “seedy” game of Truth or Dare. People draw out written truth or dare prompts from a pumpkin full of its guts and seeds.
40. Try out a new, creepy punch, with jello-shot eyeballs floating in it! You can also serve the punch in a hollowed out pumpkin for added effect.
41. Play a fun game of haunted musical chairs, where everyone who’s knocked out turns into a ghost, who must haunt the remaining players.
42. Set up a Halloween photo booth, so everyone can remember their awesome costumes.

Fun Places to Go for Halloween

Your neighborhood isn’t the only place you can have fun for Halloween.

43. Take a trip to Salem, Massachusetts, down to Voodoo New Orleans, or to some other haunted place.
44. Go to a horror convention, dressing up as your favorite character.
45. Camp up beside a lake (or in your own backyard) under the moonlight. Check to see if the moon will be full, or if there are any scary ghost stories about forests nearby, then make sure you’ve got enough ghost stories to tell and marshmallows to roast around the roaring fire.
46. If you’re a runner (or walker) take part in a Halloween 5k dressed in the nines as your favorite character.
47. If you’ve never made your way through a corn maze, do that! Take it easy if you’re claustrophobic or easily overwhelmed.
48. Check out a theme park for their haunted version counterparts. Disney has Boo Bash, Six Flags has Fright Fest, and Universal has Halloween Horror Nights (to name a few). ☺️

Boo Bash // Fright Fest // Halloween Horror Nights

49. Find a Rocky Horror Picture Show event and dress up for the occasion.
50. Go on a spooky hayride with friends.

Conclusion to Fun Things to Do For Halloween!

And with that, our list is complete. I’m sure that you’ll have found something interesting to do for Halloween that’ll tickle your fancy, or … was that a tickle? Maybe a spider? Wooooooo-oooooo… creepy music outro

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