🎃 Great Ideas for School Classroom Parties for Halloween

 

Classroom Halloween parties work best when they’re fun, simple, not too messy, and inclusive. Here are some tried-and-true ideas for games, crafts, snacks, and decorations that teachers and parents will love:

 

 

👻 Games & Activities

 

  • Pumpkin Bowling: Small pumpkins as bowling balls and ghost-decorated bottles for pins.

  • Mummy Wrap Race: Teams wrap a classmate in toilet paper — first done wins.

  • Halloween Bingo: Use Halloween bingo cards with pumpkins, bats, witches instead of numbers.

  • Guess the Jar: Candy corn, gummy worms, or plastic spiders in jars — kids guess how many.

  • Monster Freeze Dance: Play Halloween music, freeze when it stops.

 

 

✂️ Crafts

 

  • Pumpkin Decorating: Skip carving — use mini pumpkins with markers, stickers, and googly eyes.

  • Paper Plate Masks: Paper plates + markers + string = easy monster masks.

  • Spider Web Yarn Art: Punch holes in paper plates, weave yarn through, add a spider.

  • DIY Trick-or-Treat Bags: Brown bags or totes decorated with stencils, stickers, and markers.

 

🎨 More Craft Ideas!

 

  • Handprint Bats: Trace and cut out black handprints, glue onto a cardboard tube “body.”

  • Popsicle Stick Spider Webs: Glue three sticks into a star, wrap yarn, add a spider.

  • Paper Cup Ghosts: Upside-down cups with googly eyes and tissue “tails.”

  • Pumpkin Paper Lanterns: Orange paper folded into lanterns with jack-o’-lantern faces.

  • Monster Bookmark Corners: Origami corner bookmarks decorated with monster eyes and teeth.

  • Cotton Ball Ghosts: Ghost cutouts covered in cotton balls with paper eyes and mouths.

  • Witch Hat Headbands: Paper cones glued to headbands, decorated with stars and glitter.

  • Decorate Halloween Cookies: Bake bat, ghost, and pumpkin sugar cookies, then decorate with orange, black, and white frosting. Use candies (think Red Hots, sprinkles, candy eyes, etc.) to decorate.

 

 

🍎 Snacks & Treats (Healthy + Fun)

 

  • Jack-o’-Lantern Oranges: Clementines with celery stems.

  • Banana Ghosts: Halved bananas with chocolate chip faces.

  • Witch’s Broomsticks: Pretzel sticks + string cheese bristles.

  • Pumpkin Veggie Cups: Baby carrots and celery with dip.

  • Spiderweb Cookies: Sugar cookies decorated with web icing.

 

 

🕸️ Decorations

 

  • Door Decorating Contest: Each classroom door as a monster, haunted house, or pumpkin patch.

  • Balloon Ghosts & Bats: White balloons with ghost faces, black ones with bat wings.

  • Pumpkin Patch Corner: Hay bales (or orange pillows) and paper pumpkins for a cozy festive area.

 

✨ Pro Tip for Parents/Teachers: Keep activities rotation-based — kids cycle between games, crafts, and snacks. This keeps energy high and chaos low.

 

👉 And of course, use PlanHero to coordinate who brings snacks, supplies, and decorations — no duplicate cookies, no forgotten napkins, and no stress. Here is an example signup for a classroom Halloween party.

 

Well, that’s a few more than 15 spooktacular classroom Halloween party ideas, but hey, who’s counting?!

…maybe Dracula!