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Halloween games are so much fun to play in costumes. Homeschool games for Halloween involve a little bit of learning, a little bit of spooky and a whole lot of fun! Pick a subject, add in the facts that you want the kids to learn and make a game out of it.
Each year since my oldest son was five I have done some Halloween fun. Never have I had a lot of money, but it helped me to think outside of the box. If I don’t have something I look for something around the house to make it work. One year, I wanted to set up sections in the garage to make a haunted house. Instead of spending a lot of money on dividers I went to a halloween store and they had black trash bag material on a roll. It was inexpensive and did the job. The work was more, but well worth it. Everyone enjoyed the fun haunted house we were able to make.
Halloween Games for Math
Halloween math activities are easy to combine with games. Adding a fun theme like Halloween to the games makes it even more fun to learn. The Goblin jump involves math facts, equations, or measurements.The second part is a jump rope. My kindergartener is working on counting to 100. His brother’s and I will hold the rope (he is dressed in a costume) and as he jumps we count. He will jump until ready to stop. Then move to the next person.
Simple things to add a little more fun. I have found over the years’ unexpected ways to include learning into all of my “fun” activities that we do. Our family time is precious to us, but so is learning. In everything I want my kids learn to look for further knowledge. You can learn something new everyday and knowledge is power. Now, as they have aged they are able to see the learning and recognize a museum visit on a vacation is my “addition” of learning.
Halloween Games like a Broom Race
This game is so much fun. My kids love the broom race and it is great for exercise and coordination. We have a mini obstacle course set up and they have to maneuver a ball through it with a broom. The learning part of this is mostly strategy to be the first and not be the last one. Boys are very competitive. No one wants to be last, but it does take skill to work a ball around with a broom.
Materials needed for this activity is more than one broom, more than one type of ball that rolls well, and Halloween costumes. Additionally, you can add in a maze with straw bales.
Zombie Tag Halloween Game
Zombie tag is easy. Basically it is tag at a very slow pace. Whoever is “it” tags the other person. But, they have to walk slowly with their arms out like zombies. No running in this Halloween game. Rules are if you are tagged, you will remain tagged until someone on your team “untags” you. I have three boys’ so one was “it”, another was the “tagger” and the other one was being “tagged” .
After each round the roles were switched so that everyone got to be “tagger” “untagged” or person being tagged. At home, feel free to make this game modified to what works for your family fun time. One more rule is to be in costume! After all, it is Halloween.
Halloween games are meant to be easy and full of fun. Each week we hold out one day for the sole purpose of family time. If holidays’ fall on that day, then I plan our events around it. Each year when planning I take the year before and look at the activities. Next, I add in a new activity.
Fun Family Halloween Games that are Timeless
For instance, this year we made homemade gift bags. My artistic son decorated different Halloween faces on them with paint. We made a game out of pumpkin carving by judging the most creative, the scariest, and most efficient pumpkin. Some other fun games we played is the donut or Twinkie game. That is where we tie donuts and Twinkies to the ceiling of our porch and each person stands in front of one. When we say “go” everyone eats the donut or Twinkie that is hanging in front of them. First one done wins.
We have a checkers board that we place out on our coffee table each year, and that gets played a lot during the month of October. Finally, one more inexpensive game we play is “bob for apples”. I place in enough apples for each person then add one. I have a large canning pot that I fill just so everyone gets wet. At the end of this game they get their prize, an apple!
Be creative in the games you play and keep in mind to have fun with it all.
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