Halloween is one of the most exciting days in the classroom, and having a solid plan in place can make all the difference! One of my favorite ways to keep things fun and organized is by setting up Halloween party stations. In our classroom, we typically rotate between six stations that include a mix of festive Halloween crafts, interactive games, and a chance for students to make and pass out spooky treats. We always wrap up the celebration with a Halloween movie while enjoying the delicious creations we made.

Whether you’re planning your very first classroom Halloween party or just looking to spice things up this year, these 20+ Halloween party station ideas will help you create a celebration that’s equal parts fun and manageable!

Halloween Party Stations: Crafts

No Halloween party is complete without a spooky (and adorable!) craft or two! For one, or even a few, of our Halloween party stations, I love having students create a fun Halloween craft.

Not only do these crafts make great keepsakes, but they also sneak in fine motor practice, comprehension skills, and a whole lot of creativity. Here are some of my favorite Halloween crafts to include at your classroom party!

Halloween Play Dough Kits

These Halloween play dough kits are a fan favorite and for good reason! They give students a chance to get creative, while building fine motor strength through hands-on fun. Best of all, after crafting their kits during your Halloween party stations, students can take them home as a special gift from their teacher!

Masking Tape Mummy

With easy prep and quick assembly, this masking tape mummy is one of my favorite Halloween crafts to include during our Halloween party stations. As students peel and stick the masking tape onto their mummy outline, they’re strengthening their fine motor muscles—without even realizing it!

Popsicle Stick Frank

To create this popsicle stick Frankenstein craft, you will need mini craft sticks, green paint, black foam, and googly eyes. You can add a magnet to the back, so the kiddos can hang them on their refrigerator once they take it home!

Monster Glyph

This monster glyph craft is another great addition to your classroom Halloween party stations. For this craft, ask students each question and have them color their answers. Based on their responses, distribute the monster pieces. 

Room on the Broom Sequencing Broomstick

Just because it’s a party, it doesn’t mean you can’t sneak in a little learning! This Room on the Broom craft is perfect for sequencing events and retelling the story. Plus, it doubles as an adorable classroom or hallway display!

Halloween Party Stations: Games

While crafts are a must at any Halloween party, let’s not forget about the games! I always love to include a few Halloween party stations that each have game or two for the students to play. Below, you’ll find a mix of ready-made Halloween games, as well as some easy DIY options!

Spider Web Toss

I found these felt spider webs and oversized plastic spiders at the Dollar Tree. For this DIY game, I hot-glued point values in the center of each web, turning them into spooky targets. Students stand back and toss the spiders onto the webs. After all the tosses, they add up their points—the highest score wins!

Pumpkin Toss

I also grabbed this large cauldron and some plastic pumpkins from the dollar store. To keep the pumpkins from bouncing out, I line the bottom of the cauldron with black foam. Each student gets a turn tossing six pumpkins into the cauldron, and the player with the most successful “baskets” wins!

Mr. Bones Relay

For this Halloween party game, I printed four sets of skeleton pieces—two on regular paper and two on white card stock. To make the game mats, glue a paper skeleton onto a large strip of black construction paper (glue two 12×18 sheets together) or onto bulletin board paper. Create two mats and laminate them for durability. Be sure to laminate the card stock skeleton pieces as well.

To play, divide students into two teams. Place the bone pieces in baskets at the opposite end of each skeleton mat. One player from each team grabs a bone, runs to the mat, and places it in the correct spot. The first team to fully and correctly assemble “Mr. Bones” wins!

Pumpkin Bowling

Pumpkin bowling is one of my favorite DIY Halloween party stations! For this game, I turned 2-liter bottles into bowling pins by wrapping them in orange construction paper and adding cute pumpkin faces. You can also make ghost pins by using frosted plastic cups or paper towel rolls decorated with spooky faces drawn in black marker.

Spooky Words Bingo

This “Spooky Words” bingo game adds just enough magic for the kiddos to forget that they are learning! Make it more festive by using themed manipulatives (spiders, mini erasers, candy corn, etc.) to cover each space.

Spider Race

For this fun fine motor game, students take turns rolling the die and carefully adding spiders to their straw. The first player to stack spiders all the way to the top wins!

Creepy Charades

“Creepy Charades” is a perfect brain break between your Halloween party stations—or you can make it its own station! Have one student act out the card, while the rest of the class guesses the spooky action. Once the answer is revealed, everyone can join in and perform the motion together for some extra fun!

Halloween Party Stations: Treats

Between playing games and making crafts, your students will certainly be having a blast, but no party is complete without treats! Here are two fun treats your students can create at one of your Halloween party stations. Once finished, they can set their treats aside to enjoy later during the Halloween movie. More on that coming up soon!

Monster Cookies

For this Halloween treat, students get creative by decorating pumpkin-shaped cookie cutouts to look like monsters! They use candy corn, M&M’s, chocolate chips, marshmallows, and more to craft fun and spooky faces. To inspire some of my hesitant students, I share a picture from an old Halloween activity book to spark their imagination.

Monster Donuts

For an alternative monster treat, grab some sprinkle donuts and let your students turn them into spooky monsters by adding candy eyes and fangs.

Halloween Party Stations: Party Favors

And last, but definitely not least, the kids’ absolute favorite part of the party is passing out Halloween candy and treats to their classmates. This fun tradition takes place right at one of the Halloween party stations—the bowling station, to be exact!

Before the party, we create one of these treat containers to gather all the delicious goodies.

Vampire Boxes

To create this vampire treat box, start by wrapping a shoebox in black construction paper. Next, cut a trapezoid shape from 9×12-inch paper to make the vampire’s cape. Attach the vampire’s head to the cape, draw a spooky face, and add foam vampire fangs for extra flair. Then, glue the vampire figure to the back of the shoebox, and attach a pumpkin and hands to the front. Be sure to have your students write their names on the pumpkin to personalize their treat box!

Black Cat Treat Bags

As an alternative, students can also make this black cat treat bag. Instead of a shoebox, you will need a black gift bag. Using construction paper, cut out ears, eyes, and a nose. Then, draw the mouth and whiskers with a white crayon.

How to End Your Halloween Party

After a fun-filled day of Halloween party stations, help your students wind down with a Halloween movie. While watching, they can enjoy one of the monster-themed treats they made earlier.

If you have classroom volunteers, this is also the perfect time for them to help clean up the party and seal up the treat bags.

Here are a few classic Halloween movies to consider:

1. Spookley the Square Pumpkin
2. Berenstain Bears Spooky Stories
3. Curious George: A Halloween Boofest
4. Curious George Spooky Fun

Alternative Classroom Halloween Party Stations

Looking for some alternative classroom Halloween party stations? Whether your school doesn’t allow a full-blown Halloween celebration or you’re hoping for something a little more low-key, these spooky-but-school-friendly ideas will keep the fun alive—without the sugar rush or chaos!

Pumpkin Investigation Activities

Spend a day (on even an entire week) investigating pumpkins with these eighteen interactive pumpkin investigation activities and adorable pumpkin craft! This nonfiction pumpkin study is a fun way to integrate science, math, literacy, and social studies without your little learners even realizing it.

Bat Activities

After learning about pumpkins, have some fun learning all about bats with these twenty-five interactive bat activities and bat craft! After reading the included nonfiction text all about bats, students complete a variety of bat activities! At the end of the week, the students will have an entire bat shaped book containing all sorts of facts about bats. 

Spider Activities

While pumpkins and bats get plenty of attention this time of year, let’s not forget about spiders! Your students will be creepily engaged as you seamlessly integrate science, math, literacy, and social studies with this nonfiction spider unit. With twenty-five interactive activities and an adorable spider craft, there is enough to last an entire day or week!

October Centers

These October centers are also a great alternative to a traditional classroom party—there’s no direct mention of Halloween, but all the fun is still built in! Students can complete 20 fall and pumpkin themed center activities in one day or spaced out across the week for a festive, low-stress celebration.

Digital Halloween Games and Activities

Looking for a low-prep way to build excitement before Halloween? These digital Halloween games are ready to play and can be used during centers, morning work, or as part of your classroom party — no printing, no cutting, no stress!

More Halloween Activities & Ideas

Leading up to Halloween, engage your little learners with these 12 Halloween kindergarten centers, including 6 literacy centers and 6 math centers!

Work on sequencing the events in the story, identifying character traits, determining cause and effect and recognizing rhyming words with these 22 Room on the Broom activities, crafts, and centers!

Celebrate Halloween, as you review math and literacy skills, with “The Case of the Candy Caper” Halloween escape room!

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