12 Fun Halloween Games In The Dark for Kids

List of Halloween games in the dark or glow games to play at a Halloween party. Fun fall ideas for Halloween outdoor activities, kids’ party games for October, fun fall carnival games or classroom game ideas for autumn activities.

12 Best Halloween Games to Play At Night or Glow Halloween Games in the Dark

Have fun with these glowing Halloween children’s game for your Halloween parties at night or in the dark activities!

Glow-in-the-Dark Treasure Hunt

Hide small glow-in-the-dark toys or trinkets or these glow eggs (filled with Halloween prizes) around the party area or in the backyard.

Dim the lights and give the kids flashlights or black lights flashlights (depending on what kind of glowing gifts you hide) to help them find the hidden treasures.

The things they find, they get to keep!

PRO PARTY TIP: Hand out these light-up Halloween baskets for kids to put their finds in and to take home as party favors!

Night Time Witchy Relay

• Divide the kids into teams.
• Set up two cauldrons or large bowls or Halloween buckets at a distance.
• Place glow tubes like this in each cauldron.

Give each child a spoon (or tongs) and have them race walk to the cauldron, pick up an item with the spoon, and race back to their team to drop it in their team’s bowl or cauldron.

Then, hand off the spoon to the next teammate, who repeats the process.

The team that transfers all the items first wins.

Glow in the Dark Mummy Wrap Game

This is a fun take on the toilet paper mummy wrap game.

Provide each pair with a glow in the dark paper streamers like this.

One child will be the “mummy” and the other the “wrapper.”

Turn on blacklights like this, dim the overhead lights, and set a timer for 1 minute.

Let the kids wrap their partners in the dark to create mummies before the timer runs out.

Be sure to have extra paper, because kids always want to play this two or three times!

I love this Halloween game for group games or just a funny Halloween activity at home to do with kids after trick-or-treating!

Halloween Light-Up Limbo

Set up a light up limbo stick like this.

Play fun Halloween music and have the kids line up to take turns going under the limbo stick. Lower the stick after each round.

If a child touches the stick or falls, they are out.

Monster Halloween Freeze Dance

Play Halloween-themed party music and have the kids dance around with flashlights or glow sticks in the dark.

When the music stops, kids freeze in their spookiest pose.

PRO PARTY TIP: Use light up balloons like this for the Halloween dance floor. Kids will have fun dancing and playing around with them during and after the freeze dance game.

Halloween Shadow Puppets

Using a white sheet hung on the wall or side of the house or blank room wall, dim the lights and let kids experiment with making shadow puppets on the wall or surface using their hands and fingers for Halloween shadow play.

Have the other kids guess the Halloween shape.

PRO PARTY TIP: Grab fun flashlights like this to give to each child as a party favor to keep!

Creepy Halloween Feel Boxes

This old-school touch and feel gross out Halloween games is still popular! (We played this when I was a kid!)

Prepare a few bowls with different Halloween-themed items inside that are supposed to be gross body parts.

Place the bowls inside covered boxes with squares cut out. The holes should be big enough for hands but kids shouldn’t be able to see inside of them.

Turn off the lights and have the kids take turns putting their hands inside the boxes and feeling the mysterious contents without seeing them and try to guess what it is.

Or, label the boxes and watch their faces when they have to touch brains or eyeballs!

Ideas for the gross Halloween food game:

• Peeled grapes for “eyeballs”
• Cooked spaghetti with sauce for “guts”
• Mushy head of cauliflower for “brains”
• Sliced lunch meat for “skin”
• Baby carrots for “fingers”
• Roasted pumpkin seeds for “witch fingernails”
• Candy corn for “zombie teeth”
• Dried apricots for “zombie ears”
• Cut up fruit leather for “scabs”
• Cooked orzo for “maggots”
• Jell-O for “witch snot”

Really, the gross food game items is only limited by your imagination. Go crazy with it because kids LOVE this game!

Ghost Hunter Game

For this game, you’ll need several white balloons with ghost faces and also glow sticks.

Before the event, insert an activated  glow stick into each balloon, then inflate the balloons, and tie them off.

Hide the “ghost” balloons around a dark area.

The kids’ mission is to find and collect as many glowing ghosts as they can within a set time limit.

PRO PARTY TIP: You can also tie a prize tag to each balloon that the kids can trade in for prizes!

Spider Web Obstacle Course

Create a spider web maze using yarn or streamers strung across a hallway or room.

Dim the lights and the kids must navigate through the maze in the dark without touching the “web.”

Use glow sticks glow bracelets handing on the “web” to make the yarn more visible. You can also hang mini bells on them that will ring if someone hits them!

Haunted Musical Chairs

• Set up a circle of chairs with glow sticks hanging off the back in a dimly lit room.
• Play spooky music and have the kids walk around the chairs.
• When the music stops, they must find a chair to sit in.
• Remove one chair after each round.
• The child left standing without a chair is out, and one chair is removed until there’s only one winner.

Jack-o-Lantern Bowling

Use glow sticks inside empty water bottles with these funny jack-o-lantern pumpkin sticker faces on them.

Use mini pumpkins to roll or pitch toward the jack-o-lantern “pins” bottles.

Give each player 2 turns and keep score.

Player who knocks over the most total bottles, wins.

Halloween Zombie Hide and Seek

Play a traditional game of hide and seek but in the dark with flashlights.

The seeker can use the flashlight to spot hiding players.

When a hider is found, they can help the seeker find others.

Happy Halloween! I hope you have fun with these DIY Halloween games in the dark for kids!