These toddler-friendly Halloween party ideas are fun fall activities for daycare, preschool classroom Halloween ideas, harvest festival carnival games, or how to have a fun toddler Halloween party at home with little kids.
Fun Halloween party games, autumn activities for younger kids, or even things to do instead of trick or treating for toddlers.
Ideas for Trick or Treat Halloween Prizes for Toddlers
- Suckers
- Small Halloween stuffed animals
- Mini pumpkins (real pumpkins)
- Halloween sticker packs
- Light-up pop tubes
- Glow Sticks and glow bracelets
- Grapes or snacks in a baggie (bonus points if you decorate the baggie with pumpkin face stickers)
- Halloween coloring pages with toddler crayons like this
Creative Halloween Ideas for Toddlers Halloween Party
You may be wondering how to make Halloween at home for toddlers fun, especially without all the Halloween spooky parts.
Here are the best Halloween activities for little ones to celebrate Halloween!
#1 – Have a Stuffed Animal Trick-or-Treat Trail
If going nighttime trick or treating is too much for your toddler (or, you just don’t feel safe taking candy from strangers any more), do your own stuffie trick or treat trail!
All you need is to gather up your child’s stuffed animals (or hit up the thrift stores) and place them around the backyard, on the balcony, or around the house or classroom.
Then, place specific treats with each animal.
The toddler then “tricks or treats” at each animal and gets to pick a prize or treat from that animal’s bowl or pumpkin basket.
This makes a great Halloween classroom idea or daycare Halloween party, fun with friends on Halloween, or just a cute Halloween idea at home with family.
#2 – Host Halloween Hopscotch
Make a hop scotch trick or treat trail and the pavement and help your toddlers follow the directions on each spot of fun things like jump like a werewolf, fly like a witch, smile like a pumpkin, etc.
We did this one year for Halloween on our sidewalk and in our driveway and kids came back multiple times to do the Halloween hopscotch game.
It was a huge hit!
LEARN HOW TO MAKE HALLOWEEN HOPSCOTCH HERE
#3 – Have a Toddler Halloween Costume Parade
A really cute idea is to coordinate with a local nursing home to have the toddlers to do a costume parade for the residents.
Then, stay after and do some Halloween crafts with residents, too.
It will make the day of the residents and the little ones will have a ton of fun, too!
If you don’t want to coordinate a meet-up, have a neighborhood costume parade with little ones during daylight hours before crazy trick-or-treating in the dark starts or even just a fun teddy bear parade for your stuffed animals at home.
#4 – HALLOWEEN MOVIE PARTY MATINEE: Watch & Party with It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Host a Halloween family movie party in the afternoon!
Watch Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and then do some themed activities to go with the animated Halloween movie
Get Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown Party Theme Ideas Here
#5 – Do No-Carve Halloween Pumpkins
Don’t want to carve pumpkins with preschoolers or toddlers?
Grab some mini pumpkins and pumpkin sticker faces like these and let them decorate their own pumpkins!
Or, make this cute mama pumpkin cat and pumpkin kittens – no carving involved!
PRO PARTY TIP: Read Preschool Halloween Books and make fun Halloween Themed Food Crafts to go with them
#6 – Have Fun With Halloween Sensory Activities for Toddlers
- Have fun with a fall sensory activity or a busy toddler Halloween sensory bin
- Make a Halloween paper chain for Halloween decorations
- Make Halloween colored spaghetti for eating or sensory play
- Play with Halloween felt pumpkins like this
- Add a bubble machine (we have this one and love it!) and some fun Halloween music and have a bubble pop party
MORE HALLOWEEN PARTY FUN: LEARN HOW TO PLAY THE HALLOWEEN MYSTERY BAG GAME
#7 – Go On A Pumpkin Hunt (Indoor Halloween or Outdoor Halloween Game!)
Hide real mini pumpkins and go on a magic pumpkin Halloween scavenger hunt to find all the pumpkins. Then, use those pumpkins for your stickers or to paint the pumpkins.
Or, hide plastic pumpkins that open like this with a little treat or prize in each pumpkin.
#8 – Have A Little Kids Craft Table for Halloween
Dress up and then have fun with some hands-on Halloween crafts and kid activities like:
- Make a face sticker pages like these
- Color (washable markers like these) on real mini pumpkins
- Do Wood Halloween puzzles
- Decorate foam pumpkins
Happy Fall & Happy Halloween! I hope you have fun with these toddler friendly Halloween party ideas!
