Halloween Bucket List 2025
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Halloween time! There are so many fun ways to celebrate Halloween, so here is a bucket list of things to do to celebrate Halloween!
This is the list of all the things I love to do with the kids at Halloween time, all my favourite Halloween bucket list ideas with things to do when October 31st comes around, including Halloween craft activities for kids and more.
Halloween Bucket List
20 fun things to do for Halloween!
- Go Trick or Treating
- Carve a Pumpkin
- Dress Up.
- Apple Bobbing
- Bake Halloween Cookies
- Tell Ghost Stories
- Watch a Halloween Movie
- Peel an Apple
- Do Some Halloween Colouring
- Halloween Word Search
- Decorate Your Home For Halloween
- Halloween Baby Names
- Play Online Halloween Games
- Have A Halloween Party
- Make a Spooky Mason Jar Luminaire
- Make a Pipe Cleaner Spider
- Wear Orange
- Learn About Bats
- Make Apple Shrunken Heads
- Go to the Panto
It’s the ultimate Halloween activity; on the evening of October 31st knock on a friendly neighbour’s door, and shout Trick or Treat.
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Carving a huge pumpkin lantern is the next most popular Halloween thing to do.
Of course Halloween is ALL about the dressing up! Brilliant Halloween Costumes for Kids and Goth Halloween Outfits for Babies.
Apple bobbing is a traditional Halloween game. There are two ways to play.
Either float apples in a bowl of water and try to get hold of one with your teeth, or if it is too cold by late October for putting your face in a bowl of cold water, hang the apples up with a piece of string and try to eat it without using your hands. (This does rather need the apple to still have a stalk mind you…)
Use your favourite recipe and Halloween cookie cutters or try some of the lovely recipes at BBC Food.
Make up your own spooky stories or read a favourite classic tale.
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Halloween movies come in all levels of scariness. Here are some ideas for Halloween Movies For All The Family.
There are two parts to this fun Halloween game. Firstly try to peel an apple and see who can make the longest bit of peel.
Next, throw the apple peel over your shoulder, and it should reveal the initial of the person you will marry.
Get out your favourite pens and pencil and have a go at some Halloween Colouring Pictures.
If you love sugar skulls, remember that the Day of the Dead coincides with Halloween, so you might like these Sugar Skull Colouring Pictures.
Stretch your brain with a fun Halloween-themed Wordsearch. This free printable is in PDF format.
Of course you have to decorate the house with your pumpkin lanterns and as many spooky decorations as you can!
Do you know someone who is expecting a baby in late October and loves all things spooky, ghoulish and Halloween? Here are 55 ideas for Halloween Baby Names, including witches and wizards, ghosts and monsters!
If the weather is grim and grey this year stay in and enjoy some free Online Halloween Games for Kids
Invite your friends over to trick or treat with you and have a fun party.
Luminaires are a wonderful way to decorate for Halloween, giving a spooky low light to your home. Here are 13 Mason Jar Crafts For Halloween.
Make a spooky Pipe Cleaner Spider out of black pipe cleaners
It’s the official colour of Halloween so wear a little or a lot.
Bats are another traditional part of Halloween, so have a Batty Halloween with these Batty ideas from the Bat Conservation Trust.
This is one for a serious craft enthusiast, but these Apple Shrunken Heads, carved from a fresh apple then dried, are rather spectacular.
Yes really, Halloween pantomimes are a really big thing - you can find listings for Halloween pantos running in 2025 on Big Panto Guide.