10 original ideas for family games

That's it, the children's favorite period will begin soon! Halloween with its lot of ghosts, skeletons, witches, pumpkins, wacky decorations, particularly pleases our little monsters. Here are our ten ideas for family games.

This year, if you don't want to spend Halloween in the cold, we suggest you stay at home and do fun, original and creative activities with your children.

1) Halloween themed treasure hunt

This activity is bound to please your children. And for good reason, it will be necessary to reconstruct a skeleton using the clues dotted around the house. All you need to do is print maps on gaming sites, then create your perfect scavenger hunt. The goal ? Recreate a Halloween character using the printable template, you have the choice: witches, ghosts, or even a vampire. As for the clue, you can leave small pumpkins, mice or even spiders so that your child can guide himself around the house.

2) Create your own disguise

Rather than buying a brand new costume, why not create it with your child? Spoiler: It won't be perfect, of course, but it will be done with love. For a great Halloween costume, you will need old clothes that you don’t wear anymore, red paint, bits of paper to create the teeth, strong glue, stickers and finally some safety pins. Once all these elements are at your disposal, you can proceed to the creation of the costumes: vampire, wizard / witch, monsters.

3) Shadow games

To scare yourself but in a fun way, we recommend this activity to stimulate your children's creativity. The goal ? Handle shadows like a pro. Thus, you have a frieze with several Halloween characters (witches, ghosts, monsters, skeletons or even vampires) on a sheet of paper placed on the floor or on a table. In the house or in the garden, you can sit wherever you want … then you just have to play with the different lights, natural or artificial, to discover beautiful shadows. A pencil, markers, draw the outlines, color if you feel like it and voila!

4) too creepy masks

To combine the useful with the pleasant, you can use the fabric masks you have at home to customize them. Blood red paint, papier-mâché false teeth, safety pins to create false scars on the mask. With all these elements and a little creativity, you can create awesome masks as a family.

5) Hogwarts at home!

Who is not a fan of the Harry Potter saga? To recreate the wizarding school at home, you can redo the atmosphere indoors, with the different wizarding houses: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and finally Ravenclaw. For fancy dress, your kids can just wear black and a cape. To be perfectly in the theme, you can customize your brooms with stickers, markers, colored pencils or even paint. There you go, wizards and witches are ready for Halloween!

6) a terrible meal

For this meal, you can take inspiration from the Adams family to be perfectly in the theme. On the menu, mouse tails, pumpkin soups and bat-shaped candies. For dessert, seasonal clementines transformed into pumpkins. For cutlery, you can arrange the bones of a skeleton.

On the sweet side, you can make mummy cupcakes with sugar paste, create eyes and make white bandages on the pastry. You can also make rolled cakes in orange color, you can draw patterns like spiders, pumpkins, witches, ghosts, vampires, mice or even skeletons. If you want to have an aerial dessert, we advise you to make meringues with two chocolate chips as a decoration to create the eyes.

For decoration, you can create fake cobwebs and place custom or classic cards on the table. You can also paint pebbles in Halloween colors.

7) Family board games

What could be better than playing board games to scare yourself off? More user-friendly than online games, board games are sure to liven up your Halloween parties!

Here is our list of games for Halloween:

Summary: Zombie Kidz Evolution is a cooperative game in which the players aim to eliminate the zombies that have invaded the school. Lock the doors of the building and win the game together!

Summary: Dance of the Vampires is a fun and fun memory game for the whole family! Be the first to find shelter for each of your vampires, and make sure you stay away from rats and garlic!

Summary: It's the day of the magic exam, and the young Harry Potter disciples must perform the various spell gestures correctly to win! In turn, using the pretty wooden magic wand, everyone tries to make the other players guess the spell indicated on their card. The first to find the right card on the table becomes the Sorcerer…. But he will have to play by following the challenge just revealed on the back: by imitating a frog, or with a hand on his head.

Plot: Halloween night is the time to haunt these poor and unhappy humans who still believe that this time is all about relaxation and fun. Halloween is a tactical game in which you take on the role of a demon lord who controls the many ghosts on the board. Carefully plan your actions with a unique mechanic that allows you to deal with multiple ghosts in an attempt to get ahead of your opponents. Summon ghosts, move them around the board, fight other ghosts, or use one of the many action cards that can give you a tactical advantage.

Summary: Do you dare to venture into another world with the game Jumanji, inspired by the famous movie? Dive into the heart of the jungle and advance to win and remove all your constraints. You may need to run away from the hunter, save yourself from a giant carnivorous plant, and transform into a monkey during one turn. At your own risk …

Summary: The famous game where you have to twist in all directions to place your feet and hands on the correct colored circles, but this time, Halloween version.

8) Halloween makeup workshop

To have too scary makeup, we advise you to go to online platforms such as Instagram or even Youtube, which are full of Halloween-themed videos.

For example, you can make fake wounds on your children's hands with toothpicks painted black to give the illusion of nails. Then you can color them with red paint to make it look like blood. Finally, stick them on the hands with pieces of transparent adhesive tape.

Or, you can create false wounds or deep scratches on your child's skin, using red and black paint, with a precise brush by following this tutorial:

You can also wear other makeup styles using our tutorials:

  • Vampire makeup: the tutorial: Your child has been asking you for weeks to give him a make-up and a vampire look, with this tutorial you will be able to please him! You don’t feel like putting on false teeth or dentures, apply black to your brush and draw vampire teeth using the tips and ideas in the video.
  • Pumpkin makeup: the tutorial: Ah pumpkins… A pumpkin to decorate for your Halloween party, to drink and make up! This Makeup is fun to reproduce, be careful to recognize your child with all this painted face!
  • Bat makeup: the tutorial: This makeup is made for Batman fans! Suitable for children of all ages, it is very easy to make. Don't have all the products? Do not panic ! A makeup kit specially for Halloween can be found on sale at specialty stores.
  • Pirate makeup: the tutorial: A thousand portholes! With this tutorial, hang in there, well your child will turn into Jack Sparrow! Easy to apply and remove, it quickly transforms your child's face, accompanied by a disguise and you have an original look. Perfect for Halloween.
  • Mouse makeup: the tutorial: A funny and easy Halloween makeup idea, disguise your little girl or boy as a mouse. This very cute makeup is suitable for small children.
  • Ladybug makeup: the tutorial: And finally, the little ladybug! This makeup will make more than one blush. Achievable with only two colors, red and black and of course a precise brush to make the dots on his face.

9) terrifying decorations for Halloween

Ready for a little DIY? To make beautiful lanterns to scare passers-by when they see your home, you can hang these lanterns at the entrance, on the windowsills, or on your table.

Equipment :

  • Transparent jars
  • Glass paint
  • A brush
  • Strong glue
  • Scissors
  • Candles
  • The terrifying snowmen to print here

To customize your jars, you will have to paint them in white to make ghosts or in orange for the pumpkins. Once the paint is dry, it's time to decorate, cut out the eyes and mouths and glue them with strong glue. And voila !

If you want to customize your balloons to make them look monstrous, simply blow up orange and white balloons and then draw eyes and a mouth with a black marker.

For a successful Halloween decoration, the first detail to focus on is the front door. So, you can draw eyes and mouth with wounds on it to scare your neighborhood.

10) Halloween movies to thrill the family

After dinner, you can have a Halloween party all together by staying awake a little later this time. Here is our selection of films to watch with your children:

Plot: Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish hotel, where monsters and their families can finally live their lives, relax and "monstrously" party however they want without being hassled by humans.
For the birthday of his daughter, young Mavis, who is celebrating her 118th birthday, Dracula invites the most famous monsters in the world – Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and many more. 'others still …
Everything is going very well, until a human accidentally shows up at the hotel and befriends Mavis …

  • The strange Christmas of Mr. Jack

Plot: Pumpkin King and Halloween Town Guide Jack Skellington is bored: For centuries he's had had enough of planning the same Halloween party that comes back every year, and he dreams of a change. It was then that he had the idea of ​​taking over the Christmas party …

Plot: A very young ghost, Casper, is chomping at the bit and is bored to death with his uncles in the Whipstaff mansion. When a little girl and her father come to live in the haunted house, he thinks he can finally have fun …

Plot: After the sudden death of his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor calls upon the power of science to bring back to life the one who was also his best friend. He makes some changes of his own in the process … Victor will try to hide the creature he made but when Sparky escapes, his classmates, his teachers and the whole city will learn that wanting to put life in leaves can have some monstrous consequences …

Summary: Maleficent is a beautiful young woman with a pure heart who leads an idyllic life within a peaceful forest in a realm of happiness and harmony. One day, an army of invaders threatens the country's borders and Maleficent, listening only to her courage, rises up as a fierce protector of this land. In this fierce struggle, a person in whom she had faith will betray her, triggering in her a suffering unlike any other which will gradually transform her pure heart into a heart of stone. Determined to take revenge, she engages in an epic battle with the king's successor, casting a terrible curse on her newly born daughter, Aurora. But as the child grows up, Maleficent realizes that the little princess holds the key to the peace of the kingdom, and perhaps also that of her own redemption …

Summary: Peter, Raymond and Egon are researching parapsychology. Fired by the Dean of the faculty, they decide to found a company intended to hunt ghosts. Its name: S.O.S. Ghosts. Success is knocking so well on their door that they are soon working on the assembly line.

Summary: Peter, Raymond and Egon are doing research on parapsychology. Fired by the Dean of the faculty, they decide to found a company intended to hunt ghosts. Its name: S.O.S. Ghosts. The success is knocking on their door so well that they are soon working on the assembly line.

  • The values ​​of the Addams family

Summary: Curious but not too unusual thing within the Addams family: Morticia gives birth to a toddler as suddenly as she found herself pregnant. The happy newborn has a mustache and responds to the sweet name of Puberty. Mercredi and Pugsley, his two eldest, mad with jealousy, are increasing their assassination attempts ….

  • The Haunted Mansion and the 999 Ghosts

Summary: Workaholic real estate agent Jim Evers drags his family to a large, icy mansion he dreams of turning into a lavish condominium. But when she arrives, the Evers family quickly discovers that she is not alone in the house …
999 grim and grimacing ghosts appear to come and get acquainted! And they won't leave until they finish what's holding them in the house. It's up to Jim to break the curse – and rediscover that his family needs him – before the pendulum strikes its thirteenth stroke!

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