110 Funny Halloween Charades Game Ideas + Free Printable to Start the Fun!
Halloween charades game ideas will get you moving and spooking! Carve out some fun with these hilarious gestures. You’ll be so glad you did.
I dare you to play this game without laughing!
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How to Play Halloween Charades
1. Download, print, and cut out the free cards at the bottom of this post. Or write your favorite Halloween charades words on strips of paper. Put them in a bowl or hat.
2. Use a dry-erase board or paper to keep score. Designate a scorekeeper.
3. Split into two teams. Decide on hilarious Halloween team names.
4. Play! A player from each team draws a card and has one minute to act out their word. If their team guesses correctly in that time, they get a point. In the end, the team with the most points wins!
Pro Tip: An electronic timer can make time keeping easier too!
Funny Halloween Charades Ideas
First, these themed charades words will get everyone laughing.
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1. Monster Mash dance-off
2. Being chased by a zombie
3. Screaming (bloody murder)
4. Watching a scary movie
5. Sugar rush after eating too much candy
6. Walking through a graveyard at night
7. Giant spider chasing you
8. Walking through a spiderweb
9. Werewolf howls at midnight
10. Frankenstein
11. Walking through a haunted house
12. Wicked witch cackling
13. Telling a scary story
14. Flying on a broomstick
15. Coming back to haunt someone
16. Bobbing for apples
17. Over my dead body
18. Scared stiff
19. Getting stuck in your Halloween costume
20. Creepy clown
21. Dig one’s own grave
22. Being a Ghostbuster
23. Night owl
24. The cat’s out of the bag
25. Scaredy cat
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Easy Halloween Charades For Kids
Got kids playing? Use these Halloween charades for friends and family with young ones.
26. Stirring a cauldron
27. Handing out candy to trick or treaters
28. Carving a pumpkin
29. Trick or treating
30. Werewolf
31. Wart
32. Potion
33. Monster
34. Dressing up in a costume
35. Vampire
36. Ghost
37. Casting a spell
38. Jack-O-Lantern
39. Mummy
40. Spider web
41. Moon
42. Nightmare
43. Black cat
44. Face paint
45. Pirate
46. Fangs
47. Painting a pumpkin
48. Bat
49. Mad scientist
50. Wearing a mask
Beware of cute little monsters
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Next, These Halloween charades all have to do with your favorite treats!
51. Candy corn
52. Eating a caramel apple
53. Reeses
54. M & Ms
55. Snickers
56. Starbursts
57. Skittles
58. Twix
59. Eating candy
60. 3 Musketeers
61. Butterfinger
62. Kit Kat
63. Milky Way
64. Crunch bar
65. Caramel corn (or kettle corn)
66. Roasted pumpkin seeds
67. Pumpkin bread
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Next, these festive charade ideas will get you thinking.
68. Make one’s blood boil
69. Death trap
70. Night of the living dead
71. Ghost town
72. Coffin (or buried alive)
73. Jack Skellington
74. Dracula
75. Skeleton in your closet
76. Friday the 13th
77. Headless Horseman
78. Grim Reaper
79. Getting “stabbed in the back”
80. Tombstone
81. October
82. Rest in peace
83. Cobweb
84. Cleaning up a crime scene
85. Brains
86. Going on a haunted hayride
87. Scared of the dark
88. Day of the Dead
89. Alien invasion
90. Voodoo
91. Going to a Halloween party
92. Going to a pumpkin patch
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Halloween Movies Charades Ideas
93. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
94. Edward Scissorhands
95. Halloweentown
96. American Horror Story
97. The Nightmare Before Christmas
98. Hocus Pocus
99. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
100. A Quiet Place
101. The Addams Family
102. BeetleJuice
103. Casper
104. Pet Semetary
105. Friday the 13th
106. Psycho
107. The Haunted Mansion
108. Nightmare on Elm Street
109. The Sixth Sense
110. Corpse Bride
Bonus Adult Movies: Scream, Rocky Horror Picture Show, True Blood, The Walking Dead, Supernatural, The Exorcist
Related: Top Halloween Movie Trivia Quiz
Fun Charade Clues to Make It Easier
Stuck on a word or phrase? No problem! Use these clues to help your teammates.
- Number of words- If your Halloween charade phrase has multiple words, hold up the number with your fingers.
- Rhyming word- tap your ear for “sounds like”.
- Movie- Place one hand in a circle over your eye and then crank your other hand around in a circle like a movie camera.
- Song- Pretend to sing or wave your hands like you are directing music.
- Well-known saying – make air quotes.
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Free Printable Halloween Charades
Looking for more? Grab a full set of 50 cards in the digital shop!
Other Games to Play with Halloween Charades Words
Ok, you’ve got great Halloween charades game ideas – now, what else can you do with them? Lots!
Play Catch Phrase
This game is simple, fast-paced, and great for almost everyone.
In Catch Phrase, instead of acting out the word, you describe it (without using the word on the card) to get your team to guess it.
Try Reverse Charades
Reverse charades works the same way as the traditional charades game above. Except that instead of the entire team guessing while one person acts, one person guesses while the rest of the team acts it out. This game will turn out pretty funny!
Play Pictionary
Use the Halloween charades card to play Pictionary. Draw instead of acting out and see how many your team can guess. This game works well for a larger group of various ages.
Another variation for any of these games: Instead of using a timer for each word, you can also do a speed round. You keep going through words to get the team to guess as many as possible in the time.
What’s Next?
There are so many more fun things to do on Halloween! Check out these other great activities.
Thank You!
You’re welcome! Glad you found it helpful Sheila!