20 Spooktacular Halloween Minute To Win it Games For Kids
Get ready for some spine-tingling fun with our list of 20 Halloween Minute to Win It games for kids!
These quick and easy Halloween minute-to-win-it games are perfect for:
- Classroom parties
- Family game night
- Any Halloween celebrations
From ghostly challenges to spooky races, these games will keep kids and adults entertained and in the Halloween spirit.
The best part? These easy Halloween-themed Minute To Win It games require only a few supplies and don’t leave a big mess behind.
Grab a timer and dive into the fun. See who can complete these eerie tasks in just a minute!
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Easy Halloween Minute To Win It For Kids
1. Candy Corn Toss
Supplies: plastic cups, candy corn
Game Variation 1: Divide into two teams. Give players a bowl of candy corn and see how many the team can throw into a cup in one minute.
Game Variation 2: Play in teams. One player’s job is to hold the cup and the other player’s job is to toss candy corn. Determine how far they stand apart to make it a challenge. The duo with the most candy corn in the cup after the minute wins!
2. Candy Corn Commute
Supplies: Candy corn, spoons, bowls
Players move candy corn from one bowl to another using a spoon in their mouth and no hands! The player who moves the most in 60 seconds is the winner.
3. Candy Corn Relay
Supplies: Candy corn, spoons, Halloween buckets (or bowls)
Game Variation 1: Divide players into groups. Players balance candy corn on a spoon and walk across the room to drop the candy into a bucket. The next person in line goes and play continues until the timer is up. The winning team has the most candy corn in their bucket!
Game Variation 2: Set up a course with markers or cones. Players must balance a candy corn on the spoon and complete the course within a minute. If they drop the candy corn, they must go back to the starting point.
4. Candy Corn Stand Up or Stack
*Great for older kids and teens
Supplies: Candy corn
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The object of this game is to stand as many candy corn upright in one minute.
Or try to stack candy corn pieces on top of each other. Whoever stacks the most in a minute wins.
Planning activities for a Halloween party? Grab this free Halloween This or That Questions Game Printable!
5. Monster Pick Up
Supplies: Vampire fangs, pom poms, cups or small cauldrons
Hold vampire fangs and use them to pick up pom poms or candy corn and move them to your cauldron. The person to collect the most pom poms in a minute (or until they’re all picked up) wins!
6. Spiders On The Move
Supplies: Straws, plates, plastic spiders
Players aim to transfer plastic spiders from one plate to another using only suction from the straw, without using their hands! Want to make this harder? Use chopsticks to move the spiders!
Game variation: Pumpkin seeds, M&M’s, candy corn, or orange pom-poms work great for this game too!
7. Spider Race
Supplies: plastic cups or cones, plastic spiders, straws
Set up a small obstacle course with cups or cones. Players use plastic spiders and straws to blow their spiders through the course, reaching the finish line within a minute.
Related: Free And Fun Halloween Mad Libs
8. Tarantula Toss
Supplies: Plastic spiders, fake spiderwebs
Spread fake spiderwebs across a space in your home or classroom (doorways, stairs, and corners work best), then have players toss tiny plastic spiders at the web and see how many they can get stuck in one minute!
9. Mummy Wrap
Supplies: Toilet paper rolls
Divide the players up into teams. Each team will choose someone to be the “mummy”.
The other players must wrap this person with toilet paper as best they can in just one minute. The team with the best-looking and most completely wrapped mummy wins!
Use hilarious Halloween team names to get everyone cackling!
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10. Halloween Cookie Face
*A Popular Minute To Win It Game
Supplies: Halloween flavor Oreos
Cookie Face is a hilarious game where each child places a round cookie on their forehead (we like Oreos!). The objective is to move the cookie to their mouth using only facial muscles. It’s a race against time and gravity!
11. Pumpkin Races
Supplies: Miniature pumpkins
Each player balances a miniature pumpkin on their head and walks from one side of the room to the other without letting the pumpkin fall or using their hands. The player who completes the most round trips in 60 seconds wins. If a pumpkin is dropped, the player must start over with counting.
Related: Exciting Game of Truth & Dare for Kids
12. Pumpkin Roll
Supplies: Miniature pumpkins
Set up a mini pumpkin and mark a start and finish line. Participants push the pumpkin with their nose from the start to the finish line within a minute—no hands allowed!
Option: Use a broomstick to push the pumpkins and turn it into a relay race.
13. Balancing Broomsticks
Supplies: Craft sticks, small Halloween candy pieces
Give each player a craft stick and four or five pieces of small Halloween candy. Set the timer for one minute. Each player places one end of the craft stick in their mouth and must balance the candy on the other end.
The player who keeps the most candy balanced on the stick by the end of the minute wins!
14. Candy Unwrapping
Supplies: Wrapped pieces of Halloween candy
Have players take a wrapped piece of candy (choose a difficult one for a challenge) and have them unwrap it one-handed. The winner is the person who unwraps the most pieces in one minute!
Also, check out more Easy and Fun Minute To Win It Games!
15. Halloween Charades Minute To Win It Games
Supplies: Charade cards
Create a set of cards that has various Halloween words and phrases. Divide into two teams. Each team designates who will act out the cards within one minute.
The team with the most guesses wins. Remember, no words or clues are allowed – only pure acting!
Halloween charades words and phrases: trick or treating, zombie, vampire, ghost, witch, mummy, spider web, Frankenstein, eating candy, carving a pumpkin, stirring a cauldron, walking through a haunted house, bobbing for apples, werewolf, black cat, skeleton, bat, cobweb
Related: Ultimate Charades Ideas
16. Back Flip Pencil Catching Challenge
*More challenging game for older kids and teens
Supplies: Halloween-themed (unsharpened) pencils or plastic bones
Balance a pencil on the back of your hand, flip it up and catch it. Keep adding 1 more as you go. How many pencils can you manage to catch in one minute?
17. Halloween Memory
Supplies: Various Halloween-themed objects and candy on a tray
Display a tray of various Halloween-themed objects or candies. Give participants one minute to memorize as many items as they can. Once time is up, cover the tray.
Participants then have one minute to write down as many items as they can remember. The person with the most correct answers wins!
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18. How Many Words?
Supplies: paper and pencil
Given one Halloween-themed word, players use the letters in that word to come up with as many other words as possible in 60 seconds. The player or team with the most words is the winner.
Example: Haunted: net, head, hunt, den, tan, etc…
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19. Halloween Name Them!
Players compete to name as many items within a given category as possible in 60 seconds. Play in teams or partners and see who can name the most.
Examples:
- Things that are orange
- Halloween costume ideas
- Halloween treats
- Things in a haunted house
- Halloween party items
- Halloween creatures
- Scary things
Also, play the similar 5-Second Rule Game!
20. Halloween Exercise Challenge
*No Supplies Needed!
Participants aim to complete as many repetitions of a selected exercise as possible within one minute. This is a great opportunity for movement and a burst of energy release! Pair players in partners to help count repetitions.
- Zombie Walks: Walk with stiff legs and arms outstretched, like a classic zombie.
- Pumpkin Squats: Pretend to hold a pumpkin and perform squats.
- Spider Crawls: Mimic a spider by crawling on hands and feet, keeping low to the ground.
- Witch’s Broomstick Jumps: Place a broomstick on the floor and jump over it side to side.
- Bat Wings: Stand with arms outstretched and flap like a bat.
- Ghost Glides: Slide side to side across the floor as if floating like a ghost.
- Mummy Marches: March in place with arms wrapped like a mummy.
- Cauldron Stirring Lunges: Perform lunges while mimicking stirring a cauldron.
- Monster Stomps: Stomp around like a big, scary monster.
- Frankenstein Kicks: Stand tall and kick each leg up straight in front of you, reaching for your toes like Frankenstein’s walk.
More Fun Halloween Activities
- Add Halloween Trivia into your game night.
- Try out the best Halloween Scavenger Hunt.
- Ask Would You Rather Halloween Questions that everyone will love!
- See the full list of Hilarious Halloween Games for more!
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