Looking for printable Halloween charades? This is the best holiday-themed game your kids will love.
Halloween is just around the corner and if you’re anything like me you are looking for fun Halloween-themed activities to do with your kids. As a mom of three myself, I am giving you a fun Halloween charades game that is perfect for family night or Halloween party.
These Halloween charades range in difficulty from a “pumpkin” to “watching a scary movie” making it perfect for kids and adults of all ages.
Your night playing Halloween charades is sure to be filled with so many laughs and memories made.
This post is all about Halloween charades for kids.
Halloween Charades
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Supplies
- Printer
- Printer Paper (8.5×11)
- Scissors
- Free Printable Halloween charades game
- Bowl
Directions
- Download and print off the charades cards below.
- Cut out each individual card and fold them in half.
- Place the cards in a bowl and start your game.
How to Play Charades
- Form a list of words that you can act out (or download my free Halloween charades printable below). Write these words on a piece of paper, fold them up and place them into a bowl.
- Break up into two teams (try to make it as fair as possible).
- Prior to playing, make sure to decide how the winner will be determined. Will you play for X amount of rounds or will the winner be the team who gets X amount of cards correctly first? Trust me, if your family is at all competitive you’ll definitely want to decide this BEFORE the game starts.
- Flip a coin and see which team will start.
- The starting team will have one player draw a card out of the bowl.
- Set a timer for 3 minutes. When the timer starts, the player begins to act out their word or phrase using body gestures and motions for their teammates to guess. No vocal sounds are allowed.
- If their team can guess the card correctly before the timer runs out then the round is over and that team gets a point. If the timer runs out before the team can correctly guess the card, the round is over but the team does not get a point. The other team is then allowed one guess to try and steal the point.
- Play until a winner has been determined (however you established BEFORE starting).
Tips
- If you are acting out a phrase, hold up your fingers to indicate how many words are in the phrase. For example, if you draw “bobbing for apples,” you would hold up 3 fingers to let your teammates know you have a three word card. Then, hold up one finger to start acting out the word “bobbing”. After your teammates guess the word “bobbing” then hold up two fingers and act out “for”. Lastly, hold up three fingers and act out the word “apples.”
- When a player guesses a word correctly touch your nose and then point at the player who answered correctly.
- If you are playing with young children you might want to consider allowing them to use sounds until they can get the hang of the game.
- When using the picture charades, the answer will be whatever the child thinks the picture is. For example, there is a picture of a jack-o-lantern however, if the child acting out the picture thinks of it as a pumpkin then the answer is pumpkin.
Halloween Charades Printable
Here is the free printable Halloween-themed charade cards. Feel free to download and print whichever ones you want.
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Part 1
- Pumpkin
- Witch
- Vampire
- Frankenstein
- Broom
- Mummy
- Bat
- Skeleton
- Ghost
- Fang
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Part 2
- Candy Corn
- Cobweb
- Graveyard
- Costume
- Haunted House
- Monster
- Coffin
- Candle
- Eyeball
- Full Moon
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Part 3
- Halloween
- October
- Candy
- Jack-o-lantern
- Blood
- Potion
- Spider
- Shadow
- Skull
- Flashlight
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Part 4
- Dracula
- Cauldron
- Owl
- Face Paint
- Mask
- Magic
- RIP
- Scream
- Cackle
- Caramel Apple
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Part 5
These charades are slightly more difficult than parts 1-4.
- Black Cat
- Hocus Pocus
- Trick-or-Treat
- Trunk-or-Treat
- Boo
- Dark
- Treat Bag
- Cemetery
- 3-Eyed Monster
- Getting Scared
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Part 6
Parts 6 and 7 are phrases and definitely more of a challenge.
- Watching a Scary Movie
- Casting a Spell
- Book of Spells
- Bobbing for Apples
- Putting on a Costume
- Putting up Decorations
- Spider Making a Web
- Mummy Unraveling
- Carving a Pumpkin
- Ringing a Doorbell
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Part 7
- Doing a Magic Trick
- Flying on a Broomstick
- Telling a Ghost Story
- Throwing a Halloween Party
- Eating Halloween Candy
- Werewolf Transforming
- Howling at the Moon
- Trading Halloween Candy
- Bat Flapping its Wings
- Calling Ghost Busters
Picture Halloween Charades
If you have young children you may know that there can be a reading barrier when it comes to charades. One option is to have a player team up with the younger child to read the card to them so they can act it out.
Otherwise, you can use picture charades. I have created 10 Halloween picture charade cards perfect for non-readers to participate on their own. You can download and print these off below.
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Blank Halloween Charades
If you would like to add more Halloween-themed charade cards you can download and print off my blank template. Using a pen, write in the Halloween word or phrase you want to use and add them to your bowl.
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More Fun Halloween Activities:
- Halloween Treasure Hunt – My kids LOVE solving and following clues that lead to a prize.
- Halloween Would You Rather Game – These silly questions are a fun way to get to know your friends and family.
- Halloween Jokes For Kids – These funny Halloween jokes are great to send in your child’s lunchbox during October.
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