Halloween fun games to help children learn while playing

cliffordwoods1987
Oct 14, 2021
2 min read

You can teach your child a lot of lessons through Halloween activities, from decorating the house, preparing costumes or telling spooky ghost stories. Let's start with the topics below to encourage your child to explore and ask questions.

1. Bats

Bats are familiar animals that are often mentioned as a symbol of Halloween. You can learn about bats with your children in many different ways such as reading books, watching clips on Youtube or coloring, drawing, and collage bats. You can also make your child a simple bat costume for them to attend the school carnival which is also very interesting.

2. Spider web

There are many ideas for making a handmade spider web for your child with materials from yarn, twine or rope. You can also create a spider web using thin lines of glue on sandpaper and then sprinkle glitter powder on it. When the glue dries, simply peel off your cobweb from the wax paper.

In addition, discuss with your child the best places where spiders usually spin webs, why spider webs have to be shaped like that and how spider silk can form such strong webs... to stimulate your child's imagination and natural curiosity.

3. Pumpkin

Pumpkin is also a typical symbol used to create fun and funny shapes on Halloween. Along with decorating a pumpkin, you will help your child be creative and exercise their dexterity with activities of peeling, carving and drawing on pumpkins...

4. Ghost stories

Ghost stories are an indispensable spice of Halloween. Choose classic stories like Dracula, Frankenstein.. to tell them in the spirit of "Not all ghosts are scary" and help your child excitedly explore the "spooky" world with excitement and confidence. .

5. Masks

Masks are an indispensable item of carnivals. There are countless ways to create masks, from paper, clay, soft cloth, to cardboard... Listen to your child's ideas and help her make her own mask that she loves.

6. Masquerade costumes

There are many simple and inexpensive DIY Halloween costume ideas online. Depending on the interests and age of the child, the mother chooses the right idea. A masquerade costume made by mother and child will definitely help your baby's party become more meaningful and exciting.