Halloween games from our childhoods to play with the kids this year

Do you remember these wholesome and tech-free Halloween games we played as kids? When we were kids, Halloween was a much simpler time. We wore bin bags as costumes and painted our faces with products that are probably banned now. But we still had a lot of fun!

I was lucky that my mother was always up for a party, so we always had a Halloween celebration when I was growing up. Even though we lived on a street with no other children, we’d go trick or treating (and we’d come back with a strange variety of ‘treats’ from literal pennies to actual peanuts).

I don’t know where they come from, if my mother and her sisters had played them when they were young, or if she’d seen them on Live at 3, but we used to play these traditional Halloween games.

They are relatively easy to set up, tech-free, cheap, and safe to do – but we recommend supervision!

Bobbing for apples

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Bobbing for apples.

You’ll need:

• A deep basin
• Apples
• Water
• Fill a basin full of water and drop in some apples.

Everyone takes a turn to grab an apple with their teeth – it’s not as easy as it sounds!

Floor mountain

You’ll need:

• Flour
• A blunt knife
• A grape
• With the flour, create a mountain, or pyramid shape.

Pop the grape at the very top.

Everyone takes turns slicing the flour away.

Whoever knocks the grape down loses.

Swinging apples

You’ll need:

• String
• Somewhere to tie string in a line
• Apples

Halloween games love apples!

Make a line across the room with string.

Tie apples to more strings of varying lengths and hang them from the line.

Everyone runs to a hanging apple and, with their hands behind their backs, tries to bite the apple. The winner gets to choose the Halloween movie!

Ghost story

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Tell a ghost story.

You’ll need:

• A torch
• Some imagination!
• Turn off the lights and sit in a circle.

The person who starts the story lights under their face in a spooky way with the torch.

Everyone takes turns adding one sentence to the story. It will end up being pretty strange and scary!

* This article was originally published on Rollercoaster.ie.