We love Halloween over here. It’s a great holiday to create memories, and traditions and strengthen relationships. Having a birthday party near Halloween lends itself to some really fun and creative party ideas. Here are 31 creative Halloween birthday party ideas.
Halloween-Themed Birthday Party
Halloween birthday party ideas start with a theme. Halloween in itself is full of so much fun. We love spending time together dressing up and getting creative. Creating a theme helps you narrow down what activities to plan, and what food to serve. It helps you focus on the fun.
Holidays are a great way to connect with friends and family and create lasting memories and relationships. Having a Halloween birthday party is like a double holiday. I had two friends growing up whose birthdays were on Halloween. I will always remember their birthdays!
Themes
Choosing a theme is one of the great Halloween birthday party ideas.
It helps with decorations and helps your party stand out from the other Halloween parties that are going on. It’s a great way to make your Halloween birthday party unique and fun. Having a birthday near Halloween is good news!
1. Haunted House
A haunted house is a fun Halloween theme for a birthday party. You can go to a local haunted house or turn your house into one. I recommend turning a room, garage, or section of your house into a haunted house. It is more affordable and you can turn down the scary a few notches for younger guests.
Turn out the lights, drape a few sheets, create a dialog and a few hidden surprises and you can turn any house into a haunted one. Here are some fun ideas for turning your house into a haunted house for a Halloween birthday party.
Lighting- you want there to be little light. Using small colored lights is a fun way to make a spooky feel.
Plan your path- Decide where the haunted path will be and make sure that it is well planned so your guests will not get lost, or wander into the wrong rooms that are not part of the haunted house.
You can get creative about how to make a spooky path. Use cardboard, pieces of furniture, or black sheets to keep things blocked off and people going in the right direction.
Sounds- Having a sound system or simple Bluetooth speaker, creating spooky noises, helps create the right atmosphere. Spooky sounds and music are sure to send a few shivers up the back.
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Theme- coming up with a theme helps. Is your haunted house a witch’s dwelling, or a spooky hospital?
Spooky Friends- Get some friends or family to dress up to fit in with your theme to scare or act silly in different areas of your haunted house.
Haunted House Extras
Special effects- you can use a fog machine. Fog machines make such a great effect on the atmosphere. A strobe light is also a great addition to your haunted house. It’s a great way to make an eerie vibe.
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Activities- to add a little extra sensory input to your haunted house you could put the key to escape, at the bottom of a bowl of jelly with plastic snakes, or behind the fake cobwebs and spiders.
I love that haunted house Halloween birthday parties don’t have to be extremely scary. You can make one a little spooky for your young goblin’s guests by just dimming the lights.
You can amp it up by converting your garage into something to terrify the teens. What a great Halloween birthday party theme.
2. Murder Mystery
This is one of my favorite Halloween birthday party ideas. It is a great Halloween party theme. Murder Mystery Dinners can take some prep work but they are always so fun.
Your guests are sure to have a blast trying to figure out “who done it”. I grew up on Matlock mysteries, and being a detective just gets me excited.
To make your murder mystery dinner think of a storyline, a plot, and characters. Assign your guest characters and let them all act the part. Your guest will spend the dinner looking for who the culprit is.
If coming up with your Murder Mystery script seems daunting check out this list of free Murder Mystery games for your epic Halloween birthday party.
This one is my favorite. I love that their 15 characters 16 if you count the butler. If your group is not that big you can cut out some of the characters. Everyone will have fun dressing up and acting the part of the character they have been given. What a fun night of mystery and excitement.
3. Harvest Party
I love decorating with all the natural beauties of fall. A harvest-themed Halloween birthday party is easy and fun. You can bring all the beauty of fall inside with small pumpkins and wreaths or you can keep the party outside, using the natural fall beauty as your décor.
Our favorite Halloween party ideas are to have a fire pit. The cool crisp air and the fire to keep you warm is just magical. There is something about hanging around a fire, that leads to good conversation and light-hearted fun. We always enjoy it.
We use straw bales, with quilts on top for easy seating. This is a great Halloween birthday party theme option for kids and adults alike. It’s fun to play up the harvest theme with fresh apple cider and chili.
5. Mad Scientist
This is a great theme for a kid’s Halloween birthday party idea. Science is one of our favorite things to do. Science experiments don’t feel like learning, they are just plain exciting.
There are so many fun experiments you could do at your Mad Scientist party. We love making elephant toothpaste, and paper machete volcanos.
Here is a fun round-up of some easy kid-friendly science experiments you can do at your mad scientist Halloween birthday party.
These lab coats and safety glasses would make awesome party favors.
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Transform your living room into a mad scientist laboratory or move the party outside for less clean-up. Your little mad scientists are sure to have fun experimenting and learning at your Halloween birthday party.
6. Monster Mash
Every Halloween we had a Monster Mash Dance at our middle school, I can’t hear the words without thinking of the year my mom came to the middle school dressed up as Frankenstein. Halloween fun runs deep in our family.
There are so many fun, spooky and creative ways to dress up a monster-mash-themed Halloween birthday party. These paper lanterns would be a great decoration idea for a monster mash birthday party.
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Monsters make a great Halloween costume. For a kid’s party, you can use monsters from Monsters inc. to dress up and decorate. I love the ideas from The Craft Patch. What a fun Monster Mash kid-friendly party.
7. Pirates
Pirates aren’t always associated with Halloween but they can easily have that eerie Halloween feeling about them. I once got to dress up as a pirate for a week straight as a member of my high school student council.
It was for sure one of my favorite weeks of high school. There is something magical about dressing up and hunting for pirate booty.
Pirate costumes can easily be made with things that people have on hand. Ideas would be to tear up an old striped shirt, and cut off black pants, and grab some old jewelry.
These patches would make great party favors. I like that they are felt instead of plastic, much easier to wear comfortably for your little pirate guests.
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We have this adorable pirate dress-up dress and it gets used almost daily. I love that it comes with the cute pirate hat.
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This pirate treasure is sure to be a hit with your little pirates. We love adding treasure hunts to our birthday activities. I love the antique sets.
The coins feel real. We had an epic treasure hunt at our last family reunion in Lake Powell. My kids are still talking about it.
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The pirate theme is family-friendly and won’t be too scary for the little ones. Little pirates are adorable!
8. Costumes
Choosing a theme helps take the guesswork out of your guests trying to decide on a costume, but sometimes seeing the variety and creativity of the unique costumes is fun. No matter what I think a Halloween birthday party should include costumes.
It’s such a great way to energize a party. Your party guests will have fun wearing their Halloween costumes to the party.
Halloween Party Decorations And Supplies
Check out all of these super fun Halloween Backdrop ideas for your Halloween birthday party. You are sure to find one that fits your party theme.
9. Graveyard
Graveyards or cemeteries make for great Halloween birthday party decorations. My favorite way to use them is to create a spooky entrance. You can decorate your yard with these 5 pack Graveyard signs.
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This groundbreaking skeleton and crow are a great addition to your yard and entrance decor. It’s a great decoration idea for your Halloween birthday party.
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10. Halloween Birthday Party Bat Decor
I am kinda obsessed with these cute Bats. There are 60 paper 3D bats of different sizes. I love how they make such a fun pop of Halloween decor on any blank wall.
They come with an adhesive that leaves no residue and can be stuck anywhere.
11. Black Cats
I love that black cats are spooky but are also child friendly and aren’t too scary. We love this paper plate black cat craft.
It’s a fun one to do with kids and looks great as a decoration at your Halloween birthday party. Crafts by Amanda has a great black cat tutorial.
12. Ghosts
These Ghosts are the perfect entrance decoration for your Halloween birthday party. I love that they are playful and fun. They are great for a kid’s Halloween birthday party.
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13. Pumpkins
I love the different variety of pumpkins. Mini pumpkins work great with kids. They also make adorable place cards for your murder mystery dinner.
You can use big pumpkins for activities and decorations. I love the variety of pumpkins. There are some amazing shapes, textures, sizes,s, and colors of pumpkins.
14. Spiders
Fake cobwebs are great ideas. Spider webs are a cheap and easy way to decorate. they can be pulled out to stretch across a large area needing decorations.
Plastic spiders hold on easily to the web and make the perfect excuses to allow spiders into your home.
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They work great as outdoor decorations as well. You can stretch them across front porches or fences. What a fun and versatile Halloween birthday party decoration idea.
15. Balloons
Black balloons make great Halloween birthday party decorations. You can use plain orange balloons and draw jack-o-lantern faces with a black marker for a DIY Halloween birthday party decor.
We love balloon arches. Check here for balloon decoration ideas. This Halloween balloon arch will look great at your Halloween birthday party.
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Paper Products
16. Paper Plates
The Dollar Store is a great place to pick up paper plates. I love that they have classic solid orange or black plates that can go with any theme.
Here are some decorative fun paper plates that kids of all ages can enjoy. I like the 4 different Halloween scapes on these plates.
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17. Halloween Birthday Party Ideas Plates
If you have a birthday around Halloween it might be fun to invest in some real plates to use each year as you celebrate your birthday. These black and white plates can be used year-round but would work great as Halloween plates too. I love the design.
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18. Paper Products Set
It’s nice to buy a whole set of tableware. I love that this set comes with a tablecloth that matches all your paper products.
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19. Serving Dishes
I love unique serving dishes and there are some really cool creative ones out there. I love this maple leaf, wooden plater. It is creative and will work well to serve snacks.
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These witch cauldron bowls are a great decoration and serving dish. They will be great on your serving table.
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20. Halloween Birthday Party Ideas-Tablecloth
I love table clothes. They brighten up any party space and make for a great way to emphasize different themes.
This is by far my favorite Halloween tablecloth. I love how elegant it is. A lace spiderweb tablecloth is sure to be a hit at your Halloween birthday party.
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Halloween Birthday Party Ideas-Games
These games can be adapted from toddlers to teens. Most games can work for many ages, have a few adults help the younger kids, and change up the rules to make it more challenging for older kids.
Here are some fun Halloween birthday party ideas for 5-year-olds, 11-year-olds, adults, and everyone in between.
Halloween Birthday Party Ideas-Children Activities
Halloween-themed birthday parties for toddlers are really fun. Most activities can be tailored to any age. My toddlers love to dress up.
They sometimes need help putting on their costumes, but I love how a dress can transform a little girl into a magical princess and a cape can turn a little boy into their favorite superhero.
21. Pumpkin Patch
We love the small pumpkin patches that are in some of the small farm towns around us. We have some fun big corn mazes but our favorites are the mom-and-pop pumpkin patches.
This is a great activity for a child’s Halloween birthday party. They can choose a large pumpkin or small pumpkin to take home with them. I love the different shapes, sizes and colors pumpkins come in
22. Corn Maze
A great Halloween party game is a candy corn toss. put small cups out and give each child 5 candy corns. Have them stand on a marked line, depending on the age of your guests you can move the lineup or back. See how many candy corns they can make into the cups.
23. Obstacle course
Obstacle courses can be included at almost any kid party but a Halloween obstacle course can really be fun. If they make it through without touching the spiderweb they get bonus points!
Be creative and use what you have at home. Depending on the age of your guests you’ll only want about 5-8 obstacles. Think of things to crawl over, under, and around.
You can turn your obstacle course into a relay race. It is really fun to create a little competition with your obstacle course.
The winner gets a bag of Halloween candy. Make sure the finish line is clearly visible so they can end the race at the right place.
24. Mummy Race
This mummy game is a lot of fun. Split into groups of 2 or 3. Have one child in each group volunteer to be the mummy. Hand the other children rolls of toilet paper. Have a race for which little kids can make their friend into a mummy fastest.
This game can work for many ages, have a few adults help the younger kids. It’s a fun Halloween birthday party idea for 11-year-olds too. Fun Halloween games can be the best part of your Halloween birthday party.
25. Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger hunts are a perfect Halloween game. Check out this fun scavenger hunt with free printables from Play Party Plan. I love the excitement that comes as the kids run from clue to clue looking for the prize at the end.
26. Halloween Birthday Party Ideas- Witch Craft
There are so many fun Halloween crafts. We love this little witch craft. It doesn’t require many craft supplies and is easy enough for young kids to do. Everybody loves a paper bag craft with a spooky twist.
27. Skeleton Game
I say this all the time, but Halloween is a perfect excuse for kids to learn the names of some bones. I love learning and teaching the names of bones. Skeletons are a great way for kids to learn different names of body parts. See who can find the phalanges first!
Pin the heart on the Skeleton is another fun skeleton game you can play at your Halloween birthday party. This skeleton would work perfectly for these games.
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28. Halloween Birthday Party Ideas- Music and Movies
Horror movies or just something a little spooky and fun. Finding a classic Halloween movie at showing it for an activity or just in the background of your Halloween birthday party is a great adult or kid idea.
Addams family is a classic Halloween go-to. You can watch it on several streaming services with a Roku such as Pluto TV.
A great movie for a kid’s party is Charlie Brown Halloween or better known as It’s a great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. It is exclusively streamed on apple TV+. This is a great child-friendly movie to play at your party.
Our favorite Halloween music comes with a killer music video. Thriller is a great music video to play at your Halloween birthday party! You can find the music video on youtube.
Halloween Birthday Party Ideas- Food
Some of the best food at your party can be a themed appetizer or dessert. You can really get creative and add some fun Halloween food ideas to your party.
29. Halloween Birthday Party Ideas -Appetizers
One of the best ideas for a Halloween birthday party Appetizer is a mummy! It’s easy to make and looks great.
Check out all of these other fun appetizer ideas that cooking chew has rounded up.
Everyone loves candy corn pieces. Halloween is always filled with treats but why not through in a healthy candy corn appetizer. I love the creativity of The Baker Mama.
Appetizers are great finger foods and are a perfect way to feed your guests. The most important thing is that there is enough food for all your guests.
A great way to know how much food to have for the big day is to have your guests rsvp so you can learn about how many are coming.
30. Dessert
Make your favorite cupcake recipe and frost them white. Then add these fake spiders to create a fun Halloween treat. You could also add some green food coloring to give it a monster feel for a good time.
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Halloween treats can be so creative. There are so many fun treats that fit with your kid’s Halloween party.
It’s so much fun to create these treats and lots are kid friendly. This fun treat idea can be done with the help of your children too. We love these nutter butter ghosts.
They are easy to make and taste delicious. Simply dip Nutter Butters in melted white chocolate.
Then melt chocolate chips to make dots for the eyes. Easy peasy and delicious spooky treat. Balancing Motherhood has great directions to create your own Ghosts.
An oreo cookie can be transformed into the dirt and gummy worms on top can make a spooky dirt cup treat. Check out these ones by B-inspired Mama.
31. Halloween Birthday Party Ideas- Drinks
We love spooky drinks. Adding dry ice to any Halloween drink is a great idea.
We always think homemade rootbeer with dry ice smoke coming out of the drink dispenser makes for a good party. We love this recipe from Mels Kitchen. It’s simple and yummy.
Another great drink for your Halloween birthday party is apple cider. We love the fresh apple cider we find at our local grocery store.
Bonus- Halloween Birthday Party Ideas for Adults
A costume contest is a fun activity to start out your adult Halloween birthday party. It’s a good idea to give out a prize for the best costume. Look at these fun Skeleton trophies.
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Frequently Asked Questions- Halloween Birthday Party Ideas
What should I do for my Halloween party?
Choosing a theme is a great place to start when planning a Halloween Party. Once you have a theme decided it’s easier to decorate. Depending on the age of your guests, you can choose some activities to help everyone enjoys the party.
Having an outdoor Halloween party is a great idea. One of our favorite things to do for a Halloween party is to have a campfire. It creates a beautiful laid-back atmosphere and allows everyone to enjoy the crisp fall weather.
What can a 12-year-old do for a Halloween party?
A Murder Mystery dinner would be a great idea for a 12-year-old Halloween Party. Check out these free murder mystery games.
It’s a great interactive party. 12-year-olds are at such a fun age, they are sure to get into character. What a fun way to have a good Halloween party.
How do you throw a good kids’ Halloween party?
Throwing a good kids’ Halloween party can be simple and fun. Our party must-haves are to always have enough snacks and drinks and a few structured activities along with free play.
A pumpkin activity is always a fun kid activity. Depending on the age of your guests you could have a pumpkin carving contest, paint, or stickers on the pumpkins that works great for younger children. We find Halloween parties work well outside. Check here for lots of outdoor Halloween party ideas.
What do adults do at Halloween parties?
Adult Halloween parties can be really fun. We always encourage dressing up. As an adult, you don’t get very many excuses to dress up and an adult Halloween party is a great place to get creative with your costumes.
You can offer prices for the best dressed to encourage creativity. Adults enjoy chatting and catching up but having a fun activity or two is a great idea. We recommend playing Secret Hilter a fun game of deception and betrayal. A Murder Mystery dinner is also a fun adult party idea. A Halloween birthday party for adults can be really fun.
Halloween Birthday Party Ideas- Conclusion
With these best Halloween party ideas, you are sure to have lots of fun at your Halloween birthday party. Have a great Halloween night or Halloween birthday party with your tiny ghost
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