These are just couple of simple ideas of activities you can play at your next harvest festival or Halloween Alternative event.

1. Guess the weight of a pumpkin
Have the party guests guess the weight of a carved pumpkin jack-o-lantern. The person closest to the correct weight wins a prize!

Game Description

How well can you draw the Halloween Jack-o-Lantern?  Here is a great youth game idea for the Halloween season. You can use it to bring a fresh spiritual meaning to the holiday and allow your youth to apply it to seeking God’s plan and direction for their lives. You could even relate it to a talk about not conforming to the patterns of the world. Be creative and have a great week!  And for those completely adverse to anything associated with Halloween, see the alternative variation under the “preparation” section.

Game Description
Toss the candy into a Halloween Jack-o-lantern pumpkin and if it lands inside, you get to keep it!

Game Materials

• At least two large pumpkins – one to hold the candy and one for participants to toss the candy into.
• Individually wrapped candy, mini candy bars

Game Description
In this relay, participants will try to replace the missing pieces that have been removed from their team’s pumpkin. It can be used as party game for your October 31st Halloween alternative, for a harvest festival, or a Halloween carnival.

Game Materials

Description
Use this game about a mummy as part of Halloween Alternative or as an introduction to the story of Lazarus.

Game Materials
Several Rolls of Toilet Paper (One or more for each team)

Game Preparation

1. Divide the youth into teams.

Description
Even if you don’t want to be involved with Halloween, you’ll want to grab at least one of those plastic or paper Halloween skeletons for this object lesson / game.

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Tradition says the Halloween “Jack-o-Lantern” gets it’s name from an old Irish story about a drunkard called “Stingy Jack.”

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