Fun Halloween activities for kids, beyond trick-or-treating?

We like to paint or carve pumpkins to leave outside of our house to decorate for Halloween.

There are so many great Halloween movies for kids, you can easily pick a new one each week for a whole month of spooky family movie nights. Lean into the theme by mixing some candy into your popcorn.

If your kids love making paper chain countdowns for events they're anticipating and ripping off a link each day, make a black and orange one for Halloween!

Find a local pumpkin patch or corn maze to explore as a family. Many really go all out with fun Halloween activities for kids.

In our last neighborhood, one of our neighbors had a casual Halloween party every year. On Halloween before trick-or-treating, the neighbors would all hang out in their driveway for dinner and to check out everyone's costumes. It was always one of my favorite parts of the holiday!

Hide candy or little Halloween trinkets inside Easter eggs for a Halloween egg hunt.

Make a Halloween playlist (or find a ready-made one), and listen to it throughout October. We have a few streets around us that really go all out with Halloween decorations, and we like to listen to a playlist in the car while we drive around and check them out.

There's a haunted house cookie kit at Trader Joe's that is really fun for kids to make their own gingerbread-style creation. Or you can DIY with graham crackers, orange and black squeeze frosting, candy corn, etc.

When my kids were younger, one of our favorite fun things to do for Halloween was stock up on a big assortment of spooky books from the library, and then enjoy reading them all month long.

Take a bag of Halloween candy and put it inside a fun Halloween piñata. Everyone gets to take a swing and work for their candy!