Send children on a pumpkin hunt. Hide one small pumpkin for each child around a room or yard -- choose locations that aren't too difficult for children to find. Instruct the children to look for pumpkins and, upon finding one, to return back to a pre-determined gathering area. Once each child finds a pumpkin, encourage them to decorate the pumpkin with glitter glue, paint, markers and other craft materials. Display the decorated pumpkins around your home or classroom.
Play a Halloween-themed version of the classic game Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Draw an image of a witch -- sans hat -- on a large piece of poster board. Draw pictures of witch's hats, one for each child, and on the back of each hat, place a piece of fun tac. Give a hat to a child, place a blind fold on him, spin him in three circles and point him in the direction of the witch; the child must try to place the hat on the witch's head. The player who places the hat closest to the witch's head earns a prize. You can award other players a small consolation prize to avoid hurt feelings.
Help children turn paper plates into ghost decorations. Provide children with white paper plates and ovals cut out of black construction paper. Have children glue two ovals onto the back of the paper plate as eyes for their ghosts and one oval on the plate for the mouth. Cut lengths of white crepe paper streamers and help children glue them to the bottom rim of their paper plates. Punch a hole through the top of the plates and string a piece of yarn through the holes. Tie the yarn into a loop and use the loop to display the decoration.
Children pretend they are witches in this Halloween-themed game. Determine a starting and ending point for the race by setting out cones or laying strips of tape on the ground. Set out a broom for each child at the starting point of the race. Instruct children to place the brooms between their legs, as if they are riding them like a witch would. On your mark, children move as fast as they can while "riding" the broom; the first child to make it to the finish line wins the race.