Top 25 Educational Halloween Games 2025

One of the best Halloween games for reviewing and recapping vocabulary, this Halloween Bingo takes the well-known retro classic, and fills your tiles with terror.

Stacked with a load of different images, this game is great for covering a variety of nightmarish nouns.

If you want to turn things up a notch, you could even ask your students to spell each word (and, in the process, to recap some spooky spellings).

Helps with: Recapping and recalling nouns, making bingo productive, and (maybe!) adding some extra doses of Halloween-themed spelling

Best for: Kindergarten and first grade

Think your students are Halloween experts? Time to put their spooky knowledge to the test with this game full of multiple-choice mayhem.

Perfect for mid to high-level students (or just anyone who’s survived a few Halloweens), it’s loaded with eerie facts and tricky questions. Whether they’re new to the whole pumpkin scene or seasoned trick-or-treat veterans, this game will throw some chills, thrills, and maybe even a few eye rolls their way.

Helps with: Halloween-themed quizzes, multiple-choice skills, fun facts

Best for: Grades 6 to 9

Next up, another scream-worthy selection of Halloween laughs—in this game, you’ll find a pumpkin-load of cringe-inducing dad jokes.

Why did the zombie skip school? What does an evil hen lay? And why was the broom late?

Your little learners will love this knee-slapping collection of puns, japes, and double entendres (even more than candy corn!).

Helps with: wordplay, homophones, lateral thinking, idioms, humor

Best for: Grade 2+

In this spooky spectacle, Baamboozle asks your students to choose the right prepositions for each spine-chilling situation.

Is “above” the correct term? Is it “on”? Or is it maybe “in”? And more importantly, why’s that devil standing on an eyeball?

This is one of our favorite Halloween games for English classes… and it’s great for introducing a potentially-complex subject in a super-simple way.

Helps with: Learning and applying prepositions, simplifying a complicated topic

Best for: Grades 2 to 4

Think your students know their spooky characters? Time to find out. This quiz will test their knowledge of all the iconic Halloween characters from those classic spooky movies we’ve all seen a million times.

It’s simple, it’s eerie, and it might just keep your class on edge—unless, of course, they get too scared by cartoon ghosts. Better keep the lights on!

Helps with: Memory, pop culture, Halloween character recognition

Best for: Grades 2 to 6

Made up of both multiple-choice mayhem and open-ended questions, this game covers a horrifying host of trivia topics.

You’ll find anagrams, food questions, riddles, geography brainteasers, film trivia, history stuff, and plenty more. Some questions are relatively simple, while others are hauntingly hard.

Helps with: Adding a quiz to a Halloween class, challenging your students with some tricky questions, and covering a wide range of subjects

Best for: Grades 6 to 9

Pacey and with an array of punchy GIFs, this quick recall and identification game is a perfect tongue-loosener to kick off Halloween week. Enjoy... if you dare!

Helps with: Quick recall, ice-breaker, multiple choice

Best for: 1st Grade+

This Halloween game takes the age-old ‘I Spy’ theme, and combines it with some rotten riddles.

What’s something white that flies? What do you wear to be someone you are not? And what might you make a magic spell in?

Helps with: Lateral thinking, problem solving, reading between the lines

Best for: Grades 4 to 7

Fast-paced observation game designed to strengthen mental acuity and recall in smaller children. The creator has made excellent use of the GIFs, ensuring gameplay is pacey, competitive and challenging (depending on the rules you implement and the power-ups you set!)

Helps with: Observation skills, retrieval, spelling, speed

Best for: 1st Grade

While Halloween is one of the most fun times of year for kids, many aren’t aware of its surprising history. This simple yet curiosity-laden quiz game seeks to address that.

On one level it’s an end of day team quiz, but on another level the questions are conversation starters that get kids thinking and joining the dots between their own experiences and those of other cultures… with a few pop culture references thrown in for good measure ;)

Helps with: Recalling facts, teamwork, quiz, conversation builder

Best for: 2nd Grade+

Eerily awesome observation game with a distinctive visual style. Works superbly using the slideshow feature and is also an excellent challenge for adults; OK, OK... I confess! I stumbled on some of these against my class (much to their delight!)

Helps with: Observation, attention strengthening, competitive, simple yet tricky

Best for: 1st Grade+

Were two dogs once accused of witchcraft? Are Italian priests banned from performing weddings on Halloween? Does the Czech president annually deliver a Halloween address while wearing spooky clothes?

And is it perhaps possible that all of these ridiculous statements are completely made-up?

One of our top Halloween games for focusing on fun facts, you probably won’t believe any of these creepy claims are true (but trust us, some of them really are).

Helps with: Introducing Halloween-themed classes, shocking your students, a fun burst of unbelievable energy

Best for: Grades 5 to 8

Looking for a game that’s all about describing the spooky season? Well, aren’t you in luck!

Your little monsters will be thrilled to throw around adjectives like “scary” and “creepy” as they describe everything from a witch’s hat to a haunted house that’s probably just your neighbor’s garage.

It’s a shockingly easy way to get them talking—while making things terrifyingly descriptive (cue the spooky music).

Helps with: Building vocabulary, exploring adjectives, boosting descriptive language

Best for: Grades 3 to 5

One ghoulish day, I was wandering through Baamboozle’s magical forest, and stumbled upon a witch’s house. Of course, this was no ordinary witch, but a talented game creator named A. P. Chacon-Kreysa. She’d conjured up an incredible sentence-building game using popular Halloween characters.

Scarily simple, yet amazingly powerful when coupled with creative writing, grammar or drama input. You (and your kids) will be cackling with delight over this one.

Helps with: fluency in speaking and writing, vocabulary building, easy differentiation

Best for: 2nd grade+

Metaphors, similes, and other eerie forms of figurative language come to life in this creepy yet educational game.

Students will explore figures of speech with a Halloween twist, making language learning fun, festive, and a little bit frightful. You won’t believe how much figurative fun is hiding in this ghostly game!

Helps with: Figurative language, figures of speech, creative thinking

Best for: Grades 4 to 7

Did you know: Rosiest Input is an anagram for Superstition?

If your kids love scrambled words as much as we do, then you’re in for a real trick-or-treat here. One of the best Baamboozles we’ve seen using anagrams that get gradually more challenging as the game progresses, meaning that no-one is left out and that kids of all abilities can show off their spelling prowess, either verbally or on their whiteboards. Great starter, plenary or attention-grabber activity.

Helps with: Spelling, speed, linking words and images

Best for: 1st Grade+

Who will survive the spooky night? What’s hiding behind that door? And, most importantly, where’s the candy?!

This game of Halloween-themed WH-questions is basically an excuse to make your students do some thinking while they try to crack the case of the missing treats. Whether it’s a “who,” “what,” “where,” or “why,” this game will keep them guessing!

Helps with: WH-questions, critical thinking, and reading comprehension

Best for: Grades 1 to 3

In a zombie apocalypse, what would be your weapon of choice?

Another gory game, another bunch of hypothetical horror.

Along with speculative Halloween-based questions, this addictive ice-breaker combines off-the-wall challenges with adventurous dares.

Expect acting skills, speaking with expression, some surprising senses of humor, and a whole load of strange responses.

Helps with: Confidence-building, participating within a group, mime, expression

Best for: 2nd Grade+

Giggling and guffawing have never been so scary. Stuffed with jokes, puns and gags, this is one of our favorite Halloween games for injecting fear with fun.

But don’t let the cackling make you too complacent—scattered in amongst the laughter, you’ll also find a few challenging riddles.

Helps with: Having a laugh, bringing students together, and filling a quiet classroom with fun

Best for: Grades 3 to 6

In this gruesome game, your students are tasked with swiftly naming bunches of Halloween-related stuff.

Can they quickly come up with 5 Halloween colors? 3 Halloween candies? 2 synonyms for scared? Or any other online learning platform quite as good as Baamboozle?

Helps with: Rapid-fire thinking, and some quick competition

Best for: Grades 3 to 5

Stacked with petrifying dilemmas, this game takes the iconic ‘Would You Rather,’ and gives every question a Halloween-themed twist.

Would you rather have a pumpkin for a head, or pumpkins for feet? Would you rather be covered in spiders… or snakes? Would you rather hand out candy at home, or go out trick-or-treating?

And most importantly, would you rather be doing something dull, or playing another of Baamboozle’s (more than 3 million!) great games ?

Helps with: Thinking deeply, some topical debate, getting students to tackle some surprisingly-tricky questions

Best for: Grades 2 to 4

A stone cold Classic revamped for the Baamboozle era! Designed to be played with speed with an emphasis on mime and physical expression, this is perfect ‘brain break’ fodder to get the kids moving and exercising their muscles of attention. Oh yes, the GIF game is strong with this one :)

Helps with: Brain breaks, whole class participation, physical exercise

Best for: 1st Grade+

If you need more help, check out this full guide to physical activity in the classroom.

Correct the grammar in these Halloween-themed sentences. This pumpkin-infused game helps to build and consolidate grammar, vocabulary, and writing skills in kids, not to mention speaking skills.

Framing this as a quickfire plenary or as a fun starter activity will help to get brains fired up at home, in class and even over Zoom.

Helps with: Language, speaking, writing, editing

Best for: 1st & 2nd Grades

Each mini challenge in this storytelling activity comes in the form of a thought-provoking (but unfinished) small sentence.

Students take turns to finish these sentences, and craft a haunting horror story as they play. It’s sort of like Story Dice, but Halloween-style!

Dotted throughout the game, you also get unpredictable story-changing elements, including the addition of zombies, ghosts, aliens, and other creepy creatures.

Halloween games don’t get much more creative than this.

Helps with: Effective teamwork, getting all imaginative, sneakily covering some complex grammar into an otherwise-exciting game

Best for: Grades 5 to 8

If you’re looking for Halloween games with variety, you won't find better than this.

Featuring physical challenges, outrageous dares, truth-telling, unfinished sentences, and some genuinely-scary images and gifs, this game will keep your spooked-out students on their terrified toes.

Helps with: Getting all creative, getting all daring, getting all truthful

Best for: Grades 6 to 8