Enjoy Halloween with our top 7 Halloween party ideas that you can do as a family with kids or as a community in your HOA or Condo.

1 – Trick or Treat

I’m sure there will be a trick-or-treating event in your community, but if there isn’t definitely encourage trick-or-treating. It is a classic and amazing Halloween party idea. It’s an exciting event for the kids in your HOA or condo, and it does help neighbors to get to know each other. You could tell residents that if they don’t want to participate they can put up a sign so they don’t get annoyed.

2 – Halloween Games

You can create a super fun scavenger hunt around the community, and print out some Halloween-themed instructions. Then hide surprises and more clues around to keep kids entertained while adults enjoy some Halloween drinks. You could also set up some apple bobbing to teach kids a classic Halloween party game, of course, this needs to be controlled but it can be very fun.

3 – Halloween Movies

There are lots of Halloween movies that are fun to show as a family-friendly event. You could do it along with other events we suggest, or this could be the limit of your Halloween celebrations. Some ideas for films would be Hocus Pocus, Witches, Trick ‘r Treat, Goosebumps, Clue, Coraline, or any Dracula movie.

4 – Halloween Costume Competition

You can divide the competition by ages, 0-3, 3-6, 7-10, teens, and adults. You could also add a type of costume, including group, couple, scariest, and funniest into the mix as well so more prizes are handed out.

The board or a committee could judge, and then an awards ceremony is always fun! There are lots of printable labels that you could stick on wine bottles, and chocolate boxes or you could make little trophies. 

5 – Decorate Pumpkins

This is a fun activity to do before Halloween so that the community is decorated before trick or treating. This would be lovely to do before a Halloween movie night to get everyone in the mood and it’s such a lovely thing to do with kids.

You don’t have to actually carve the pumpkins, you could paint pumpkins and stick stickers or jewels on them to make it a more child-friendly activity! If you don’t want to use pumpkins, then you could do cupcake decorating.

6 – A Twist of Classic Games

An adorable game to play for Halloween is a variation on ‘pin the tail on the donkey’, you could play ‘pin the stem on the pumpkin’, ‘pin the broomstick on the witch’ or ‘pin the spider on the web’. Get kids to direct their sugar rush energy after eating lots of candy by doing a candy corn relay race or a Scarecrow relay race. With the relay, groups can race to dress a Scarecrow.

For a more relaxed game, or one for younger kids, you can do a Halloween memory game. The cards could have jack-o’ lanterns, Frankenstein, a witch, a haunted house, or a zombie. A Halloween Guessing Game, fill a jar or pot with Halloween candies or objects and ask people to guess how many are in there to win a Halloween-themed gift.

7 – Halloween Food

If you don’t have any ideas for Halloween-themed food, then look no further! For an adorable and healthy snack then you could put out these apple monsters. You could also make spiderweb nachos, with cheese making up the spiderweb.

How about incorporating pumpkins by carving a mouth so it looks like the pumpkin is throwing up the dip? You could do this with guacamole, hummus, or nacho cheese dip. For dessert, you can have bat cupcakes, this can be as simple as simple cupcakes with halved Oreos and M&Ms for eyes.

Wrapping Up our Halloween Party Ideas

We hope that these activities, snacks, and competitions bring some fun and games into your community and that you have some awesome and spooky events!