Play at home
The fun doesn't end at the front door.
Easy family activities for the days at home: crafts, printables, indoor games, sensory play, and small ideas that make an ordinary afternoon feel more playful.
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Crafts
Easy Halloween Puffy Paint Activity + Free Printable Templates
A Halloween puffy paint activity that combines painting, sensory play, and three printable designs: a ghost, jack-o'-lantern, and candy corn.
Sensory play
Easy Sand Slime Recipe: A Fun Textured Sensory Activity for Kids
Classic stretchy slime gets a gritty twist with colored sand for squeezing, stretching, pulling, kneading, and tactile exploration.
Printables
Halloween Potion Lab
Pick a potion, mix baking soda, food coloring, and vinegar, then watch it bubble. A one-page printable with recipe cards, a create-your-own sheet, and lab challenges.
Sensory play
A Little Spooky, a Lot of Squishy
A Halloween spaghetti sensory bin with colorful noodles, creepy-crawly surprises, and tools for scooping, grabbing, and exploring.
Crafts
DIY Sock Squishies with Balloons and Play Dough
Turn old socks into homemade squishy characters using balloons, play dough, and markers. Kids can squeeze them, decorate them, give them silly hairstyles, and turn each one into its own little character. Part craft, part sensory activity.
Simple activities
Bouncy Bubbles: An Easy 3-Ingredient Bubble Experiment for Kids
Mix water, sugar, and dish soap, then experiment with catching and gently bouncing longer-lasting bubbles on clean, soft surfaces.
Printables
8 Pirate Play Dough Mats for Talk Like a Pirate Day
Eight printable pirate play dough challenges invite kids to create, build, and use their imaginations, from giving a pirate a silly beard to making a treasure map.
Crafts
Tear and Roll Tissue Paper Pirate Ship Craft
Kids tear, roll, or crumple tissue paper and glue it onto a pirate ship printable to create a colorful craft with plenty of room for their own designs.
Printables
Outdoor Scavenger Hunt for Kids: 2 Fun Ways to Explore Nature
This printable outdoor scavenger hunt gives kids two ways to explore nature: spot 16 things on a visual search or collect 16 fallen nature treasures where collecting is allowed.
Crafts
Fall Salt Painting for Kids + Free Printable Templates
Watch watercolor spread through raised salt lines in this simple fall craft, with five printable templates to make setup easy.
Crafts
Easy Cotton Ball Ghost Craft for Kids + Free Printable
Make this easy cotton ball ghost craft with kids using just cotton balls, glue and our free ghost template. A simple Halloween activity for toddlers and preschoolers.
Printables
Decorate the Sheep: An Easy Cotton Ball Fine Motor Activity
Use cotton balls, child-safe tongs, and a free sheep printable for a low-mess fine motor challenge that can be played again and again.
Sensory play
Wait… those aren’t water beads? A Halloween tapioca pearl sensory bin
We tried tapioca pearls as a sensory-bin filler, then went Halloween with orange and black color and a few spooky surprises to scoop, squish, pour, and dig through.
Sensory play
The fluffiest sensory play… and it’s taste-safe ☁️🩷
A pale-pink, whipped aquafaba foam setup with sprinkles and marshmallow pandas for scooping, squishing, spreading, and mixing.