10 Halloween Activities for Seniors

Halloween Crafts for Seniors

These Halloween crafts for seniors can help stimulate the mind. They completed early in October so you can enjoy them throughout the month. The seniors can put their mark on their home or building’s look for a little while! You’ll set the Halloween atmosphere for weeks to come.

Crafts

1. Decorate Pumpkins: One of the best traditional crafts for Halloween time is making jack-o-lanterns. You can have a pumpkin painting day or give them sharpies to draw designs on the pumpkins.
2. Make Spider Webs: You can make simple and cheap spiderwebs to hang around the house or community out of coffee filters or paper plates. Throw in a little yarn and you will have the option of creating larger cobweb decorations for the space.
3. Make Paper Ghosts: Some white paper, a black sharpie, and scissors are all your group needs to make these ghosts. You can hang them around the home or facility.  You can do the cutting if scissors pose an issue.
4. Mummy Mason Jars: Take a mason jar and wrap it with some gauze bandage tape.   hot glue (or glue-stick) on a couple of googly eyes … add in a little flame-less tea light.
5. Decorative Halloween Garlands: For one more addition to your homemade decorations, you can make decorative Halloween garlands for your hallways. Here are some ideas of bat and ghost garlands and glow-in-the-dark ones.

Activities

1. Halloween Charades: Think of as many different Halloween-related themes and ideas you can think of to act out. You should all have fun watching people mime Dracula or try to figure out how to act like a spider. 
2. Share Scary Stories: Your residents probably know some good ones, but you can come equipped with a book or some stories from the internet just in case. If enough of your residents express an interest in sharing their own scary stories, you could make it into a contest.
3. Homemade Costume Contest: Encourage your seniors to come up with homemade mask and costumes ideas. If you can make some materials available for them to work with, that may spark inspiration in a few of them. On Halloween, have everyone vote on which costume came out the best.
4. Assisted Living Trick-or-Treat: Most seniors probably feel too old or silly to trick-or-treat, however trick-or-treating within the assisted living facility can be fun! Let any seniors that want to participate get dressed up and hit up trick-or-treating stations you set up.
5. Classic Horror Movie Marathon: Your seniors probably have some favorite old classic horror movies. Poll them to pick out a few of the most popular and give them the opportunity to watch them on Halloween or in the days leading up to it.

We hope your friends and families enjoy these Halloween Activities for Seniors. You can also follow this guide for keeping thigs safe and fun along with even more craft ideas.