Halloween Would You Rather Questions for Kids' Parties

The best Halloween would you rather questions give kids two silly, spooky choices and no wrong answer. Match them to age: four to six-year-olds want friendly pumpkins, bats and costumes, seven to nine love gross-out choices, and ten to twelve want a creepier edge. Below are 55 questions we wrote for October parties, sorted by age, plus a costume-and-candy round for mixed groups and three ways to turn it into a game. Read them from your phone or copy them onto strips of paper, and the party has its filler sorted!

Three ways to play it at a party

It needs no supplies and works for three kids or thirty.

• Pick a side of the room. Point to one wall for the first choice and the other wall for the second. Everyone runs to their pick. It gets the wiggles out and nobody has to talk who doesn’t want to.
• Explain your pick. In a circle, each child answers one question and gives a reason. The funnier the reason, the bigger the cheer. Works best for seven and up.
• Team vote. Split into two teams. Read a question, and each team has ten seconds to agree on one answer. The team that agrees fastest gets a point.

Stop while they’re still begging for more. For the rest of the party plan, our Halloween party games for kids has 25 more games sorted by age.

Spooky-not-scary questions (ages 4 to 6)

Keep these friendly. Little ones can’t always tell pretend from real, so no blood, no being chased and no being lost in the dark. Pumpkins, bats and costumes are the sweet spot.

Would you rather…

• be a pumpkin or a scarecrow for a whole day?
• have a pet bat or a pet black cat?
• ride on a broomstick or in a flying pumpkin?
• trick-or-treat with a friendly ghost or a friendly monster?
• have hair made of orange slime or green slime?
• eat a cupcake with eyeballs on top or one with spider legs on top?
• live in a giant pumpkin house or a candy-corn tower?
• be a superhero bat or a superhero spider?
• dance with a skeleton or sing with a witch?
• have glow-in-the-dark shoes or glow-in-the-dark hair?
• jump in a pile of leaves or a pile of soft pretend spider webs?
• carve a pumpkin with a happy face or a silly face?
• have a ghost as your best friend or a dragon?
• go trick-or-treating in a wagon or on a pony?

Gross and silly questions (ages 7 to 9)

This age loves anything slimy and loves a dare even more. Keep the gross food-based and the scary cartoon-level.

Would you rather…

• drink a glass of worm juice or eat a bowl of spider spaghetti?
• have to wear a wet mummy costume all day or a costume made of cold oatmeal?
• sleep one night in a haunted bouncy castle or a haunted treehouse?
• have a nose that glows like a jack-o’-lantern or ears that squeak like bats?
• be able to turn invisible like a ghost or fly like a bat?
• find a frog in your candy bag or a rubber spider in your shoe?
• trade all your candy for one giant chocolate bar or keep a bag of fifty tiny ones?
• have a zombie as a teacher for a day or a vampire as a babysitter?
• walk through a corn maze with a flashlight or a haunted hallway with the lights on?
• have a pumpkin for a head for one hour or a broom for a leg for one hour?
• eat a candy apple covered in sprinkles or a caramel apple covered in gummy worms?
• be the only kid in a giant costume or be in a group costume with ten friends?
• have a werewolf howl every time you sneeze or a witch cackle every time you laugh?
• only eat orange food on Halloween or only eat black food?

Creepier questions for tweens (ages 10 to 12)

Tweens want to feel like the questions are for them, not the little kids. Give them a real choice with a spooky edge, still well short of anything gory.

Would you rather…

• spend a night in a haunted museum or a haunted library?
• be able to talk to ghosts or see one minute into the future?
• hear footsteps in the attic or whispers in the basement?
• be the main character in a ghost story or the one telling it?
• have a mirror that shows your future or a door that opens into the past?
• go on a ghost tour of an old ship or an old castle?
• be a vampire who can’t have candy or a werewolf who can’t have pizza?
• lose your phone in a haunted house or your shoes in a graveyard?
• solve a spooky mystery with your best friend or with a famous detective?
• live in a house with a secret passage or a house with a friendly ghost?
• be stuck in a horror movie for an hour or in a slow, boring movie for a whole day?
• have your shadow follow its own plans or have your reflection wink at you?
• be the one who scares people in a haunted house or the one who gets scared?
• know every scary story ever told or never be scared by one again?

Costume and candy questions for any age

Mixed ages or a classroom? These work from preschool up, because everybody has an opinion about candy.

Would you rather…

• give out full-size candy bars to five houses or tiny candies to fifty?
• wear the same costume every year or a brand-new one every year?
• have a costume that lights up or a costume that makes noise?
• eat only chocolate candy or only fruity candy for a week?
• have the scariest costume on the street or the funniest?
• trick-or-treat in the rain with a full bag or in sunshine with half a bag?
• dress up as your parent or have your parent dress up as you?
• eat candy corn every day for a month or never eat it again?
• trade your candy with a sibling or keep every piece yourself?
• carve a pumpkin or paint a pumpkin?
• have Halloween in summer or Halloween twice a year?
• get a bag of candy or a bag of glow sticks?
• go trick-or-treating with your whole family or with your best friends?

Making it work for every group

• Mixed ages? Read from the any-age list, or let the youngest pick between two questions so they feel included.
• Classroom party? Use the “pick a side of the room” version. It takes about ten minutes, it’s quiet, and nothing gets spilled. Check with the teacher first in case any families skip Halloween; the costume-and-candy set works as fall fun too.
• A child who gets scared easily? Stay on the little-kid list, whatever their age. No one has to answer, and “both!” is always allowed.
• Make your own. The best questions pair two things a child would actually love, or two that are both a little gross. Avoid anything that makes a child pick between two people.

If you’ve got a group of word-game lovers, our riddles for kids include a Halloween set with answers, and Halloween bingo is the quiet game to put on the table while the last guests arrive.

FAQ

What are good Halloween would you rather questions for kids?

Good ones give two equally fun choices, like “Would you rather have a pet bat or a pet black cat?” Match the spooky level to the age: friendly for little kids, gross for seven to nine, and a little creepy for tweens.

How do you play would you rather at a Halloween party?

Read a question and point to one side of the room for each answer. Everyone runs to their choice. For older kids, have each child explain their answer, or let teams vote.

Are Halloween would you rather questions okay for preschoolers?

Yes, if you keep them friendly. Stick to pumpkins, costumes, bats and silly slime, and skip anything about being chased, lost or hurt.

How many questions do you need for a party?

About ten to fifteen fills a ten-minute gap. Have a few extra ready in case the group is having fun.

Two spooky choices, zero wrong answers and a room full of giggles. Happy Halloween, you guys!