Haunted Castle Halloween Bean Bag Game
Turn cardboard boxes into a haunted castle Halloween bean bag toss! Includes building instructions, spooky decorating ideas, and rules for individual or team play.
Prep Time10 minutes mins
Active Time20 minutes mins
drying30 minutes mins
Yield: 1
Author: Melissa Haines
- 3 Cardboard Boxes ( One larger box and two narrower boxes
- Paint In the past, I have used cheap black spray paint and used gray paint as an accent. This time, I had lots of gray paint in my garage, so I just went with that.
- Scissors or a sharp knife for cutting out windows and doors
- Bean Bags You can purchase bean bags or make them. My mom sews them for me out of Halloween material.
Place all three boxes in a row with the larger box in the middle and the two more narrow boxes on each side.
Tape the boxes together
Paint the boxes gray or black
Cut a large arch in the center bottom of the large box for the door. You can cut it out completely, or leave the bottom attached much like a draw bridge would be
Draw or Cut two more arches for windows toward the top of the box. If you cut them out, cut them large enough for bean bags to fit through. If you cut them out, then save them to make gravestones for decoration
If needed, assemble the two small boxes
Using a piece of cardboard from the cardboard flaps, or scrap cardboard, cut out square open spaces to make the "battlement" ridge. This is the classic design you see at the top of castle towers with square cut-outs for soldiers to fight from.
Cut out an arch or arches for windows in each tower - you can keep the arch shapes to make into gravestones for decoration
Playing the Game
Assign a value to each door and window. You can write the numbers around the windows and doors. Narrow windows should be worth more points than wide windows or the large door
Kids will have a designated number of turns to try and score the most points
Team Play
Teams will alternate turns with each getting three turns per team
They can keep taking turns until a designated number of points has been earned (say 21 points)
The first team to reach the goal number is the winner of the game