Top 7 Halloween Sensory Activitity Ideas for Kids

With Halloween just around the corner it's time to start thinking how you will celebrate all things spooky! From homemade sensory slime to eye-catching spooky tea light holders we've handpicked our seven favourite and most creative ideas you can make together with your family, friends or school group.


1. Quick and Easy Sensory Slime! 

Make this awesome looking slime using only washable glue, liquid starch and water. You can also add your own Halloween items for added effect. Kids (and adults) will love the sensation of feeling this spooky slime through their hands.

2. Halloween Sensory Bin

This is a great way to not only get your kids senses going but also teach them about colours and objects at the same time. 

3. Jack-O-Lantern Squish Bag 

Ideal for babies and toddlers these easy to make sensory bags provide great interaction for the young ones. You can fill these with all sorts of textures to get kids interacting with them. 

4. Glitter Pumpkins

Glitter Pumpkins? 
Yes, Glitter Pumpkins!
This is a fabulous way for kids to easily create a sensation for the eyes whilst getting their hands (and most probably face) covered with glitter for extra fun and amusement. 

5. Monster Stew

Combine the sensory relaxation of a bath and a Halloween fun filled adventure for little ones with this great idea for a monster stew!

 6. Halloween Tea light holders 
 

Another glitter based activity! using glitter paint to create these great looking tea light holders, make anything from ghosts, monsters and zombies there's no limit to what you can create with these, let you and your kids imaginations run wild.

7. Halloween Discovery Bottles

These are a spooky treat for the eyes and really easy to make. They also remind us of our very own bubble tubes. (although ours are a little less spooky!) 


We hope these ideas have inspired you to create your own sensory Halloween items. Happy Halloween! 

Halloween at Knaresborough Technology Park

To celebrate Halloween we have changed the MRI portrait with us here in Knaresborough Technology Park to an image of a ghost. Using an infra-red distance sensor and the Apollo Ensemble system, when a person walks in front of the screen the ghost comes alive and starts telling jokes and rhymes!

Halloween Sensory Space - Completed

With the help of Camel Event Productions we have completed the Halloween sensory space for Creepy Crawlies. Using the Apollo Ensemble system, a computer controls all sounds, lights and videos when triggered by hidden switches.

Featuring a bubble tube, projector, fibre optics, ultra-violet, colour changing lighting and a sound system, the space makes the best use of Halloween props to create a scary atmosphere. Add to that a reverberated microphone and a real witch, the space becomes a perfect place to tell scary stories and really get in the Halloween mood!

As you try to open a book containing a hidden sensor, a portrait of a ghost comes alive to tell jokes and rhymes. The highlight of the sensory space is the bubbling witches cauldron which starts misting when you walk up to it!

The Halloween Sensory Space will be open in Creepy Crawlies at the start of next week and last until Halloween.

Halloween Sensory Space

We have begun work on a Halloween-themed sensory area for Creepy Crawlies, a large childrens play centre just outside York. The space, a rather compact 2m x 4m, will house hidden floor switches which trigger lights, sounds and videos to create a spooky atmosphere. The space will be open for the week leading up to Halloween and we'll soon post some more pictures.

We will even have an interactive, bubbling witches cauldron!