When Halloween week rolls around, your Sunday school lesson lands right in the middle of the candy-and-costumes excitement.
You want to acknowledge the season without making the whole lesson about Halloween, and the standard options are coloring pages or a craft that takes longer to prep than the lesson itself.
This Halloween Sunday school scavenger hunt solves both problems at once!
When You Want the Bible to Be the Activity
Instead of a Halloween-themed worksheet, kids journey through ten familiar Bible stories, from Creation and Noah's Ark through Abraham, Moses, David, Daniel, Jonah, the Wise Men, and the stories of Jesus.
They read short clues, search for code words hidden around the room, and piece together a final mystery word.
The imagery is pumpkins, treat bags, bats, and stars, with nothing scary or spooky, so it feels seasonal without pulling focus away from Scripture.
When Setup Needs to Be Simple
You print the ten clue cards and hide them around your classroom.
Kids can start with any card, read the Bible story clue, complete the code-word statement, and hunt for the answer on the other cards.
After recording all ten code words, the shaded boxes on their answer sheet reveal the mystery word.
It runs itself once the cards are hidden, which makes it one of the easiest Sunday School Games to pull off when your prep time is short!
It fits Sunday school, children's church, Christian classrooms, fall festivals, or a Halloween activity at home.
If you're staring down Halloween Sunday school with nothing planned, grab the printable scavenger hunt here.
Hide the cards, hand out the answer sheets, and let them hunt.
