Halloween Plinko Game for Kids

by: Chica

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Our Halloween Plinko is a great game to play at a Halloween party, whether it is in your home, at school, or at a Trunk or Treat gathering. The kids will love dropping the chips into the prize slots.

Or set this game out on your porch on Halloween and let your Trick-or-Treaters play. Give them a tasty candy treat if they land on the jack-o-lantern or candy corn! For a sinister touch, give them a "trick" like raisins or a toothbrush if they land on the bats.

Making your own Plinko board

This Halloweens Plinko game starts with our basic board that we made with our DIY Plinko board tutorial. I painted it white before adding all my custom directions for Halloween.

Our "Trick or Treat" Halloween designs

To transform this basic Plinko into a fun kid's game for Halloween, we designed a whole set of digital files that can be cut out of vinyl for an easy stencil.

We titled the game "Trick or Treat" and created fun images for the bottom compartments of the game. Imagine the kids playing and determining whether they will get good candy or not based on a random chip falling into one slot or another!

I'll show you how I added these elements, which we've made available as a digital bundle for you, to make it super easy for you to recreate this design yourself.

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Five cut files designs (each provided in SVG and STUDIO formats) for Halloween Plinko, including "Trick or Treat" sign, candy corn, bat, jack-o-lantern, and side triangle. Also includes print-ready PDF file for side triangles (for printing directly onto colored paper).

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Cutting the stencil

I loaded the designs into my cutting software and cut them out with vinyl. I cut the "Trick or Treat" sign for the top of the board, and since I was just using the vinyl as a stencil, I used whatever scrap of vinyl I had. (Stencil vinyl also works well for this.)

Similarly, I cut stencils out for the compartments at the bottom of the board — one jack-o-lantern, two bats, and two candy corns.

Painting the designs onto the board

After positioning the stencils onto the board with transfer paper, I used a cosmetic sponge to dab on acrylic paint for smooth coverage.

TIP: Apply several light coats to get good coverage without the paint seeping under the vinyl.

Adding extra touches of color

For the triangle shapes along the sides, I printed the PDF template from our bundle onto construction paper and cut out the pieces. I used a little double-sided tape to attach them, alternating with red and green as I went.

And for a little extra fun, I dabbed purple and orange paint onto the very tips of the pegs.

The finished Halloween Plinko board

These decorative touches turned that plain, white Plinko board into a fun Halloween-themed game.

How to play Halloween Plinko

To play the game, you just drop the chips down from the top and let them fall into the compartments at the bottom. We use these air hockey pucks! that are the perfect size for our peg placement.

Then will bounce and plink and plonk their way down to the bottom! We like to play with the jack-o-lantern in the center spot being the biggest prize, but you can adjust the tricks and treats for each spot however you like for your game.

Besides being a fun kid's activity at a Halloween party, this game would also work well in a classroom setting. The teacher could reward kids with one Plinko chip a day, with the potential to earn more by demonstrating good behavior.