Free printable Halloween treasure hunt for kids with 24 mix-and-match clue cards
and 2 pages of blank clue cards.
Simply print, hide the clues, and send kids on a fun Halloween adventure to discover the final prize.
I have been amazed at how popular my various holiday treasure hunts have been. I started with a Thanksgiving one and it’s just expanded from there. With Halloween coming up, I decided it was time to create a free printable Halloween treasure hunt for kids.
Below you will find 24 mix and match clues (so only use the ones you need). Plus 2 pages of blanks to create your own personal touch.
If you’re looking for more Halloween printables, check out the entire page dedicated to Free Halloween Printables. There are Halloween themed labels, word searches, coloring pages, and more. It expands every year.
Side note: It’s been a few years, but did you know these were featured in Good Housekeeping?! Check out their article “35 Free Halloween Printables” to see it and more.
If you’re getting ready for Halloween, you have to check out my printable Halloween Binder.
It has EVERYTHING you need for a fabulous holiday. It’s 200+ pages and includes:
• Organizing- calendars, costume planner, etc.
• Party planner
• Games and Activities
• Decor, including special apothecary labels for decorating and more
• Halloween & pumpkin recipes
Halloween Treasure Hunt Vs. Halloween Scavenger Hunt
This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. Especially since I started designing printables years ago and doing searches to see what was popular and what was not. A treasure hunt and a scavenger hunt are NOT the same thing.
A treasure hunt involves clues. The player follows one clue to the next to the next until they get to the final prize.
A scavenger hunt is a list of items (or pictures of items) and people try to find those items. In the case of a Halloween scavenger hunt (<click there to check out the free printable Halloween scavenger hunt on my site), it would involve looking for specific items. Such as pumpkins, scarecrows, or witch’s hats.
People often use the terms interchangeably (especially in online searches), but this is technically a treasure hunt.
Who is This Treasure Hunt For?
These printable clues work well for preschoolers and elementary-age kids.
They work for family Halloween parties or just something fun to do before the trick-or-treating starts.
Younger children may need help reading the clues, while older kids can solve them independently. (My 4 year old son tried out my free printable St. Patrick’s Day treasure hunt this year…I had to read the clues but he still had a great time.)
Instructions for Downloading & Printing
There are 24 mix and match Halloween treasure hunt clues spread across 4 pages. Most of the clues are designed for indoors. Two outdoor clue cards are included (mailbox and doormat), and the blank printable clue cards make it easy to add your own locations if you’d like to extend the hunt into your yard or neighborhood.
There are two pages of blanks for you to write your own.
Instructions:
• Print options: regular paper works, but I suggest card stock for hardier cards.
• All of the files are in pdf below each image. Just hit the “download” button (or pink word “download,” depending upon browser).
Printable Halloween Treasure Hunt Clues
Although I call these treasure hunt clues, many people also refer to them as Halloween scavenger hunt riddles. These printable clue cards lead players from one location to the next until they discover the final prize.
The first and last clue are on the top of page 1. Though if you want to develop your own beginning or end, use the blank clue pages below.
The rest of the clues are mix and match. Use what you want and discard the rest.
Please note that the answer of where to put the next clue is typed in small print underneath the clue. So be careful to cut that part off before the kids read it.
Blank Printable Halloween Treasure Hunt Clue Cards
Below are two pages of blank clue cards so you can create your own Halloween treasure hunt clues. Add favorite hiding spots, personalize the riddles for your home, or extend the hunt with extra clues.
What Did You Think?
I hope you found some clues that your kids will like. I loved doing these, and hope this free printable Halloween treasure hunt brings joy to your family.
If you have some ideas for clues that I don’t have included, let me know! There is a comment section below. (I did have a request for an outdoor version of this and it’s on the list to develop in the future.)
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With the pandemic this Halloween, we are looking for ways to creatively do Halloween at home (immune compromised family). These are great! Thanks so much for sharing!
thanks for sharing the Halloween treasure hunt cards !
You’re welcome. I hope you enjoy them.
Thank you so much for sharing these! So perfect for this year and having some Halloween fun with our family during a year we are all trying to recreate traditions just a bit. Many thanks!!
I know! I actually posted these 2019. But I’m glad I did…it takes awhile for Google and Pinterest to notice new content exists. And it has worked well for 2020 with all the new restrictions. Hope you enjoy.
This is the cutest halloween scavenger hunt ever!
Thank you! I did some effort into the graphics in the cards and was happy with them. (Arranging the graphics, not creating them…I’m not that good.)
Thank you so much for sharing this. This was lots of fun for kids between 7 to 10 to play.
Glad to hear it was fun. Have a Happy Halloween.
This is perfect for small group of kids.
I was looking for content to make a scavenger hunt this year for my boys (since we wont be out trick-or-treating) and these print outs will be a huge time saver. Thank you so much!
You’re welcome. I hope your boys enjoy the treasure hunt.
Thankyou for this 🙏🏼.
You’re welcome. Thanks for taking time to comment.
Really appreciate this. Needed something for my son to do since we’re not trick-or-treating this year! Thank you so much! Many families are grateful for your good ideas! Be well!
Thank you! Sorry to hear you can’t trick or treat. But hopefully this will provide a little fun. You can always tape a mini-candy to each clue. Stay safe!
This is totally awesome! I appreciate you creating this and sharing it with all for free. You rock! God bless.
Awww.thank you. Hope you enjoy it!
This is absolutely great. Thank you for the blank ones, since every house is different. They really helped with my treasure hunt.
Thank you so much for sharing this! My kids will love this.
THANK YOU!!!
Thank you so much! You’ve helped this mom of 2 boys so much! No trick or treat due to pandemic, so
at-home Halloween treasure hunt it is!
i have been scouring the internet for free easy printables and came across your site, I just want to say thank you so much for the free printables, you really made this so easy and my kids will have so much fun… thank you
This is great! Now my kids won’t be disappointed on Halloween.
Thank you so much for sharing.
OMGoodness! You just saved Halloween 2020! Thank you SO MUCH! I cannot wait to do a treasure hunt with my kids!
Thank you so much for doing this! They are so cute and I love that there are 24. 10 cards just go too quickly. With the pandemic this year, have you considered doing clues for an outdoor treasure hunt? I would love to see that. I’ve searched a lot and most of the treasure hunts with cute rhymes are indoors. I hope you consider it as a future project! Thanks.
Thanks you so much for sharing!!!! All are so adorable!!!!
I adore the fact that your clues are perfect for around the house and that you also included blanks for us to make our own clues. Thank you so much for helping bring joy to a very challenging year.
TOTALLY amazing!!! Thank you for sharing these & helping this “last-minute momma” out 😉
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Thank you so much for sharing these!! They are beautiful and you just saved this busy momma a ton of time!!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! With COVID, Halloween looks very different this year and these little cards are an amazing idea!
Hey thanks a lot, I’ll be passing this along
Happy Halloween to you and yours
Cannot thank you enough for publishing these super fun sheets! You’re so creative<3
Thank you so much for the printable Halloween hunt. My son was upset he couldn’t go tick or treating this year with the pandemic and you just made him have the best day. Sharing is caring! Thanks again.
Thanks for sharing! We are staying inside and having some Halloween fun!
Thank you for this!!! It was so easy to use – just print and go! It’s something I would have never thought to do our able to pull off, I’m so appreciative of you taking the time to make and share this!
My daughter said this was the best Halloween ever! We turned off the lights and gave the kids torches to find the clues – they had so much fun! Thank you very much!!! X
Thank you so much! You definitely saved Halloween this year. My boys had so much fun.
We had a great time for Halloween 2020 using your scavenger hunt! My seven year old twins loved it. They can’t wait to do another one.
I have some for other holidays. There are two for Thanksgiving and one for Easter for sure. Just go to the “Printables” tab, hover over holiday, and go to the appropriate holiday.
Glad they liked them.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for saving my Halloween!! I have three kiddos and I was able to divide the clues up so each kid could go on their own hunt! I put each clue in a little baggie with three candies. So they were able to fill their bucket as they went along. At the end they were shocked to find full size candies. I also turned off the house lights and made them use flashlights to find their clues while we played music with disco lights. They had a blast!!! They immediately asked to do it again at Christmas. 🙂
I made it a night time hunt using glow sticks! I used your clues for Halloween 2020 when I was too worried to take my kids out trick or treating. It was a HUGE hit! Even my 13 year old enjoyed it! To make up for not getting candy while trick or treating I filled goodie bags with candy, then taped the clues, and some glow sticks/bracelets to each bag, and hid a bag(s) at each location. The kids ran around both inside and outside (I used your blank cards to make up some clues for our outside areas) with flashlights to find the clues. When they arrived at each clue, they put on the glow sticks, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, etc. before heading off to the next. By the end they were glowing like crazy with pumkins full of goodie bags. It was such a hit that I’m printing the cards to do it again this year. Thank you so much for your hard work and creativity on the clues. They are really clever and so cute!
That sounds like so much fun! I love that you did treats at all of the locations and the glow sticks. Thank you for taking the time to comment. The treasure hunt was very popular last year….lots of parents didn’t want to risk trick or treating.
I love your ideas…thank you for sharing them.
This is so great! Do you have an outdoor halloween hunt done up?
Nope, just the indoor one. Sorry. But there are blanks to make your own clues.
I just found your website and your blank labels PDFs are exactly that I’m looking for a Halloween party that I’m hosting. Thank you so much for this!
I’ve searched your page but was wondering if you had blank labels that are more floral for a bridal shower?
No, I don’t, sorry. The labels have always been the least popular of my holiday content so I haven’t really explored the different options. But glad you enjoyed the Halloween ones!
I have done Treasure Hunts (for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines, & Easter) with my granddaughter for the last 4 years. She absolutely loves them. There’s always a gift at the end. I have been fortunate to find a different free one every year (many are for sale nowadays). Your Halloween Treasure Hunt is amazing–the best I’ve seen. The graphics are adorable-I love all the choices for clues and having a variety of blank cards. The teacher in me has a difficult time not proofing things I print…I did find 3 typing errors that I thought I’d share-I could use a fine tip pen and correct them on each card…or I could tell 8 year old Ella that there are 3 spelling “tricks” & challenge her to find them! Page 1: 1st clue: “mighty” treats; last clue: “your” next clue; Page 4: “night” light. Hope you don’t mind my pointing these out. Thank you so very much for sharing your creativity with all of us. Happy Halloween!
These are AMAZING! Thank you so very much for creating these. My littles will absolutely love them this year in lieu of trick-or-treating.
Thank you so much for sharing! Is it okay if I share with my friends on FB?
So looking forward to use these clues with my grandkids. On the first clue it says You’ll have to achieve some might feats. Is might the right word…not sure what
might means?
It’s supposed to be “mighty feat.”
Thank you so much for these wonderful clues-really helping another Mama out! Perfect for the treasure hunt my children would like instead of trick or treating. Much appreciated
Thank you so much for sharing the scavenger hunt, but more specially for sharing information about the history of Halloween. There are people that raise their voice against this holiday without any real knowledge of what it’s really about historicaly.
I love this Halloween treasure hunt idea! The clues are so creative and fun; I can’t wait to print them out and organize a spooky adventure for the kids. Thank you for including the blanks too! It gives me a chance to add my own twist. Perfect for getting everyone in the Halloween spirit!
Thank you so much for this! My kids love Treasure Hunts, but it always takes me so long to come up with the clues. These are great!!!
You’re welcome! My kid is finally old enough to enjoy treasure hunts. We did our first for St. Patrick’s Day (I told him the leprechaun set it up) and he asked for days afterwards when the leprechaun was coming again! haha. Hope your kids enjoyed it.