Great Halloween Apps To Add Fun to the Holiday

What’smore fun than carving pumpkins, wearing costumes and going trick-or-treating with your friends? Here are some great Halloween apps for the whole family. The best part is that they’re all free, so download an app – or three!

Carve-a-Pumpkin

(Available online: Apple App Store)

Step one: Download Carve-a-Pumpkin. You can choose pumpkins of different shapes and sizes and then create your own designs or select from a host of decorating options that include eyes, noses and mouths. You can even decorate your pumpkins with stickers. The best part is that you won’t cut yourselves, there’s no mess to clean up, and you can experiment with different designs until you find the one that’s just right.

Monsterfy

(Available online: Apple App Store; Google Play)

Another fun activity is changing your face into frightening creatures like ghosts, ghouls, vampires or werewolves. Monsterfy lets you swap your face with ghastly monsters and brings you to life with crazy animations. You can growl, howl, snap, and snarl, and flick your fangs while sharing images and videos with family and friends.

Halloween Games for Kids

(Available at: Apple App Store)

Dressing up like scary monsters may be a bit much for the family's youngest members of the family but that doesn't mean they should be left out of all the fun. Halloween Games for Kids has lots of Halloween-themed games that toddlers will enjoy, including matching funny pumpkins, tracing letters accompanied by Halloween-related images, and spelling various Halloween-themed words. The app also has a coloring book that younger ones can enjoy.