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The Pumpkin Cup Stack Toss Game is perfect for little hands to help make and then play. Kids of all ages will love this pumpkin toss game whether they’re toddlers, preschoolers, or kindergarteners. This simple Halloween pumpkin toss game is quick and easy to make and helps strengthen gross motor skills and hand-eye coordination. This jack o lantern inspired pumpkin toss game works well at home, for a Halloween party or in the classroom.

Text: Pumpkin Toss Game - three stacked homemade jack o lantern stacking cups painted orange ready to play a toss game — This pumpkin toss game is so cute!

Make a Pumpkin Toss Game

This pumpkin toss game is so easy to make, it will literally only takes 15 minutes or so.

Most of the DIY time is just waiting for the paint to try!
This game craft requires minimal supplies and is suitable for home, school, or daycare.
Playing pumpkin toss is a great way to have fun during the Halloween season!

Related: More Halloween games for kids

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Pumpkin Toss Supplies- 3 paper cups, orange acrylic paint, and paint brush — This pumpkin toss game is also easy to make. All you need is: paper cups, orange paint, and paint brushes!

Supplies Needed To Make This Pumpkin Toss Game

small paper cups
orange paint
paint brush
Sharpie marker
small object to toss (ping pong ball, building cube, etc.)

Directions To Make Pumpkin Toss Game

Step 1

Invite children to paint their paper cups orange.

Step 2

When the paint dries, allow them to use a black permanent or washable marker to create jack o’lantern faces.

Pumpkin Toss Game with 3 orange painted cups and black faces to look like jackolanterns with a green cube being thrown at them. — Toss a building cube or a ping pong ball to knock down the pumpkins!

Step 3

Grab some ping pong balls and get ready to play!

Playing The Pumpkin Toss Game

Kids will have a blast stacking the cups over and over again after they use a small ball or block to knock them over.

Make the challenge even more exciting by adding more cups!

Finished Pumpkin Toss Game with 3 orange painted cups and black faces to look like jackolanterns with a green cube being thrown at them. — This pumpkin toss game is perfect practice for hand eye coordination and fine motor skills!

How high can they stack the cups?

How many can they knock down? The possibilities for fun are endless!

Completed Pumpkin Toss Game with 3 orange painted cups and black faces to look like jackolanterns with a green cube being thrown at them. — Make it more challenging by stacking more cups!

What a great little fall or Halloween game that is not only fun, but works on fine motor skills!

Our Experience With This Pumpkin Toss Game

This pumpkin ring toss game was so much fun for us. The ring toss game is not only a game, but great for hand eye coordination practice. And we don’t do the whole trick or treating thing, so we used this for our own little Halloween party game. If they could knock them all over they won a treat!

It’s a fun party game, it’s easy to make, and pair it with other Halloween games, Halloween movies, and snacks, and you have a great trick or treat alternative. Or if that isn’t your type of thing, then use this pumpkin toss game to practice hand eye coordination.

Step by Step Pictures to Make Halloween Toss Game

All Steps and images of Pumpkin Toss Game with 3 orange painted cups and black faces to look like jackolanterns with a green cube being thrown at them. — Easy to make and even easier to play!

Pumpkin Cup Stack Toss Game

The Pumpkin Cup Stack Toss Game shared below is perfect for little hands.

It's quick and easy to make and helps strengthen gross motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Materials

Paper Cups
Orange Paint
Sharpie Marker
Ping Pong Balls

Tools

Paint Brush

Instructions

Invite children to paint their paper cups orange.
When the paint dries, allow them to use a black permanent or washable marker to create jack o’lantern faces.
Grab some ping pong balls and get ready to play!

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