Easy DIY Pumpkin Cup Stack Toss Game

The Pumpkin Cup Stack Toss Game is perfect for little hands to help make and then play. This simple Halloween game is quick and easy to make and helps strengthen gross motor skills and hand-eye coordination. This jack o lantern inspired 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!

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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

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!

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!

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!

Step by Step Pictures to Make Halloween Toss Game

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

Pumpkin 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

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

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