Halloween Gift Baskets for Kids: The Best Toys and Treats!

Discover Halloween treats, books, stuffed animals, crafts, activities, pennants, and other fun items to put in your child's Boo Basket.

Updated February 28, 2025

by Baby Chick Editors

Medically reviewed by Nina Spears

The Baby Chick®: Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum Expert

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A Halloween-themed setup featuring two black baskets with spooky books and decorations. In front are two cups shaped like a skull and a bat, Halloween-themed glasses, a plush black cat, and Halloween-patterned cloths. A "BOO" decoration and witch hats complete the scene, perfect as Halloween gifts for kids.

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Halloween is a beloved holiday for parents and children alike. Getting ready for Halloween takes me back to my childhood, trick-or-treating with my dad and brother while my mom stayed behind to pass out candy. Those are memories I will cherish forever. You may want to start your own Halloween traditions for your family, and Halloween gift baskets for your little one(s) are a fun way to get your family into the spirit! You can share the magic of Halloween with your kids through books, treats, and other gifts. Here are some fun finds to inspire you for your Halloween Boo Baskets!

The Best Halloween Gift Basket Ideas for Kids

Halloween Trick-or-Treat Bucket

Three beige fabric baskets are shown, each with a black Halloween-themed graphic and text. The first basket has a bat and the word "Oooohh!", the second features a witch hat and reads "Happy Halloween!", and the third has a ghost with the word "Boo!". These make perfect Halloween gifts for kids.

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Pumpkin Basket

Three orange plastic jack-o-lantern buckets, each with a black handle and a carved smiley face, are displayed. The middle bucket is filled with colorful toys and candies, while the other two are empty. Various candies are scattered at the bottom of the image—perfect Halloween gifts for kids!

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Glow-in-the-Dark Kitty Glitter Treat Bag

A black cat-shaped bag with white stitching, green eyes, orange patches on the ears, and the name "Alex" embroidered on the forehead. The bag has a handle at the top and makes for perfect Halloween gifts for kids.

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Glow-in-the-Dark Pumpkin Treat Bag

An orange felt Halloween bag shaped like a pumpkin with a carved face design. It has green felt handles and the name "Mason" embroidered on the front. Perfect for carrying treats, this bag makes an ideal Halloween gift for kids.

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Pumpkin Trick-or-Treat Bucket

A bright pink plastic bucket with a black handle and a black smiling jack-o'-lantern face design on the front. The bucket is empty and designed for Halloween use, making it perfect for Halloween gifts or as part of Halloween gifts for kids.

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Halloween Jelly Bag

A copy of The Nightmare Before Christmas book is propped up in a black mesh basket. The basket, perfect for Halloween gifts, is decorated with a purple ribbon with Jack Skellington faces, a boo decoration, and a white ghost decoration.

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Let’s start with the basket! You’ll need a festive base to fill with Halloween gifts, like unique toys and treats, to celebrate the holiday. From bargain finds to personalized favorites, we have you covered. Some of these baskets and bags can also be repurposed into your little one’s trick-or-treat bags!

Halloween Garden Veggie Chips

A bag of Garden Veggie Chips Ghosts + Bats Sea Salt flavor chips. The packaging is predominantly purple with Halloween-themed graphics, featuring a haunted house, bats, and ghost-shaped chips. The label highlights 12 single-serve bags and the sea salt flavor—perfect Halloween gifts for kids.

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Organic Spooky Mini Choco-Chip Bars

A box of ZBar Halloween Minis is shown alongside an individually wrapped bar. The box features a child in a pirate costume riding a skateboard, with Halloween-themed graphics in the background. Perfect as Halloween gifts for kids, the bar is labeled Spooky Choco-Chip and is USDA Organic and Non-GMO.

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Pirate's Booty Trick-or-Treat Puffs

A 12-pack bag of Pirates Booty Aged White Cheddar puffs is depicted. It features a Halloween-themed design with a pirate mascot and a jack-o-lantern. Text reads Perfect for Trick or Treat and Spooky Bags Inside. Each serving is individually packed, making them ideal Halloween gifts for kids.

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Halloween Pretzel Treats

A small 0.5 oz bag of Utz Halloween Pretzels, perfect as Halloween gifts for kids. The packaging is orange and black, adorned with images of bats and jack-o'-lanterns. The words "Bats & Jacks" are written on the front, showcasing the fun shapes of the pretzels inside.

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Halloween Cookies

A variety of Halloween-themed sugar cookies decorated with icing are laid out on a white surface. The cookies, perfect as Halloween gifts for kids, are shaped like black cats, pumpkins, ghosts, bats, and skulls with colorful and detailed designs.

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Halloween Cake Pops

A set of Halloween-themed cake pops arranged on a white surface. The cake pops are decorated as green monsters, orange pumpkins with jack-o’-lantern faces, and white mummies with green eyes wrapped in white frosting. Perfect Halloween gifts for kids, each cake pop has a stick.

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Rule Breaker Halloween Chocolate Brownie Junior

A package of Rule Breaker Junior Chocolate Brownie, perfect as Halloween gifts for kids. The multicolored wrapper features festive decorations like pumpkins and a haunted house. It states No Nuts!, Less Sugar!, Gluten Free, Nut Free, and Vegan. Weight: 0.9 oz (26g).

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YumEarth Organic Halloween Gummy Fruits

A box of YumEarth Organic Gummy Fruits is shown with a green and black Halloween-themed design, making it perfect for Halloween gifts for kids. The box contains 15 snack packs with assorted gummies in the shapes of pumpkins and bats. It is labeled as gluten-free, vegan, USDA organic, allergen-free, and non-GMO.

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You’ll find a variety of festive Halloween treats to fill up your little one’s Boo Basket. Many healthy (and not-so-healthy) options exist, from snacks to candy. How cute are the Halloween cake pops?! These would be so fun to surprise your child with on Halloween morning!

"Peek-a-Flap Boo" by Rosa Von Feder

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"Trick or Treat Little Pumpkin" by Rosa Von Feder

A children's book cover titled "Trick or Treat, Little Pumpkin" features a smiling plush pumpkin in the center. Surrounding it are illustrations of a black cat, a bowl of candy, bats, and spiders. The background depicts a purple, brick-patterned wall—perfect Halloween gifts for kids!

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"Llama Llama Trick or Treat" by Anna Dewdney

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"Don't Push The Button! A Halloween Treat" by Bill Cotter

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"Little Blue Truck's Halloween" by Alice Schertle

Cover of the children's book titled "Little Blue Truck’s Halloween," written by Alice Schertle and illustrated by Jill McElmurry. Featuring a blue truck surrounded by various animals in Halloween costumes, pumpkins, and fall decorations, this lift-the-flap book makes perfect Halloween gifts for kids!

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"Eek! Halloween!" by Sandra Boynton

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"Room on the Broom" by Julia Donaldson

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“Construction Site Gets a Fright!” by Sherri Duskey Rinker

A construction scene with a truck and an excavator, both adorned with Halloween decorations. The book title Construction Site Gets a Fright! is displayed at the top with a haunted house in the background. By Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford, it makes perfect Halloween gifts for kids!

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“You’re My Little Baby Boo” by Nicola Edwards

A childrens board book titled Youre My Little Baby Boo with illustrations by Natalie Marshall. Perfect as Halloween gifts for kids, the cover features a cute ghost on a purple background with stars, pumpkins, plants, and a fence.

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“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Peanuts)” by Charles M. Schulz

Book cover of Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz. The image features Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, and Linus in a pumpkin patch with a large carved pumpkin. The night sky is filled with stars and a crescent moon—perfect Halloween gifts for kids who love classic tales.

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Here are some book ideas for your baby or toddler to celebrate Halloween. Halloween books for kids are a great way to teach your little ones about the magic of Halloween and prepare them for the big night of dressing up as their favorite character and going door to door. The pumpkin finger puppet book is one of my son’s favorite books! Your child will love to find one of these books in their Halloween basket!

Slumberkins Halloween Glow In The Dark Set

A collection of plush toys and a book make delightful Halloween gifts for kids. Theres a green fuzzy monster, a gray bat with green wings, and a mummy figure. The book is titled The Costume Comeback at the Monster Ball. The items are placed together on a white background.

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Plush Halloween Bears

Two stuffed bears are dressed in Halloween costumes, making perfect Halloween gifts for kids. The left bear wears a black witch hat and a black cape with purple lining. The right bear is dressed in an orange pumpkin outfit with a green stem and a carved face design on its torso.

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Plush Halloween Bat

A plush toy resembling a bat with black fur and orange wings, perfect as one of those Halloween gifts for kids. The bat has orange inner ears, large round eyes with orange irises, and two white fangs protruding from its mouth. The toy is positioned sitting upright against a plain background.

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Plush Halloween Ghosts

Three ghost-shaped plush toys with smiling faces. Each ghost is holding an item with text. The first holds a red heart that says "YOU'RE MY BOO!", the second a candy corn with "I♥BOO! MORE than CANDY", and the third a yellow crescent moon with "I Love BOO to the MOON and BACK". Perfect Halloween gifts for kids!

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Squishmallows Halloween Black Cat

A plush toy of a black cat wearing a purple witch hat with a yellow buckle. The cat is holding an orange pumpkin-shaped bucket. The plush toy has a tag attached with an illustration of the same cat and the name Calio. Perfect for Halloween gifts for kids!

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Halloween Pumpkin Plushie Set

A plush set perfect for Halloween gifts for kids includes a smiling jack-o'-lantern container with a handle on top, and plush toys including a black cat with big eyes, a purple spider, a piece of candy corn, and a ghost. The playful plush toys are ideal Halloween gifts for kids to enjoy.

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Plush Halloween Puppy

A stuffed animal resembling a tan dog is wearing an orange Halloween-themed hat with a black band and holding a small orange pumpkin with a jack-o'-lantern face in its mouth—perfect as Halloween gifts for kids.

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Reversible Octopus Halloween Plush

Image of a reversible octopus plush toy - a perfect Halloween gift for kids. One side features an angry orange octopus, while the other shows a happy black octopus. Orange arrows indicate the ability to flip the toy and reveal different faces.

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Halloween Pig Plush

A pink stuffed pig is wearing an orange hat and an orange shirt with the text "Too Cute to Spook" and a bat graphic. Perfect for Halloween gifts, the pig holds a small stuffed pumpkin with a jack-o'-lantern face in its right hand.

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cuddle + kind Hand-Knit Dolls

A stuffed toy cat with gray and white knitted fabric, featuring a smiling face, small black eyes, and a stitched nose. The cat is wearing a knitted light blue and white striped outfit. With its four legs, small ears, and tail, it makes an adorable Halloween gift for kids.

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Custom Ghost Stuffie

A white plush ghost toy labeled Kaylee holds Halloween-themed candy, including Hershey's, Reese's, and Almond Joy. It lies on a purple background with ghosts and pumpkins next to a Boo sign, a fabric pumpkin, and a ghost decoration with ribbons—perfect Halloween gifts for kids.

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How cute would these Halloween stuffed animals be in your little one’s Halloween gift basket?! I can see it now . . . getting their basket on Halloween morning and taking their new Halloween stuffed animal trick-or-treating that night and to bed. How adorable!

Paint By Sticker Kids Activity Book

The image shows the cover of a children's activity book titled "Paint by Sticker Kids: Halloween." The cover features three jack-o'-lanterns made of geometric shapes, with one being assembled using stickers. A caption indicates it includes glow-in-the-dark stickers—perfect Halloween gifts for kids!

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DIY Halloween Craft Bundle

Two children are smiling and playing with a small Halloween-themed haunted house model on a table. A pumpkin and other Halloween decorations, including bats on the wall behind them, emphasize the festive atmosphere. These Halloween gifts for kids ensure theyre thoroughly enjoying their activity.

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Halloween Window Art

A box of Creativity for Kids Easy Sparkle Window Art kit is displayed against a yellow background. Perfect as Halloween gifts for kids, the kit includes materials to make seven Halloween-themed window clings, such as a ghost, black cat, candy corn, pumpkin, skull, witch hat, and Frankenstein head.

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Make-a-Face Sticker Sheets

An assortment of sticker sheets designed for Halloween-themed creative projects, perfect as Halloween gifts for kids. Each sheet features cartoon characters and objects like witches, bats, ghosts, pumpkins, and monsters. Decorative elements such as eyes, mouths, and accessories are also included.

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Halloween Rock Painting Kit

The image displays a "Hide & Seek Halloween Rocks" kit by Creativity for Kids, an ideal Halloween gift for kids. The kit includes 10 rocks with Halloween-themed designs, 2 paintbrushes, and 6 glowing paint colors. The box shows various painted rocks with pumpkins, ghosts, and other Halloween motifs.

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Silly Monsters Foam Magnet Kit

Four colorful cartoon monsters made of craft foam are displayed. The monsters have various shapes, sizes, and colors, including purple, green, yellow, and orange, with googly eyes and striped legs. One monster has feathers for arms. These quirky creatures make delightful Halloween gifts for kids.

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I Spy Halloween Activity Book for Kids

Cover of "I Spy Halloween Book for Kids," designed for toddlers and preschoolers aged 2-5 years. Perfect as Halloween gifts, the cover features themed illustrations like a mummy, a bat, a witch's cauldron, candies, ghosts, and a pumpkin, with sample activity pages.

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Halloween Crayons

Colorful letter-shaped crayons spelling Alex are displayed in a wooden tray. Two additional crayons shaped like a pumpkin and a cupcake with sprinkles are placed at either end. The scene, perfect for Halloween gifts for kids, is set on a light-colored surface with dried decorative grass nearby.

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Are you looking for a way to get hands-on with your child while celebrating Halloween? Here are some Halloween arts and crafts items to include in your child’s Halloween basket! I love doing crafts with my son, and it’s a great alternative to buying new toys since it’s something creative to do together.

Halloween Pennant Flags

Two decorative pennant flags, perfect Halloween gifts for kids, are displayed against a white background. The left flag is pink with "Hocus Pocus" written in black letters and adorned with ribbons. The right flag is black with "Trick or Treat" written in white and pink letters, also adorned with ribbons.

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Halloween Basket Tags

A white wicker basket is shown with two ghost-shaped name tags attached, perfect for Halloween gifts. One tag reads "Remi" in pink with a small pink bow above the face, while the other reads "Beckham" in black. Both tags have smiley faces, making it an adorable choice for Halloween gifts for kids.

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Trick-or-Treat Party Pennant

A black bat-shaped decoration with the words Trick or treat written in cursive on its wings, perfect as a Halloween gift for kids. The bat is adorned with hanging ribbons in pink, silver, black, and white against a plain white background.

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Boo Flags

Two light pink plastic pumpkin containers with black jack-o'-lantern faces are filled with Halloween-themed items. Each has a black or white flag that says "Big Boo" or "Little Boo," along with paper ghosts, ribbons, and other decorative items—perfect Halloween gifts for kids!

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Personalized Ghost Tag

A pink ghost-shaped ornament with a white string attached at the top, perfect for Halloween gifts for kids. It has two cut-out eyes and the name "Amanda" written in cursive white letters across the front.

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Boo Flags

A hand holds three decorative Boo themed flags with pom-poms and colorful ribbons, perfect Halloween gifts for kids. The background is filled with an array of pink, white, and black balloons.

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Halloween Felt Pennant

A collection of Halloween-themed flags on sticks, perfect as Halloween gifts for kids. Each flag features different phrases like Trick or Treat, Ghouls Rule, and Pumpkin, adorned with ribbons, bows, and small pom-poms against a white background with star patterns.

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Are you looking to add extra flair to your child’s Halloween gift basket? The tags, banners, and décor above will personalize the basket and can be repurposed as Halloween décor for years to come! You can purchase most of these items through small businesses on Etsy, which is a bonus.

Halloween Socks

Four pairs of Halloween-themed socks are displayed. Each pair has a unique design with colorful patterns featuring ghosts, bats, candies, pumpkins, black cats, skeletons, "Boo," and "Trick or Treat" texts. With a festive color palette including blue, gray, green, and purple, these make perfect Halloween gifts for kids.

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Boo Straws

A tall, clear glass filled with crushed ice and a red beverage has three orange swirly straws spelling "boo" sticking out from it. The straws loop and curve in a playful manner above the glass, making it a fun Halloween gift for kids.

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Halloween LED Necklace

A collection of colorful, glowing Halloween-themed decorations, including pumpkins, eyeballs, skulls, ghosts, and various other spooky designs. Perfect as Halloween gifts for kids, each item is illuminated with vibrant LED lights in shades of red, blue, green, and pink.

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Stretchy Halloween Skeletons

The image shows a variety of colorful, stretchable skeleton toys being pulled and displayed. Perfect as Halloween gifts for kids, there are 48 pieces in total, and they come in 12 different colors. A transparent bag with an orange zipper containing these toys is also visible.

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Halloween Sensory Pop Toys

Four pop-it fidget toys in Halloween shapes make perfect Halloween gifts for kids. Featuring an orange pumpkin, a purple spider, a black bat, and a white ghost, each toy has multiple bubble-like buttons for sensory play.

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Halloween Jigsaw Puzzle

A collection of nine Halloween-themed jigsaw puzzles and cutouts, perfect as Halloween gifts for kids. The puzzles depict scenes with ghosts, a bat, a witchs cauldron, a black cat, a spooky pumpkin, and gravestones. The cutouts include similar Halloween characters and objects.

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Halloween Punch Balloons

Five colorful Halloween-themed balloons, perfect as Halloween gifts for kids, are arranged in a square pattern with small LED lights at the bottom. The balloons feature a witch, pirate skull, black cat, spider, bat, and a Jack-o’-lantern face. Each balloon is a different color.

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Halloween Wooden Puzzles Pack

Four Halloween-themed wooden puzzles lay on a table. The puzzles include a jack-o-lantern, a spider, a ghost, and a bat. The background features an orange gradient with bats, pumpkins, and a Happy Halloween message. These make perfect Halloween gifts for kids!

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Pumpkin Bath Bombs

Image of a box labeled "Bath Bombs with toys inside" featuring a spooky Halloween-themed design with a haunted house and full moon. In front of the box are seven colorful bath bombs, and above the box are six Halloween-themed rubber toys—perfect Halloween gifts for kids.

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Glow Critters

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Halloween Playdough Jar

Six containers of colorful slime, featuring Halloween-themed charms like ghosts, pumpkins, spiders, and candy, are surrounded by small decorations including bats, witches, and crystals on a white background. These perfect Halloween gifts for kids add spooky fun to any celebration.

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Here are a few other Halloween gift items your little ones would love to find in their Halloween basket! The monster socks are absolutely adorable. I have already ordered a pair for my son. The straws featured above will be a festive addition to any Halloween beverage for kids or adults!

I am officially now in the mood to celebrate fall and Halloween! With the cool temperatures coming in, this is the perfect time to get in the spirit. I hope this Halloween gift basket round-up inspired you with new ideas to boost your celebration. What other ideas do you have to celebrate Halloween with your little one? Will you be going trick-or-treating this year? Do you have any family traditions surrounding Halloween?