If you're looking for Halloween activities beyond costumes and haunted houses, Halloween balloon games are similar to birthday party games but with a twist of balloons. Play these games at parties for children or adults. Add costumes, creepy music and candy for a true Halloween feel.

Balloon-Popping

To play Pop the Balloon, place small Halloween treats -- candy, plastic spider rings, glow-in-the-dark lipstick -- into orange and black balloons. Then blow them up. Put the balloons in the center of the room, and have participants stand in a circle around them. If playing with kids, tell them how many they are each allowed to pop. At your signal, participants must pop the balloons by sitting on them. Then they retrieve the treats inside.

Couple Pop

Divide into pairs of two; each pair gets a balloon. Partners must stand facing each other, with their hands behind their backs, as a balloon is placed in between them. The first couple to pop the balloon, by mutually pushing against it using only their bodies and parts of their costumes, but without using feet or hands, wins.

Three-Legged Balloon Race

This is similar to a regular three-legged race in which pairs stand side-by-side and one person's right leg is secured to the other person's left leg). The balloon adds a twist: Participants must also side-hug and hold a balloon wedged between them. The first pair to make it down, around a cone, and back wins. If a team drops their balloon, they can pick it up with their hands but must stay where they are until it is wedged back between them. Other than that, their hands may not touch the balloon.

Jack-o-Lanterns

Give each participant an orange balloon and a black sharpie. They get 10 minutes to draw the scariest, grossest, cutest or happiest Jack-o-lantern possible. When the time is up, everyone votes for the best pumpkin in each category, or designate a judge to select the winners.

Confetti Fun

Cover a 4-by-5-foot piece of foam board with burlap. Tape the burlap to the board in the back with duct tape. Draw the outline of a large pumpkin on the foam board, filling up most of the space; add a green stem to the top. Attach the board to a wall. Pass out orange and black balloons, small candies such as Tootsie Rolls, and bowls of confetti. Pass out a few funnels (or, if the guests are young kids, circulate with a funnel and help them) for guests to fill the balloons with confetti and candy. Blow up the balloons. Give guests a few T-pins, and tell them to attach the balloon inside the pumpkin outline, until enough have been added to make a giant orange pumpkin. Leave this up as a decoration until the end of the party, then have participants pop the balloons with a pushpin, creating lots of noise, confetti and treats.