Halloween Party Activity - Mummy Wrap Relay
🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop
- 🎨 Creativity & Imagination — Open-ended activities that let children direct their own play grow creative thinking, original problem solving, and the confidence to express personal ideas.
- 🧩 Problem Solving — Working through a challenge — figuring out how pieces fit, how to balance a stack, or how to make something work — develops the perseverance and logical reasoning skills children use across every learning domain.
- 🤝 Social Skills — Activities done with others — siblings, classmates, or parents — teach children how to take turns, negotiate, collaborate, and read social cues that form the basis of healthy relationships.
- 🌈 Sensory Exploration — Safe exploration of varied textures, temperatures, and materials helps children build a rich sensory map of the world and supports self-regulation in children with sensory processing differences.
By Julie Pirkle
The mummy wrap relay is a simple, yet spooktacular, activity for your preschooler’s Halloween party. Preschoolers will have a ball turning one of their fellow partygoers into a toilet paper mummy. So much so they’ll probably want to do it more than once! This is definitely a Halloween party activity you’ll want to catch on film.
What You Will Need
Toilet Paper (One roll for each team)
Timer
What to Do 
Step 1:
Divide preschoolers up into teams of two.
Step 2:
Have each team pick one preschooler to be the “mummy.”
Step 3:
Set the timer for five minutes, and have preschoolers wrap their “mummy” in toilet paper from head to toe.
Step 4:
Time’s up! The preschooler with the best “mummy” wins.
Mummy Wrap Relay Variation
To make the mummy wrap relay more challenging, provide preschooler’s with additional props to decorate their mummies. Halloween stickers, garland and masks are just a few suggestions of items to jazz up your “mummies.” Base the final judging on creativity.
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Helpful Tips for Parents
- Join the activity briefly, then step back. Your presence signals importance; your withdrawal enables independence. 5 minutes of participation often unlocks 30 minutes of independent play.
- Connect activities to real life: cooking math, laundry color sorting, grocery store counting. Embedded learning is the most transferable kind.
- Rotate activities every few weeks rather than making everything available at once. Novelty dramatically increases engagement and play depth.
- Allow enough time. Preschoolers need 20–40 minutes to reach deep play in any activity. Rushing to the next thing prevents the richest developmental work.
- Keep supplies accessible at child height so your preschooler can initiate activities independently — self-initiated play delivers the strongest developmental benefits.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get my preschooler to try new activities?
New activities need low-pressure introduction. Set the activity up invitingly and let the child approach at their own pace — forcing participation in new activities creates resistance. Joining the activity yourself (playing with the materials in their presence) is the most reliable way to ignite curiosity. A child who watches a parent enjoy something usually wants to try it.
How do I keep a preschooler engaged when they keep abandoning activities?
Short attention span for activities is developmentally normal in preschoolers and shortens further when activities are too easy or too difficult. The sweet spot is a challenge that requires real effort but is achievable. Also consider time of day — activities attempted during tired or hungry periods have dramatically shorter engagement windows. After-nap or mid-morning are typically the richest activity windows.
Related reading: See also our painting ideas and our chalk activities for more ideas on this topic.
Questions to Ask Your Child
Use these open-ended prompts to extend the learning during or after the activity:
- "What was your favorite part, and what made it special?"
- "What would you do differently next time?"
- "Can you teach me how to do the part you liked best?"
- "What did you notice while we were doing this?"
- "What does this remind you of from somewhere else in your life?"
- "If you could change one thing about this, what would it be?"
There are no right or wrong answers to any of these questions. The goal is to keep the conversation going, model curious thinking, and give your child practice putting their experience into words.
