Guess The Ghost - Great for Young Children
Have one child leave the room. Then take a large sheet and have a different (child) stand and hide under the
sheet. Mix up the remaining children in the room and then allow the child who left the room to come back
inside. That child has to guess who's the ghost, by process of elimination they need to figure out which
child is hiding under the sheet. Then that "Ghost" goes out of the room and a different child becomes the
new ghost, mix up the remaining children and repeat until all of the children have had a turn being the
ghost.
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Halloween Bingo
We used our Printmaster package to create Halloween Bingo.
Make a table four rows high and four columns wide. Then
put small Halloween graphics in the squares. Randomly
place the 16 different graphics so that you have 6 different cards.
Laminate (each the size of an 8 1/2" by 11" page) as game cards. Then
make one more sheet that is cut into individual pictures after
lamination. These become the selection pieces which you
put in a "Witches Bag" from which you draw. When the picture is selected and called;
ie: "green witch," the children put a piece of candy corn on it. Covering any 4 pictures in a row, wins.
Thanks - Brenda & Dawn
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Create
A Haunted Story
Get everyone to sit in a circle, everyone in the
circle will be a participant in telling a part
of story. There are 2 ways to get started 1.
select an outgoing child to start 2. If the
children are younger - write up some ideas and
get them started yourself. An example - It was a
rainy and cold night as they walked along the
road, but in the distance they saw a house...
The story is then passed on to the next guests
where they add their own intrigue or surprises
this continues until all the guests have
participated and the story has been completed. Without the participants knowing, tape the telling of the story and then play it
back for them right away. Just for laughs!
Depending an age you may want to turn off the lights, and have the storyteller shine the flashlight under
their face as they tell their portion of the ghost
story.
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The
Spooky Walk
Cut out pumpkins,
witches, ghosts, brooms, scarecrows, and other
Halloween symbols. You'll need 1 item per child
attending. If you run out of ideas put 2
pumpkins together, 2 witches etc... You can
place the cut outs in a circle on the floor or
around/on a table. You'll need some haunting
music to play, you'll need to be able to turn
the music on or off. Have your guests walk around in
a circle stepping/standing beside or on the things you cut out.
At a random intervals, stop the music and everyone
freezes by the item next to them. Then from a
hat or jar draw out the name of one of the cut
outs, like 2 pumpkins, then the person standing
next to the 2 pumpkins would be out of the game.
Continue playing the music until there is a
winner.
Thanks - McKenna
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Pumpkin Bowling - Great for Classrooms and Parties
Supplies
3 small pumpkins
30 empty 2 liter clear soda bottles
1 can white spray paint
1 permanent black marker
a bag of gravel or pebbles{placed in bottom of bottles}
Ask friends and parents of the guests to save empty, clean 2 liter soda
bottles for your party. Give them a date of at least 1 week to have bottles turned in by.
Spray paint the soda bottles white and draw eyes and mouths on the bottles once dried. Add about a cup of sand or pebbles in each bottle so they will stand without falling over.
Divide students and guests into several teams of 3-8 kids each... line up and take turn at bowling over the Ghosts !
The small pumpkins are the bowling balls
I did this 2 years ago-- they LOVED it !
The kids that got a Strike, received another attempt to bowl a strike. If they did bowl another strike they received a prize.
Thanks - Tonya
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Witches Brew
Fill a big pot with prizes wrapped in black and green paper, and throw a bunch of other gross stuff in like spiders, cobwebs, that popcorn Styrofoam, etc. to make it look like a big stew. Then have them reach hand in for prize (if they dare!) If it wasn't so messy, I'd
even suggest slime or jello as the soup base. Thanks - Angela
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Halloween Candy Hunt
Like an Easter egg hunt: Buy plastic eggs and paint them in
Halloween colors.
put candy in them. then hide them. The prize can be the
candy inside or some of the eggs can contain
notification of winning a small prize or party favor.
Thanks - Erin, Simpsonville - SC
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Witch Hunt Game
Cut out paper witch hats. Whatever number you think would suit the number of
people at the party. Color two hats a different color from the rest. Hide all the
witch hats throughout the house (area where you would be doing this game). Send the
kids to find all the hats. The kids who find the different
colored hats get the biggest prize and the two who got the
most hats collected get the next biggest prize. Have extra prizes in case of ties.
Also, you might want some small prizes for the people who didn't get a prize.
Thanks - Leisha
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Halloween Birthday Party
Instead of having a traditional Halloween costume party, I am having a create a costume party for my daughter's birthday party. I plan to get a variety of accessories, make-up, wigs, and other items. It should be fun watching the children as they turn into little monsters or princess. You can also choose a theme based on a story or the supplies you buy.
Thanks - April
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Guess How many?
Buy a pretty glass pumpkin jar, count how many candy corn will go into
the jar, have all your guests guess how many candy corn
are in the jar. At the end of your party see who's closest, whoever is
closest to the actual number gets to take home the jar of candy corn. This can
also be done with a variety of Halloween candies. Thanks
- Lana
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Spin
On "Bobbing for Apples" Use Grapes
Instead of bobbing for apples, bob for grapes. I used green/white seedless grapes and put in black and red. I
gave a prize of 25 cents for a red grape and gave a golden dollar for the black ones. I
didn't tell them about why there were different colors
but just kept track of how many of each color
each child retrieved until last person was done. Make sure you put something
under container to catch water cause the grapes will sink.
Thanks - Mary Jo, Glasgow - KY
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