Halloween ideas
Posted on: October 27, 2008
Halloween
Party Games & Activities For Kids
Turn this Halloween into more than just costumes and candy.
Here are some ideas from www.amazingmoms.com
Take the opportunity to share some family fun. Host a Halloween party,
play Halloween games, make Halloween crafts, explore a
pumpkin and play
in the leaves.
Quick Ideas For
Family Halloween Fun
Haunted Halloween Touchy Feely Box – YUCK!
Cut
a hole in a box large enough, to reach in with your hand.
The "Box Master" says that a "Mad Scientist Dr. IB Wicked” left his experiment behind.—one at a time place
bowls of cold noodles, olives, slime…etc. for the player to feel -No looking!
Kids
sit either sit around in a circle in dark room or be blindfolded. Pass around
the following:
·
three
eyeballs –
peeled grapes
(are from
a family of Cyclopses)
·
bloody
fingers
– pieces of carrots stuck in bowl of red gelatin
·
brains
– cooked
oatmeal (were borrowed from Frankenstein)
·
intestines– cooked spaghetti; add oil so
spaghetti doesn’t stick together – (were a donation from Dracula’s private
collection)
·
mouse
breath
– Parmesan cheese (to increases night vision)
·
extract
of grass hoppers – pine
and nutmeg (to improve long-jumping ability)
·
charred
bat’s feet – charred
wood (excellent for hearing),
·
owl
pellets – dry
yeast (great for cunning),
·
fur
– an
old wig (came from Sasquatch) ;
·
ears
– dried
apples (were once attached to a 4,600-year-old Egyptian mummy) ;
·
12
fingers – cold
hot dogs (are from The Six-Fingered Man)
·
heart
– a
small balloon full of warm water(is from the Loch Ness Monster)
How Many
Words…
can
you make from SCARECROW or JACK-O-LANTERN.
For older kids only. Use a write-on wipe-off board for group play or distribute
paper and pencils.
Pumpkin
Guessing Game
Players guess the heft and breadth
of pumpkins in this carnival-like game.
WHAT YOU NEED:
·
Pumpkins
·
Bathroom
scale
·
Measuring
tape
HOW TO PLAY:
1. Work in teams – Have players estimate how much each
pumpkin weighs, then check their guesses using a bathroom scale.
2. Next, have players guess the circumference of each pumpkin.
Check their guesses with a tape measure.
3. The team with the most accurate guesses wins.
Printables:
(from
familyeducation.com)
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