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INVITATION IDEAS

Kid's Turn Central offers this cute character dressed in various Halloween costumes on their printable invitations.

Click below for your choice: 

Devil
Ghost
Dracula
Pumpkin

Princess

Mummy

Pass the broom - A variation of Hot Potato.  Children stand in a circle while Halloween music plays.  When the music stops the person holding the broom is eliminated from the game.  The game continues until 1 child is left, who is the winner.  

Game Variations:

Pass the Witches Hat

Pass the Skull

Pass the Pumpkin (mini size) 

Pass the Slime

Pin The Wart on the Witch - Similar to Pin the tail on the Donkey, instead of a tail use gum for the wart! Draw a witch's face on a piece of poster board or find a witch cutout.  Give each child a small piece of gum to chew.  One at a time, blindfold the child, spin them around twice and point them in the general direction.  Tell them to take out their gum and put it into their fingers to pin on the witch.  The closest piece of gum to the wart on the witches face wins!

Pumpkin Bucket Toss  - Simply set up plastic pumpkin buckets and use bean bags. Set the buckets in a line. Each child gets a turn trying to get a bean bag in the first bucket, if they succeed they try for the next bucket and so on. The higher they get the bigger the prize.  Also include a consolation candy prize for those who don't get any in. 

Tip: Use candy foiled wrap eyeballs, ping pong balls decorated to look like eyeballs or a peeled boiled egg with marker drawing with veins. 

Bat Soup - Toss bat bean bags into a witches pot. Each person is given three bags to throw into a black witches cauldron.  Make bat bean bags from fabric,  or felt, fill with rice or beans.

Here is a photo of my bat bean bags:

 I am not a sewer, but I was able to make these by hand sewing 4" square pieces of bat material. I put two squares together, with the print side facing each other. Sewed around 3 sides and left a small opening on the 4th side. I then turned my bean bag inside out to get the bright print side facing outward. I then filled with rice and then sewed up the opening. 

Broom Race -Have two teams and let them race through an obstacle course on brooms. The first team to have all players go through the course wins.

Spider Ring Toss

Spider Web - Best played outside among trees, if playing inside use sturdy object to anchor web.

Prior to the party cut 15-20ft strings of different color yarn. One color per expected guest.  Anchor one end of the yarn to a tree or large sturdy object (for example the couch leg). Now weave the yarn around other trees or objects to create a web leaving about 3 feet at the end. Repeat for other colored strings, be careful not to break any.  All strings should end up at the same spot.  I like to knot the end of the string through a medium size bead and write the name of each guest on the bead.  This will be the starting spot for the game and each child can easily find their string. 

To start the game give each player an end of a string.  Players make their way rewinding their yard through the web.  The first player to untangle their yarn from the giant web wins.

Mummy Wrap

 - Divide children into 3 teams.  Each team chooses a Mummy and the other are wrappers.  Provide each team a small roll of toilet paper.

The wrappers must wrap their mummy from head to toe.  The first team that wraps their mummy and finishes their roll of paper wins.  Play some Halloween music like the Monster Mash, while they wrap. 

Pumpkin Beanbag Game

Opening Activity 

 Boo Who?

 Piñata 

As each guest arrive, tape a paper or index card with a Halloween icon written on it to their back.  The object of the game is to guess what Halloween icon you are by asking only yes or no questions to other guest?

Guest can only answer with a yes or no.  For example, you are a black cat.  You may ask, "Am I orange in color?"  Another guest would answer, "No."  You ask, "Am I black in color?" Other guest answers, "Yes" and so on. You have to ask a different person each time, but may return to ask someone you have asked before. You cannot ask one person two questions in a row.

The first to figure out who they are yells, "BOO!". If they guess wrong then everyone keeps playing.         

1. Have at least two adults supervising. One to help the child trying to hit the piñata, while the other watches the other children do not get in the way. 

2. Make all kids stand behind a line (use tape to mark off or cones) while it is not their turn.

3. Make sure each child has a loot bag to collect goodies. 

4. After the piñata breaks and candy falls, tell the children they must wait until an adult says 1, 2 3, GO! This way you can make sure the person with the stick (plastic or wood) has cleared the way and can also pick up candy.

Witch Piñata

 Jack O'lantern Piñata
 

Coloring Pages

Face Painting 

Shadow Play

Paint bats, ghosts, witch hats, or pumpkins on the kids face.  Use Snazaroo face paint.  Easy to apply, washes off easily with water, dries quickly, long lasting and is F.D.A. approved, non-toxic, Child Toy Safety rating. Each kit paints 10-15 faces. 

Hang a sheet across the corner of the room. Create a box of Halloween costume pieces. Set up a strong lamp in the corner directed at the sheet. Pre-write descriptions of actions the children have to act out.  Each child gets a turn to stand behind the sheet and act out the instructions on a card. For example a witch crashed on her broom, Dracula bit something too hard, ghost rising from a grave, be creative. They can be ghoulish or fun.

MORE PARTY 

SUPPLIES

Halloween Decorations

Halloween Scene Setters

Paper Goods

LED's & Glow Items

Halloween Toys & Candy

Halloween Banners

Makeup & Hairspray

Hats

Wigs & Masks

Candy Bar Wrappers

PARTY MUSIC

FUN PARTY FOODS

                                                One package of Nutter Butter® Cookies

                                                Small bag of mini chocolate chips 

Directions: Follow instructions on almond bark bag for melting.  Briefly immerse two-thirds of each cookie into the melted bark.  Hold each cookie above the saucepan until the cookie stops dripping.  Lay the cookie on a wire rack, immediately placing two mini chocolate chips on each for eyes. Cool completely. Makes about 32 cookies.             

                                                        White decorating icing ( fine tip) 

                                                        Two cinnamon perils 

Directions: Open up the cookie without breaking the top or bottom halves.  Lay four pieces of black string across the white-crème filling.  Put the cookie back together.  Place two tiny dabs of white icing on the cookie. Place a cinnamon candy on top of each dab for eyes. 

Bewitching Hats - Ingredients: Bag of Chocolate Hershey Kisses®     

                                                          1-  11.5 oz package of fudge striped cookies

                                                          Orange or Red decorating icing (fine tip) 

Directions: Unwrap chocolate kisses for the number of hat cookies you will make.  Turn the fudge cookie over, so the flat side is up.  Squirt icing around the center hold of the cookie.  Place a chocolate kiss on top of the icing to form the peak of the witches hat.  Pipe icing and a bow around the kiss to represent a hat band.  

Pea-nutty Pumpkin Spread - Ingredients:        1 1/2 cup solid-pack pumpkin

                                                                        1/2 cup peanut butter

                                                                        2 T. honey
                                                                        1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon

                                                                        2 T. chopped peanuts (optional)

                                                                        carrot, celery sticks, apple slices
Directions: Combine pumpkin, peanut butter, honey and cinnamon; mix well. Chill. Top with nuts before serving (optional).  Serve with vegetable sticks and apple slices. Makes one cup.

Monster Mash - Ingredients:     10 cups of Popcorn

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