Halloween Party Help

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  1. MonkeyMamma

    MonkeyMamma New Member

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    I am thinking of having a Halloween party this year for the kids and need suggestions. It would be the day before Halloween because my dd13 has a slumber party to go to on Halloween night. I would allow my dd6b to invite a friend or two but mostly it would be my dd13s friends. I was thinking that Friday night from 6 - 10pm and have them come in costume,serve pizza, have a costume contest, bobbing for apples but that is where I am stuck. What next? That won't fill 4 hours will it?

    I'm thinking we'd decorate the whole house and play themed music with maybe an age appropriate scary movie on the TV on mute.

    I need game and activitie suggestions.

    Oh and keep in mind this party would be big. We are thinking 25 kids total. I could make it smaller if we wanted too but Sam has too many friends.
     
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  3. BLeigh

    BLeigh New Member

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    I'm trying to come up with some activities for our party too so right now I'm not much help. My girls are still pretty young so most any craft activity will make them happy. I am thinking about an easy jewelry project (necklace/ bracelet)...maybe this would work for your kids? Wonder if pin the nose on the witch would be amusing???

    I thought about how much fun apple bobbing would be but decided against it. I'm too much of a germaphobe....flu and strep throat going around.
     
  4. Crunchy

    Crunchy New Member

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    -You could make a haunted house in one room and down a hallway, then the kids could alternate being the actors and being the scared ones.

    -You could watch an old horror movie that is obviously less gory and explicit than modern ones.

    -Charades with famous deceased people. Are these kids all hs? I'm thinking something similar to Crashbox's haunted house party. Whoever guesses gets a prize.

    -pumpkin carving. That time of year you can get pumpkins for 2/$5 in a lot of places so, compared to other party favors it's a good deal. You can get decorations for the pumpkins at thrift stores right now--there are a ton of those stick them in kinds, stencils, glitter etc. You can make it more fun for some of the younger ones by pre-scraping htem.

    -decorating candy bags. You can buy (or make) plain white bags and with fabric paints, glue, pom poms iron ons etc they can decorate their own candy bag --and later shopping bag

    -dance--get a strobe light and play some music--it's fun to dance in costume!=)

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  5. Shelley

    Shelley New Member

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    Visit familyfun.com for party ideas. You can always do some mad science stuff: elephant toothpaste, goo, Coke Mentos explosions, Sharpie/alcohol t-shirts, etc.

    The girls can decorate pumpkins. They can play flashlight freeze tag outside.
     
  6. MonkeyMamma

    MonkeyMamma New Member

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    Thanks for the ideas. Still not sure exactly what to do. I have decided we won't be bobbing for apples since the flu is all over the place. We will however play that game where you tie the apples on a string and try and get them that way. Last night I tried to convince my oldest to forget a party and let me bring her and a couple friends to a haunted house instead.
     
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    hot potato with a pumpkin
    pin the wart on the witch nose
    pea bags shape like pumpkins and throw in circle to see how many points you get
    musical chairs with halloween music
    we did twister one year
    it's really hard to come up with teen games
    but they love to watch movies.
    tell scary stories





    let them watch halloween movies
    carve pumpkins or paint them
    let them frosting cookies
     
  8. jazzyfizzle

    jazzyfizzle New Member

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    Not so much activity ideas, but we did a bubbling glowing 'brew', kitty litter cake, and put fake eyeballs & bugs in the food. :) For our activity, since we live in a forest and it was so convenient, we did a haunted walk through the woods.


    Sher





    I thought I would add, our nephew came to get a piece of the kitty litter cake, took one look at it, and the look on his face was priceless- mostly he was nauseated at it being in a cat box with a poop scoop as the spatula. He says-"you made in the cat box??" and (totally straight faced), I replied, "yeah, but I disinfected it really well first".
    ROFL you should of seen the look on his face, he completely bought it, it was hilarious! We never told him that it was a new cat box. haaa
     
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  9. Lindina

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    Decorating cookies is really fun. You'll probably need to do that in "platoons" because it would be hard to do 25 kids at once. Decorate large marshmallows as jack-o'lanterns or skulls. "Gossip" was always fun -- you know, pass a "secret" from player to player, whispered in each ear along the way, and see just how garbled the message can be by the time it gets to the end. You could divide them up into teams for that and all play at once. "Dirt cake" is fun -- in a flower pot, with crumbled oreo cookies on top to look like potting soil, with gummyworms coming out and a garden spade to serve it. You could make a regular cake in a sheet pan, with various cookies (write RIP or John Brown or something in icing on the cookies - oreos, lorna doone oval shapes, etc.) stood up in grass-green icing like gravestones, with candy skulls or skeletons lying around or "crawling out of the graves", or plastic skeletons if you can't find candy ones. Maybe some chocolate graham crackers on top as "vault covers" with cookie headstones. Maybe hide tiny "treasures" in the cake for lucky partygoers to find -- a real dime or penny, a toy ring, a thimble, very large fake "jewel" -- all cleaned carefully before inserting at random into the baked cake before icing it, of course. Tell them to eat carefully, because it's a fortune-telling cake, and what you get is your lot in life -- the dime - will never be broke; the penny - will never have much money; the ring - first of the group to be married; the thimble - old maid; the "jewel" - will be rich ... or make up your own "fortunes" (some good, some bad) based on what you have around or can find. Or make cupcakes instead, and put one "treasure" or "fortune" in each. Or write fortunes on paper, and put the folded up slips in.
     
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    Since Lindina said divide the kids into groups...what about Halloween Pictionary or charades. That could be fun.

    We didn't do this at a Halloween party...but I think appropriate we made Toilet Paper statues. It was really fun. I figured with Halloween TP is a fun thing!!! Get cheap TP or ask the kids to bring a roll!!!
     
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    MonkeyMamma New Member

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    These are all great ideas! You all are much more creative than I am. Thanks!
     
  12. Snipet

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    Have them do the Monster Mash dance and give a prize for the best dancer. Get some Halloween Mad Libs and do them. Tell ghost stories and get your husband - or some other volunteer to jump in at the scary part and give them all a heart attack. Make it like a Murder/Mystery party and have someone "killed" during the party and see who can figure out who did it. Leave clues. Have a scavenger hunt - look for eye of newt (candy eyeball), frog legs, witches broom, or whatever "scary" you can think of. Do a quest for knowledge - Ask How many ways can you kill a vampire? Who was dracula the character based on (Vlad Dracule a 14th Century ruler known as Vlad the impaler because he impaled his captured enemies on poles), etc. Look up scary facts online. Play a game (can be played more than once to let all participate) get two teams, time them, and see who can wrap their mummy the fastest (have an equal amount of sheet strips for each team, so they have to use the same amount - get the sheets from the thrift store). etc.
     

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