Halloween cheap easy activities

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If you had a handful of 5 year olds, prior to trick or treating

Other than drinking wine and rocking in a corner 😅 what activities might you entertain them with?

(If you need any equipment it must be available in a poundshop!)

Disco time? Musical bumps!

Apple bobbing is a definite favourite here. I'm a cm and all ages love having a go. Keep some towels handy!

Ooh ditto. I have 9 and 6 year olds...

Were thinking ghosty crumpets from asda and some halloween food. I gavent3realky thought about activities!

I wondered about Apple bobbing but I think people will have make up on!

Ooh apple bobbing sounds great suggestion... erm how do you do it? 😳 I've never done it!

Pin the nose on the witch game.

Decorating plain fairy cakes/biscuits ro make ghosts/witches etc.

I'd put some episodes of funny bones on (easy to find on youtube) Then you can rock in the corner with your wine in peace.

Pass the cauldron - cook a pack of value spaghetti, cool it in cold water then drain it and add a teeny bit of oil to make it slimy then put it in your biggest casserole saucepan with a couple of handfuls of wrapped individual sweets and put the lid on. Use it as a pass the parcel - when the music stops the child with the pot can reach in and get a sweet

Uninvite the five year olds, turn off all the lights, pretend not to be in to avoid trick or treaters and drink all the wine

Errm, when i was little my mum would string up those iced ring biscuits from string across a makeshift washing line and then we would put our hands behind our backs and try to eat them.

As an alternative to apple bobbing - and which might be better for make up - I have seen donuts threaded on a string and they have to eat them without using their hands.

Grab some apples (We're lucky and have a tree!) Pop them in a large bowl of water, get kids to take it in turns to put their hands behind their backs and try to lift one out just by using their mouths. I usually put a stop watch on my phone and see who can do it the quickest.

Wrap the mummy. Buy cheap toilet roll. Put the people into teams, they have to completely wrap another person in toilet roll (so they look like a mummy) first team to wrap first wins a prize.

Would I be mad to do the apple bobbing in a bath?

Ok I have pin the nose on the witch
Apple bobbing or donut eating
Pass the cauldron

Anyone remember that mummy game with toilet paper?

Ah KungFuPandaWorks you got there for me! Thank you, hadn't seen when posted

Our childhood version of apple bobbing was to put the apples in the basin of water, put a chair with its back to the basin, kneel on chair, leaning over the back of it so you're looking down at the basin, with a fork in your mouth, drop the fork and try to spear an apple. We loved it and less messy. I'm now wondering if my obsessively tidy Mum invented this way of doing it

We do a choc hunt in the garden; hide sweets in the garden and they go out with a torch and find them. Basically a Halloween Easter egg hunt!

Dooking for apples definitely.
Make a potion in a cauldron (big black pot with water, food dye etc)
Mummy game with toilet roll
Scary musical statues (Halloween playlist on Spotify maybe?)

Clean washing up bowl for apple bobbing.

String some doughnuts up for them to eat with no hands.

Mini treasure hunt?

Ooh love outdoor treasure hunt idea!

Ive been googling food ideas. So far mummy pizza and sausages. Pumpkin tangerines. Ghostly bananas.... liwuorice spiders.

Opting out completely.!

I have seen a bowl of crisps with the label "shredded skin" ..........

And hot dogs in a long roll with a bit of ketchup (blood) called severed fingers.

Monster jelly. Make up a few packs of jellly red or green, throw in a few plastic bugs, spiders, we also have rubber fingers and a couple of ears. Hands behind the back the children have fish out the objects the jelly with their mouth whilst everyone is counting them down.

Ooh monster jelly is going on our food list!

Will have to remember to make it in the morming!

Get a share bag of Maltesers and some straws or chopsticks - give the kids 1 minute and whoever sucks or chopsticks the most into a bowl/cup is the winner!

Oooh malteser game!