Halloween Party game ideas pleeeeese!!!!!

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Looking for ideas for a birthday party this weekend for my 9yr old .

Its an early halloween theme and is going to be a mix of making and doing!

Small gathering just 7 and is at our house.

Have some lovely spooky decorations and we have decided to make chocolate apples with lots of spooky sprinkles.

We have scary pass the parcel with spiders and scary sweets between the layers and even a scary music cd!

Any other ideas gratefully received!

Always apple-bobbing, doughnuts tied on rings from ceiling, eat with hands behind back.

Musical 'Bumps-In-The-Night!'

Story-telling, in the near-dark with props to feel

ooh she'd like the doughnut game forgot about that! And the story telling thanks.

Slime box - box filled with cooked spaghetti, coloured red with food colouring. named "human intestines". a little hole in the top, chidlren have to put hand into intestines and feel around for sweets or worse.

after apple bobbing, have to pick a sweet with teeth from top of a pile of flour or icing sugar. and then get bun off a string. very very messy indeed....

wrapping the mummy. 2 teams wrap someone in loo roll, with 2 rolls each. "best" wrapped mummy wins prize for team.

tasting game. 10 things to taste while people blindfolded. you call them horrible things and children have to guess what they really are. e.g. peeled grape, you call it "eyeball".

Yukky! They'll love it though! Going to make blood clots with puss and worms for desert influenced by Nigella! (purple and red jelly globs with lime milk jelly dotted in it and jelly worms!

we did loads of halloween food for our party last year.

highlights included. chopped off "fingers" (frankfurter sausages) put into rolls, slice a bit off the side at the top and insert an almond as a "nail". garnish with a bit of ketchup "blood" where the finger was chopped off.

"vomit" - rice pudding. with streaks of red food colouring in. that one didn't get eaten too much.

you can get a large rubber glove, fill it with coloured water, freeze it, and take the frozen hand out to use as a table decoration.

we made "mud" pie cake with worms, maggots and slugs all made out of coloured icing or marzipan. butterscotch instant whip makes good pus to add onto this.

boiled eggs with olives on as "eyeballs"

Just bumping this as I could do with some ideas for younger kids (3 - 6)...I must be mad. Gonna do a spooky pass the parcel (with rubber mice, spiders etc in each layer), Scary food, halloween music cd, errr... help! 2 hours to fill!

you could get some plain paper bags and some orange and black card cut into pumpkin eyes and nose and scary teeth, then let them decorate their own bags for trick or treating. The best one wins a prize.

Pin the tail on the cat. same as pin the tail on the donkey but obviously a cat.

Pass The Pumpkins
Have kids sit in a circle and pass small pumpkins or gourds when the music is playing. When the music stops the child without a pumpkin is out continue until there's a winner.

Halloween version of simon says "Monster says", have them be monsters and ghosts, ect.

Guess The Ghost -
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.

flour cake

What time is it Mr Wolf?

Well we had ours at the weekend (it was a hallowen themed birthday) all went very well.

Things that worked were halloween pass the parcel, in each layer I printed a very bad halloween joke and taped sweets to it.The prize was a cuddly toy spider!

The doughnut game was a great success.

We did apple bobbing and then made the apples into chocolate apples with sprinkles which they all took home with them.

Musical Zombies!!! The fave I think, dance like a zombie or monster and strike a zombie post when the music stops.

Musical witches hats, 1 less hat than kids pass round and when the music stops put the hat on , child without hat is out.

I made up a spooky story and gave each child a character to be ie witch, ghost, owl, dalek etc when I mentioned the halloween thing the child made the relevent noise. When I said and they all scared the children they all made teir noises! Story was crap but the game was fun and they all enjoyed making very overly dramatic blood curdling noises!

sorry that was zombie pose not post

Brilliant suggestions - thanks a million. Specially like musical zombies (think even the littlest ones will get that) and the story. Have done Christmas version of that before and it worked really well - didn't think of using it for Halloween so cheers for that.

Right, now I've just got to knock up a fabulous costume and I will be the perfect mother...

I dressed in black and did very gothy makeup on me it was great fun! DD was a very scary zombie with long black wig and hideous make up really scary, all her friends were pretty little witches, think she enjoyed being the gruesome one!

Yes, I am having problems persuading DD to wear something scary - she wants to be a fairy, so we have compromised - she is going to be a frog fairy (??!!) - basically a frog in a tutu. God, I hadn't even thought about dressing up myself - maybe I can get away with some scary make-up.

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Do you have to dress up scarily? I thought you could wear anything as long as it was fancy dress. This from the mother of dd whose choosing between a ballerina, a fairy or a spanish dancer!

What sort of story - i'm rubbish at that sort of thing so need to be prompted.

I suppose I could just let her be a fairy, but I thought she'd look so cute all green with some googly eyes on her head.... she's into the idea now too anyway - we've been got Bod on DVD and she lurves Alberto Frog.

Liking Halloween Bingo, plus will print off some scary pics for early arrivals to colour in - saw that on another thread and thought it a v. good idea.

What's your best recipe for chocolate apples?

Great suggestions on here but I need help with a story perleeeese..... I'm useless at making things up.

Great suggestions on here but I need help with a story perleeeese..... I'm useless at making things up.

Great suggestions on here but I need help with a story perleeeese..... I'm useless at making things up.