Halloween Party Ideas pls!

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We have had Halloween parties for the past 6 years and I feel the need for NEW and EXCITING (and scary!) party games and food.
Anyone got anything to share?
Thanks a bundle.

build a guy go do penny for the guy and have a party on the 4th instead.

Blindfold jelly eating is hysterical - two children at a time trying to feed each other with jelly

Was just about to post this message Great minds...

Any ideas for younger kids - 15m - 4 years?

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Maybe 15 months is a bit young, but 3 and 4 year olds will love it and the little ones will die laughing watching them!

Also hang a ring doughnuts on a long bit of string from the doorway and get them to try and eat it without using their hands. The tinies will cheat, but who cares?

Give silly names to the food - sausages = witches' fingers, crisps = flaky scabs etc.

Put one thing out at a time and make up a silly story as you go along eg 'You may think these are crisps, but actually I bought them this morning from a passing troll who picked them off the back of a diseased dragon...' A table - full of children will love it!

'hang a ring doughnuts on a long bit of string from the doorway'

Would be great with those £1.99ish tubs of mini-doughnuts.

Depending on how you feel about the hygiene thing.. we had a party last year and we put plastic spiders etc in a bowl of jelly then with their hands behind their back they have to fish hte spiders out with their teeth. A new twist on bobbing.

laura032004 - the only problem with that is that they can just open their mouths wide and get the whole thing in! Much funnier to use a big one so it starts swinging when they take the first bite

Oh yes - apple bobbing.... I always go first so the bowl isn't full of floating spit when I do it!

I did once colour a big pan of pumpkin soup bright green and none of the kids would touch it...

My parents used to run the RAF youthclub, and they always had apple bobbing, but in flour. Not sure you'd be allowed to do that for H&S reasons now? (NHS direct put the fear of god into me when DS1 inhaled some baby talc - said he could have a pneumothorax and should be closely monitored for 12 hours! - would flour be the same??)

And lots of horrible bowls of stuff for them to dip their hands into - peeled grapes (eyeballs), cold tinned spaghetti, tinned steak in gravy type stuff.... I'm getting excited at the thought of it all now! Obviously blindfold them for full effect.

Also, who can make a mummy the quickest - requires about 2 rolls of cheap looroll per person!

Could you dress up - when I helped at a youthclub, I dressed up as a witch, covered all visible flesh in green, and painted spiders everywhere. Needless to say no other helpers turned up in fancydress .

LOVE THE JELLY IDEA!!!!

In the past we have done...

scarey story (with props of course...insides of a passion fruit makes the best brains..)

make a mummy (get v cheap loo roll)

pumpkin skittles (make ghost skittles using loo roll centres, and roll a real small pumpkin - good challenge for all ages)

treasure hunt, using cryptic clues.

blindfolded sweetie catching, using mouth only, dangled sweets and the odd pickled onions!!

bobbin apples, no stalks for older ones!

But love the blindfold jelly...thanks fortyplus!!

Any more, anyone?

I'm having a halloween birthday party for ds1 and will use some of these ideas.
Anyone got any more?

Spooky treasure hunt, with clues along the way, and a box buried in the garden with prizes in
Mucky things in bowls hidden in box they put their hands through holes to touch and guess
I picked up a cheap halloween twister game in tesco the other day - haven't read rules yet though
Um....think all our other games have already been mentioned !

apple bobbing with a difference.

make a huge bowl of green jelly and instead of apples drop in some plastic spiders and eye balls and those other halloween treat bag things you can get.

ooh ! I like that one mamazon ! My nephew will love that ! in fact they all will.... and easier for the little ones to do !

go to www.littlestarparties.ie they have great ideas for a halloween party!birthdays!christenings!conmuionn!confirmation!christmas and lots others!