Ghostly Decorations:
- Ghost Pops - Grab a round sucker. Lay it in the center of some white tissue paper and wrap around the head of the sucker. Tie the tissue in place with a piece of string or ribbon. Draw on the eyes and you're done.
- Popcorn Hands - Make some popcorn and let it cool. Get some clear latex disposable gloves and fill the whole glove with the popcorn...don't forget the fingers! Tie the open end with string or ribbon. You can also add some painted fingernails with a black or red marker.
- Shrunken Heads - Grab some cheap apples from the store. Then peel and carve the apples into heads with faces. You don't have to be an artis to pull thsi off. As long as you get the basic body parts, they'll be great. Let them air dry for a few days and they will turn into distorted, wrinkled, shrunken heads. I know...what a gross and disgusting idea! The boys will love it!!
- What is in that Jar!!? - Grab some jars and fill them with things from around the house that'll get people guessing. ome ideas of things to put in your jar: colored water, scraps of rangs, strips of leather, marbles, peeled grapes, and all kinds of things your kids will surely come up with! You can age the jars with dirty, scratches, and imitation cob webs.
- Classic Spider Web - You can buy these at the store or you can get more for your money and just pull cotton batting apart and drap the webs all over the furniture and walls.
Wicked Party Games:
- Skeleton Hunt - You can use any plastic skeleton or even a paper one. Hide the different pieces around the house and whoever finds the most pieces within a certain time period. You can also make copies of a skeleton and cut out all the seperate pieces and hide 3 or 4 different skeletons around the house and see who can complete their skeleton first!
- Scared Stiff - This is just like musical chairs, except when the music stops you have to freeze and whoever moves first is out of the game. Keep playing until there's a winner. The winner gets to be in charge of the music and help judge the other players for the next round.
- Passin' the Pumpkin' - Grab a couple small decorative pumpkins from the store and seperate into a couple of teams. The first person on each team has to place the pumpkin under their chin and pass it to the next person on their team without touching it with their hands. The first team to pass it to everyone of their team members without dropping it wins. Depending how old your players are you can either start over at the beinning when your pumpkin is dropped or just continue on where ever it drops.
- Diggin' for Goddies - Fill a large container with something that feels disgusting but isn't too messy or likely to stain, like cooked pasta, peeled grapes, or jello. Put goodies and treats into little ziplocks and bury them under the goo in the container. You can cover the top of the container with duck tape and a black trash bag that only has a hole big enough for a hand to fit in or you can just turn off the lights and have the kids dig for their prizes.
- Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin - Just like "Pin the tail on the Donkey" - Draw a Jack-o-lantern (minus the nose) on poster board. Hang it up on the wall. Then cut one nose for each child and before each child's turn write their name on the back and add a folded piece of tape or a strip of double sided tape. The nose that's closer to the rigth spot wins.
- Mummy Time - Seperate your party into teams and each team gets a roll of toilet paper. The team that turns one of their team members into the best mummy in five minutes wins!
- Ghost Toss - Make a small ball out of aluminum foil and lay it in the center of a paper towel. Wrap the paper towel around the ball and tie it off with a piece of string or ribbon. Then set up a variety of boxes and containers. Create a point system for the game. The idea is to throw the ghost into the different containers from a spot marked out for everyone. The easier containers can be worth five points, the harder ones get fifteen or twenty. The person with the most points wins.
More Online Resources:
- Halloween Decorations
- Better Homes and Gardens
- Halloween Skeleton - Put the skeleton together... this can be educational as well! Get into as much detail as you want!
