Last week we blogged about some great Halloween Party Recipes and with the “witching hour” nearly upon us, now is the time to start thinking about those Hallowen Party Games.

The School Half term is a great excuse to take a bit of time out to think up some really spooky games for your kids to enjoy. You could even get them involved in making costumes and accessories to make your party go with a swing.

Here are a few Halloween Game ideas :-

Skeleton Scavenger Hunt

Keep your kids entertained for a good 20 minutes by having them hunt around your house and garden for skeleton parts. You will need to make a few skeleton pieces from card or paper (we even found a few ietms in our local toy shop) and simply hide them around the house.

You could even add scarey surprises along the way just to make it even more exciting.

Pumpkin Bowling

This game is great to play in a hallway where you have a decent length of space to play in. Choose two or three smallish pumpkins with short stems (depending on the ages of your party guests).

Set up 1- or 2-litre plastic bottles and tape off a starting line at one end of the room for an instant bowling alley. You might need to fill the bottles with a bit of sand or rice just to stop them from toppling over.

You could also get your kids to decorate the bottles with stickers and other art material and make them really spooky!!!

Mummy Wrapping

Next time you are in your local supermarket look out for some cheap toilet rolls and perhaps some crepe paper streamers in Halloween colours. Split the kids up into two teams and then choose one child to be the “mummy” and the others take it in turns to wrap them up.

Make it more interesting by using music (a bit like musical chairs) but get the kids to wrap while the music is playing - when the music stops, the toilet roll is passed on to the next child.

Add an extra twist by turning the lights right down.

Musical Pumpkins

Whilst you have go the stereo out for Mummy Wrapping why not try Musical Pumpkins. You will need to prepare a dozen or so pumpkin shaped pieces of paper or card that can be scattered on the floor.

Just like musical chairs, when the music stops the kids need to find a pumpkin shape to stand on. At the end of each round, and a child is excluded, remove another pumpkin piece so that by the end of the game two or three children are left trying to squeeze on one pumpkin piece.

Pick their Brains

Cook a large pot of different shaped pasta such as spirals or macaroni. Drain and cool completely. Place the cooled pasta in a large plastic bowl and add a few olives. Then add some wrapped sweets of other fun-size treats like mini chocolate bars.

Cover the bowl with a decorated sheet that you are happy to cut a hole in for the kids to put their hands through. The hole should be large enough to put their hands in without sneaking a peak as to what is inside.

To play the game, sit the kids in a circle and let them take turns digging into the bowl to find the sweets. They won’t be able to see into the bowl and the icky texture of the pasta along with the olives will feel like brains!

Pin the Wart on the Witch

Taking a lead from the great game “pin a tail on the donkey”, this party game is easy to make and great fun to play. Try and find an outline of a witch that you can draw around to create a large witch shape. Stick the cut out to the wall (be careful what you have behind it - so might be wise to add a pin board).

Have several pieces of black or green felt that are cut to look like warts and blindfold each child as they take it in turns to find the witches nose.

Older children should be spun around first to make it more difficult!

With all of these Halloween Party Games and Halloween Party Recipe suggestions your kids will have a fabulous time.

Have fun !!!!

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