halloween games

Pin the nose on the pumkin
Get a box and fill it with shredded paper and put in some little wrapped toys/sweets for them to lucky dip.
Also good for kids who will be out trick or treating.
You could even make the box coffin shape. or just pain it black.
They are a bit young for this one but will stick it in for any older ones reading.
Get some cheap balls of wool from the charity shop.
Everyone ties the end of their wool around their waist.
You say (MY OH MY ITS A FLY START SPINNING) each player then throws their ball to another person (not next to them) then the kids take turns saying the rhyme and after everyone has had a go. and everyone is all tangled up the winner is the one who gets out first :-] (this game must have adult supervision)
Swamp treasure.
250g cornflour 500ml of water green food colouring.
Even better when doubled :-)
When its all mixed up put some 10pences in there and some fake bugs and old buttons.
If they get a coin they can either keep it or exchange it for a sweet :-)



DECORATIONS (lanterns)
Old jam/sauce jars and wrap them with orange&black paper and cut out a star/moon on the front.
Put a tea light in side.
Box of tissues. (make some ghosts)
Take one tissue and put a few connton balls in the center tie cotton/wool around the outisde (so the cotton ball becomes a head)
Draw on a face with black pen.
Stitch a long peice of thread/wool to the head and hang.
If you have some plain fairy lights.
Cut out lots of little ghost shapes from white paper and bat shapes from black paper and pumkin shapes from orange paper and push one on to each fairy light.
Fill a rubber glove with red coloured water and tie with a band/bag tie then freeze keeping the hand horizontal and the fingers separated.
Once frozen remove the tie, peel off the glove add the hand to a bowl of clear water.
Lizard ice bowl.
Fill large bowl with cold water to a depth of 4cm throw in some plastic lizards or spiders. put in the freezer.
Once frozen remove from the freezer and place smaller bowl ontop of the frozen layer and weight it down.
Pour in more water between the two bowls and add more lizards.
return to the freezer.
Once fully frozen you can remove the inner bowl by wiping the inside with a cloth wich has been run under hot water then wrung out.
Remove outer bowl by dipping in warm water and leave in the freezer untill needed.
place it on a plate and fill with ice cream or ice cubes for the party.


FOOD.
Pumpkin soup (got a recipe if need one)
Monster pizzas
Make scary faces onto pizzas with toms mushrooms peppers etc.
Kebab broomsticks
(make kebabs using anything from sausages ans tmatoes for savory ones and melon grapes and pineapple etc for fruit ones) get some black paper and cut into little strips and tie with a length of raffia or even a elastic band would do.to the end of the kebab stick so it looks like a broom.
Jack o lantern cookies (have recipe if needed)
fairy cakes like eye balls
GRITTY GRAVEYARD EYEBALL TRIFLE
Crush biscuits in bottom of bowl
put grapes cut into halfs ontop
Make up choc angle delight and pour onto grapes
Insert sponge fingers like tombstones around the edge of the bowl.
Poke a few whit choc fingers at angles into te middle to resemble dug up bones.
DRINKS
Warm halloween punch
Pour 1 litre of orange juice 1 litre of red grape juice and 1 litre of fizzy water into sauspan.
Add slices of orange and lemon a couple of cinnamon sticks and two mulled wine sachets.
simmer over a low heat untill warm.
poor into glasses containing a metal tea spoon (so glass wont crack)
Add sultanas and almond flakes to look like eyeballs and fingernails.
WITCHES BREW
Chop up 3 apples into cubes
Make up fruit punch with 1 litre of fruit juice 1 litre lemmonade and 1 litre ginger ale.
add apple cubes and sultanas to look like teeth and eyeballs
serve in encrusted glasses with creepy ice cubes and neon straws.
ENCRUSTED GLASSES.
Colour some white sugar in a glass jar by adding green food colouring and shaking the mix.
Poor small amount onto a plate.
Dip the rim of the glass into some lemmon juice and then dip into sugar.
CREEY ICE CUBES
Add a few drops on red food colouring to a jug of cold water.
Half fill trays and freeze.
Top up with green and you should end up with half red half green ice cubes.

I had a Halloween party at home a few years ago and this game went down a treat.

The Mad Scientists Lab

The name of the game is to guess what it really in the bags!

In seperate bags/boxes (ones you cant see through) put the following items

Peeled Grapes (Eyeballs)
Cooked Spaghetti with a little oil (Intestines)
Cooked Cauliflower (Brains)
Tinnned Peaches (Human Liver)
Anything else you can think of that is Horrible. We made the game really fun by talking in a scary voice through a Karaoke Machine while kids were feeling in the bags. At the end of the game you can reveal what the real contents are.