DFW birthday/halloween party game ideas

lynsayjane

dont worry about it hairy, i do have a penny jar, but it's never got anything in it!

trying to thnk of kids games, me i always loved best dancer, cause i always won! muahahahaha

personally i think the best thing you could do is take anything and everything of value out the room and lock the brats in there to amuse themselves! :rotfl:

MinnieSpender

Who Am I? is fun. Write the names of various famous characters on post-it notes. Each player gets one stuck to their foreheads without seeing them. They have to ask each other questions to guess the identity of who they are.

The DFW way, of course, is to ditch the post-it notes (too expensive) and use old receipts and bus tickets. The only problem you have then is how to stick the paper on. Staples may be a bit harsh and superglue is a b*gger to get off.

jiblets1

I always love the one where you make a "sandcastle" out of flour, then place a peice of chocolate on top. Each person slices a bit of the castle away on their turn, and whoever makes the chocolate fall into the middle has to pick it up with their mouths! You end up with a GHOSTLY face too!

HairyHandofDartmoor

Sound great ideas, although I may have to wrap the living room in plastic before the party, so I can hose it down afterwards!

Thanks everyone, there are ideas there that I would never have thought of.

HairyHandofDartmoor

Why don't I use the kitchen for the messy ones? Kids love messy games (their parents may not, but what the heck!)

Biffa

What about Blind Man's Bluff! Now there's a party game from the past! Blindfold someone, then they have to catch one of the others and guess who it is - of course, it helps if the catchee doesn't laugh their socks off as soon as theiy're caught else it gives the game away. Apple bobbing as well is a good one.

Trix

Try THIS link from a thread last year

Heres my post about what we did last year (too lazy to type it again :rolleyes:)

We went to 'No Frills' yesterday and bought 3 rolls of wallpaper for 99p each that are grey and kind of stone looking. We then Duct tapped cardboard boxes together, covered them in the wallpaper, sprayed them just a bit with green and black spray paint (leftovers in the garage) and now have half a dozen tombstones of various sizes:eek: (some made into crosses that stand about 5' high!). This only took a roll and a half of paper. The rest of the paper is being pinned around the bottom of the wall with stone shapes sprayed on.

We also bought 2 rolls of black weed control fabric for £4.99 each (15 metres per roll) and that is going to be pinned on the top of the walls (easier and not as flammable as bin bags).

As a final touch - we went to the woods and got loads of 5 & 6 foot high dead branches that will be stood around the room and a bin bag full of dead leaves to spread on the floor (we have wooden floors so aren't bothered about the floor).

Once we have the fog machine going, the garden bench in and all the rest of the ghost/vampire etc decorations up, the result will be one creepy graveyard! And the total cost was only £12.95, with everything being able to be used next year :T

And for Games:

Some favourite games:
Feely box: Cardboard boxes made so you can't see inside with things in them like: rubber bat, spider (put either web type stuff or dry leaves in with it), cauliflower (warm with jelly on) to feel like a brain, cooked spaghetti (worms), boiled eggs in jelly (eyeballs), rubber glove filled with warm water, cooked rice (maggots)....I'm sure there's more but can't remember at the minute.
Pass the cauldron: cauldron filled with spaghetti, pass around until the music stops then whoever has the cauldron has to put their hand in and find a piece of paper (wrapped in a foil) that has either trick or treat on it. The trick is a dare, the treat (obviously) is a sweet. I'll have to check my Halloween stuff (still haven't got it down out of the loft) for what the dares are. Ones I can remember are: go outside and shout 'Boogie Woogie Woogie' 3 times, howl like a wolf, name 5 spooky characters (vampire, werewolf etc), tell a Halloween joke, make a scary face..have to check for others.
Ghost train: Lights off, creepy sounds CD on loudish. Kids walk around in a conga line, adults have rubber spiders and bats on strings attached to some sort of stick and touch kids on head with them, shake rice in bottles,do creepy screams and laughs, pop balloons etc.
Warty Faces: Plate of chopped up jelly with plastic spiders in, plate of rice crispies with plastic spiders in - alternating between plates, race to see who can get all their spiders out first. (they really look like they're covered in warts by the end)
Mummy wrap: rolls of cheap white toilet paper. One kid is the Mummy, other the wrapper. Race pairs of kids to see who can wrap their Mummy first.

Have fun

HairyHandofDartmoor

Wow, some great ideas! You are an experienced halloween pary holder Trix, I am seriously impressed!

I'm quite looking forward to the party now that I have some good ideas (was afraid it might be a bit of a non event).

Thanks everyone.

Trix

We've had a party for the past 5/6 years, but don't think we'll be having one this year

Another couple of games:

Devils horns and devils tails
Basically a variation of heads and tails - kids get in pairs, music is played, when it gets stopped each pair put either 'horns' (their heads), or tails (their....backsides :rolleyes:) together, the adult flips a coin and if it is heads they call 'horns' - everyone with their heads together is in/out (depending on what rules you set) and same for tails.

Zombies in the cemetary
A variation of sleeping lions. All the children lie as still as they can but if they are caught moving, they become a zombie and have to walk around those still lying down 'zombie style' until the end of the game. Lots of fun with this one trying to get them to move through the use of spiders dangling above them etc A good game for doing after eating or at the end of the party as a 'chill down'.

I'll keep thinking of some more. Just try to think of ordinary party games and give them a Halloween twist.

HairyHandofDartmoor

Why won't you be having one this year?