Simple Halloween party ideas for 3-7yrs. Please help!

ragz_2

Hi everyone, I told my children I would do them a Halloween party, this Wednesday. Well as I am working tomorrow I only really have today to plan as the weekend got taken up with storm prep!
I could go shopping, but would rather not. So I need simple game and decoration ideas. I have some bags of Halloween chocolates to use as little prizes so some easy party games with a spooky theme would be great.
I asked on invites for people to bring food, I will make pizza and cakes, so hopefully not too much to do on that side of things.

All ideas gratefully appreciated.

ragz_2

Sorry just realised I posted this in the Christmas bit, can someone please move to the right place?

savingmonkey

Some ideas my friend has done before:

Make a 'spooky room' - dark room, decorated with Halloween stuff and hide things they have to find, toy spiders, toy cat, witches hat etc - could give them a torch to use. Make a card with the hidden things and each child picks one thing they have to find - they then go in either alone on in pairs to find their item.

Make 'feely' boxes from empty cardboard boxes, cut a hole so they can't see inside - they have to put their hand in and guess what's inside. Cooked spaghetti makes good worms!

Musical statues/bumps to 'Halloween' songs - monster mash, thriller etc.

Spooky variation on pin/stick the tail on the donkey - stick the wart on the end of the witches nose? You could draw/print a picture off to use?

Making decorations - white paper plates painted orange and a face drawn on make good pumpkins to hang up or make spiders from cut up egg boxes (one section per spider) and pipe cleaners for legs.

Estelle_Page

Hiya,

I posted on a really similar topic a couple of weeks ago so here are a few of the helpful suggestions I received.

*Turn music statues into musical zombies
*Get children to play 'wrap the mummy' with toilet roll - fastest wins
*Apple bobbing
*Halloween bingo (lots available online)

I also found some free printables which could come in quite handy if you don't fancy going shopping. They even have a 'pin the nose on the witch' like savingmonkey mentioned above.

http://www.allaboutpartybags.co.uk/extra/51/Free_Halloween_Printables.html

Hope that helps!

Quackers1

When we were little we did things like eating a doughnut without licking your lips, finding little jelly sweets in a pile of flour, eating scones dipped in treacle off strings tied to the washing line, apple bobbing, a trail with torch light and reflective things in the garden.

Decorations: black and orange paper chains, bats.

back_on_track

Hi some games:
Mummy wrap: in pairs, one wraps the other in a whole roll of toilet paper, first pair to use up all their toilet roll wins.

Musical gravestones: like musical chairs, but make paper/card gravestones and line in a row on the floor, when the music stops they have to stand on a gravestone, whoever not on one is out. Can use a tiny bit of blue tac to secure if needed.

Pass the pumpkin: a twist on pass the parcel. In a circle, passing a small pumpkin, when the music stops, whoever has the pumpkin is
out.

Pumpkin bowling: collect some empty juice bottles and with a small pumpkin, knock them down, whoever knocks the most down wins. Be careful the younger ones don't actually throw the pumpkin or you will have pumpkin mash on the floor. Alternatively find a toy pumpkin!

Witches Brew: If you have some halloween items around, spiders/ eyeballs/rubber snakes/anything really. Have a tossing game, whoever gets the most "ingredients" into the witches cauldron wins.

Donut game: hang donuts (normal size or mini ones, with hole in the middle is easiest) no hands allowed they have to eat the donut.

Decorations:
Bin bag spiders, stuff with newspaper, secure with sticky tape.

Salt dough decorations

Black hand print bats or hanging black card bats

Paper chains, coloured paper or decorated with pictures

Empty milk bottles with a spooky face drawn on with marker pen, put a glow stick in the milk bottle, when its dark they will glow. Could also line them on the path to your front door.

White balloon with white tissue paper/old pillow case over the top and face drawn, for a ghost. Hang on thin thread from the corner of the room

Faces that watch you! If you have carboard egg cartons, cut out around where 2 eggs would sit (so you have a pair of eyes) and colour in the middle of the inside of the carton to make a pupil. Draw a face/pumpkin/skeleton on paper and cut out where the eyes would be so you can attach the cardboard eyes to the face. (alternatively you can attach to an old/cheap face mask) The eyes follow you as you walk past!

X_YuMmY_X

Me and mum used to cover all the kitchen walls with dustbin bags so it was really dark and then cut out stars and stuck them on. And also cut one into strips and hung it over the doorway.

Also cupcake or biscuit decorating, we had tubes of icing and then made up bowls of coloured icing like black, red, orange, green.