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Prize Hunt Game
What you need: Lots of leaves or shredded up newspaper in a big pile and at
least seven people. What to do: As fall starts to approach, save your leaves
and or newspaper. What I did was get pumpkin bags and put leaves and/or newspaper
in them. Include prizes in them such as (toys, money, candy ,etc.) you need
to make a huge leaf or newspaper pile that has prizes buried in it (make sure
this is outside in your yard) then get a group of friends together and on the
count of 3, jump into the leaves and try to look for the prizes. It may sound
stupid but it is so much fun. The bigger the pile and better the prizes the
more fun it is!
Submitted by: Anonymous
Spiders and Worms
Take two sets of cups, two colors like black and orange,and put them in two
groups, orange and black. Take the orange cups and write "Do you have a spider
in your cup!" take the other color and write "Do you have a worm in your cup!"
Take and put a spider in 1 or 2 of the orange cups and a worm in 1 or 2 of the
black cups. Fill each cup with the same amount of punch and set them out on
a table. As all the guests start to get bored, hand every one a cup and ask
them not to drink it yet. As soon as everyone has a cup ask everyone to drink
it at the count of 3 and see if they have the spiders and worms in their cups.
Whoever finds the things in the bottom of the cup and drinks all the punch gets
a life sized plush spider and a good scare!
Submitted by: Crystal,13,Iowa
Chuckie
It was last Halloween when I went round my best friend's house for Halloween.
She had invited three other people other than me and her. I had helped her set
her house up and we were watching "Chuckie" (the movie). Any "Chuckie" movie
will do like "Bride of Chucky". Around the room we placed rag dolls and china-faced
dolls and it really freaked me out and everyone else out! We thought they could
come alive any minute! A really good tip for Halloween.
Submitted by: Missy, 12, Arizona
Dress Up Game
Get some friends to spend the night at your house. Divide your friends into
groups. Then get some old pieces of clothing, hats, purses, etc. (or weird things
like toilet paper) and put all the things you could find into something creepy
like a cauldron. Hand it out and whoever dresses the creepiest has to walk up
and down the street mumbling creepy things. If they do it, give them a treat.
Submitted by: Katie, 11, Virginia
Mummy Wrap
Get a lot of toilet paper rolls, assign guests in pairs; one is the mummy, one
the wrapper. Start a timer. The wrappers have to wrap their mummy completely
in toilet paper by the time the timer goes off (say four minutes). The team
closest to wrapping the mummy in the time given wins!! It's messy but fun!
Submitted by: Tracy, 15, Rhode Island
Murder in the Dark
You choose one person to go outside the room and be a detective. While they
are out choose a murderer. Everyone then sits in a circle and asks the detective
to come in. Someone then turns off all the lights and the murderer gets up and
taps on one of the players. That person has to scream and pretend to die. The
murderer sits back down and someone turns on the light. The detective has to
guess who the murderer is. The murderer has to wink at one of the players every
now and again who then has to scream and collapse on the floor. The detective
has to guess who the murderer is before all the people have collapsed.
Submitted by: Jenny,12, U.K
Murder in the Dark (Version Two)
First, have everyone pull out of a pumpkin, a piece of paper telling them whether
they are a person, the one detective, or the one murderer. DON'T tell what you
are! Then have the detective leave the room, and everyone pick up and hold a
brush, water bottle, or other prop. Close your eyes, and scoot around the room.
The murderer secretly opens her eyes and hits someone in the head with her tool.
The victim yells as she dies, and the detective runs in the room and tries to
guess who did it and with what.
Submitted by: Kathleen,12, Texas, USA
Scavenger Hunt
Buy small pumpkins (as many small pumpkins as there are guests coming) and hide
them in the room or yard. Write the names of your guests on each pumpkin, let
them find their pumpkin and let them keep it! Have fun!
Submitted by: Claire, 12, Canada
Spirit Pen Game
Hi there! We don't celebrate Halloween here but this is a really cool and spooky
game to play and everyone swears that it's true. Don't ask me as I haven't dared
to try it yet. First, get an empty piece of paper. Then, get a pen, put your
3rd finger right at the top and another 2 fingers at the middle of the pen.
Mark a spot on the paper. After that, call out, Spirit of the pen, please come
out. Call a few times if it doesn't come out. At this time the pen will start
moving (you must not move it!). You/your friends can ask questions and it'll
answer if it can. When you're finished asking questions, say "spirit of the
pen" please go home, then bring the pen back to the spot you marked earlier
and tap 3 times with your 3rd finger on top of the pen. It's fun but be careful.
Submitted by:Danica,14, Malaysia
A Ghoulish Game
Buy about 10 bananas and tie strings round them. Then hang them from the ceiling.
Take turns to see how many bananas you can eat with your hands tied behind your
back in 30 seconds. This is a big, messy game. If you want more of a challenge
(or more of a mess) dip the bananas in melted chocolate before you start.
Submitted by: Rebecca,13, UK
Pass The Pumpkin: You need an orange and three or more people (the more people the more fun!). Make the people stand around in a circle. Someone start with the orange under their chin (It would be too hard to do this with a pumpkin unless it's a really tiny one). The object of the game is to pass the pumpkin from your chin to someone else's! If you drop it, you're out. As I said, the more people, the more fun.
Submitted by: Kady,12,Canada!
You can set up a little corner where you put toys or prizes in a box. Someone is blindfolded and has to dig inside and if they figure out what it is they are touching, they get to keep it. You have to get different things for different people.
Submitted by: Siata, 9, NY
"Body Part" Game: You will need: cooked spaghetti for guts, peeled grapes for eyeballs, dried apricots for ears, cut up hot dogs for fingers, and warmed oatmeal for vomit (I know that is really gross, but you'll find out why later). Instructions: Blindfold all your guests, and seat them at a table. Get the "Body Parts" (P.S., put them in bowls first), and pass them around to everybody while telling them a horrible story about an axe murderer. But be sure that they do not take off their blindfolds or cheat. Pass the "vomit" around last. Tell them that they are feeling vomit from the last person who did this!
Submitted by: Catherine, 11, Minnesota
Creepy Murder Game: Turn all the lights out, then tell a story about this old lady who got murdered next door. Then all ready, have 2 grapes w/ the skin off and say," These are her eyes." Have prepared cold spaghetti and say, "This is her hair." Then have a small piece of meat and say, "This was her tongue. Then mix some flour and water w/ red food coloring and say, "This is her blood". Make sure you have already prepared the grapes and stuff and make sure you tell the girls not to get scared and throw it all around.
Submitted by: Eva, 13, USA
Spirit Guide: Turn off the lights and tell the group to get in groups of two. The older girl (or boy) puts on a blindfold, and the other gets a flashlight. Then, pick a destination for each group, such as the piano, the computer chair, etc. The person with the flashlight has to guide her partner to that certain spot by telling the other girl to go left, right, 10 steps etc. The first person to get to their destination wins a prize like a hat or something.
Submitted by: Megan, 8, USA
Stick the Face on the Jack-o-Lantern: Make 3 or 4 round shapes out of orange construction paper. Then make parts of a jack 'o lantern face out of black construction paper. Pin the orange paper on the wall. Then stick some tape on the back of the face shapes. Put a blindfold on the player and let them stick the shapes on to make a jack 'o lantern face.
Submitted by: Kate, 10, Maine.
Last year at my Halloween party my dad bought one of those black skeleton face masks with glowing white on it and we decorated the room with all white sheets. He put one of the sheets around him so you couldn't see him then he stood in the corner disguised by all the white And when my guests walked by they didn't notice him at all! So he jumped out at them. It was great! Then my mom's friend hid under the pool table and we had everyone walk around it and feel like eyeballs etc. on the plates and bags and when they got to the middle on it she would reach out and grab their legs and make scary noises! And to top all that off we had a very old haunted house tape playing with creaking door noises and of course growls and howls!
Submitted by: Allison, 14, Virginia
Turn off the lights and tell the group to pair off two by two. The older girl (or boy) puts on a blindfold, and the other gets a flashlight. Then, pick a destination for each pair, such as the piano, the computer chair, etc. The person with the flashlight has to guide her partner to that certain spot by telling the other girl to go left, right, 10 steps etc. Let them all try, 1 pair at a time for practice. Then, let them pick a destination from slips of paper put into a hat. Now everybody goes at the same time! The first person to get her partner to their destination wins a prize -- like maybe the hat!
Submitted by: Megan, 8, USA
Submitted by: Elizabeth (Lizzy), 11, Illinois
This fun activity is a game. Ahead of time, prepare the cups that are desrcribed below. You have to have a room dark so that people cannot see what's inside of the cups. Each guest needs a paper and pencil. Now this is a guessing game. The cups will be passed around in darkness so people can FEEL what's inside. You'll recite a spooky story as the cups are passed. The guests write down what they think is REALLY in the cup. (Either list the "body parts" on the paper or turn on the lights between each round so people can write down their guesses.) DO NOT TELL THEM WHAT'S IN THE CUPS!!!!
Once in this town
there lived a man named Brown.
T'was years ago this very night
that he was murdered out of spite.
They say these are his remains.
- Here is his brain, which now feels no pain.
- Pass around a cup with something like a wet squishy tomato inside it.
- Here are his eyes, still frozen with surprise.
- Pass the second cup which hold two frozen peeled grapes.
- Here is his heart. Be careful lest it start!
- Pass around a cup with a large lump of uncooked liver.
- Now we have his hair, which once was so fair!
- This cup contains a handful of corn silk or wet fur or yarn.
- Feel these drops of his blood. All the rest turned to mud.
- A cup with a little catsup thinned with warm water.
- One hand all alone, just rotting flesh and bone.
- A damp plastic glove filled with mud or ice.
- Now touch his ear. He nevermore will hear!
- Pass around a cup holding a dried apricot
- This is his nose. T'will never smell a rose.
- Use a soft piece of chicken bone.
- These worms are all that's left to feel. For them Brown was a lovely meal!
- Pass around a cup filled with wet, cooked spaghetti noodles.
After the lights back on and everyone has finished writing down their guesses, collect the papers. As you check their guesses, you can show everyone what was really in the cups. Give a nice prize to the person with the most correct answers.
Submitted by: Jenna K., 11, from California
Keep an eye out for cars, dogs and stuff lying on the sidewalk. Some jokers have been known to put trip wires out in front of their houses. It's great fun to scare you, but it's no fun to land splat on the ground with a broken arm as a halloween trophy.
Get a pack of index cards and a pen. Write a phrase on each card that makes you shiver or think of Halloween. Get a minute timer. Then, pass around the deck of cards, face down. Each girl picks up a card and begins to spin a story for one minute or 30 seconds. She has to keep talking. Then she hands the cards to the next girl, who picks one and turns the story another direction. Here's some ideas about what to put on the cards.
the casket creaked
a ghost coughed
in the corner, lay a body. It was...
the candlelight flickered
it was a caldron, and a skull bobbed inside
the hand belonged to a wolfman!
the door opened. It was Count Dracula!
the skeleton shook itself, and moved toward me
the crystal vase was filled with blood
rats scattered across the floor
from beyond the grave
the severed head spoke
it was a giant swamp spider
Dr. Evil had returned to what was now my house
it was a zombie nightmare
the burial certificate had my name on it
I tried to run, but I couldn't move!
Dr. Rigormortus grabbed my arm
there was a ghost, rising from the grave
Want something different to give out besides candy? Think about giving out toys. Halloween themed stamps, stickers, wash off tattoos, erasers and pencils are cool possibilities for gifts. In Amy’s neighborhood last year, one lady gave out plastic fangs and packs of fake blood. Everyone wore them the next day at school.
Go to thrift stores and buy a couple of mannequins.
Pull off the arms and legs and head and separate the torso. Then, pick an area
in your backyard and supply a box of props and makeup - fake blood, costume
pieces, jewelry, a fake knife. Divide your guests into teams. Now it's a race
against the clock to make the scariest tableau (still scene) with the parts
you provide. Take a poloroid picture of each scene, then give out prizes at
the end. Fun, but scary!
You could play a similar game with everyone turning already hollowed out pumpkins
into decorated jack o'lanterns.
Find something cool to put your treats in. Cardboard coffins. Carved out pumpkins. Spider webbed baskets. Fake plastic skulls. Tessa remembers one house put their treats inside a witch’s cauldron with a green emergency light stick inside. The candy-givers poured dry-ice fog into the cauldron between trick or treaters, so you had to reach your hand into a glowing, green fog in order to pull out the hidden candy inside!
This is a takeoff on the old "easter egg" hunt. Hide Halloween candies all over your yard or your party room. Also hide small pumpkins, bones, witches and ghosts you've cut out of cardboard. Each pumpkin, bone, witch or ghost has a number on it. Give a prize for the person who finds the most goodies and numbers, but then draw numbers from a "skull". Whoever has that number gets to come pick a prize from the treasure chest, or coffin.
Have your treats right next to the front door so nobody has to wait. And have a can of spare change by the door too. If you run out of treats, you can give out money. Leave the porch light on so trick or treaters know you are home. When you’ve run out of treats or are ready to call it a night, turn the light off.
You'll need a garage door or a wall and big sheets of butcher paper. Have your guests break up into even teams. Have each team put one of their members up against the butcher paper. Trace their shape. Then, it's a race against time to see who can paint that shape into the scariest monster!
Take a sheet of paper and draw a tombstone shape on it. Photocopy that sheet. Then, put a collection of markers, pens, scary stamps (bats, ghosts, witches), glitter, fake insects, glue, grey and black and white paint and brushes. Let your guests make their own tombstones and write out their own epitaph. Use doublesided tape to put each tombstone up on a wall. Give prizes to the scariest, funniest, strangest tombstones!
Bring your dog and cat inside for the evening, well before dark, so they won’t be victims of some heartless person’s "trick".
Buy plain white masks from the store, one for each guest or family member. Pile collections of fake spiders, insects, gummy worms, dead flowers and leaves, macaroni died black, pasta shapes, plastic goldfish, sea shells, doll parts, ping pong balls cut in half and painted to look like eyeballs, springs, electronic parts, etc. Put out bowls of red and black and blue glitter and red and black and blue paints. Have several bottles of white glue on the table, and pie tins to pour the glue in. Now invite your guests to make their own monstrous mask.
Don’t make popcorn balls and homemade cookies as handouts. Many parents are afraid to let their kids eat anything that didn’t come out of a candy wrapper, and for good reason. Check your treats at home, in the light, before you eat. There’s nutty folks out there who tamper with candy and apples. It’s better to be safe than sorry.
Go to a thrift store and buy an old book of horoscopes. Cut the horoscopes apart so each horoscope is a single slip of paper like a fortune cookie. Put these fortunes in one bowl. Then, put lots of folded slips of paper in another bowl with the following topics: Love, Money, Your Future Mate, Your Dream Date, A Mysterious Stranger, Your Career, School. Gather your guests around. You pick from the topic bowl, and each guest pulls a fortune out and reads it. That's their future lot in life!
Don’t hand out bags of granola or apples or fig bars instead of candy. Yes, eating healthy is important, but not on Halloween! Most parents won’t let their kids eat these anyway, and almost nobody thinks an apple is a treat!
Make up a list for your guests with items to find that are a little creepy. Here are some examples.
a doll's head |
a dead flower |
a deviled egg |
an obituary from today's paper |
a lock of hair |
an earring |
a coin from another country |
a bone |
a photograph of someone who's passed on |
a pen that's run out of ink |
a picture of a pirate skull-and-crossbones |
an apple core |
Divide your party up into four or five groups and send them out into the neighborhood to hunt. Have prizes for the team that comes back with all or the most items, and some consolation prizes too. Set a half hour to hour time limit.
Don’t leave junk or trash in your yard for kids to trip over in the dark. Move rakes and toys out of the way. Make sure the path to your front door is well lit.
This is a mess, but teens really love this one! Go to a pumpkin patch or grocery store and negotiate to buy their discards - pumpkins that are old, or strange looking and therefore cheap. Buy 10 or more of pumpkins. Go outside (preferably on the lawn or in the driveway) and set up two empty trash cans. Mark off 5, 10, 15 and 20 feet away from the cans. Now, have a contest to see who can throw the pumpkin into the cans from the longest distance. Expect some clean up. They break!
Go out with your friends or family in a group. Only go to houses of people you know and trust. Carry flashlights with you and keep them on. (There’s cool looking ghostly green or pumpkin orange flashlights on the market. Check ‘em out!) It’s important for motorists to be able to see you in the dark.
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