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Halloween Ice Toes Party Game.....Use two aluminum cake or pie pans. Place 5 or more marbles in each pan. Cover with equal amounts of ice cubes in each pan. Two players then remove their shoes and socks and race to try and get the marbles out of each pan using only their toes! No spilling ice or knocking over pan. The first to get all the marbles out of the pan wins. You can also make this a relay by having an adult put the marbles back each time.

The Witch's Cauldron ....Sit in a circle. One person begins by saying, "I am the witch, and in my cauldron I put..." and names something ghoulish. The person to the left then repeats what the first person says and adds another item. Continue around the circle adding spooky ingredients as you go. If you forget an item or name it in the wrong order, you're out. The last player in the circle wins.

Mummy Wrap... Divide into groups of 3 or 4. Let each group pick a "victim". Give a roll of toilet paper to each person in the group. Transform the "victim" into a mummy. Set a time limit of 3 - 5 minutes. Vote for the most ghastly mummy.

Spooky Art...Cover a wall or floor in the basement with old newspaper. Give the children fluorescent paint and let them draw Halloween figures on the paper. Then turn off the lights so they can enjoy the eerie effects.

Spider Web Halloween Party Game... In an enclosed area, take numerous, separate and very long pieces of yarn to create a giant spider web. Put a piece of tape on the beginning of each piece and tie a number to the end. Crisscross the pieces of yarn throughout the room to create a "web." Each child grabs a taped end of yarn and rolls it up until the end is found.

Each number corresponds to a special prize or treat.

Pumpkin Bowling.....Wrap 2-liter bottles with large white handkerchiefs and decorate them to look like spooky ghosts. Fill the bottles with enough water to weigh them down and stand them like skittles in the backyard. Let the kids use small pumpkins to bowl at the "ghosts" and see who knocks over the most.

Mad Scientist Laboratory......Dim the room. Have filled jars of various items and guests guess at what it is in them.

Peeled Grapes = Eyeballs
Cooked Spaghetti = Intestines
Jello = Liver
Cooked Cauliflower = Brain
Carrots = Fingers
Rubber Glove filled with water and frozen = Hand
Piece of chalk = Teeth

Peanut Game......Give each player a drinking straw and a paper cup. Everyone gathers around a pile of peanuts. Each then sucks through her straw to move peanuts from the pile into her cup. Set a timer for one minute -- the winner is the one with the most peanuts in her cup when the timer rings.

Musical Tombstones....Place fake tombstones on the floor, one for each child minus one. Play some weird Halloween music and get the children to creep around the tombstones acting like zombies. When the music stops playing the children must lay down with his or her head at the top of the tombstone. One will be left out each time, remove a headstone and resume the music and keep playing until only one child is remaining.

Witchy Wart.....Find a huge, ugly picture of an old Halloween witch. Hang it on a door or wall. Give each child a stick of gum to chew. Blindfold them and spin them around and have them stick the wad of gum on the witch. The winner is the one who gets the gum "wart" on her nose.

Boo Bingo (ages3-5)

What you'll need:
* plain paper
*candy corn
*pencil or pen
*bowl

How to Play
Prepare Bingo cards ahead of time. Draw a large grid with nine squares. In each square draw a simple Halloween picture: a cat, a bat, a witch's hat, a ghost, a broom, a jack-o-lantern, a spider, a full moon, and a candy corn. Make a bingo card for each player, but vary the order in which you draw the pictures, so that each card is different. Draw an extra set of pictures and cut them apart. Put them in a bowl.

Give everyone a card and some candy corn for markers. Take turns drawing slips from the bowl and calling out the picture. Cover that picture on your card with a candy corn. The first person to get 3 pictures covered (across, up and down or diagonally) yells "Boo!" and is the winner.

Ghost Hunter Game
Game for teams:
Get lollipops, ribbon, paper, tissue paper, and select 5-10 Halloween terms. You may want a styrofoam base to stick the ghosts into during the game.

Divide party guest into Ghost Hunting teams of 3-5 kids per team, the number per team may be based the ages of the kids.

Each team is given clues to find ghosts that can be hidden outside or inside.

Note: Don't place all the ghosts together or the kids will grab the first ghost they see rather than find the ghost you want them. Also, tell them not to untie the ghosts until after the game is over. So send them off to different areas. You'll want 1 ghost per guest or a specified number per team, but have extras so each child gets a ghost.

Each ghost is a lollipop covered with tissue paper, tied with ribbon with a letter written on the ghost. Use a marker a add eyes and a mouth to the ghosts.

Send the kids with clues off to find ghosts. If young children have an adult go with them for safety and to assist if they don't understand the clues.

Example Clues: I live near the large tree in the backyard or At night I come out from under Mr. Wilson's favorite chair. Fun, increase difficult with age.

Each team will return with 3-5 ghosts with letters. The corresponding letters will spell or help spell a mystery word that relates to Halloween. See the 2 versions below:

Young kids: Use words where all the letters are given: bat, witch, cat, hat, broom, ghoul etc... One team at a time, take the letters and mix them up. The Ghost Hunting team whose ghosts are being used get the first try to guess the mystery word. If they guess the word correctly they get a point, if they miss the word the other teams have a chance to get a point. Have them raise their hand if they know the answer, 1 guess per team. If no team guesses the word, then a simple clue is given and the process is repeated until the word is guessed. If there is a tie have a tie-breaker mystery word that is a little harder. Offer a small prize for the winners.

A little harder: In this version the letters on the ghosts only give clues to the mystery Halloween word. Word Examples: pumpkin, headless, horseman, haunted, goblins, Sleepy Hollow, etc... Arrange the letters in correct order leaving spaces for missing letters. The Ghost Hunting team whose ghosts are being used get the first try to guess the mystery word. If they guess the word
correctly they get a point, if they miss the word the other teams have a chance to get a point. Have them raise their hand if they know the answer, 1 guess per team.

If no team guesses the word, then a simple clue is given and the process is repeated until the word is guessed. Again have a tie-breaker word just in case and offer a prize for the victors.

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