Anyone have any Halloween party game ideas for kids age 12 &13?!
Anyone have any Halloween party game ideas for kids age 12 &13?
We need fun ideas that boys & girls will be interested in. We live in New York so the weather is unpredictable in October so if you have any ideas for games that would work indoors as well as out would be especially helpful. Thank you!
Answers:
Bobbing for apples.
Drawing a face on a pumpkin/gourd... or carving with the special tools a contest!
Pitching Pennies
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http://www.pumpkinnook.com/hween/games.h...
Planning a room party for your child's class can seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be! Most of the room parents are very happy to help in the lower grade classrooms. With some planning of games and treats, you can have a lot of fun. I wrote this article because last year, when I was looking for new ideas for my middle son's room party, I could not find much. Everything I found was far too grotesque for a kindergarten party, and expensive too!
Here are some of the ideas I've used for for K-2nd grades, some are easy enough for preschoolers to do as well. as the kids get older, the classroom Halloween parties don't seem to be as common, but you could use these ideas for a home Halloween party as well.
Part 1: Let the Games Begin!
Games to Play with Large Groups
We are limited to a 45 minute party with almost 30 kids, so we pick 3 of these games, and figure that we'll probably get to two of them. One of the most successful parties we did involved setting up stations. We had 3 games set up, so that the kids could rotate among them. Everyone got to play all of the games and eat lots of treats within our 45 minute time frame- a big success! At another party, we decided along with the teacher to schedule the party right after lunch. We did the games, fed the kids treats, and then sent them outside to play and run all of that sugar off!
Pumpkin Bowling: Get a hold of 4-6 plastic pumpkin buckets and a small ball (plastic bowling balls are perfect). Stack the pumpkins in a pyramid on a hard surface and let the kids bowl to their hearts' content! Assign a little helper to assist you with picking up the pumpkins and stacking them. This was a big hit with the kindergartners!
Spider Toss : We were looking for a different take on the bean bag toss, so I made a game out of a cardboard box, some fabric scraps, and fabric paint. Basically, kids throw spider beanbags into a "web" with holes.
Web Box: The easiest way to make this is to spray paint the box black, paint on a web with with 3-dimensional fabric paint, and then go back and cut 5 or 6 holes between the webbing, evenly spaced around the spider web.
Spider bean bags: Cut two circles of black fabric and 8 little spider legs for each spider. Pin circles right sides together, pin top of 4 legs to each side (right and left sides) of spider body, remembering to pin the top of the leg to the outer edges to be sewn (don't pin the foot there). Stitch around edges, leaving a 2 inch opening for turning. Turn the spider body right side out, making sure all of the legs have been stitched on correctly. Fill with dried beans and slipstitched closed.
Face Painting: Paint a spider, a pumpkin or a ghost on their cheek-kids love this!
Costume Parade-My kids' school holds a costume parade every year, and the kids love it! They bring their costumes to school in their backpacks and dress up for the parade and party. If you can't parade the kids through the school, perhaps you can parade them through another classroom (hold a joint class party) or march them around the room. At home, have a parade down the street, but have some helpers with you to round up straggling troops. Do this during daylight, not nighttime, and be careful of traffic.
Ghost Guess : Kids are divided into two groups. One group goes out in to the hall and a mom puts a sheet over him/her. They then go back into the classroom and the other group of kids has to guess who is under the sheet!
Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin : Pin the nose on the donkey Halloween style. Easy to make with felt and Velcro.
Mummy Wrap- a big hit with older kids, but requires lots of toilet paper! Divide kids into teams of 2. One person stands still while to other wraps them in toilet paper as a mummy at the start signal. Kids are given 2 minutes or so to wrap their friend up, first team to win gets a prize. Then, the wrapped-up kids burst out of their wrappings and it's their turn to wrap up their buddy. Have the kids help clean up the toilet paper. We did this to the "Monster Mash" song, it was a big hit!
Ghost Bingo-Make bingo cards from poster board but instead the word bingo, put "ghost". If you really want to go all out, the kids could even have Halloween shapes that they put on the bingo card instead of the standard plastic chips or pennies. When the kids gets bingo, he calls out "ghost". Make sure there are lots of 7's and 13's on those cards!
Spooky Story Round Robin- sit kids in a circle. Someone starts the story (with something like "It was a dark and spooky night..."), and then the person sitting next to them continues the story, adding a sentence or two. Depending on the age, you can set the rules about how scary the story can be.
Spooky ABC's- Same idea as above, but children name spooky items with the alphabet. Each child must repeat the letters and spooky items said before his/her turn.
Boo, Boo, Ghost- Halloween version of duck, duck goose
Halloween Tic-Tac-Toe-Make the tic-tac-toe cards from orange or black poster board. I like to make the tic-tac-toe pieces out of juice can lids. I paint the lids, then glue on a felt bat, ghost, spider, or pumpkin. I always save those lids (much to my husband's dismay!), so I have a ton of them. You could also have the children make their own pieces by drawing on construction paper and cutting them out.
Musical Monster Mash-musical chairs with spooky music. Older kids might like to do a "Monster Mash Contest" where he who dances the craziest wins! I'm partial to the Monster Mash, They're Coming to Take Me Away, and all of those other great, spooky 50's songs. "Thriller" by Michael Jackson would be a good one too.
Messy But Fun Games-
Try these if you have a smaller group to work with, or time to fill. They are messier than the first games, but lots of fun!
Apple Bobbing-old fashioned and fun, but if it involved water and kids, you know if it will be messy! Great to do outside if the weather is decent.
Spider fishing-Put a plastic spider and a magnet on the end of a homemade fishing pole (stick with string tied on). Fill a small bucket, washtub, or baby pool with water. Add plastic flies with paper clips attached to them, so that the magnet will pick them up. You could also just put the magnet on the end of the fishing string and attach the paper clips to cheap plastic spiders. Go fishin'!
Spider Pinata-Make a pinata out of paper mache! It's not that hard. Mix one part water and one part flour to make a paste. Dip newspapers in the paste, and then spread over a good-sized balloon. When the newspaper has dried, pop the balloon and cut a slit in the top for placing candy. Spray paint the body black and add legs- the can also be made out of newspaper, or toilet paper/paper towel/gift wrap tubes. You can also use cardboard or chenille bumpies (from the craft store). Open slit at top and fill with candy, taping it back up (black electrical tape shouldn't show). Hang from a tree and let the kids go at it! Just make sure they hit the pinata and not each other!
Part 2: Activities and Crafts to Keep Them Busy
Ghost in the graveyard--except use laser tag guns.
well try monopily
you get paper bags and fill them each with a different food item that feels creepy. like spaghetti for brains and olives for eyes. and then they have to guess whats in the bag.
mash up some green jelly and hide some lumps of chocolate in it. The children have to get a lump of chocolate using their mouths. Also apple dunking, (apples in water, remove using mouths).
Depends. Do you have a goat to sacrifice? Hail Satan!
Yeah I got one Hide and Seek
There are plenty of sites with great ideas.
www.blackdog.net/holiday/hallo...
Try using Yahoo.
~Cookie decorating
~Cupcake walk (similar to cake walk except with cupcakes)
~Crafts
oooh.... ive got a good one!!
it requires a lot of space, best if outside, and on grass. but it works inside on carpet too!!
but, what you do, is you get a broom.
and you have the kid hold it, and make sure over half of it is above their heads.
then you spin them around 20 times, while having them look only at the tip of the broom (above their heads)
then, when youve spun them 20 times, you have them drop the broom in fornt of them, do 3 jumping jacks, and then they jump over the broom.
you can have them do different things, like run or idk fun stuff!!
but yeah, the participants tend to fall over. and be dizzy! (as expected)
ive tried it, and it was FUN! and the second time, i ended up breaking the door to my grandmas closet =]]
GOOD LUCK!
Today Happy Halloween...from in the Philippines.
Take some grapes and remove all the skins....get a big bowlful....put a blind fold on the kids..one at a time....tell them they are touching eyeballs..(from many dead people)....have each guess how many eyeballs are in the bowl..(do a count first)....the one closest to the number wins a prize...