Halloween
Party Ideas
A Halloween Party for haunting up delicious times.
Orange
Partyware
Spider
Gummy Candy
Monster
Party Masks
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Decorations
(Who
frightens whom, hanging from the wall?)
Besides the obvious multitude
of Halloween decorations
available during this season you might also try giant candy corn made
from
paper or cut scrap lumber and painted with bright stripes of orange,
yellow and
white.
Wrap white tissue
paper
around the head of a sucker and tie
with white yarn on the stick. Draw a ghost face on the tissue and hang
the
little sucker ghosties around the room.
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Cakes
(Creepy
Cakes)
Make a round cake into a spider by frosting brown or black and adding
black licorice
whips for the legs.
Decorate a round
cake as
a jack-o-lantern.
Cauldron
Cupcake Cake
Ghost
Cupcake Cake
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Costumes/Dress
up (Forbidding
attire for your Halloween party)
Invite the guests to wear their Halloween costumes or
provide each guest with an oversized flannel shirt with raffia sewn at
the
sleeves and poking out so they look like a scarecrow.
Games
and Activities (Spooky Halloween party fun)
Halloween
Tic Tac Toe (ages 3-10)
Print
out the tic tac toe board, give each player different pieces, like
M&Ms or Smarties. Then play the traditional tic tac toe game.
Winner gets a candy prize! Pumpkin
Gold (ages
3-12)
Place three pumpkins or jack-o-lanterns a short distance
from the guests and provide them with five ping pong balls to toss into
the
pumpkins. Each successful toss should win a small prize. For young
guests, they
should get a prize even if a ball doesn’t go in. Witch’s
Goo Relay Race
(ages 3-16)
Make some Witch’s Goo by mixing 1 cup water with 4 cups corn
starch. Add a little green food coloring (just a drop or two because
you
don’t want
to turn little fingers green when they play with it). It may be easier
to mix
the goo by rolling it around in a jar instead of trying to stir it with
a
spoon. For the game, split the guests into two teams and have the goo
in two
bowls. Each guest should take turns grabbing a little goo and running
it to the
witch’s cauldron at the other side of the room. If they drop the goo on
the way
they have to pick it up and start over. The team to get all of their
goo in the
cauldron first, wins. Halloween Sudoku (ages 4-16)
A princess Sudoku party game is a great addition to a party. The
picture sudoku puzzle is just challenging enough to be exciting, and
simple enough to be fun.
Spooky
Straw Sucks
(ages 5-16)
Get several Halloween die cuts such a ghosts, bats and
pumpkins (purchase in a craft or scrapbooking store). Provide each
guest with a straw and a pile of ten die cuts.
Instruct
the guests to use the straw to pick up a shape by sucking in air and
then to
release the die cut into a bowl or cauldron to make a Witch’s Stew.
They may
use only their straw, not their fingers. First guest to get all their
die cuts
in the pot wins!
Tricky
Words (ages
8-16)
How many words can you make from TRICK OR TREAT? Here’s
a
PDF file for this game.
Worst
Makeover Ever
(ages 12-16)
Set out some old makeup, costume or otherwise. Pair off the
guests and let them take turns giving each other the worst makeover
ever. Provide cleaning supplies if any of the guests wish to remove
their new fashions after the game. This is fashionable game for your
Halloween party.
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Character
Guess (ages
12-16)
Guess the traditional Halloween character’s printed on your
back by only asking yes/no questions of the other guests. Here’s
a list
of
Halloween characters in a PDF file.
Crafts
(Conjure
up the eerie pastimes for your Halloween party)
Masks
(ages 3-8)
Provide each guest with a paper plate. Cut out holes for the
eyes, and a hole punch on either side of the plate to tie string for
securing the
mask to
the face. Provide colored paper, feathers, sequins, white glue, etc. to
decorate
the masks. The guests may make masks to look like animals or other
creatures,
or just silly masks that look like nothing else.
Jack-O-Lantern
(ages 3-8)
Paint a paper plate orange. Glue face pieces cut from yellow
construction paper and green leaves at the top.
Pasta
Skeleton
(ages 3-10)
Provide a basic skeleton outline printed on white paper for
younger guests, and blank black paper for older guests. Put out
different kinds
of dry pasta, macaroni, rotini, shell pasta, broken bits of fettucini.,
and
white glue for the guests to glue into the shapes of a skeleton on the
paper.
Egg
Carton Spiders
(ages 3-12)
Cut out the individual cups from an egg carton. Turn the cup
upside down and stick in pipe cleaners as legs. Add pom poms for a head
and
glue on googly eyes.
Glow-in-the-Dark
Mural
(ages 3-16)
Stretch out a large piece of black butcher paper. Provide
painting shirts, fluorescent paints and turn on a black light for a fun
creation. Or
give each guest their own sheet of black paper so they can take their
creation
home. This is a sppoktacular addition to your Halloween party.
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Salt
Dough Ghosts
(ages 5-16)
Make up a batch of salt dough with the following recipe. Divide
and put into baggies for each of the guests. Allow them to shape into
ghosts
and add googly eyes. Dry on a paper plate labeled with the name of the
guest.
Salt Dough
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 tsp. alum
3 Tbsp. mineral oil
1 ½ cups water
Mix
dry ingredients, combine with water and oil. Cook in double boiler,
stirring
constantly
until thick and like bread dough. Keep in plastic bag in
refrigerator.
Candy
Corn Candy Dish
(ages 8-16)
Provide each guest with a small terra cotta planter. Paint
it in stripes of candy corn colors, yellow, orange and white.
In the middle orange
section
paint a smiling face. Fill the pot with candy corn.
Refreshments
(Something
Chilling)
Jack-O-Lantern Pizza
Place pepperoni around the outer edge of a cheese pizza,
then place more pepperoni to create eyes, a nose and a mouth of a
jack-o-lantern.
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Fang
and Eyeball Salad
Fruit salad. Cut apple slices into the shape of fangs
(triangles). Add banana slices for eyes and blueberries for the center
of the
eyes. I used frozen, thawed and drained blueberries. Reserve a few of
the
fruits to make faces, then mix up the remainder of the fruit with some
yogurt
or whipped topping. Serve the fruit salad in individual dishes and
create a
face on the top of each dish with banana and blueberry eye, and a few
apple
triangles in a smile. My children insist we serve this dish
at every Halloween party.
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Hanging
Doughnuts
String doughnuts up on a pole and let your guests eat them
without hands. This is a more sanitary option to bobbing for apples.
Apple
Smile
Cut apples into 8 wedges and treat for browning (dip in
water with a little lemon juice). Smother one side of each apple slice
with
peanut butter. Put two apple wedges together to create an apple
sandwich, but
place white mini marshmallows in the peanut butter for teeth.
Halloween Cheese Ball
Turn a simple cheese ball into a delicious centerpiece.
More
Halloween Food Ideas to be found here.
Take
Home Gift Ideas (Scare
up an offering)
Ghostly decorated food containers (like Chinese food take-out).
Wrap the handle with orange pipe cleaner strung with a few black beads.
Use a
black permanent marker to draw a ghost face on the front of the
container.
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