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Saturday, October 23, 2021

Ultimate Halloween Games Part 2

Halloween is my favorite time of year.

I just can't get enough of the decorations and the games.

We have a party every year!

Here are some more great games we've learned or made up over the years to inspire your next Halloween Party.

Poop the Pumpkin

You will need 2-4 cauldrons (you could use garbage cans or buckets), A pumpkin for each player (we like to do 2 turns each, so we do twice as many pumpkin). Have the group split into two teams. Line up the teams on one side of the room or yard. Place a cauldron with enough pumpkins for each team member inside it in front of each team. Place a cauldron on the other side of the room or yard. Each team member must race one at a time, waddling with the pumpkins between their legs or thighs, to the cauldron across the room or yard. No Hands! The players must drop the pumpkins into the cauldron and run back to their team. If the pumpkin was dropped anytime before the cauldron they must start over. If the pumpkin does not land in to cauldron, you must start over. Once the player has returned, the next player can go. Repeat until all the players have had a turn. The first group to finish is the winner.

Itsy Bitsy Spider Spout

Put a straw or thin dowel into a roll of play dough. Roll dice and add as many spider ring on the water spout as you rolled. Keep rolling to see who gets all the spiders on the spout first.

Hot and Cold

Have one player leave the room. The other players hide a Halloween item like a small pumpkin, etc. the player returns to the room. the other players say hot or cold depending on how close the player is to the item. Hot for close and cold for far. We played it with toy rats.

Bite Me

Using vampire teeth move large marshmallows from plate to another plate. See who can move the most in one minute or who can move all of the marshmallows the fastest.

Spider Leg Race

Four people lock arms back to back in one group and race to the other side of the room.

Spider Pull

This game from adventureideaz.com looks like a spider. Tie together eight pantyhose stockings at the foot. have eight people put them on their heads and say go and the must stretch in different directions facing each other, the last person with the stocking on their head is the winner.

What's in the Hay?

Find spiders, eyeballs, pumpkins or skeleton pieces in a haybox.

Frisbee Pumpkin, Flying Saucer or Bat Throw into a Batcave

Paint a frisbee to look like a pumpkin, flying saucer or bat. Play just like regular frisbee. For added fun purchase the game Kan Jam and toss the new painted frisbee into the pumpkin patch, outer space black hole or bat cave (Can).

Basketball Hoop Skull or Pumpkin Toss

Get a plastic child's basketball hoop or an over the door basketball hoop. practice taking shots using basketballs they look like pumpkins or use plastic skulls or pumpkins.

Ghost Face

Fill a tea cup with flour. Make sure its full and packed tight. Flip the cup over so the flour makes a perfect mound in the shape of the cup. Place a piece of candy in the center of the flour, careful not to break the flour apart. Give each player a butter knife. Each player takes a turn cutting a small piece of the flour away. the cut must go from the top of the flour mound to the bottom. The player that knocks the candy off must pick up the candy using only their mouth and eat it. They will end up with flour all over their face. *check for any food or gluten allergies before playing.

Skeleton Scavenger Hunt

This would be fun to hide all the bones from a skeleton. After they are all found, put the skeleton back together again. For added fun get two skeleton sets. Spray paint one set black and split into teams. The first team to fins all the bones and put their skeleton back together wins.

Skeleton Bone Dig

Hide skeleton bones in the sandbox have the kids dig them out.

To make it even more fun, use paint brushes to uncover them like an archeological dig or dinosaur dig.

Sticky Hand

Using sticky hands try to swat and grab as many plastic spiders as you can in one minute. We cut the ring portion off of spider rings for our spiders.

Eyeball Hunt

Hide a bunch of plastic eyeballs all over. Have the players find as many as possible in a set time. The player that finds the most wins.

How Many?

Place either ping pong eyeballs, bugs, spiders, etc. in a bottle. Have players guess how many. The player with the closest guess wins.

Eyeball Plinko

Just play with ping pong eyeballs

Eyeball Bingo

Bingo numbers written on eyeball ping pong balls or draw eyes on a bingo games number balls.

Dry Eye

Tape a piece of tape across the end of the table sticky side up. Using straws blow eyeball ping pong balls across the entire length of the table. Who can get the most to stick to the tape in one minute.

Worms

Place ping pong eyeballs, bugs, spiders, etc. in cooked spaghetti noodles. Have the players see how many they can retrieve in a minute.

Dragon Egg Hunt

Like an Easter Egg Hunt except the eggs are full of Halloween items or candy.

GO to Hell (underworld) Limbo

Play just like regular limbo, but use a Devil's staph.

Everyone takes a turn walking under the Devil's Staph while bending backwards. Players go lower and lower each round, until one person is left. if you fall or can't make it under you're out.

Flying Witches

See who can run and jump the highest with Broom Stick between your legs. Have someone hold a Broom and raise it after every one had a turn. It's basically the opposite of limbo. If you can't jump high enough to touch it your out. My elementary school teacher would play this every time we had a few extra minutes.

Ghost touch

Heads Up 7 Up

Full Moon

Pringle Ringle Challenge.(it's on our blog)

See who can make their can of Pringles into a freestanding ring first.

Truth or Scare

Just like truth or dare. Players must answer a question truthfully or opt to be scared. Come up with age appropriate questions for the truth before hand. Instead of the dare they must do something scary. We played with mystery boxes with creepy items inside they had to feel. etc. wet spaghetti noodles, piece of fur, sandpaper, fake snake or spider, etc.

Haunted Towers

Players must stack cups into a tower and restack them all in one minute. Clear cups for Ghosts, orange cups for pumpkins, Green for monsters. You can use a sharpie to draw on faces for added fun.

Charades

Players must act out and get their teammates to guess different Halloween words.

Bigfoot Races

Cut out very large feet out of cardboard. Hot glue flip flops on top and have races. Funniest for the younger kids.

Halloween Memory

Grab a bunch of small Halloween items and place on a large tray or baking sheet pan. Give everyone 30 seconds to look at the items on a tray. Take the tray away and give them one minute to write down as many items as they can remember. They used to do this at every baby shower I went to as a kid.

If you thought these games were fun, check out these other Halloween games on our blog:

Ultimate Halloween Games

55+ Games

22 Mini Pumpkin Games

Rubber Chicken Games on our blog.

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Crypt Keeper's Crypt Halloween Party Game

Halloween is our favorite time of year. We always go all out with decorations, activities, and games. This game was a big hit with the family.

It is so much fun and you can change it up to match any holiday or theme.

You will need:

2-4 cauldrons (you could use garbage cans or buckets)

A bone for each player (we like to do 2 turns each, so we do twice as many bones)
Optional: life size skeleton

How to Play:

Have the group split into two teams.

Line up the teams on one side of the room or yard.

Place a cauldron with enough bones for each team member inside it in front of each team.

Place a cauldron on the other side of the room or yard.

Each team member must race one at a time, waddling with the bones between their legs or thighs, to the cauldron across the room or yard. No Hands!

The players must drop the bones into the cauldron and run back to their team. If the bone was dropped anytime before the cauldron they must start over. If the bone does not land in to cauldron, you must start over.

Once the player has returned, the next player can go.

Repeat until all the players have had a turn.

The first group to finish is the winner.

If you want to soften the fall, you can put spider webs, cotton balls or batting in the bottom of the cauldron. This might look like smoke.

There are many different ways to play this game.

Witches Brew

Gather up all your fun unbreakable Halloween decorations for ingredients for your witches Brew. We used a plastic skull, foam pumpkin, squishy shrunken head, plastic rat, plastic body organs, brain, yellow ball for the moon, fake fruit, doll, spiders, Scorpions, plastic potion bottles, crystal balls (glitter filled water balls), etc.

Pumpkin Plop

Foam or mini pumpkins & gourds of different kinds.

Skulls

Sewer Rats

Sewer rats into a small metal garbage can.

Eyes

You can use ping pong eyes, inflatable eyes, or paint some small balls into eyes.

Werewolf Droppings

Like the Poop the Potato game. Here's a Link to their video. But, they didn't create the game, it's actually been around for quite a while. It was a good reminder from childhood, and we decided to play it for our family party. We later played it at my daughter's birthday party. They loved it!

*This game is definitely one of those games that depending on who you are playing it with, it's either a big hit or a big miss. People either think it's hilarious or just gross.

*Play with silly crazy fun people only.

Spiders into a Web

I would use large spiders or bugs, and drop them into a net (looks like a web)

You could use Halloween stuffed animals or bean bags.

The possibilities are limitless.

If you liked this game, you might also like:

Ultimate Halloween Games

22 Mini Pumpkin Games

Pie Eating Contest with a Twist

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Halloween Party Games

Halloween is my favorite time of year.

I just can't get enough of the decorations and the games.

We have a party every year!

Here are some great games we've learned or made up over the years for you next Halloween Party.

Mummy Wrap
Split group into teams. Give each team a cheap four pack of toilet paper rolls. The teams have 5-10 minutes to wrap up a team mate like a mummy. No tape is allowed. You can either see who gets done first, who's mummy is the neatest, or the most fashionable.

Bride of Frankenstein
Similar to the Mummy Wrap, but have each team make a bridal dress out of the toilet paper. Have judges vote on the best dress.

Stuck in the Web

Hang cottony spider web in door corner and try to throw plastic spiders in it. The person who gets the most to stick wins.

Sticky Eyes and a Skeleton

Buy a life size skeleton cut out and some sticky eyeballs. Similar to pin the tail on the donkey. Throw the sticky eyeballs at the skeleton trying to get hem in the skeletons eye sockets. Blindfold optional. For added fun, we used a skeleton salad tong to throw the sticky eyeball.

Sticky Situation

Gently toss a eyeball ping pong ball towards your team mate who is holding a lint roller. The team mate must try to catch as many eyeball ping pong balls with the lint roller as possible. Use the same number as eyeballs for each team and a fresh piece of tape on the lint roller.

Bones
(like spoons card game similar to musical chairs)
My kids favorite card game is spoons, so click here for our Halloween version.

Piranha Fishing

Set up a wall taller then the kids and let the kids fish over it for piranha's. We printed off piranhas and glued a prize or wrapped candy to them. When the kids fishing line came over the wall, a hidden person attaches a prize hooked with a cutout piranha, and pull on the fishing line to let the kids know they caught something.

Yarn Spider Web Scary Story

You'll need one skein of yarn rolled into a ball. Have your class sit in a circle. Start out a scary story. Hold the end of the yarn and toss the ball across the circle to another player. This player must add a little to the story. Keep hold of the yarn. Then, throw the ball of yarn to another player who has not yet had a turn. This continues until everyone has had a turn and the story is complete. You might want to make rules for the story to keep it age appropriate. At the end of the story you should have made a spider web out of the yarn.

Wrangle a Witch
Ring Toss using witch hats or black party hats.

Pirate Hook
In teams of two. One teammate puts on a pirate hook. The other teammate tosses a ring from a set distance. If they miss , they are out. If they make it, then, each team mate takes a step back and tries again. The team that gets the furthest wins.

Get in My Tummy

You will need a ghost shaped Halloween pail, candy and eyeball ping pong balls. Each player bounces the eyeball ping pong ball towards the ghost shaped Halloween pail full of candy. If it lands in the ghost pail the player gets to pick piece of candy.

Candy Corn Crop Circles

Try to stand up as many candy corns around a circle paper plate as possible in one minute. Bite ends off to get a flat slightly sticky surface. You might want give it a little lick, for added stickiness. The player who gets the most wins.

Minute To Win It Eyeball Ping Pong Balls

Glue or duct tape an old tissue box to an old belt. Fill the tissue box with 24 ping pong eyeballs. Place the belt on the player with the tissue box on the player's back. The player has one minute to try and hop around to get all the eyeball ping pong balls out of the box before the minute is up.

Save Bugs From the Slime

Make or buy slime. In a witches cauldron add plastic bugs and slime. The kids must save the bugs from a slime death, by picking them out of the slime with their bare hands.

Don't Eat Pete
You have nine squares. Place a piece of candy in each square. One player leaves the room. The other players or room Mom pick a square to be Pete. The player returns. The player begins to eat the candy until they try to eat Pete, Everyone yells "Don't Eat Pete!" The player must stop eating the candy at that point. There are tons of versions out there, here are a few I've used.

Don't Eat Pete Free Printable

Don't Eat The Creep

www.theteacherwife.com

Musical Pumpkins

Just like musical chairs, but you use Pumpkins. You could even tape cutout pumpkins to the chairs or use place mats to stand on. In a circle place a pumpkin for each player. Remove one pumpkin. Start music. The players must walk around the circle until the music stops. When the music stops each player must stop on the closest pumpkin. The player that didn't get a pumpkin is out. Remove another pumpkin and play continues. Repeat until one player is left and declared the winner.

Bingo
I like to use tiny spiders as markers instead of candy, since the kids get so much at this time of year. Cards I like:

Hot and Cold Pumpkin

HOT or COLD: Have on player leave the room. Hide the mini pumpkin. Have the player that left the room return. That player must now try and find the mini pumpkin. The rest of the group must say warm, warmer, hot, hot hot, on fire when the player walks close or cold, colder, freezing when the player walks further away from the mini pumpkin.

Witches Brew
Make a spell book of items in a spell. In a witches cauldron place items and a bag of dry beans or rice. Each team must search for the items on the spell book in order. One item per person and pass the cauldron to the next team mate. Then, start over until spell is complete. The team that finishes first wins.

(You can always do a mix of Witches Brew and Witched Brew #2)

Witches Brew #2
Make a spell book of die cut paper items in a spell. On a black plate called "witches cauldron" die cut paper items. Each team must search for the items on the spell book in order. Using a straw suck up one die cut paper item per person and move it to the cauldron and pass the cauldron to the next team mate. Then, start over until spell is complete. The team that finishes first wins. No hands allowed.

Hot Head
Similar to Hot Potato. Stand in a circle and PRETEND the shrunken head is hot. optional: You could pull it out of a witches cauldron for fun. You must pass the shrunken head or keep bouncing it in the air, because it is too hot to hold. The first person to drop it or hold it longer than 1 second is out. Play continues until one player is left and declared the winner.

Freeze Dance

Kids always love to freeze dance. When the music is playing the kids dance. When the music stops the kids must stop, if they don't they're out. Play continues until there is one winner. Our favorite Halloween freeze dance songs are Thriller by Michael Jackson, Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett, Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles , Love Potion #9 by The Searchers, Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley.

Sticky Web

All you need is a hula hoop spider web made from masking tape to catch flying cotton balls.
Hang sticky side out.

My Preschool class loved this game!

Spider Fight

Have a silly string fight pretending to be a spider and the silly string is your web.

Shaving cream fight is also fun.

Pumpkin Chuckin'

Carnival Game. Make a triangle tower out of toilet paper. Toss mini fake pumpkins at it to try and knock it over.

Nerds and Squeezers

You can play this game two ways. Compete using tweezers move your color of nerds from one cup to another in a minute. Or, you can play individually dumping both colors into a bowl and separating them into separate bowls using tweezers.
You could also use plastic ants, popcorn kernels, or pumpkin seeds.

Ghost You Take My Breath Away

Suck a M&M, Skittle, Reese's Pieces, candy corn with a straw and transfer it to another coffee filter ghost within one minute.

Grave Digger

Place a bowl full of Candy Corn on one side of the room. Divide the group into two groups. Using only the spoon, race to transfer one piece of candy from the full bowl to the empty bowl.

Take Out Candy Corns

Using chopsticks move candy corn or popcorn from take out containers (or a plate).

Relay
Put half the team on opposite sides of the room. Place a candy pumpkin, chocolate eyeball, ping pong eyeball, candy corn, etc. in the spoon. Each member must walk across the room one at a time and transfer it to the other player. The team wins who gets the last person across the room successfully. The hard part is if they drop it, they must start over.

Bugs In Jars
Place a jar on the floor. See how many plastic bugs or ants you can drop and make it in the jar. My mom used to play this with us using beans as a kid.
You could also use M&M's, Skittles, Pumpkin Seeds, Candy Corn or mini erasers.

Corn Toss

Toss a candy corn and have a teammate catch them in a cup with one minute.

Corn Toss 2

Toss a candy corn or popcorn across the room into a bowl, see how many you can get within one minute.

Vampire, May I?

The Vampire stands at one end of the room. The kids line up on the opposite side of the room. The kids in order must ask "Vampire, may I_______?" The Vampire either replies "Yes, you may." Or "No, You may not, but you may______." The first person to reach to Vampire is the winner and t for the next round. Fun Halloween Requests: Zombie Crawl; Frankenstein walk; Spin a web; Fly like a bat; Roll like a pumpkin; Stomp like a troll.

Hide and Shriek

One person hides. The other players must tag the person finding them before they shriek. If the person shrieks first, they are now it and the game starts over. However, if the person who is it tags them before they get a chance to shriek, they must hide with the person until the next player finds them. The same rules apply. If the person who is hiding tags all the players before they shriek, they win the game instantly. Otherwise, count up the number of players each person tagged while they were it. A prize should be given. Optional to play outside.

Don't Break My Pumpkin
The new game we found and tried for Valentine's Day from mrsschmelzer.blogspot.com . The kids liked it, but the large clothespins were too easy for older kids. So, we tried the smaller craft ones. This was more challenging to clip on and time things out right to let go. Then, we went ultimate and got out the mini clothespins.
You will need a large pumpkin cut out of tissue paper and a clothespin for each player.
The smaller the clothespin the more challenging the game.

Have players pass the pumpkin around from player to player only using clothespins NO HANDS! Play continues until the pumpkin is ripped in half.
You could use white tissue paper and play don't rip my Ghost or bone
Gray tissue paper and play don't break my headstone
Black tissue paper and play Don't Break my Witches Hat or Cat

Bugs Tic Tac Toe

You can either just play that or have it ready for fast finishers.

We used plastic spider rings.

Ring Around the Rosie

It's about the plague. Hold hands and walk in a circle chanting:

Ring around the Roses,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down.

Then, everybody falls down.

Mad Libs
A fun game or activity for fast finishers, I've even got them out at the treat table to keep kiddos under control. Think about the audience and ask yourself if they will understand the joke or if it is to advanced for them when picking a mad lib. There are tons of printables out there. Or just order some online.

Mummy, Mummy, Witch
Similar to Duck, Duck, Goose. Have all players sit in a circle. The person who is it walks around the circle gently touches everyone's head in order calling them a Mummy. Until they pick a player to be the Witch. Then, they touch that picked players head and gently drop calling them a Witch. That person must now standup and chase the player that was it, flying like a witch, trying to catch them and tag them before they have ran around the circle. If the person who was it gets tagged before they reach the Witches seat, they must be it again. However, if the player reached the Witches seat, the Witch is now it. I always tell my kids to pick someone who hasn't had a turn yet, to ensure everyone gets turn.

Ping Pong Eyeballs

Buy a table top ping pong set. Use ping pong eyeballs or make your own by painting iris's on ping pong balls.

Eyeball Mini Golf
Use the Eye Ball Ping Pong balls or paint golf balls to look like eyeballs. You could even paint them to look like pumpkins or other Halloween characters.

Eyeball Pong

Set up 12 glasses like you would for beer pong. Except each glass is filled with either a yummy normal soda or other drink and some are filled with nasty flavoring. Bounce the eyeball ping pong into the drinks, the one it lands in is the one you get. So, it's a gamble on if you get a yummy drink or a gross one. Non-alcoholic for the kiddos.

Who's the Dude?

Fibber

Fibber is the kids version of BS. It's cards are all classic Halloween characters. It's really funny, because all the players wear glasses and when they get caught lying they have to add nose pieces like in the Pinocchio.

Spider Bulls Eye

My kids love this sticky spider slingshot game.

Spider Races

Cut the ring off of spider rings, leaving just the spider. Race by blowing the spiders with a straw.

Poop the Potato

22 Mini Pumpkin Games

Click here for a great list of fun games I didn't list here, since I already posted them.

click here for a Amazon link to mini pumpkins.