Everyone loves B-I-N-G-O!  Now, there’s G-H-O-S-T!

What you will need:

• Orange poster board or other heavy paper
• Inexpensive Bingo game – around 5 or 6 dollars at a discount store
• Black marker, scissors and a ruler
• Candy Corn

Preparation:

• Cut out as many Bingo cards as you will need from the orange paper.
• Use the black marker and ruler to draw the grids and numbers on each card.  Use the store bought Bingo cards as a guide.
• Instead of BINGO at the top, print GHOST
• Draw a ghost or use a Halloween Sticker for the Free Space

How to play:

• Call the game using the balls from the BINGO game that you bought, but subsitute the GHOST letters for the BINGO letters.
• The children use Candy Corn to mark their GHOST cards
• When a child gets a BINGO, they yell “Boo!”

Just like in regular BINGO, award prizes for 5 spaces in a row, across, down or diagonal.

Variations:

• Award a prize for a GHOST-age Stamp – a piece of Candy Corn in all four spaces in one of the corners
• Award a prize for Bury The Ghost – covering ALL the squares with a Candy Corn

If you’re planning on having the scariest Halloween bash on your block this year you might want to spruce up the old place a bit beforehand.  This book, written by Shawn Mitchell and Lynne Mitchell offers lots of ideas for spooky tips.  The projects in this book are not intended for children but for the creative adults who want to handcraft their very own Halloween home haunt and graveyard fun!

Order your paperback or Kindle version copy here.

Give Pictionary a Spooky Twist!

What you will need:

• Chalkboard, erasable marker board or large pad of drawing paper
• a Timer or Watch
• Paper
• Plastic Pumpkin or Ghost Halloween bucket

Preparation:

• Before the party, make slips of paper with Halloween Words on them – Mummy, Vampire, Ghost, Spider, Witch, Haunted House….
• Place the slips of paper into the Plastic Halloween Bucket

How to play:

• Divide the group into 2 teams
• One player from the fist team selects a piece of paper from the bucket.  He then uses the chalkboard, marker board or drawing paper and pen to draw pictures relating to the word on his paper.  He can NOT draw the exact picture.
• The members of his team have 2 minutes to guess the word on his paper
• The other team goes next.  And then back and forth until all players have had a chance to draw
• The team with the most number of correct guesses, wins!

Variations:

• For adults, use the names of Horror Movies as the clues – Friday the 13th, Scary Movie 2, etc
• Use the names of Horror Movie characters as clues – Freddy Kruger, Micheal Meyers, etc
• Use types of murder weapons for the clues – axe, chainsaw, butcher knife, toaster in the bathtub!

What could be better than an Evil Twin on Halloween?!

What you will need:

• 2 Plastic Pumpkin or Ghost Halloween Buckets
• Small Halloween prizes or individually wrapped candies

How to play:

• Put prizes in the buckets and set them at one end of the room or yard
• Divide your guests into 2 teams and each team seperate into pairs
• The Evil Twins are formed by having 2 players from the same team stand back-to-back and link arms with each other.
• A set of Evil Twins from each team races to the buckets and each player must retrieve a prize – without Unlinking their arms! – then race back to their team to let the next set of Twins go.
• The first team to have all players return with prizes, wins!

This is a great first game at any Halloween party – for adults or children.

Variations:

• For children – Hang spider webs for the children to walk through
• Fill a baby pool with blown up balloons for everyone to walk through – have extra balloons ready to replace the ones that may pop
• For adults – have Jello-Shots on a table instead of prizes in the bucket – they have to do a shot, without unlinking, before they can head back