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

Halloween is just around the corner and you must be busy running around planning a kids Halloween party.

However, it is not easy trying to keep 20 to 25 precocious ghosts and ghoblins entertained. Planning a kids Halloween party can be a fun activity for you and all you really need to do is to make sure is that the kids are busy, laughing and enjoying themselves during the party.

Here are some ideas for kids Halloween party games, which are simple to put into action depending on what age the kids are.

Halloween candy hunt is a fun activity for younger children. You can easily buy some Halloween treat bags or plastic pumpkins (the small size), fill them with candy and money and hide them. The best place for this is in your garden, which has to be well lit. Give each child a trick-or-treat bag to hunt for the hidden candy. You can make this activity more fun and enjoyable by setting a time limit and giving a prize to the kid who finds the most candies.

A mouse fishing competition for slight older children is fun and will keep all of them laughing and squealing. Create fishing poles with a stick and string. Attach rubber mice to the fishing poles and place some mousetraps on the floor. Let the children take turns in trying to trap the mice in the mousetraps. Make sure you are there to supervise the kids so that they do not get too close to the traps.

Another great kids Halloween party game is getting the kids to toss spooky Halloween items into plastic pumpkins. All you need to do is buy a few large plastic pumpkins and place them at different distances. Give the children Halloween items like plastic spiders, rats, snakes, eyeballs and severed fingers to toss into the pumpkin. Each pumpkin is one item. The kid who can toss in the maximum items is the winner and you can give him or her some spooky Halloween treat.

This is a great game for your Halloween party because you can never tell where the little Pumpkins will roll!

For a Kids Halloween Party, get the miniature pumpkins to fit their little hands.  For adults, I’d go with the small pie pumpkins or you might lose a lamp or two!

What you will need:

• 3 small Pumpkins
• 10 empty 2 liter bottles – labels removed
• White spray paint
• Black permanent marker
• Sand or gravel (to weight the bottles)

Preparing the “Pins”

• Rinse out the bottles and remove labels
• Spray paint the bottles with the white paint
• Draw Ghostly faces on the bottles with the permanent marker
• Put a cup or 2 of sand or gravel in each bottle so they’ll stand without falling over

How To Play

• Arrange “Pins” in a Bowling Alley Formation -
  • Back row has 4 pins
  • Next row has 3 pins
  • Next row has 2 pins
  • One pin in front
• Roll the Pumpkin Bowling Balls at the Pins and try for a Strike!

Variations:

• If you have more time, paint the “Pins” to resemble different monsters – zombies, vampires, ghouls, etc.
• Paint the bottles with a Glo Paint and play in the dark!

Let the fun begin!

Award prizes for strikes and spares, or give them a prize if they manage to just knock down one “Pin”!

This is a great game for Kids or Adults!  The first team to wrap their Mummy, wins!

What you need:

• Lots and lots of Toilet Paper!

How to play:

• Divide your party into groups of 3 or 4
• Have each group select one person to be the Mummy

The object of the game is to see who can be the first group to completely wrap their Mummy with the Toilet Paper.

Variations:

• Buy different colors of toilet paper and award prizes for creativity
• Give them a Theme – Bride Mummies!  Witch Mummies!
• Award a prize for lonest, unbroken strip of Toilet Paper
• Have some fun, Halloween music playing while everyone is wrapping their Mummy, then have a Mummy Dance-off at the end!

Kids always love relay games.  And this one has eyeballs!

What you will need:

• One Ping Pong Ball for each child – Painted to look like an eyeball
• One spoon for each team
• Jack-o-lanterns or other Halloween decorations to mark the course

How to play:

• Divide the children into teams
• Children must carry their “Eyeball” on the spoon and travel the course you have marked with the Jack-o-lanterns or other decorations.  No touching the “Eyeball”!
• When they get back to the starting point, the spoon is passed to the next child, until all members of the team have completed the course
• First team to have all members carry their “Eyeball” successfully, wins!

Variations:

• Play outisde and create an obstacle course around the yard, around shrubbery, over the dog house, under the patio table…or have someone pop out from behind a bush to scare them!
• Play inside and hang spider webs for the kids to walk through
• Set up a fan with streamers blowing that the kids have to walk by

The older the kids, the more obstacles you should create to keep it exciting!

Another fun relay game…and edible, too!

What you will need:

• Lots of Candy Corn
• 2 Plastic Pumpkin or Ghost buckets for each team
• 1 Spoon for each team

How to play:

• Divide the children into teams
• Have a bucket of Candy Corn at the starting point for each team and another empty bucket at the end of the course
• Each team takes turns scooping up a spoonful of Candy Corn and running it to their empty bucket.
• First team to completely transfer all of their candy corn, wins!

You’ll have to be careful on this one that they don’t eat the Candy Corn first!

Variations:

• Just like the Eyeball Relay, try this one outside and set up an outrageous obstacle course – under the patio table, over the dog house, around the tree…
• Play this one inside, in the dark, and use glow in the dark buckets (or a small flashlight beside or inside the buckets)
• Hand spider webs for the kids to walk through and have fans with streamers blowing for them to walk around

Step right up!  Who can hit the Pumpkin?!

What you will need:

• Plastic Pumpkin or Ghost Trick or Treat Bucket
• Miniature Candy Bars or other small, individually wrapped candies

How to play:

• Give each child 3 to 5 pieces of candy and have them toss them into the bucket
• Kids get to keep the candies that go into the bucket

Variations:

• The older the kids, the further from the bucket!
• Play this one in the dark with scary music and a glo-in-the-dark bucket
• Attack a piece of thin fishing line to the bucket and have someone hide behind a piece of furniture to “mysteriously” move the bucket every now and then
• Use Ping-Pong balls colored like Eyeballs instead of candy – they bounce and will make it more difficult!  Award candies for getting a ball to stay in the bucket

Make sure to have “consolation” candies on hand for those who miss!

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