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 substitute the GHOST letters for the BINGO letters.
• The children use Candy Corn to mark their GHOST cards
• When a child gets a BINGO (GHOST), 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

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