Halloween party games for kids

Halloween party fun

Work up the kids’ appetite for their Halloween party snacks with ghastly games and horrible high jinks…

Make a mummy

Put kids in groups of three and give each group a couple of rolls of cheap toilet tissue. They have to use the tissue to wrap one of the group into a mummy: the fastest wins.

Guess the ghost

Get all the kids together, then send one of them out of the room. Cover one of the remaining kids with a sheet and get the rest of them to race around so they’re standing in different positions from when their friend left the room. He then comes back in and has one minute to guess which kid is the ghost.

Hunt the eyeball

Draw bloodshot eyeballs onto ping pong balls and hide them for kids to find.

Zombie zoo

Have all the kids but one lie on the floor pretending to be zombies: they’re not allowed to make any sound or movement whatsoever. The extra kid has to do whatever he can to make them laugh or wriggle… last zombie wins.

Find Frankenstein

Split kids into groups of three or four, each with a large sheet of construction paper, glue, a different magazine and safety scissors. Give them a list of body parts – it can be both people and animal: for example, three eyes; four legs; a dog’s head; a horse’s tail. They have to find those body parts in the magazine, cut them out and glue them to the construction paper in an approximation of a Halloween monster.

Spot the slime

Fill plastic ziplock bags with ‘slime’ – mashed banana, cooked-until-soggy pasta or spaghetti, grapefruit peelings, lumpy oatmeal, damp pretzels or potato chips, baked beans. The kids have to put their hands in while blindfolded and guess what it is!

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