FALL/HALLOWEEN PARTY IDEAS
FALL/HALLOWEEN PARTY DECORATION IDEAS:
• Hang decorative spider web everywhere you can – add plastic spiders for a more realistic effect
• If the kids are older (so as to not get scared), use a strobe light and fog machine for extra spooky atmosphere
• Decorate with orange, black and purple balloons
• Have Halloween/spooky music playing like “Monster Mash” and “Ghostbusters”
FALL/HALLOWEEN PARTY GAME IDEAS:
• Let every child decorate a small pumpkin with paint or if the kids are older, they can carve their pumpkin – award the best, funniest and worst pumpkin designs
• Have a pumpkin seed spitting contest!!
• Just like “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” – Do a variation of the game – like “Pin the Stem on the Pumpkin” or “Pin the Wart on the Witch”
• Play an old-fashioned game of “Bobbing for Apples”
• Designate awards for the children’s costumes – have a costume contest
• If the school has strict guidelines about children’s costumes, try a variation like having the children dress like their favorite storybook character or their favorite animal, wear their favorite, crazy hat or dress like what they want to be when they grow up or even have a face painter come in and paint their faces
• Let the kids show off their costumes by having a costume parade – either by going class to class or by having an all-school gathering and each class being introduced to the other classes
• Blindfold the children and let them put their hands in bowls of scary stuff! Use your imagination - like jello, spaghetti noodles, boiled egg yolks, bologna, etc.
• Have fun with a Halloween or pumpkin piñata
• Separate the kids into groups and each group gets a few rolls of toilet paper – time the kids and see how fast they can “mummy wrap” a designated child in their group – vote on who is the best “mummy” once time is up
• Play Halloween music or scary sound effects and have all the children dance. When the music stops, whoever is caught still dancing is out. The last person still dancing wins.
• Try to recruit a teacher, school nurse or school cook and have them put a white sheet over their heads and walk into the classroom and let the children ask questions to get hints – and try to guess who is the school “ghost!”
• Fill a jar with a halloween candy and ask all of the kids to try to guess how many candies are in the jar – whoever guesses the closest, wins.
• Decorate ping-pong balls to look eyeballs with paint or a marker. Divide the class into 3-4 teams and each teammate will have to go from one designated area to another by holding a spoon in their mouth with the eyeball balanced on the spoon – if they drop the eyeball, they have to start from the beginning - they tag the next person in their group and then it’s their turn – whoever goes through all of their teammates first, wins
• Let the kids use their imaginations by the class getting into a big circle – start the story with, “Once upon a time” and the first child says a sentence, and then the next child to their left says another sentence and go around the circle formulating a scary story (**you may need to set some rules as to how scary the story can get)
• This would need an all-school participation – have a school wide “trick or treating time” – designate 5 minutes per classroom (could even use the school bell to make the transitions easier) and let each classroom travel together into each classroom and fill up with candy into the children’s buckets -
HALLOWEEN PARTY FAVOR IDEAS:
• Cover a sucker with a Kleenex, use a marker to make the eyes and tie below the sucker with ribbon to make a ghost favor
• Use clear, plastic gloves and place candy corn at the tips of each finger and then fill with popcorn – tie off the base of the hand with ribbon. Place a plastic spider ring on one of the fingers.
• Small pumpkins to take home and decorate
• Halloween buckets to use on their trick-or-treat hunts later that night
