Halloween Party Ideas

Could use jello and grapes for the eyeballs, and cold spaghetti (with a touch of oil, so it doesn't stick) for worms.

peeled grapes for eyeballs, spaghetti for intestines..just to get you started. We are having an eyeball relay- paint eyes on ping pong balls and they carry them back and forth in a spoon.- or a spider relay- where they do the crab walk...As far as food- I saw the weiner wraps mentioned- and those do work well(although my son won't eat hot dogs) maybe some pizza- frozen or home made- let them make their own pizzas??
An awesome website I found was itshalloweentime.com
I think that's it anyway- good luck and have fun!

My parents had Halloween parties for me when I was younger... I remember having dried ice in the punch bowl, haybails around the garage and we also did the game you are talking about. Olives are great for eyeballs, noodles for brains, carrot sticks for fingers... If I come up with anything else I will write :)

Hot dog mummies

Take cresent roll dough that you cut up into strips and then wrap around each hot dog and then cook in the oven. My kids love these for dinner on Halloween night.

i like the guessing game idea. anything in jello feels like body parts! golf balls for eyes, gummy worms, those stress reliever squishy balls, cooked noodles, etc. it could also be a scavenger hunt-like game in a big tub of jello. fill rubber gloves with water and freeze them for ice in the punch. when you take it out of the glove it looks like a hand in the punch. depending on the drink color you could even food color the ice (or freeze kool-aid). there's always bobbing for apples. the apples could be used as a healthy snack plus chex mix, popcorn balls, pumpkin seeds, pumpkin bars. they could make their own pizzas. use english muffins and put out a bunch of toppings and sauce to choose from. it keeps them busy and they have a variety to choose from so as not to complain about not liking what you made. hope these ideas help!

S. m

Here's some links that to a couple recipes that i liked, but havent tried! Just copy and paste in the address bar. I googled Haloween Recipes and got many, many links and SOOO many ideas!

Bugs In a blanket (basically coctail weiners in breadstick dough with decorations to make it look like a bug)
http://www.pillsbury.com/Recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=37971

Jack-o-lantern Pizza (Great way to incorporate veggies, but would they get eaten or pulled off?!)
http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID=...

Hi,

I found a good website type in "All Halloween recipes" and it will bring you to a website that would probably help. Have a great party!

R..

just a couple more to add to the already great ideas, we love to play these even as adults!

snack food relay(since they are older): have two or three teams depending on how many kids you have, put the same variety of snacks in little baggies or single serve packs in a big paper sack so they can't see them. have them line up and they have to race down to the paper sacks, reach in without looking and grab something, they have to eat whatever they grab, all the way (we have someone posted there to make sure) then run back and tag the next person. Do this until one team has eaten all their snacks and makes it back to their team first! We use teddy grahams, applesauce, gummy bears, dried cereal, etc. you may want to have water available to help wash it all down. don't put too much in each baggie!

Powder donut game: hang big powdered donuts by long strings, one for each person. at go they have to try to be the first to eat their donut off the string with no hands! It's funny because they get it all over their faces as it gets to moving around so much!

Scavenger Hunt: nake a list of things that can be found around the house or yard, do teams or singlely, first person back wins!

BEWARE! Kids love games and seem to go through them faster than we think they would so be prepared for plenty to do! Have fun!

My favorite website is partygamecentral.com They have tons of games for all occasions and I just looked and they have 40 games listed for Halloween. Another great website to check out is FamilyFun.com. They have tons of ideas as well. Good luck!!

Parenting magazine just had a bunch of recipe ideas in the last issue I recieved - some very cute and easy ideas.

Halloween guessing game:
Wet squishy tomato for a brain
Peeled grapes for eyeballs
Uncooked liver for a heart
Wet fur, yarn, or corn silk for hair
Slightly thinned ketchup (slightly warmed) for blood
Dried apricot for an ear
Wet spagetti for worms
Have them dip their hands in the bowls blindfolded and guess what they are!

The October issue of Parenting magazine had some Halloween food ideas (owl sandwiches, mummy finger hotdogs, etc.) The Family Fun magazine usually has fun ideas for holiday parties. This web site has several ideas of "gross" dinner items like worm burgers and ear wax weiners. http://www.halloweenishere.com/recipes.html

FamilyFun.com has TONS of great ideas for food and activities.

I was in charge of the kids games last year. Boy did i keep them busy. Here are a few things I remember..

1. Put the face on the pumpkin, same idea as pin the tail on the donkey. Just make a pumpkin and have the kids put the face on it. IT is quite funny!!

2. My favorite, instead of bobbing for apples, we tie an apple to a string. Then you attach it to the ceiling ( we do ours in the garage every year). The kids have to get the apple in their mouths only using their mouths. NO hands. This takes awhile. apples on strings keep moving.

3. I printed out coloring sheets on line and they colored if they wanted to.

4. We did balloon popping, kids love it. Orange and black balloons.

5. This one was fun as well. Put something of your choice in bowls. I used candy corn. I think i set up 4 bowls so 4 kids could go at a time. I then set another 4 bowls across the room. You decide how far. The kids had to put a spoon in their mouth, bend over to the 1st bowl, pick up the candy corn on the spoon and walk over and dump it in the other bowl. I had kids from age 3 all the way to 16 playing this game. It was fun!!!! I went with cany corn thinking it was inexpensive and maybe a little easier than a round object. It was still a struggle, but tons of fun.

6. I think we have done a bingo as well.

Well, I can't think of anything else off the top of my head for games.

As far as food goes, I make a punch every year with floating eyeballs!!!

As far as what do use for your touching game, we have done spaghetti noodles for brains, grapes for eyes. Check online they have tons of ideas.

We made sugar cookies and shaped them like fingers one year. Then decorated them to resemble witches fingers. Otherwise we don't do too much Halloween food.

Good Luck with the info I gave you and if you try any of the games, please let me know if the kids enjoyed. If I think of more, I will update this, or reply again. Good Luck and thanks for looking out for the kids on Halloween.
J.

My daughter is having a halloween party this weekend -
- I bought witch brooms so we could have a witch relay race
- Toilet paper - 1 roll per 2 people - they have to make their partners into mummies
- I bought a little take- apart skeleton for each group of 4 (but you could do more per group) and color coded each piece of the skeleton. I will hide the pieces around teh area (outside, maybe with older children) - the first group to have their skeleton assembled wins a prize
- I'm also doing the candy corn relay and the apple-on-a-string suggested by another mom
- Halloween pinata
- I bought lots of mini-pumpkins and permanent markers so guests could decorate their own pumpkins to take home
- At Lakeshore Learning (also available at craft stores) are small canvas bags that the kids can decorate for a trick or treat bag (maybe not since your party is after Halloween)
- pumpkin/ghost bowling - buy a plastic pumpkin (craft stores have them really cheap right now, not the trick-or-treat pumpkins, but a decoration-type pumpkin), get some 2 liter bottles - cover the bottles with white fabric to make a "ghost" - I put sand in the bottom of the 2-liter bottles to make them steady - then set up the 2-liter bottles as pins and voila, cute bowling game
- candy corn catch (we're using the tiny hollow pumpkins available at Target)
- make slime using Borax and white glue
- flashlight tag
- flashlight campfire stories

Menu ideas I can't help you because we're just having pizza - Sorry! :)
Good luck with your party!

One idea for punch. I did this and the boys thought it was awesome! I did a general punch with green koolaide and sprite. How ever you can make it green. But then I poured water into a rubber glove and froze it. When you remove the rubber glove you have a floating hand in your punch. I also let them decorate their own Halloween graveyard cake. Flat cookies for tombstones, crushed oreos for dirt, gummy worms, wrapped eyeball chocolates. Whatever you can find. I just frosted it with a bit of white frosting and let them crush the oreos and decorate away! Then they got to eat their creation! Oh and I just thought of an idea for brains. Jello with mandarine oranges in it could feel like brains. Have fun!
V.

How about pin the tail on the black cat or the hat on the witch who is flying? Also, you might try bobbing for apples. As far as the eyeballs and worms, you might try malt balls for eyeballs and gummy worms for worms. Try going on line to some of the candy manufacturers or just use your imagination for what some of the candy can be used for. Good luck and have a blast.

R.,
Right now Papa Murphy's has a "pumpkin pizza." It would be easy enough for you to make...pepperoni around the outside, for the eyes, nose, and smile...and then a black olive for the center of the eyes...There are a lot of other thing you could use to "decorate" the pumpkin if everyone likes mushrooms, sausage, etc. (You could have the boys get in teams and design their own pizza!)
Good luck!
J.

You can use grapes for eyeballs and spaghetti noodles can be worms. Not sure about brains. You can make mud pies with worms (oreo cookie crumbs with a gummy worm coming out, in chocolate pudding. Have fun!

spaghetti for guts
peeled grapes for eyeballs
jello for brains

We just had a costume paty last weekend for children ages 12 down to infants. We had potato sack races, 3 legged race, candy corn relay, mummy relay, bobbing for apples and eating a powdered donut off a string - with hands behind your back. Ours was a family event and the parents got involved...the children loved seeing mom and dad play the games. We even had a dads vs. kids tug of war...great fun! You can always google halloween party games and you'll get more ideas than you'll have time for.
Good luck.
Blessings!
H. :-)

We have a Halloween party every year for the 5 kids birthdays that fall in October and November. We have games, crafts, and, of course, food. Our older group still enjoys the pinata and pin the nose on the pumpkin. We also have a toss game and a spinner that makes you act out a certain thing- could easily be replicated by slipping hand written directions into a balloon which they could then pop and act out. We have little prizes for the games as well. The guessing game is fun. That age loves to be grossed out! You can use carrots for fingers, cold, cooked spaghetti for brains, olives for eyes, unpopped popcorn or hard corn kernels for teeth, dried apricots for ears,and cut a tongue shape from a sponge and keep it damp.
For crafts we have done decorations- tracing a foot on foam for a ghost and adding embelishments- and decorated pumpkins in different ways- this year we used glue and glitter.
For a meal you could use a cookie cutter to cut a Halloween shape for your sandwich, or arrange the pepperoni on a pizza to make a face. My sis-in-law brought punch with a "hand"- a latex glove which had been filled and frozen- and frozen gummy worms floating in it.
Good luck and have fun!!