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So you’re throwing a Halloween party this year for your kids, eh? Have you thought about how you’re going to entertain your little guests? Here are some cool kids Halloween games that will make your party a hit with kids of all ages!

Wrap the Mummy ‘

I’ve often used this game in classroom parties, and it’s always a hit. Divide the children into groups of three to five kids. Select one child in each group to be a mummy. Then give the other children a roll of toilet paper or crepe paper. Instruct them to wrap the mummy with the paper, leaving the eyes, nose and mouth uncovered. The first group to be done with their roll of paper, wins.
Make the Zombies Laugh

Tell all the children to lie still on the floor like a zombie. Select one child to be “it”. That child’s job is to make the other children laugh. “It” can make funny faces, dance, act silly, whatever inspires him or her. Once a “zombie” laughs, he or she can join “it” in attempting to make the group laugh. Whoever holds out the longest without laughing is the winner.
Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin

Tack a large cardboard pumpkin to a wall. In turn, blindfold each child and give them a black cutout shape of a nose with double-side tape on the back. Have them walk up to the wall and pin the nose on the pumpkin.
Halloween Costume Parade

Why not hold a kids’ Halloween costume parade? Kids can show off their Halloween costumes, by parading down the length of the party room one by one. You can give prizes for the scariest, prettiest, most stylish or most imaginative costume.
Best Dressed Pumpkin Competition

You might be very crafty with real or plastic pumpkins for the kids to decorate; or you may prefer to cut out pumpkin shapes from orange card and provide the children with stickers, pens and glitter to make a best-dressed pumpkin. These kids Halloween games are real winners
Eyeball Hunt Game

Fill a large pot with cooked spaghetti noodles, and then bury ping pong balls in the noodles. See who can find the most balls in a set amount of time. For an added twist you can color code the balls and have each color worth a different amount of points. After the set amount of times, count up the points earned by each player.

So, it is true that Halloween unfortunately is associated with words such as: dark, scary, evil, spooky, etc. (we probably should throw the word ‘cavity’ in there also)! However, as strange as the holiday certainly is, Halloween must be viewed as more than just eating an excessive amount of sugar, visiting haunted houses, or attending costume parties. Halloween should also be an opportunity to spend time with family, friends, and neighbors participating in fun and wholesome entertainment. I realize that the word ‘wholesome’ and ‘Halloween’ are not exactly synonymous with each other, but the culture, traditions, and activities of the masses should not also dictate our actions! Halloween is thus the perfect opportunity to have good clean fun, create wonderful memories, help serve others, and most importantly – allow us the opportunity to spend time with family.

Below I have listed just 7 of the many fun Halloween games that are good, uplifting, wholesome … and extremely FUN!

1) Halloween Scavenger Hunt: Divide everyone playing into teams of 2-3 players each. Each team will need a car, camera, and copy of the tasks to be completed. The goal is to either be the first to complete all the tasks and get back to the house first, or be the one who completes the most after an hour. (For smaller children, adapt the tasks to things to do/find around the house). Examples of random items to get and tasks to do may include: trick or treat 5 houses, buy a pumpkin and carve a face, give a candy to 3 random kids, go to the video store and find the date a Halloween movie was made, go to the grocery store and find out how much a pumpkin costs, go to a grave yard and write the name of one of the tomb stones, knock on a random door and ask for a roll of toilet paper and then wrap another teammate like a mummy, etc. They can be anything … but to prove you did it, take a photo for each task.

2) Halloween Charades: Each guest at the Halloween party will take 3 slips of paper and write down random acts (ideally related to Halloween) that can be acted out. Examples might include: trick or treating, carving pumpkins, eating candy and feeling sick, flying on a broomstick, visiting a scary graveyard, walking like a mummy, crossing paths of a black cat, attending a dress up party, etc. Place all the slips into a bowl and then divide everyone into two teams. Team 1 will start and send one person to the front, who will have one minute to act out as many scenes as possible. The team will guess, and the teammate acting can’t move on to the next word until it is correctly guessed. After a minute, that team gets one point for every correctly guessed acted scene. Then, team 2 will take a turn. The first team to 20 points wins!

3) Pumpkin Quarter Toss: In preparation, carve the middle out of 5 pumpkins. Then, place them at varying distances (each a few feet away from each other). Then designate a throwing line that player will toss from, and divide everyone into two teams. For each turn, every person on the team will get one toss. If the quarter lands in the closest pumpkin, it is worth 1 point; if it lands in the next farthest pumpkin it is worth 2 points; etc. up to 5 points. The first team to score 50 points is the winner!

4) Scary Story Succession: After the trick or treating is done and the party has died down, sit around the family room and turn the lights off. One person will start and take about 30 seconds telling a scary story. At the 30 second mark, they will leave the story hanging and call someone else’s name, who will then continue the story making up new twists.

Halloween board games can be used at home or school and they provide a great way to occupy kids in the lead up to Halloween. These games can be used to settle down excited kids and are also ideal as a reward for kids who finish their work early in the classroom or for kids who deserve a reward at home. But this is not their only use. Halloween board games also make a wonderful way for the family to spend time together.

There are commercial games available but it is much more fun and also much cheaper to make your own. Once you have made these Halloween games, you then have something that can be used year after year.

To create your own Halloween board games, you just need some stock card and some markers. Stickers and glitter can also be used to dress up the game. You might like to choose a theme for the game like vampires or ghosts or you might like to make it about Halloween in general.

The most common board game is the track board game and this is the easiest type to make. Just draw a track around the board or from the top to the bottom of the board. The track might go from a Haunted House – the start – to your house – the end. Along the track you can have reward spaces and hazard spaces.

The reward spaces might have something like, ‘Have another turn.’ The hazard spaces might say something like, ‘Go back 3 spaces.’ There can also be Trick or Treat spaces on the board. When someone lands on a Treat space, they can be rewarded by being given a small treat like a candy. When they land on the Trick space, they can pick up a card which will have a trick on it that they have to do. It might be something like, ‘Howl like a werewolf.’

Your Halloween board game can be decorated with pictures, sticks, glitter, puff paint and anything else that you like. Once is it ready, you just take turns to throw the dice and move around the board.

A different way to create a Halloween board game is to make a ‘Snakes and Ladders’ style game. Instead of using snakes and ladders though, you could use witch’s brooms as ladders and black cats with long tails as the snakes. The game can played the same way as the traditional ‘Snakes and Ladders’ game.

Halloween board games are an ideal game for family fun or classroom fun. If you choose to make your own board this makes it even more fun. Let the kids use their imaginations and see what they come up with. They’ll have fun making the game and they’ll be so proud of what they have made that they won’t want to stop playing it.